The afterlife and the soul

[KevinM1]

[Angrboda]

[Jackie]

After death you will only exist in the memory of those who knew you, asking where you go after that is like asking where the music goes when the band stops playing.

Damn, awesome analogy. I am sooooooo stealing that!

Again, in several recent threads I feel it is important to keep restating the same thing. Being finite and accepting that is not advocating doom and gloom. ABBA is no longer together, and every time I play their songs, the song ends. The Redskins haven't won a Superbowl since 91 and they suck, but everyso often they beat Dallas. 

You go to a music concert knowing it will end, but you still go. You go to a movie knowing it will end, but you still go. You go to a sporting event knowing it will end but you still go. You read a book knowing it has a last page, but you still read it. You don't fear life before the concert starts. You don't fear life before you go to the movie. You don't fear the book before the first page.

Fearing a non existence afterlife is like fearing your pre life. Nobody frets over the death of a weed in their lawn, or a cockroach. Nobody thinks the dinosaurs have "souls". Humans are simply one species on one tiny speck riding in a giant weather pattern that will be here long after we are gone.

I think that the conditions that lead to us being here are fucking amazing to think about without filling it with gap answers and fictional utopias. Life has ups and downs and some get affected by both some more than others. But all you can do is take the bad with the good and keep moving on.

[Vincent]

Then who created us where did we come from? I agree with u about all those other names except Allah and Jesus(PBUH). Allah is God Almighty and Jesus(PBUH)was one of His greatest messengers and prophets to mankind

Allah is a false god and Jesus was a false prophet. 

I believe Osiris is the one true God. 

Prove me wrong.

[Jackie]

Then who created us where did we come from? I agree with u about all those other names except Allah and Jesus(PBUH). Allah is God Almighty and Jesus(PBUH)was one of His greatest messengers and prophets to mankind

Allah is a false god and Jesus was a false prophet. 

I believe Osiris is the one true God. 

Prove me wrong.

 Damn it, all those choices what to do what to do, all this time I thought it was Thor. Isn't there someone who could make this clear to all? It can be that humans make up gods as a gap filling placebo for a sense of false comfort. It has to be Poseidon, or maybe Vishnu. Man, I feel like a DMV worker, long lines everyone making different claims but nobody can get passed the eye chart.

[mediocrates]

Some documentary somewhere at some time had some supporting math? -fail

so we'll just read a centuries old book of fairy tails from a technical POV in lieu of actual current science? -fail

then google it.. that All I did to chop you down to size. Don't be so lazy. If your going to refute someone do it properly!

KevinM1 already responded to what you said about the Higgs argument and I agree, so I'll leave that one alone sport.

There's still the matter of the quote above... It's not my job to find your evidence for you.  If you're going to make extraordinary claims do it properly; with extraordinary evidence.  Your fact-less comments left me nothing to refute.

[The Grand Nudger]

RE hylomorphism...

He defines a soul as that which makes a living thing alive.

"Soul" appears to be metabolism, mystery solved.

[Jackie]

RE hylomorphism...

He defines a soul as that which makes a living thing alive.

"Soul" appears to be metabolism, mystery solved.

Or, skip the superfluous superstitious word "Soul" and simply accept what we call "I" is merely our brain in motion.

[Neo-Scholastic]

[Sheed1980]