what do you think is there after this life ?
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Anomaly
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Our lives are shaped by things called "rational assumptions." For instance, it is rational to assume that the world around us really is ~13.7 billion years old and was not created 5 minutes ago with the appearance of age, and so forth. We can augment our senses with machines that translate information understandable with our own senses.
An image of visible surroundings can be had for different parts of the spectrum.
Well, consider that natural human vision is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
An image of visible surroundings can be had for different parts of the spectrum.
I've often wondered what it would be like to see x-rays and such. True, you can look at computer enhanced deep-space imagery, but that's just not the same. Not nearly.
Matrix!
After life? When I die I know where I am going.
After life? When I die I know where I am going.
fitftw
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I wonder how I'll die. Hopefully not drowning or catching on fire. Anything but those two. Oh and also hopefully not being stabbed to death.
I don't think there's anything after this, except maybe I'll be reborn again sometime in the future maybe as a human, or maybe as another living creature.
I don't think there's anything after this, except maybe I'll be reborn again sometime in the future maybe as a human, or maybe as another living creature.
I don't think the world is much different then it appears to be. Sure, if you zoom in enough you'll see that everything is made of energy, so in that aspect it is entirely different then what we think it is. Then again, what we see is the results of those inner workings, so what we see is in a way the real world.
I don't think it's different in terms of another world that overlays this one. There might be things we can see because they are transparent to us, or things that simply aren't elluminated enough.
What I do wonder about is how different Earth is from other planets that could support life. That's a comparison I'd love to study. :3
I don't think it's different in terms of another world that overlays this one. There might be things we can see because they are transparent to us, or things that simply aren't elluminated enough.
What I do wonder about is how different Earth is from other planets that could support life. That's a comparison I'd love to study. :3
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Honda
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Because its like nobody likes the idea that this is it... Just a dead end, makes life sound meaningless...
Rembrandt Broam
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Exactly. But when you really consider it, and base your considerations on logic rather than wishful thinking, then a dead end really is the most plausible option. We came from nothing before we were born, so why is it so inconceivable that we return to that same nothingness after we die? To me, that seems like the most logical conclusion.
Rembrandt Broam
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We know no more about what (if anything) happens after death than we did the day we first climbed down from the trees and started walking upright.
panicsurvivor
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I don't believe their is an afterlife as most people see it. Energy never dies, It changes. I think that our energy changes. I don't think that your ego and personality go with you. I hope so anyway, the Idea of eternal life scare the **** out me. However it would be cool if you could be forever dreaming.
They heard there were going to be politicians and lawyers and people would have to work for a paycheck doing stuff they hate all their lives. So they opted out.
coyote
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you assume that time is linear, and that there is a progression from nothingness to being
there are completely different ways to look at the whole picture
what if there is no before and after, but only now?
what if there is no progression, but just what is and what isn't?
what if nothingness and being are simply alternating states and both exist at once?
what if we have always existed and will always exist?
what if we didn't "come from" anywhere, but have always been here?
there are completely different ways to look at the whole picture
what if there is no before and after, but only now?
what if there is no progression, but just what is and what isn't?
what if nothingness and being are simply alternating states and both exist at once?
what if we have always existed and will always exist?
what if we didn't "come from" anywhere, but have always been here?
coyote
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how can you be so sure you know what's possible when you, yourself, admitted that we are unable to perceive anything beyond the limitations of our sense organs?
perhaps there are things beyond our ability to grasp
Einsten's belief in a supernatural doesn't have anything to do with it's existence. I don't mean to be argumentative, but please explain why someone that does not believe in a creator be naive? The burden of proof is on you that claims there is a supernatural being, just as if I sat in a room with you and suddenly yelled unicorn, I would have to explain what observations has led me to this conclusion.
That is not how evolution works. There is no mastermind changing species into "higher" life. We found a ecological niche and millions of years of evolution adapted us to fill this niche. The monkeys have their own niche, and I would argue they are pretty darn good at it as they are still doing pretty well as a species.
There is not fossil evidence of every single species along the way, but there is fragmented fossil and overwhelming genetic evidence that we are closely related to the apes and mammals in general. Even if there was no evidence to that fact and everybody perceived the birth of the human species as being 300 years ago, a universe without an afterlife and a universe without a creator is still more plausible, again because I have not seen or heard from this creator and I have yet to see this afterlife, and I have yet to see somebody rise from the dead, and every physical law of nature suggests nothing about the supernatural.
I don't know and I'm willing to bet science will never find the answers to these questions, but why would these suggest a supernatural being? Why would these suggest a benevolent supernatural being? Why would these suggest a Christian supernatural being? In a system of infinite variables it is just as likely God is a peg-legged pirate as God is the one seen in the bible.
I problem here is science and religion just don't mix. Faith is a belief in something not supported by evidence.