bb1234567 wrote: » Life isnt amazing and wonderful for a lot of people
Zubeneschamali wrote: » Of course we know. Science doesn't tell us exactly how 3 pounds of brain generates a self-conscious mind, but we can see how damage to the brain affects the mind: localised damage affects parts of the mind, and severe damage damages it severely. If your mind in the afterlife can see, and recognize others, and remember, why does damage to a small part of your brain cause you to go blind, or stop recognizing faces, or forget? There is absolutely no reason in the world to think killing the brain will somehow detach a mind from the physical realm and send it to magic land. It's a fairy tale, a ghost story. We know better.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » Life after death?
Marcos Fit Rehearsal wrote: » I've been watching too much Neil Degrasse Tyson.
House of Blaze wrote: » Of course it would be lovely to think that the suffering that occurs in this life is just a preamble before the main event so to speak, and that our struggles have value and meaning. But if you ask me, the belief that it doesn't should really act as a better motivator for the people of the world to treat each other better and try to make all of our lives on this plane as happy comfortable as possible. Shame it doesn't really work like that though.
House of Blaze wrote: » He's a king! Did you see cosmos yeah? Class!
Rayanne2010 wrote: » Yes & spiritualists would agree with this also... They hate the imposters too... However, the main point was that based on ALL the evidence given.. he came a believer...
kylith wrote: » Right, so do you have any evidence that isn't based on the personal opinion of a novelist who has been dead for the best part of a century?
Marcos Fit Rehearsal wrote: » It's so good! I never really watched any of those space shows before, too distracted with the animal ones but I'm definitely going to look up more of them. I mean once you've seen a couple hundred antelopes run away from cheetahs you've seen them all really, time to broaden the horizons. Ba dum dum tish.
House of Blaze wrote: » Ha ha! If you haven't already i'd prob check out the Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe series by Brian Cox. There's a bit of overlap with cosmos but they're all good!
sbsquarepants wrote: » This in my opinion is the kind of fúcked up, nonsensical thinking that has allowed religion to gain the strangle hold it has on the world. There is no point - why should there be?
TwoShedsJackson wrote: » The double slit eh? Do tell...
The One Who Knocks wrote: » Also, doesn't the double slit experiment suggest that death can't exist in any true sense?
Galwayguy35 wrote: » People have being reporting sightings of ghosts and and other unexplained paranormal activity for centuries and it just seems too easy for atheists to sweep all this aside and say none of it is true and that once we close our eyes for the last time that's it.
kylith wrote: » Please explain?
The One Who Knocks wrote: » http://www.robertlanza.com/does-death-exist-new-theory-says-no-2/
sbsquarepants wrote: » I have to say I have a particular dislike for this kind of semi scientific bolloxology. The multiverse thing is only a theory and even if it turns out to be real the "you" in all those other universes is not connected to the "you" in this one, not in any tangible sense anyway, if you get hit by a train in this one you're fúcked regardless of whether or not the "you" in some other universe is safely tucked up in bed. I did read up about the future affecting the past experiments and it's fascinating stuff alright, but to me it more proves that free will is an illusion, not death. The only way the future can affect the past is if both were predetermined to begin with (like in the block universe theory). Yes you may actually be both alive and dead simultaneously, but your consciousness can only inhabit one of those states at any given moment, so as far as you are concerned you're either one or the other. When you're dead you can't simply decide to rewind back to being alive!
Maximus Alexander wrote: » Another way of looking at it that I found interesting (that's not to say I'd out any faith in it) is that with the multiverse branching out into new universes at every decision point, such that every possible event happens in some universe, no matter when or how you die there will always be a branch where you didn't and since those are the only branches you can experience, you never die from your own perspective. So, for example, if you put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, from your perspective something will always go wrong - the gun will malfunction or the wound will not be fatal, though you'd be leaving behind you a plethora of universes where your friend just watched you blow your brains out.
nozzferrahhtoo wrote: » Me too. Glad to be of service. Someone, requoted by Christopher Hitchens but I can not remember who it was, once defined being educated as reaching the point where you realize how much you really do not know. Something that fits into the "Dunning–Kruger Effect" I guess. Or wait.... is that the "downing effect"?. 90% sure it is the former but I _always_ mix those two up. One of those anyway :-)The one today was more of the format "There is a thread here I would value your input into if you have a few minutes before your holiday."
