Who says there's a point to any of this?
A leather bag is nothing, nor is a bucket, nor a brain. They only become useful when something is put into them."Who says there's a point to any of this?
One more for the road?There is no point except the troll preacher has shown long after a thread SHOULD have died idiots like himself can keep it alive
Not quite life after death
false assumption as to motive. it's actually quite native too. people suspect or believe in life after death for many different reasons, and the naive part is the idea that life after death assuages fears or makes everyone happy.
furthermore, your statement is typical (stereotypical) and naive in it's entirety and is just as much an assumption that there is no life after death. it's pretty obvious that even if there wasn't a particular you that survives after physical death ( may or may not be the case), there are repeated patterns in how life is 'recycled'. how is that happy to everyone, if they don't have a choice?
see, people like you think you've considered every angle and perspective but you only consider yours. you are as blind as someone who doesn't even consider the obvious that there are those who so wish to not exist that they commit suicide and yet you assume EVERYONE wants life after death or existence at all.
why it's amazingly naive is the idea that life after death automatically leads to 'assuage fear and to make us happy' part. if life here does not assuage all fears or make us all happy, then why do you assume the idea of life after death does? why would the idea of non-existence be worse or more fearful than existence? were you upset before you existed that you didn't exist? that's pretty moot, isn't it? but if someone said you have a choice of burning in hell for eternity in the afterlife versus not existing at all (no afterlife), i think the better choice is obvious.
or more like, how can one even assume that considering? are you that disconnected from reality to not realize that even current reality/existence can be or is hellish, painful, difficult, unfair, damaging etc?
literally ,what fuking reality do people like you live in? mary poppins?
especially as an adult to have the view that existence in this life or after life or any existence is always somehow better than non-existence is very unrealistic as to the price of existing actually entails.
Probably not.Hey, Musik, are you ever going to get round to providing what has been requested?
Or are you instead just going to confirm your time-wasting agenda here with more attempts at pithy exchanges?
Okay.Probably not.
And an example of such would be...?If I did reply it would probably be a severely edited version since it seems you are just punching "reply" oblivious to content that was brought up but two posts earlier.
Ah, so you not producing an actual argument when asked is really just everyone else's problem?I would argue that when the counter-agent in the discussion requires their opponent to remind them of what they said, that is the evidence that indicates who owns the pithy exchange and time wasting agenda. It just takes the form of trying to mount a discussion with a political campaigner reproducing sound bites while they stay on message.
If you have issue then use the report button - it is what it is there for.Also, (given that the topic is about notions of identity beyond the body), having one of your buddies slyly introduce a racist agenda and no one batting an eyelid doesn't foster much enthusiasm that an indepth discussion of this topic with certain parties is warranted.
I'll get round to reading it at some point, I'm sure.On the glass half full side, your contributions did play a role in my reply here ..
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/religious-proofs-are-nonsensical.160683/#post-3510827
That thread seems to offer a more contained environment for whatever good has arisen from this discussion.
But if you are done then so be it.
A fool who knows he is a fool is farther along the road to wisdom than a wise man.- monkey magic narrator quote.You do know you are playing chess with a pigeon?
Also not a very bright one
I cant prove it... but i thank by the year 2050... the necessary technology to live forever will likely be a reality.!!!
...our human bodies need at least eighty or more trace minerals......... and getting them into our bodies is amazingly inexpensive. More than forty trace minerals have been added to pig feed to decrease the cost of medical care for pigs.
Although I personally believe in life after death it seems logical that we should make a sincere effort to improve both health as well as longevity so that we don't find out the full answer to this question earlier than necessary.
Bein in my 70s im perty sure im gonna miss the boat on technological immortality... but like you im hopeful for lots more years... an one potential prollem is that in my religion pigs ant on the menu.!!!
Hmmm... mayb i will take a vitamin
Some scientists did do a mail in multi choice surveyare there any customer feed back surveys from dead people we can check for experience ratings ?
Some scientists did do a mail in multi choice survey
All the replies went to the dead letter office
DEAD LETTER OFFICEWere the responses coded into a feedback loop scientific method cross referenced double blind experiment standards of validation correlation coefficient
What size file cabinet was used. The file was locked?
Corporate data mining, privacy issues, capitalist dog food fed by a monkey sitting on my head.