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Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:25 am
Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:25 am
What happens when you die. I'm an atheist but I wonder about the after life all the time. Does our body just turn to dust? Reincarnation or what? Just curious.
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Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:33 am to broken glass
What happened before you were born?
Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:46 am to broken glass
The standard atheist answer is that your consciousness is the product of biological processes in your brain, an d what you perceive as consciousness will end when your brain dies. So basically, yeah, dust.
I suppose the agnostic answer would be "Nobody knows for sure."
I think it's even more interesting to learn about what the different flavors of Christianity say will happen after you die, because they don't completely agree. Check out what Orthodox Christians think "Hell" really is, for example.
I suppose the agnostic answer would be "Nobody knows for sure."
I think it's even more interesting to learn about what the different flavors of Christianity say will happen after you die, because they don't completely agree. Check out what Orthodox Christians think "Hell" really is, for example.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:53 am to broken glass
Lol you're going to burn in a cell in hell for eternity with hooks and chains ripping your flesh apart
Posted on 8/22/15 at 9:55 am to PrivatePublic
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What happened before you were born?
I swim back into my dad's balls???
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:05 am to broken glass
It's a huge sign of our Hegelian intellectual epidemic that people who reject religion move all the way across the spectrum to thinking there is nothing at all.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:06 am to broken glass
If you set advise religious or philosophical tenets and just look at the science of life, you'll note the following:
1. Life arose on this planet via chemical reactions that became progressively more complex; the most complex form of life is the human being with his big brain;
2. Life does not begin at conception. You are an extension of the life that began 3.8 billion years ago. A live sperm and a live egg joined to become a zygote, or seed, that grew into you. With the tree of life that we're a part of, life cannot begin, only end; and,
3. There is no empirical evidence whatsoever that any parts of the complex chemical assembly that is a body continues to live on after the process of death occurs. Many people think of the mind or conscious as some kind of ephemeral being that can exist independently of the brain. However, because the mind or conscious are merely processes of the brain, they stop when the brain cells all die.
So, we have to regard death as the stoppage of all the chemical processes that maintain a body in a living state.
1. Life arose on this planet via chemical reactions that became progressively more complex; the most complex form of life is the human being with his big brain;
2. Life does not begin at conception. You are an extension of the life that began 3.8 billion years ago. A live sperm and a live egg joined to become a zygote, or seed, that grew into you. With the tree of life that we're a part of, life cannot begin, only end; and,
3. There is no empirical evidence whatsoever that any parts of the complex chemical assembly that is a body continues to live on after the process of death occurs. Many people think of the mind or conscious as some kind of ephemeral being that can exist independently of the brain. However, because the mind or conscious are merely processes of the brain, they stop when the brain cells all die.
So, we have to regard death as the stoppage of all the chemical processes that maintain a body in a living state.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:12 am to Kentucker
^^^^yea, what he said.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:12 am to Kentucker
You must have a body you really dislike.
There is really no other psychological explanation for the frightening level of anti-human you are.
There is really no other psychological explanation for the frightening level of anti-human you are.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:12 am to Sleeping Tiger
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It's a huge sign of our Hegelian intellectual epidemic that people who reject religion move all the way across the spectrum to thinking there is nothing at all.
You continue to abuse the word "Hegelian."
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:14 am to Kentucker
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There is no empirical evidence whatsoever that any parts of the complex chemical assembly that is a body continues to live on after the process of death occurs.
Correct. There is no biological evidence of anything other than biology. Outstanding work.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:15 am to the808bass
Thesis. Anti thesis.
Answer.
God. No god.
Answer.
Answer.
God. No god.
Answer.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:17 am to Sleeping Tiger
I'm not sure who's teaching you, but you'll want to fire them.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:18 am to broken glass
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What happens when you die.
I don't know, but I tend to think that I just die.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:20 am to the808bass
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Correct. There is no biological evidence of anything other than biology. Outstanding work.
To quote myself (which seems weirdly déjà vu-like), "If you set advise religious or philosophical tenets and just look at the science of life...."
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:25 am to Kentucker
Admitting you're begging the question doesn't mean you haven't begged the question.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:25 am to Sleeping Tiger
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There is really no other psychological explanation for the frightening level of anti-human you are.
There are 7,361,739,799 people and counting on earth. I don't think people with my worldview represent any immediate threat to the species, dave.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:26 am to the808bass
The OP asked a question of atheists and agnostics. I can't imagine why you're even interested in the thread, much less my response to him.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 10:37 am to the808bass
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I'm not sure who's teaching you, but you'll want to fire them.
Thesis. Anti Thesis. Answer -- is all over the place when describing the Hegelian.
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
Rejecting organized religion and moving all the way to thinking there is nothing is in the Hegelian vein. I think.. I don't see why not.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 11:01 am to broken glass
Agnostics believe it's possible there could be a god, but you could never interact with him. More or less correct?
What do you call someone that believes there most likely is a god, and he doesn't give a shite about us?
What do you call someone that believes there most likely is a god, and he doesn't give a shite about us?
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