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goldent

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73. I guess I don't see what the problem is

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 12:31 AM

Aug 2014

Of all the questions that arise from the idea of an afterlife, this one seems pretty mild.

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Did you ever stop to think that if there is an afterlife, all the people who have ever lived and [View all] raccoon Aug 2014 OP

I don't personally believe in it either, but I would sure like to meet St. Francis. cbayer Aug 2014 #1

I was brought up in the Franciscan Catholic tradition. Maedhros Aug 2014 #64

I have really enjoyed and been enlightened by learning more about him here. cbayer Aug 2014 #67

Atilla the Hun, Vlad the Impaler, Nero notadmblnd Aug 2014 #2

I have yet to hear an explanation for this alleged afterlife that isn't just plain silly. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #3

Yes. In_The_Wind Aug 2014 #4

I've been thinking about the afterlife a lot recently underpants Aug 2014 #5

I don't believe in the afterlife, either. And I'm a Christian! But careful reading of the BlueCaliDem Aug 2014 #6

Personally, I think people are reincarnated/recycled. Still Blue in PDX Aug 2014 #7

I believe in reincarnation upaloopa Aug 2014 #8

I had a dog named Napoleon MissDeeds Aug 2014 #28

Not only the people, but their animals! femmocrat Aug 2014 #9

I'm not sure what I believe TlalocW Aug 2014 #10

Hitchens summed it up best. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #11

He had a poor concept of infinity. rug Aug 2014 #12

Bingo! Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #23

AKA; fear-driven wishful thinking. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #31

Not at all! What fear-driven? Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #35

Fear of death. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #37

I doubt anyone fears death Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #45

Not what I meant by dying badly. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #46

Forever is not a straight line. rug Aug 2014 #13

Another reason to skip it presents itself. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #14

Your choice. rug Aug 2014 #15

Apparently not, if the evangelicals are to be believed. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #16

You might be thinking of Calvinists. rug Aug 2014 #17

I'm concerned that I understood that joke. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #18

There is help for us. rug Aug 2014 #19

that's the whole point of the Book of Job: eternal/infinite have nothing to do with time/space MisterP Aug 2014 #20

Exactly right. rug Aug 2014 #21

I'll third that! Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #24

There is no mainstream definition of 'eternal' that isn't horrifying in this sense. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #32

There is another, not colloquial, definition. rug Aug 2014 #34

Wordier but still problematic. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #36

Here are two less wordy questions. rug Aug 2014 #38

Yes and no. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #39

No, in the former, there is nothing, nothing at all. rug Aug 2014 #40

Its a possibility within a range of possibilities. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #41

And what kind of evidence would reveal that? rug Aug 2014 #42

The sort that supposedly led people to think it a possibility in the first place. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #43

Which is? rug Aug 2014 #48

Non-existent. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #49

You've rebutted the statement you made in 43. rug Aug 2014 #54

How so? Would you prefer 'imaginary'? AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #55

You said, use the same evidence today that people used when they came up with the notion. rug Aug 2014 #58

No, not really. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #60

Then what is the imagined evidence? rug Aug 2014 #61

I'm trying to select inoffensive adjectives from a superset of very not nice adjectives to describe AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #62

Don't worry about offense. Worry about the source. rug Aug 2014 #63

Well, the source appears to be randomly made up shit. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #65

Well, fwiw, the fact that human beings can conceive of things so much larger than themselves, rug Aug 2014 #68

Based on what? There's no evidence for any such thing. phil89 Aug 2014 #30

First you have to understand the difference between natural and supernatural. rug Aug 2014 #33

Why do we need to postulate a supernatural to consider at all? AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #44

It has already been postulated, for milennia. rug Aug 2014 #47

So was ether theory. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #50

The ether theory asserted material and conductive properties. rug Aug 2014 #51

That's not an acceptable excuse to me. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #52

That's not an excuse. It's a dismissal of your example. rug Aug 2014 #53

Uh huh AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #56

Glad you agree. rug Aug 2014 #57

Riverworld DavidDvorkin Aug 2014 #22

Buddhists and Hindus considered the crowding Warpy Aug 2014 #25

the closest thing to an afterlife i'll buy is humanity's collective memory. unblock Aug 2014 #26

There may be something special that occurs in the last moments of life carolinayellowdog Aug 2014 #27

Fascinating take on this. cbayer Aug 2014 #29

Actually we might know. Even you just speculated it as being neurochemical. Knowledge is slowly still_one Aug 2014 #59

You are right and it is logical to speculate that we could cbayer Aug 2014 #66

The Dalai Lama says that we have been doing this so WhiteTara Aug 2014 #69

Lol, Dick Cheney as your mother. cbayer Aug 2014 #70

Been thinking about the "afterlife" lately because I will be approaching that big question quite lumpy Aug 2014 #71

Hope it's not for a while yet. rug Aug 2014 #72

Thanks for sharing this. cbayer Aug 2014 #74

I guess I don't see what the problem is goldent Aug 2014 #73