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Is there an Afterlife?

Mentalist

Mentalist

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YES OR NO.
 
Yeah probably.
 
I don't know!

I hope there is an afterlife, but I sure as hell hope it's not the Christian afterlife because I'll be going to hell.
 
It's not a yes or no question. I strongly want there to be one, I strongly believe at the moment that there ISN'T and that anyone who votes yes is doing so out of wishful thinking or because it's "better than the alternative" is if voting in this poll is going to determine whether there is one or not (MAYBE IT WILL OMG!?) BUT I am certainly open to the possibility that there is one. Having said that I voted no.
 
It's not a yes or no question
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This is true, but I'm still going to go with 'no' due to there being little but social conditioning and fear that makes us want to believe.


For there to be an afterlife you have to make wild and outlandish concessions within the framework of perceivable reality:


1. There must be a supreme being in control of the universe


2. We must matter in the context of divine providence.


3. Humans are owed immortality.


To have an afterlife means that the nature of reality must bend to fit our own wishes without a shred of scientific evidence. Occam's razor - The requisites for an afterlife are far too complicated to be true.

It's our own relative scale of reality we have for ourselves that make us seem cosmically significant. At its core it's a return to the archaic idea of Geocentricism as an overriding thought process.


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Earth taken by Voyager a poxy 4 billion miles away. You know, for context.

That said, there is the wide field pertaining to the philosophy of metaphysics and there are endless interesting segways in to other areas of thinking that don't necessarily have to apply to the straight-forward scientific method and are of some interest, but still at best, a long shot. Myself and Wacky have had extensive conversations on the merits of logic versus metaphysical philosophy and it's hard to make a distinction where one ends and the other begins. Basically, to believe in an afterlife is not a simple process. One must make concessions across the board to make it fit. It's our wish that there was an afterlife that makes us entertain the idea and make it fit to begin with; more than just a little bit logically shaky methinks, and not really the best of platforms to start reasoning from.
 
Is there a beforelife?
 
Yes, and there I will finally get to nail Kelly Brook.
 
Kerb Crawler said:
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I feel like I'm living in it, brother.
 
There is no afterlife btw. None. Accept it.
 
"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." -- Bertrand Russell
 
I really see no reason why there would be.
 
I'd like to hear the case for immortality.
 
I never voted in the poll, cause I was afraid if I said no then the afterlife would disappear!
 
It's clearly in favor of "no" now GOODBYE GRANDMA OMG
 
50/50 now. I can't remember voting in this but it says I did. What really amazes me is I didnt go into one of my long diatribes on the afterlife....BONC!

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there isn't one though. "afterlife", the very word is a contradiction in terms.
 
clever, but, ah, Wacky, now yer quibbling about semantics; you know very well the term is used as a contraction for what we understand as "the [life]after[what we call this]life".
 
p.s. the English language delights in contradictions.
This is why teaching it as a second language gives me such diabolical pleasure.
 
Why would there be a life after this life? Everything about our biology says we're designed for this life only.
 
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