Poll

[jambo372]

Regardless of whether or not you're sceptical on other issues do you believe in life after death or a spirit dimension :

 

[Mojo]

Based on the evidence I've seen so far, no.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Nope.

 

[The Cats Venm]

No.

When I die I will simply cease to live and I find great comfort in that.

 

[Operaider]

nope

 

[Interesting Ian]

Yes.

 

[Ashles]

No.

When I die it will be like before I was born - I'm just not here anymore.

I don't like it, and I feel in the arrogant way that all humans do that it is somehow fundamentally unfair, but I can't make myself believe something that I feel just isn't true.

 

[Patricio Elicer]

I don't believe in anything paranormal

 

[Kilted_Canuck]

The thought of dying scares the piss out of me, simply because non-existance is unfathomable by the human mind...weirds me out.

 

[El Greco]

I'm a firm believer in death after life

 

[Dr Adequate]

Suns set to rise again; when our brief light
is done, we sleep for one eternal night.

 

[wittgenst3in]

Suns set to rise again; when our brief light
is done, we sleep for one eternal night.

So always look both ways before you cross the road.

 

[Pixel42]

The thought of dying scares the piss out of me, simply because non-existance is unfathomable by the human mind...weirds me out.

Unfathomable? But you already know exactly what it's like. You were non-existant for billions of years, whilst stars formed, life began, history unfolded ...

I've never understood why people find their non-existance after death so much more difficult to accept than their non-existence before birth. Personally I'm no more bothered by the fact that I will be non-existant in 2050 than I am by the fact that I was non-existant in 1950.

 

[Interesting Ian]

Unfathomable? But you already know exactly what it's like. You were non-existant for billions of years, whilst stars formed, life began, history unfolded ...

I've never understood why people find their non-existance after death so much more difficult to accept than their non-existence before birth. Personally I'm no more bothered by the fact that I will be non-existant in 2050 than I am by the fact that I was non-existant in 1950.

It seems to me ridiculous to suppose we didn't exist before conception but we will exist after death.

 

[Ed]

It seems to me ridiculous to suppose we didn't exist before conception but we will exist after death.

It seems that when one is in the realm of unprovable contentions the word "ridiculous" is undefined. Think of a medieval thinker saying "to assert that the Son is not One with the Father is ridiculous on the face of it."

 

[Dr Adequate]

It seems to me ridiculous to suppose we didn't exist before conception but we will exist after death.

Some more ridiculous things: the spherical earth; quantum theory; special and general relativity; the hipopotamus. What's your point?

 

[singlemalt]

Nope

When I die the universe ends.





Following homeopath(et)ic rules would all water on earth not be holy water. Therefore by bathing am I endangering the continued existence of the universe?

 

[Interesting Ian]

Nope

When I die the universe ends.

Yes, this will be the case should solipsism be a correct characterisation of reality.

Most interesting.

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Ian said:
It seems to me ridiculous to suppose we didn't exist before conception but we will exist after death.

Indeed. That leaves both or none.

Ian, do you find it frustrating to think that, if you cease to exist when you die, you will have no way of knowing it?

~~ Paul

 

[Interesting Ian]

Indeed. That leaves both or none.

Ian, do you find it frustrating to think that, if you cease to exist when you die, you will have no way of knowing it?

~~ Paul

Yeah, if my existence and the Universe's existence is purposeless, I'd like to get to know it sometime. It's not fair; you'll get to find out if you're wrong, but I won't