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Post by okie on May 1, 2018 12:44:09 GMT -6
"The more we learn about consciousness it starts to appear that this is likely the case."
"Likely" is not proven. It requires some measure of faith to claim there is no life after death.
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 1, 2018 16:41:54 GMT -6
"If there is no evidence of life after death then there is no reason to believe in life after death. To claim there is requires faith." -To arrive at the affirmative conclusion there is no life after death requires faith as well. Why resort to faith when you can just go where the evidence takes you. |
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 1, 2018 16:46:43 GMT -6
"The more we learn about consciousness it starts to appear that this is likely the case." "Likely" is not proven. It requires some measure of faith to claim there is no life after death. It takes no faith to say that the evidence is compelling that there is no life after death. In any event, just from knowing I am an atheist you cannot know my opinion on life after death, which is the point I have made several times in many clever ways. |
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 1, 2018 16:49:18 GMT -6
No, Wombats do not care. They do not concern themselves with the question of a supreme being. They don't know. Therefore they are not a religion. You cannot know what wombats think about. The consciousness of a wombat is a first person (or first wombat?) ontology. But if they don't believe in a Supreme Being then they are atheists. I stand for the wombat creed! |
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Post by okie on May 1, 2018 16:51:17 GMT -6
"If there is no evidence of life after death then there is no reason to believe in life after death. To claim there is requires faith." -To arrive at the affirmative conclusion there is no life after death requires faith as well. Why resort to faith when you can just go where the evidence takes you. The evidence is not conclusive. |
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 1, 2018 16:57:33 GMT -6
Which is why you should weigh it and be open to new evidence and facts.
But this has nothing to do with the fact that knowing any given person is an atheist tells you nothing about their views of reincarnation. The only way you can debate life after death with them is for you to ask different questions. The same is not true if you are talking with the Pope. You know where he stands by virtue of his religion.
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Post by okie on May 1, 2018 17:05:18 GMT -6
No, Wombats do not care. They do not concern themselves with the question of a supreme being. They don't know. Therefore they are not a religion. You cannot know what wombats think about. The consciousness of a wombat is a first person (or first wombat?) ontology. But if they don't believe in a Supreme Being then they are atheists. I stand for the wombat creed! Wombats do not know the answers. Wombats do not draw conclusions. Wombats recognize that once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Wombats require truth. Wombats don't know. I am a wombat. |
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 1, 2018 17:08:10 GMT -6
Wombats don't quote Sherlock Holmes
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Post by okie on May 1, 2018 17:20:26 GMT -6
Wombats are quite well read. Wombats experience the howling fantods.
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Post by drlefty on May 2, 2018 7:34:19 GMT -6
So Wombats are actually well read Vampires?
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Post by okie on May 2, 2018 9:53:06 GMT -6
So Wombats are actually well read Vampires? We don't know if we are or not. |
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Post by Mahatma__Ganhdi on May 2, 2018 18:23:28 GMT -6
So Wombats are actually well read Vampires? We don't know if we are or not. All Okie knows is that he knows nothing. |
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Post by drlefty on May 2, 2018 19:04:26 GMT -6
Okie is basically telling you he thinks culture is religion.
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Post by okie on May 2, 2018 20:06:25 GMT -6
Okie is basically telling you he thinks culture is religion. Lefty, settle down. I don't hold your religion against you. It's protected by our constitution anyway. |
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Post by okie on May 3, 2018 7:25:06 GMT -6
Is Rudy Giuliani suffering from Alzheimer's or just some form of dementia?
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