Thread: Do you believe in a 'Afterlife'?

Evidence and sources would be much appreciated here, seeing as how I have seen absolutely no reliable evidence to support the notion of an afterlife.

Evidence and sources of no after life would be much appreciated here seeing as I have seen absolutely no reliable evicence to support the notion of no afterlife.

You say it is on us to prove that there is an afterlife, there is a God etc but guess what,I don't really care what you believe and I don't think anyone else does either no matter what they say to your face. Anyhow, what I believe is what I believe. I don't really care if you believe it or not. So why don't you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that evolution happened, that somehting blew up in space and formed earth, that there is no God what so ever. Go ahead and prove it....

[QUOTE=davej;1275333]Evidence and sources of no after life would be much appreciated here seeing as I have seen absolutely no reliable evicence to support the notion of no afterlife.
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I hate to do this because i know it's used in every thread everywhere but

We have no evidence that anything i can come up with in my mind doesn't exist. So if I declare randomly that there are seven violet flowers, on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, singing in unison, you can't disprove it.

Obviously though, this is no reason to believe it.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but are you basing your belief in something on the fact that it isn't proven wrong? Because that seems an awfully negative way of thinking.


Besides, as far as I'm concerned there actually is evidence of no afterlife, at least not in the simple way you and most religions mean it.

We have pretty conclusive evidence of how our personality, memories, basically who we are, corresponds to various parts of the brain. Want evidence, go talk to someone who has brain damage. Their whole personality can change, they can become essentially a different person, just from a knock to the brain.

When we die, our brain, which all evidence suggests is at least an essential part of our person, rots.

So it would seem that as who we are is rooted in our brain, and our brain is rotting, that who we are is not continuing into an afterlife.

Originally Posted by davej

Anyhow, what I believe is what I believe.

And you should constantly be questioning it. Do you?

Carousoul, that still proved nothing. Your thing about your brain rotting has nothing to do with the afterlife. it is your soul that goes. Good try though.

Originally Posted by davej

Carousoul, that still proved nothing. Your thing about your brain rotting has nothing to do with the afterlife. it is your soul that goes. Good try though.

I'm not trying to prove anything. It just seems to me that there is evidence and reason to believe that who we are to all effective purposes dies with the body. I might be wrong, but if I am show me how.


What is a soul, and what has it got to do with you, if it is not what makes you a person?

if you are not trying to prove anything, you sure went to a lot of trouble.

Originally Posted by davej

if you are not trying to prove anything, you sure went to a lot of trouble.

I want us to learn and understand :'(

Don't push me away.

Here's the bottom line. Religion can't be proven, an afterlife can't be proven, God can't be proven, Jesus dieing on a cross and rising 3 days later can't be proven. It is all about faith.