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  1. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    What, no. You said, 'Free will is incompatible with naturalism.' You did not say that free will is a possibility for which there is no evidence: you said that free will is IMPOSSIBLE without the supernatural.
  2. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    Creasy, cause and effect is all you can imagine, because it is all you have experienced. If this were a hundred years ago, when there was no quantum physics, you would say that randomness was impossible. Within a hundred years science would prove you wrong. Now you are saying that free will...
  3. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    I'm not attacking you, by the way, and if you're genuinely interested, fine. It's just that it's annoying when atheists get stuck in fruitless arguments.
  4. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    Arguing about theological nonsense like this is just pandering to them. The case for any sort of Godlike thing is weak. There is no case at all for the God who appears in the Bible. Once you've established that, using the usual arguments, there's no point in also picking out the millions of...
  5. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    Would you say the same thing to people who say that faith in God brings them hope and happiness and meaning, MD? My point is that I have no evidence that people who believe in the afterlife are happier - happiness can not be measured any way - or that widespread belief in the afterlife, as we...
  6. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    But we all constantly lie to ourselves.
  7. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    To say that deluding oneself into happiness is 'all good' is no better than saying it is 'all bad'. You and Watershed both are just guessing what would happen if lots of people deluded themselves in this way, and presenting each guess as a fact. Admit that nobody could possibly know whether it...
  8. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    But you can think rationally, or not. Watershed is not suggesting an alternative to thinking. He just wants people to think rationally. What are you and he even arguing about? Whether it is wrong to delude oneself?
  9. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    How can you just say that whoever believes in the afterlife is secretly frightened of dying? Why it is any less likely that they think irrational thoughts and really believe them?
  10. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    I think it's true that we know little about the brain, but not nothing. And I disagree that we need 'concrete proof' of this or that for it to be meaningful - we're not going to find proof. We simply need evidence, or at any rate some sense of how we would go about getting evidence.
  11. Ruby

    Life after Death?

    It doesn't scare me that there isn't an afterlife, because going on for eternity is the worst fate I can think of. My only qualm about one day being dead is that I want, as almost everyone does, not only to be remembered but to see myself being remembered, which of couse is impossible. The...
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