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The Fact of Death

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Parasomnium
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Message 71 of 167 (273754)
12-29-2005 5:22 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Faith
05-14-2005 8:26 PM

The afterlife is a myth
Faith writes:
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I think that since so many cultures have acknowledged a Place of the Dead or a Place of Torment after death that there has to be more to it than inventions for the purpose of teaching life lessons.
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Lam writes:
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This is like saying since so many cultures have thought that the world was flat therefore there must be some truth to it.
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Faith writes:
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Not sure "so many cultures" did believe the world was flat -- no reason to think the Hebrews did for instance -- but in any case it wasn't a bad inference from the available information at the time.
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Concerning the afterlife there may be reason to believe that people USED to know more than we do now.
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{messages 16 through 18 in this thread}
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Regarding Faith's last remark, my conclusion would be the exact opposite: we know more now than we used to know then. That's why modern science dismisses the afterlife as a myth.
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This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 29-Dec-2005 10:22 AM
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Parasomnium
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Message 73 of 167 (273840)
12-29-2005 12:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 72 by Faith
12-29-2005 11:34 AM

Re: The afterlife is a myth
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Modern science cannot have one thing to say about the possibility of an afterlife.
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On the contrary, it can. Based on what science has found out about nature in general, and about brains and minds in particular, it can say of the afterlife that it is rather unlikely. Science could be wrong on that account, but as long as each and every investigation into the matter, under controlled circumstances, yields zero results, I think we can safely assume that the afterlife is most probably a myth.
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('Safely', 'assume', and 'most probably', that's three terms of tentativity in one sentence. A bit overdone?)
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