Nexus writes:
i don't beleive we just die and that's it...i also don't beleive in one particular god or gods...but there must be more.
I'm not trying to be nasty or anything so try not to take this the wrong way, but what you believe has no effect on reality.
Nexus writes:
i think that the body and the material world is just a prison or learning ground for the mind/soul. a world with rules, laws, causes, and effects. by the time you die you're mind will have been matured enough to be free.
I have never seen any evidence that a mind/soul exists. If you have got some I would love to take a look.
A far as the mind being mature when you die...assuming for the moment that there is a soul, how exactly does this work for infants that dies within minutes, hours, or even days?
The rest of you post is pretty pointless unless you can demonstrate that a soul actually exists.
Nexus writes:
it's just not worth it when you think about it, there must be a greater cause.
I wish this were the case, but as far as we can tell there is no 'must' about it. Things are the way they are and humanities desire for it to be different seems to have absolutly no effect.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in
this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely
conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
- Mikhail Bakunin,
God and the State, from
The Columbian Dictionary of Quotations
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