Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Is there life after death? | Sam Harris, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, u0026 more | Big Think" video.

  1. I've been saying this for a while now. Makes me smile when it when it turns out I've recognized something on my own, even using the same words, that Mr Watts has said.
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  2. Too many of those having kids are far from the Fittest of us.
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  3. Maybe but probably not - I have to be agnostic about the subject as I don't have enough faith to declare certainty of something I can't know about. Anything else is hubris.
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  4. You sound like fellow devout agnostic - sup!
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  5. Being annything other than agnostic is hubris. I'm happy contemplating possibilities but the reality is we can't know.
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  6. Or survival of the worst of us. If it's just about having kids there's a lot of terrible people who breed like rabbits. The begining of movie Idiocracy about how the SHTF isn't far from the truth of things all too often.
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  7.  @jonrolfson1686  Deep thoughts, my dude. Deep thoughts - keep 'em coming! High thumb, Jon.
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  8. I'm agnostic about the subject, but if there is anything more it is that the person finds eternal peace free from want or need since those are things we only crave during this imperfect existence and will no longer apply in a state of perfection. It's perpetual harmony with everything that ever was, is or will be. And as the person is no longer finite and experiencing a temporal, linear existence, the concept of eternity or infinity looses it's meaning. I'd add that if such a state of being does exist it won't be something that only the believers of one particular faith will get to experience. Then again, we all migh be the same entity or being (for lack of a better word) experiencing and interacting with itself throughout what we call eternity. In which case, do unto to others as you would have done unto you - not because Jesus said so but because you are. Or more likely, the lights go out and we simply go back to what we were before the lights came on.
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  9.  @Yameen200  There might not be a sense of identity in an afterlife as what made you you might be primarily a construct of our nueral pathways. Perhaps the lose of self will be what makes an eternal existence with a universal whole possible. For example, take the person who suffers from amnesia or dementia. Amnesia usually has no long-term affects on the body, but it may wreak havoc on the personal and social life of someone who is suffering from it. The irritability, frustration, and confusion that accompany memory loss can affect the individual in profound ways. Likewise, one of my grandmothers who developed dementia in the last year or her life became a very different person than she had been before. She went from being very religious, proper and outgoing lady to cursing like a sailor and terrified of everyone and everything around her. Identity and our sense of self can be very fragile things.
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  10.  @Yameen200  Agree to disagree about something neither of us can confirm or deny except for ourselves?
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