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raccoon

(31,130 posts) Thu Aug 21, 2014, 04:11 PM Aug 2014

Did you ever stop to think that if there is an afterlife, all the people who have ever lived and [View all]

died are in it? And they will be forever.

So, not only is John Lennon in it, but Abraham Lincoln, St. Francis of Assisi, Julius Caesar, all the people who ever lived in
slavery, in the US and anywhere else....

Forever is a long, long time.

(I personally don't believe in an afterlife.)

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Did you ever stop to think that if there is an afterlife, all the people who have ever lived and [View all] raccoon Aug 2014 OP

I don't personally believe in it either, but I would sure like to meet St. Francis. cbayer Aug 2014 #1

I was brought up in the Franciscan Catholic tradition. Maedhros Aug 2014 #64

I have really enjoyed and been enlightened by learning more about him here. cbayer Aug 2014 #67

Atilla the Hun, Vlad the Impaler, Nero notadmblnd Aug 2014 #2

I have yet to hear an explanation for this alleged afterlife that isn't just plain silly. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #3

Yes. In_The_Wind Aug 2014 #4

I've been thinking about the afterlife a lot recently underpants Aug 2014 #5

I don't believe in the afterlife, either. And I'm a Christian! But careful reading of the BlueCaliDem Aug 2014 #6

Personally, I think people are reincarnated/recycled. Still Blue in PDX Aug 2014 #7

I believe in reincarnation upaloopa Aug 2014 #8

I had a dog named Napoleon MissDeeds Aug 2014 #28

Not only the people, but their animals! femmocrat Aug 2014 #9

I'm not sure what I believe TlalocW Aug 2014 #10

Hitchens summed it up best. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #11

He had a poor concept of infinity. rug Aug 2014 #12

Bingo! Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #23

AKA; fear-driven wishful thinking. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #31

Not at all! What fear-driven? Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #35

Fear of death. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #37

I doubt anyone fears death Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #45

Not what I meant by dying badly. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #46

Forever is not a straight line. rug Aug 2014 #13

Another reason to skip it presents itself. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #14

Your choice. rug Aug 2014 #15

Apparently not, if the evangelicals are to be believed. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #16

You might be thinking of Calvinists. rug Aug 2014 #17

I'm concerned that I understood that joke. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #18

There is help for us. rug Aug 2014 #19

that's the whole point of the Book of Job: eternal/infinite have nothing to do with time/space MisterP Aug 2014 #20

Exactly right. rug Aug 2014 #21

I'll third that! Starboard Tack Aug 2014 #24

There is no mainstream definition of 'eternal' that isn't horrifying in this sense. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #32

There is another, not colloquial, definition. rug Aug 2014 #34

Wordier but still problematic. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #36

Here are two less wordy questions. rug Aug 2014 #38

Yes and no. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #39

No, in the former, there is nothing, nothing at all. rug Aug 2014 #40

Its a possibility within a range of possibilities. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #41

And what kind of evidence would reveal that? rug Aug 2014 #42

The sort that supposedly led people to think it a possibility in the first place. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #43

Which is? rug Aug 2014 #48

Non-existent. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #49

You've rebutted the statement you made in 43. rug Aug 2014 #54

How so? Would you prefer 'imaginary'? AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #55

You said, use the same evidence today that people used when they came up with the notion. rug Aug 2014 #58

No, not really. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #60

Then what is the imagined evidence? rug Aug 2014 #61

I'm trying to select inoffensive adjectives from a superset of very not nice adjectives to describe AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #62

Don't worry about offense. Worry about the source. rug Aug 2014 #63

Well, the source appears to be randomly made up shit. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #65

Well, fwiw, the fact that human beings can conceive of things so much larger than themselves, rug Aug 2014 #68

Based on what? There's no evidence for any such thing. phil89 Aug 2014 #30

First you have to understand the difference between natural and supernatural. rug Aug 2014 #33

Why do we need to postulate a supernatural to consider at all? AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #44

It has already been postulated, for milennia. rug Aug 2014 #47

So was ether theory. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #50

The ether theory asserted material and conductive properties. rug Aug 2014 #51

That's not an acceptable excuse to me. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #52

That's not an excuse. It's a dismissal of your example. rug Aug 2014 #53

Uh huh AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #56

Glad you agree. rug Aug 2014 #57

Riverworld DavidDvorkin Aug 2014 #22

Buddhists and Hindus considered the crowding Warpy Aug 2014 #25

the closest thing to an afterlife i'll buy is humanity's collective memory. unblock Aug 2014 #26

There may be something special that occurs in the last moments of life carolinayellowdog Aug 2014 #27

Fascinating take on this. cbayer Aug 2014 #29

Actually we might know. Even you just speculated it as being neurochemical. Knowledge is slowly still_one Aug 2014 #59

You are right and it is logical to speculate that we could cbayer Aug 2014 #66

The Dalai Lama says that we have been doing this so WhiteTara Aug 2014 #69

Lol, Dick Cheney as your mother. cbayer Aug 2014 #70

Been thinking about the "afterlife" lately because I will be approaching that big question quite lumpy Aug 2014 #71

Hope it's not for a while yet. rug Aug 2014 #72

Thanks for sharing this. cbayer Aug 2014 #74

I guess I don't see what the problem is goldent Aug 2014 #73