Poll: Poll: Do you believe in an afterlife?

Do you believe in an aferlife?

  • Yes

    Votes: 102 17.5%

  • No

    Votes: 380 65.2%

  • undecided

    Votes: 101 17.3%
  • Total voters
    583
  • Poll closed .
spudbynight said:
Well unfortunately we don't have evidence either way. I would love to be able to show you video footage of heaven.

What people need to do is reach a position they are comfortable with. Most people reach a view through reason. This is why you have people who cease to believe despite their upbringing. This is also why you have people who, like I did, move the other way.
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Well evidence to suggest that it doesn't exist is there in the fact it has failed to present itself. Blind faith doesn't cut it.
 
[FnG]magnolia;22046586 said:
Can you tell us more about this? Genuine question.
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I assume he means that the individual reasons their position based on a combination their personal experience, learned knowledge and innate cognitive bias.
 
I would like to think there is an afterlife but i see us as so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that I just don't think its possible, no one ever goes on about pets having an afterlife or seeing dinosaur ghosts.

I think its just a safety blanket we, as a people, have given ourselves to comfort us that regardless of the blink of an eye existance we have something of us will go on forever.

Bit of a morbid way of looking at things I know but it gives me comfort not caring :)

KaHn
 
EvilFranky said:
Well evidence to suggest that it doesn't exist is there in the fact it has failed to present itself. Blind faith doesn't cut it.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So the first statement doesn't hold up.

Also the point was made by Spudbynight that many people reason their way through the myriad of experiences and information within their personal perception and world view to reach their opinion on this.....this precludes the accusation of blind faith. Faith is not innately blind, quite the opposite.
 
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[FnG]magnolia;22046680 said:
Castiel, with the greatest respect I'd be keen to hear his own thoughts.
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It seems rather obvious what he meant however. If he meant something other than that I am sure he will tell us.
 
[FnG]magnolia;22046706 said:
Sorry to cherry pick quotes (I genuinely am) but this needs expansion and clarity.
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People can have faith for very specific reasons....again, due to their personal experience, perception of the world around them, whether they accept relevant philosophical and theological ideas and arguments based on their cognitive bias and environment ans so on.......They question their faith almost continuously, they alter their opinon and perception of their faith as they increase their knowlege and experience.....this is how we have denominational religion, a myriad of competing and complimentary philosophies, a myriad of differing beliefs and positions, each come to fruition by someone questioning their beliefs and faith in what they hold to be the truth. The basic reason why we have these discussions in the first place.

That is not blind faith...that is just Faith.

Blind faith is the simple acceptance of a position without investigating, testing and applying or dismissing the relative beliefs according to your own thoughts and ideas and self discovery.

"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies." Gandhi.
 
i figure i might as well believe in the afterlife. The general consensus is that you only get an afterlife if you believe in it, so i might as well believe in it for that microscopic chance that it really exists because if it does exist and i dont believe in it i wouldnt get an afterlife but if i did believe in it i would get an afterlife

of course this plan falls through if the real case is that there's an afterlife only for those who dont believe in it
 
Reaper 392 said:
i figure i might as well believe in the afterlife. The general consensus is that you only get an afterlife if you believe in it, so i might as well believe in it for that microscopic chance that it really exists because if it does exist and i dont believe in it i wouldnt get an afterlife but if i did believe in it i would get an afterlife

of course this plan falls through if the real case is that there's an afterlife only for those who dont believe in it
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Nobody said the afterlife is a good thing, its just presumed it seems.
 
Castiel said:
I'm not so convinced that if there is an afterlife that it would necessarily manifest in our individualism. To wit, I feel that if there is some form of Afterlife then our individuality is lost or maybe subsumed into some universal concsiouness or simply we are consigned to universal oblivion, as if we never existed.....I woukd prefer the former, but suspect the latter.

In either case I suspect that if there is an Afterlife, it would be so totally alien to our corporeal existence as to be incomparable on an individual level.
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Just noticed this.....yep exactly the way I think.

You can't look at the afterlife through a human perspective, you have to think about it in must broader terms.
 
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