No, i mean we can measure it. We know it happened. You’re conflating the definition of a scientific theory with the vernacular “theory”, a common tactic for evangelists.
Yep. And a book saying “it is because I say it is” doesn’t make it any less silly or any more true 
cmon now that’s like prophecy 101 stuff.
I mean, the idea of punishing or rewarding people for all eternity based on which mystical sports team their ancestors got converted to sounds pretty silly to me. If this god needs me to worship him or else then he doesn’t sound all that strong tbh. Kinda insecure.
Also, my body will stay wherever it gets placed or turned into one of those man made diamonds by my wife. Considering everything we know about bodies, the idea of my conciousness going somewhere to get tormented sounds super silly. I won’t feel any pain lmao. There’s nothing there to feel pain.
We can see it expanding yes,see it’s results but don’t know where’s it heading ,you do realize our cosmic family group is moving as a whole to somewhere we can’t measure.
I’m not evangelic but my beliefs are different ,I like science as an external proof but spiritually it is another case,internally it is oneness than layers of dogma.
Well, with the choice between blinking out like a light bulb and eternal suffering lasting until the heat death of the Universe (and even that is not a given) I’m hoping for the blink out. Otherwise I’m facing a rough trillion years or so. I haven’t read up on that estimate for the duration of the Universe lately, could only be a few hundred billion.
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The Book of Enoch speaks of 3 levels of Heaven. It also mentions reincarnation. I haven’t had the chance to read all of The Book Of Enoch.
It was kept out of the bible because Constantine the Great took it out of the existing original Bible, at the time, in 325 AD.
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The Big Bang is the leading theory on how the universe was created and it matches the math of the classic model of physics. It’s something you can calculate.
Religion is based on faith. You just have to accept what a Bible from any given religion says. There is no math or research that can be done to back it up.
This life is a computer simulation and when it ends, we go back to our real lives. The entirety of our lives here last only an hour or so in our real lives.
And then we find out those lives are another simulation in a long string of simulations within simulations. Until we realize we are immortal beings of pure energy and made the simulations to pass the endless existence.
Hmm,robots come to mind ,we created them as a simulation of man ,so when it asks where did we come from what is a good answer? Would it feel the anxiety of death like we do as humans?
Biologically our weight is composed of friendly organisms which constitute 50% of our mass, without these organisms we simply can’t exist.
Scientifically our volume is at 99.99% space between atoms.
So that leave us 0.005%, doesn’t it make each of us look like a super rare loot
I think death is a continuity under different parameters, this continuity can be a loop for some and/or a transcendence for others. Unfortunately there’s only few data on the matter and it still impossible to quantify the phenomenon, maybe because science still young and a bit of wisdom is required to develop the tools!
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I like to think the smartest astronomers of the greeks knew that the sun was more central than the earth and their system of gods and elements was a ploy to convince the layperson of a more believable (I am the centre of the universe story). I consider aether more as a literary term when discussing with others than a literal thing in existence. Aether is what we are unaware of and nothing else. If you don’t know organic chem, much is aether, if you don’t know basic laws of thermodynamics and pressure systems, a lot is left up to aether… far from a fool proof system but gives individuals a place to openly state their misunderstandings and for societies to grow, things may no longer be considered originating from the aether but from the mixture of elements… as you learn more of the elements, maybe even there is an absolute aether, something we have yet to fully comprehend as individual.
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No, because we stay in communication with our robots when they go off exploring.
Hopefully nothing. Literal nothing. I don’t want an afterlife. I don’t want reincarnated. I want to die and to be done. Nothing but an otherwise insignificant atom in the grand fabric of the universe.
I mean in a single sense not as a collective,if it were an individual robot without a center multiple mind would it have anxiety knowing death.
Depends. What’s a center multiple mind?
Never thought about it, tbh I like the idea!
Collective ,if a system were to dysfunction little by little would it know death? We know our natural death when function start to shut down ,would it also?
It would depend on how it was programmed. Most people who build robots don’t implement that type of self reflection, they just minimize the code so that it does what they want it to do.
But This is a what if, if it go beyond coding- programing and does this without us knowing ,which we have seen them self learning, I do believe that day would come,if so then it would know that death even to them will come.
I’m realistic in the sense that if I don’t know the truth of something, I am not going to simply accept what others say the truth is on faith and nothing else. I am just not wired that way. At the same time, I am also not going to discount the possibility of something just because it seems unlikely. I may not believe an afterlife exists, but I do believe in the possibility that an afterlife could exist.
That’s not to say I don’t imagine what an afterlife could be, if one exists. And that’s not to say I don’t hope that there is one, especially if it’s exactly the afterlife I’d prefer. The issue I have with religious presentations of a “heaven” is that, if I believe anything regarding a hypothetical “heaven”, it’s that the idea of what it would be is different for everyone.
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Afterlife exists. Night City has so many amazing places and a bar that makes drinks after famous people that have died is one that everyone should visit at least once. It’s not hard to image either. Neon lights, smokey rooms, and drinks that aren’t watered down. Ahh the best “tavern” in Watson.
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