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While it's certainly true that we don't have a complete understanding of nature, I think we can safely assert that dead things don't feel, and I'm completely un
by tetrep 9y ago
While it's certainly true that we don't have a complete understanding of nature, I think we can safely assert that dead things don't feel, and I'm completely unaware of any evidence to the contrary (and I would think its existence would be quite noteworthy).
I don't think we need to call it a "belief" anymore than we need to say Russel's Teapot not existing is a "belief." We certainly could go down that route, but then virtually everything becomes a belief and we're left with a much less meaningful term.
I kinda feel like this argument is similar to an nihilist telling a logician that nothing is true.
- DoofusOfDeath 9y agoAFAICT, your point basically assumes all Abrahamic religions are false (i.e., there's no afterlife). Debating that is out of scope here, but it would suggest we don't all agree that there's no feeling after death.
- interfixus 9y agoAs I said, I strongly believe the nothingness theory. And I certainly consider all Abrahamic religions (as another poster calls them) to be utter baloney. My downvoters may wish to reconsider. However! As is often bandied about in this forum, we might conceivably be living in a simulation. In which case the Abrahamic stuff wouldn't be all that baloney after all. Or I might be living in one, and being the only character in it. Et cetera blah blah blah. Or, much more to the point, the universe may indeed be far stranger than we know or can ever know. As certain as I am that my year 2100 will be exactly like my year 1900, I could actually have been wrong about the ultimate setup of the world all along.
- Smaug123 9y agoBy the way, "Abrahamic" is the standard adjective applied to that collection of religions - it looks like you might not have known that. It's a useful word in some specific circumstances :)
- interfixus 9y agoThanks. I did sort of know that in a not very active vocab way. In my native language, I think we would use some form of "the monotheistic religions".