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Unread 12-22-2012, 01:48 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
Would any of this change your views? I guess my point is that it's a lot easier to say death is the end of everything, when death is, from our perspective, a long way away.
There's really something here that's just not getting through to you, I guess. Whether or not you believe something or not does not affect it's truth.

This isn't Peter Pan. If enough people think positive, happy afterlife thoughts it's not going to magically make evidence of an afterlife appear. So basically what you're asking is sort of insulting -- as if suddenly faced with my death I will change my entire worldview? That I would sacrifice my rational and logical sense for a happy fantasy that my life will continue after I die?

Look man, as I've said: I don't not believe in an afterlife because I think it would suck. I think it would be awesome. I don't believe in an afterlife because it doesn't seem to be TRUE.

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