Let's hear one then....:wavey:

:crazy:
:joker::hee:

Talking of DNA, :smug:

The fashion.

:joker:

:oh:

If you could spend a week after dying doing one of these 2 things..which one would you pick..


A. Being a fly on the wall for a week somewhere in the future.

B. Being a fly on the wall for a week somewhere in the past.

His eye for a bargain :laugh:

he was that guy always talking about the weather :laugh:

Telling everyone its to warm for the candles.:joker:

To answer the title question: it means a lot to me. A hell of a lot.

DeGrasse Tyson does not have all the answers. Being a scientist doesn't give you any more insight.

I don't know why it's so important to people who don't believe in any kind of afterlife to try and convince others. With no disrespect to you, LT, it is the same people who don't understand faith and refuse to entertain others' beliefs in God.

You would have thought... But you don't know.

As long as religion is kept away from education and politics people can believe what they like

I agree, although without some religious involvement in the State, Christmas and Easter wouldn't be the bank holidays that they are, of course. And we'd all miss them, whatever you believe in.

Agreed on all points.

Mainstream science held at one point that blacks were inferior savages. Was that acceptable and correct just because science had something to say about it, LT?

But that’s neither here nor there as far as this thread’s concerned. Like Livia said it’s always the same people imposing their robotic beliefs onto other people’s personal belief systems. Who the hell brought up politics and education in this thread besides you?

and through peer review, facts, criticism, learning, analysis and change they moved on

allow me to remind you of the last part of your Bible book...

"I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If
anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in
this book.

And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take
away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are
described in this book."
:skull"

control, control, control
backward, backward, backward

It’s a fairytale we tell ourselves to make us feel better about dying. Simple as really.

That’s coming from a purely contemporary British lens. I don’t think you have the cultural seasoning to understand the afterlife in a deeper sense because it doesn’t tally up with your experiences but that approach doesn’t hold space for other people’s experiences.

“Vindaloo, jollof rice and chow mein are crap because I’m used to mushy peas and fried cod alone and anything that doesn’t resonate with my barely-salted tastebuds might as well not exist.”

Said anecdote applies here. If you had more Jewish, black and Asian friends (or people with more psychedelic/spiritual edge wherever they’re from) your experiences would be very different.

“Simple as really.”

Your lay British chap is the most spiritually unseasoned and empty person in the world. It’s fun watching said folk justify their robotic disinterest in spiritual matters with science (science that can’t even invent time travel or unveil all the intricate wonders of the solar system in its fullest just yet).

And what exactly has organised religion got to do with the afterlife?

Ok…my mum passed away nearly two years ago. A few weeks after her funeral I went to bed and as I laid in bed i willed her to give me a sign that she was there. As I shut my eyes and started to doze the light in the en-suite suddenly went on. Thinking it was my husband I ignored it…then realised he was lying next to me. I checked the en-suite out…opening the door I thought I might have found a spider or big moth that may have triggered the touch sensitive light…but nothing.
A week later I noticed a very chunky mirror in my bedroom had been lifted off of the fixings resting on my linen basket…it’s very heavy. Nobody in my house had moved it…unexplainable.
I have more….but I will be here all night :laugh:

I think it's fair enough to say that "we don't really know much about anything for sure". That I can get on board with. However, it's the "In a universe of infinite possibility, with no evidence nor any real reasoning, I believe that *I* (and those who believe as I do) happen to have stumbled upon the correct answer".

The likelihood of anything that anyone believes even resembling any sort of obective truth is infinitesimally small.

Anecdotes and science are not comparable in any way shape or form. Hence why anecdotes don't and have never progressed humanity one millimetre.

They invented it to exert control


Just saying

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