I am a secular Humanist, and I believe in an afterlife only to the extent that my molecules will one day form parts of the sky or earth after I've gone.
I was raised as an Anglican Christian but I worked out when I was first really ill that I really didn't believe because I felt no need to pray when I was waiting for the results of the scans to see whether it had metastasized. I like the morals though, and a framework that encourages people to be nice to each other and live responsibly, which is why I became Humanist.
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What do you believe about heaven/hell/afterlife/reincarnation/etc?
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I am Atheist. There is no hear-after in MY opinion. To me religion is mind control. If you believe then be happy.
When I die that will be the end, either the ashes will fertilise a flower or the worms will be the benefactor.
I will only live on in peoples memories.
When I die that will be the end, either the ashes will fertilise a flower or the worms will be the benefactor.
I will only live on in peoples memories.
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I don't believe there is anything, dead is dead.
In the world's harsh wear and tear many a very sincere attachment is slowly obliterated.
Είμαι ταξιδιώτης τόσο στο χρόνο όσο και στο διάστημα
Είμαι ταξιδιώτης τόσο στο χρόνο όσο και στο διάστημα
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Hoping for something good, not counting on it.
Mostly, I think after death there will be pure nothingness. It seems like it is easy for people to accept that they were nothing before they were born (or conceived). So why is it so hard for people to accept that we will be nothing after we die? Our consciousness is a product of the workings of our brains. When our brains cease to function, why would we continue to exist?
The one thing that makes me doubt this is Nick Bostrom's simulation argument. The argument is basically that one of the following three claims must be true:
(1) Humans will become extinct before they reach technological maturity.
(2) Almost no technologically mature civilizations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours
(3) We almost certainly exist within a computer simulation.
An assumption in the argument is that it is, in principle, possible to create genuine consciousness within a computer generated virtual reality. There are smart people such as physicist Roger Penrose who believe that consciousness is non-computational and therefore could never exist in a computer. But this seems to be a minority opinion among scientists. If we are indeed living in a simulated reality created by our supercomputing descendants, one interesting and disturbing consequence of this would be that it is possible that God exists in our simulated reality even if he doesn't exist in the true reality. What if our particular simulation was created by a Muslim? He might have built into our virtual worlds what he considers to be the truths of Islam. So don't die a virgin ladies; there could be terrorists up there waiting for you.
The one thing that makes me doubt this is Nick Bostrom's simulation argument. The argument is basically that one of the following three claims must be true:
(1) Humans will become extinct before they reach technological maturity.
(2) Almost no technologically mature civilizations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours
(3) We almost certainly exist within a computer simulation.
An assumption in the argument is that it is, in principle, possible to create genuine consciousness within a computer generated virtual reality. There are smart people such as physicist Roger Penrose who believe that consciousness is non-computational and therefore could never exist in a computer. But this seems to be a minority opinion among scientists. If we are indeed living in a simulated reality created by our supercomputing descendants, one interesting and disturbing consequence of this would be that it is possible that God exists in our simulated reality even if he doesn't exist in the true reality. What if our particular simulation was created by a Muslim? He might have built into our virtual worlds what he considers to be the truths of Islam. So don't die a virgin ladies; there could be terrorists up there waiting for you.