I believe in believing believers of non believers who believe in not believing believers.

Afterlife is closely linked to religious beliefs. You can't separate the two. I don't see how any intelligent person can believe in the afterlife while rejecting religion and deity worship.

You must be pretty closed minded then. I hate religion but am open to the possible concept of some kind of "higher power" (using that loosely) and afterlife. I do not believe in heaven or hell, its way too simple of a concept and obviously created to keep people in line. However, I am not foolish enough to think that mankind will ever be able to grasp even a speck of absolute fact on the matter. Enjoy life, be a good person and whatever may be on the other side, if anything, is anyones guess.

No I dont belive in an afterlife. I belive it to be just like before you were even born..you knew nothing you did not exist in this universe, thats why you should make the most of what little life we do have on this planet.

No there is no afterlife. I'm 100% certain about that. Do YOU believe in Santa Claus? No? Why not? Do you have PROOF he isn't real? Nope. So since you can't prove he isn't real then using your logic you should believe in him anyways. By the way you can't prove something DOESN'T exist. That's proving a negative, which is impossible. You can only prove something exists.

Do I care if you want to believe in an afterlife or not? No I don't. If you want to believe in fairy tales go ahead. My problem is when people like Christians try to force their beliefs on others by trying to get prayer and Bible study in public schools. Most people I deal with in life believe in some stupid shit or another. I don't waste a whole lot of time on that aspect about them. Hell I got a friend that's into Wican which I find equally as stupid as any other religion. I don't try to convert him or anyone else to atheism.

not really...

Energy actually does, the universe will ultimately end in heat death. The fact some of your energy goes to helping a worm take a shit doesn't mean anything other than at least your meat was put to good use.

It should be the most obvious thing to anyone that as a person undergoes a degenerative brain disease they lose their personality in correlation with the progress of the disease. To suggest anything else is to bullshit yourself into thinking that for instance Alzheimers is a "soul tricking" disease, and that yes, even as it destroys the brain that is a mere side effect to throw people of the scent of it's actual effect which is er.. What? Very, very targetted soul blocking? All these degenerative diseases are actually little mirrors that reflect parts of the soul back into the phlogiston? lol. I don't get why you'd even open that door up, it's been proven time an time again that the mind is a manifestation of the brain... That is why the mind changes when you change the brain, like when you put THC in it.. Of course I do mean observably proved, I can't stop you adding a whole Rube Goldberg machine of unneccessary mystical unfalsifiable prove-an-invisible-pink-unicorn-doesn't-exist bullshit to the situation. I mean your personality dies in a degenerative brain disease, you alter your personality with psychiatric drugs, you can trigger memories by stimulating the brain cells they happen to be stored in at that moment.. You die. Occam's Razor that shit. There is no proof that an afterlife does or does not exist but you've got to be the most glass half full motherfucker to know this evidence and choose to believe otherwise.

There is no evidence that plants feel fear, that was an unscientific experiment from a hippy in the 60's that has been disproven several times. No need for facts to get in the way of a little mysticism though, right? I can't believe you purport to run a science blog. Do just a modicum of research before you post the science equivalent of an email chain letter.

I believe in porn ! ;)
Said the piest to the devil which made him smile kick him right into hell:(

Personally I think when you die you fade to black, your conciousness ceases to be.

Energy transfers on, organisms feed on what remains, etc. but the plug is pulled on you as you know yourself. In don't think people wander the earth as ghosts and I don't think there's any reward at the end of the tunnel.

As much as I disagree with religion, I do think most people need faith. I've experienced my share of watching people pass on and those with faith have a much easier time of it. Some people look forward to things like heavenly rewards but most look forward to reunions with lost loved ones, and that helps them let go when it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil. I would never want to take that away from them.

Staring death in the face is a very difficult thing to do, I hope when it's my time I don't see it coming, or if I do have to face it I hope my struggle is short. If someone wants to believe, despite my personal opinions I take no issue with holding their hand and telling them I believe too.

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I believe less than what I would have if I believed more than what I do.:thumbsup

Logic, it's a bitch isn't it.

Well I suppose I cannot say with absolute certainty there is no afterlife because there is no proof against it but I'll reserve a .00001% chance of it.

What about the speculation that there's flying teapots somewhere out between Mars and Jupiter? Sure there's no proof for it but there's also no proof against it so I guess I'll have to reserve a .00001% chance that there could in fact be flying teapots out beyond Mars.

Just because there's no proof against something doesn't give it a chance of existing.

I guess it means I'm not an absolute atheist but I sure wont waste any time or effort thinking there could be an afterlife.

if i'm forgiven for working in this industry, i'm going to heaven :)