The afterlife, does it exist?!

[ferret_angels]

Hello community!! This is my first debate post, it's going to be on the topic of "the afterlife". This post is going to be in a bit of a different format than Olpluvr would use, I cannot provide links that give proof to if the afterlife actually exists, nobody can proof that. What I am going to provide are aspects of this topic to discuss, and you as the

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[blando]

Well I'm sure that my personal beliefs will make very clear my atheist stand point and that as such they will all be quite linear and rather single minded, but it is none-the-less what I believe.

1. There is no life after death.

2. Heaven and Hell do not exist. They are a means of bribing or threatening people into living a more communally minded lifestyle. A communally minded lifestyle is the proper way in which to live but people should not require coercion.

3. There is no such thing as a soul. It is a construction to make people feel better about death. We all have a mind but it stops operating at our death.

4. No.

5. No. (same question as 4.)

6. No. The dead are people which have effectually ceased to be. They have stopped existing in anything but the physical sense and even were they not buried or cremated they would be unable to communicate because nothing of their intellect or personality remains.

7. Yes. Depressing though it may be. All that remains of you is your body. We have had our time. Why does something need to remain?

8. People should accept that an ending is a natural conclusion to a beginning an celebrate the life the remains as opposed to obsessing over the life that has been lost. It is hard to deal with loss, it always will be, but loss is an important part of life and we all have to deal with it in our time.

There is a great deal of certainty surrounding death for obvious reasons. However I think it's an obvious thing to not take the most comforting answer as being the factual one without having any reason for that belief. Of course people want to believe that there is life after death, it is comforting. Just because it would be nice for something to be true does not make it true.

Of course only experience will tell if I am correct or not, but I see no reason to believe any differently.

[olpluvr]

I definately agree on your view for #2. It's like the created concept of God is to scare societies and in many cases have turned them vicious. The witch trials are great examples of this along with the daily fights in Ireland between the Protestants and the Catholics. Another thing- war. All wars are caused by two things: politics and religion.