Strange Friday Night
I went to a bar today and got in a (semi-drunken) conversation with an atheist about the logical implications of atheism. It's interesting when they try to do the whole victim complex thing of "I'm going to die someday and I'll cease to exist", and then you argue that if there's nothing supernatural then you can create a copy of you using science the moment that you die so that you don't actually cease to exist. And then even if they say "science can't do that", then you can argue that maybe it doesn't have to, because if the universe is infinite, then there are infinitely many "you's" out there, even if they only arose by chance configurations of particle interactions, that possess exactly the same electrical and chemical properties as you do right now, and therefore have exactly the same thoughts and memories as you do, so that when you die you still do exist - unless you allow there to be a "soul" that cannot be described by natural phenomena. This is the second time I've used this argument on an atheist, and the second time I've had him just stare at me like I've just started speaking swahili while juggling coconuts.
Why the morbidity?
Why the morbidity?