"What happens when you die?"
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I dunno. Personally I hope that we get reincarnated, which would be tits, but equally likely our conciousness is gone from the world, never to exist again.
well vbeasicly you go to heaven where there are waterfalls of beer and stripers but only if you,re good if you,re bad you go to hell, its the same but the beer is warm and the strippers are fuggly
I would quote some of Epicurus statements about death and say that the day he understands what Epicurus meant he will have a better idea of death and what that could possibly happen after it. The reason to this is that Epikurus make some arguments that are extremly reasonable and they view death in an way that dosen't make death an uncomfortable consept.
Evidence for reincarnation? Evidence for the soul? Really?Nahhnbah said:
Don't take this as me being condescending or anything, but I've never encountered such evidence. I'm quite curious what it might be. Could you share?
I think you gave a good answer.
Its a bit much to go into decomposition and other such nasty-sounding things to a 5 year old, and I think it would've been wrong to pretend you believe in an afterlife just because it opens a few cuddly answers to the question.
Perhaps when he's older, you can discuss your beliefs in greater depth, and then he can form his own opinion, like the rest of us.
Congratulations on good cousin-ing.
Its a bit much to go into decomposition and other such nasty-sounding things to a 5 year old, and I think it would've been wrong to pretend you believe in an afterlife just because it opens a few cuddly answers to the question.
Perhaps when he's older, you can discuss your beliefs in greater depth, and then he can form his own opinion, like the rest of us.
Congratulations on good cousin-ing.
Why didnt it make sense? I mean, i get what you're saying but thats the key thing of Christianity. you go somewhere when you die.thenamelessloser said:
And yeah. Pretty much. I just dont see us (humans) as loners. It doesnt make sense for us to be, then to die (or really anyhtign for thta matter), and nothing happen in the end. There's no point in living if there is at least to me. BUt the again I take something from every religion and every theory on death so i dont know. I just think there's something after. Plus it seems better then just looking at a five year old and saying you get put in the ground to rot and be eaten by worms, insects and (if) anything that digs you up.
If you didn't realise from my post, i'm a pretty staunch atheist, so no need to tell me about idiot theists. My point is that offense isn't good grounds to condemn someones speech. Some people are offended by course language, but that's no reason to ban a rude book. California is offended by violence in videogames, but we all disagree with their approach, don't we? As for the churches history, which I agree is suspect at best, an 'eye for an eye' approach can lead only to a repeat of the past. Free speech is free speech, no matter how stupid it may be, and it's simply too bad if it's offensive to you.Gaz6231 said:
I don't think that he means the IDEA of believing in an afterlife is offensive. I don't personally believe in an afterlife, but I don't find the idea of people wanting to believe in one offensive. I think the offensive part is the indoctrination of youth. Presenting that idea as the truth to someone when the idea doesn't fill any criteria of "truth" is what's offensive, especially when young children want genuine answers from someone who should know more than they do.Harrowdown said:
Nobody is offended at what this person believes, but they are offended about the fact that this is what that person would say around ANYBODY's child. I definitely would not want that as the one and only, this-is-the-TRUTH answer given to my child.
That being said, I wouldn't want anybody but me talking to my child about this sort of thing.
"That is one of the great mysteries of life, neither I nor anyone else knows yet. For all we know we get to go to a place of our wildest dreams where we can watch Ben 10 and play video games on a 100" screen all we want... boy I hope it's that."
I like to think that we're all one soul, growing into a God. When we finally enough wisdom collected from our lives we are ready to become one and take care of our 'children' on our own planet. But, that would be too difficult to explain to a minor, the upper one is better for keeping people's minds open.
For my views read this: It's a creepypasta, but a very wise one. [http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/An_Egg]
I like to think that we're all one soul, growing into a God. When we finally enough wisdom collected from our lives we are ready to become one and take care of our 'children' on our own planet. But, that would be too difficult to explain to a minor, the upper one is better for keeping people's minds open.
For my views read this: It's a creepypasta, but a very wise one. [http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/An_Egg]
Nono, that's not what i'm saying at all. I don't care whether or not he's offended at the belief, the wording of the belief or even at the font being used. My point is that whether or not you're offended by something doesn't matter. Some people are offended by certain types of comedy, but that doesn't give them a right to condemn it. Atheists are sometimes offended by religion, and religious people are sometimes offended by atheism, but no group has the power to silence the other based on that. What i'm saying is that it doesn't matter if you're offended or not, unless the thing that's offending you also happens to be harming someone.Snake Plissken said:
