Re: Life after death

[Anonymous]

BobL: Yes, that was meant for you. It is old and tired because I’ve heard it so many times, and it is so easily refuted. I was simply trying to point out that just because you *prefer* something doesn’t mean that that is how it will be. Hence the example of the bank account.

I don’t see it as a choice. I see it as an intellectual responsibility. I insist on evidence of everything I accept ast true about this universe, so to reject that philosophy for only one area because I would <i>prefer</i> for it to be some other way would be intellectually dishonest. No amount of wishing will make something real. No matter how hard you believe in that dragon at the foot of your bed, it won’t materialise. You won’t get something just because you want it. It’s about accepting reality, and reality doesn’t work that way.

I really don’t see how what happens after we die matters. We’re alive now – we should focus on living, and on doing it well. After all, this is the only life that we know for sure we’re going to get.

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