weird fish

[kpete]

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Death unites us all

[Octafish]

2. We each must determine how we use our brief time here.

Who knows what happens in the afterlife?

...And if there's reincarnation, great.

[JuniperLea]

3. I expect you will be smugly snarked off...

For having the audacity to state such things. Don't you know there are people here with irrefutable beliefs (whatever that is) that prove without question there is no afterlife?

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[RaleighNCDUer]

4. About as many as have irrefutable beliefe that prove without question

that there is an afterlife.

The only difference being, some don't believe in something there is zero evidence for, and some do believe in something there is zero evidence for.

[JuniperLea]

5. Let me know when you get around to proving that negative...

It should provide a modicum of entertainment.

Some of us understand that we don't know much at all, and zero evidence can also point to the fact we don't have the means of detection.

Leaving the jury out in such cases is really the only intelligent thing to do.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Leaving the jury out is exactly what I do -

I give absolutely no credence to anything for which there is no evidence. Unbelief is the default mode.

[JuniperLea]

7. Unbelief is a closed mind...

If I can't explain it, if science can't explain it, my mind remains open to nearly all possibility.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. I saw a pink unicorn yesterday. Driving home after picking up my cat from the vet,

I looked over and there he was, galloping along Western Boulevard.

I have no evidence. No proof.

Are you REALLY open to the possibility that I did see a pink unicorn yesterday?

[hunter]

9. I've seen weirder stuff than that.

People see all sorts of weird stuff.

If it's real or not, that's another question.

Quite a bit of stuff that "everyone" agrees is real probably isn't. Quantum physics probably doesn't even scratch the surface of this universe's underlying weirdness.

Unicorns are boring. Especially pink unicorns.

[JuniperLea]

14. How are we to know that some people really are seeing real things...

That we don't... so we automatically lable them idiots, nutjobs, etc.

Quantum physics... string theory... we're seeing a lot of things being studied now that would have landed some in a padded cell 50 years ago.

[JuniperLea]

10. Thanks for playing really bad straw man...

:eyes:

[kpete]

11. straw man?

[JuniperLea]

13. Oh, I like him!

A very well dressed straw man at that!

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Aw, now tell the truth. You don't believe me. nt

[metapunditedgy]

15. "Who knows what happens in the afterlife?" is a reference from Ecclesiastes.

For those who have that book in their canon. (Not saying you were referring to that book.)

Christians have Ecclesiastes in their Bible (for some reason), but ignore 95% of it.