[ SECRET POST #2999 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2999 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You can't make yourself believe. Some people are just hardwired that way. If they can't see or touch something, it isn't real. But you can leave the door open so if something happens down the line, you'll be receptive to it and maybe then you'll be able to have what you seek.

[(Anonymous)]

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I can believe in things I can't see or touch just fine, as long as they make logical sense. An afterlife doesn't.

Humans aren't special, human life and thoughts don't objectively matter, so there's no reason to keep the human consciousness alive after the body dies. Plus, having a place tailored specifically to each individual human's tastes is highly unlikely. The idea of keeping human thought processes in action after the body dies is also unlikely, because there exist no objecitve purpose for that. If humans were supposed to live forever, they wouldn't die in the first place.

We know that out thought proceses, feelings and opinions depend on the chemicals in our brain, the connection between individual neurons and the info stored in our long term memory. We know that a damage done to the brain can change a person's personality, mental processes and feelings to an unrecognizeable degree. Take the physical brain away, and what is there to keep us existing as thinking, feeling individuals that our brain made us in our lifetime? Nothing.

We also know that human morality is not objective and is the result of cultural conditioning. If we were to assume that an afterlife exists, it could never be a reward for being "good", because objective "good" behavior doesn't exist. So the afterlife would have to be the same for every human, no matter how they lived their life.

In conclusion, although like the OP I deeply wish there was a paradise just for me waiting for me after death, I fill it under the same unlikely dream as the wish that Santa would show up on my doorstep with a bag of presents. A pleasant fantasy, nothing more.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it would help if you change the idea that "afterlife" has to automatically mean "personal paradise for humans only awarded according to moral behavior". That's a very specific vision based on very limited religions, and there's no objective rulebook saying anyone who believes in an afterlife has to toe that line. Personally, I like to think of it as another state of being no more superior than the current state of being, just different, because that fits with the universe as I understand it, where nothing's perfect. I guess a lot of people don't find that appealing, but I do.

[(Anonymous)]

Your corpse will also have a state of being. But it won't be really you. The "you" that you think of when you consider an afterlife won't exist.

[(Anonymous)]

That's kind of a cop out.