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Topic	Are you a believer of an afterlife?
Cheese_Crackers 06/11/21 7:47:46 PM #47:	Medussa posted... if reincarnation wipes the slate clean, what's actually the difference between it and oblivion? That's a big "if". There are different schools of thought on that. The difference is between a mind ceasing to exist and a mind being wiped of all memory and development. We can conceive of the latter because it actually happens to people (except the physical size stays the same, I guess), while the end of existence almost by definition is impossible to imagine. --- Though the fear of death is a common one, the fear of life is a more rational one. <cite>Cheese_Crackers posted [p:954899646] in Are you a ... [t:79507597]...</cite> <quote>Medussa posted... </cite> <quote>if reincarnation wipes the slate clean, what's actually the difference between it and oblivion?</quote>That's a big "if". There are different schools of thought on that. The difference is between a mind ceasing to exist and a mind being wiped of all memory and development. We can conceive of the latter because it actually happens to people (except the physical size stays the same, I guess), while the end of existence almost by definition is impossible to imagine. --- Though the fear of death is a common one, the fear of life is a more rational one.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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