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darkmaian23 06/18/21 5:14:08 PM #1:	If so, why? Around a year ago, I watched a close relative of mine die on hospice. It was ghastly. Like, there wasn't anything spiritual or enriching about the experience at all. You could basically check off the parts of the brain and body that died each week. The idea that when the body finally fails and death destroys any remaining memories or abilities the brain once had, an invisible thing called a soul that was the real you all along pops out like loot from a video game enemy and goes somewhere else seems kind of silly. Trauma to the brain can erase memories, impair any kind of function, change morality, change the personality completely, and even alter sexual orientation. So what is it exactly that a soul does? If the very character of a person can be changed through brain trauma, doesn't that sort of kill the idea of mind-body duality? If souls exist, at what point in the evolution of the human race did we start to receive them? Where do they come from? Why can't we detect them? On a slightly broader note, if souls come from somewhere other than our physical reality before we are born, and then fly off when we die, what of that spirit world? Evidently, souls can only get body and leave a body. because we see nothing else happening on that front. If vengeful ghosts were real, Adolf Hitler, Albert Fish, and Frank West would have had a pretty bad time of it. Similarly, we don't see dead grandmas coming back to heal or comfort their grandchildren. We don't see any real evidence of other types of non-human spirit creatures, either. If gods or devils existed, you'd think at least some of them would would care about what happened in our physical reality and take some kind of action. But that doesn't happen today,and as far as we know, it never happened in the past either. I wish there were a convincing reason to believe, but it all seems so silly and obviously untrue. <cite>darkmaian23 posted [p:955177910] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>If so, why? Around a year ago, I watched a close relative of mine die on hospice. It was ghastly. Like, there wasn't anything spiritual or enriching about the experience at all. You could basically check off the parts of the brain and body that died each week. The idea that when the body finally fails and death destroys any remaining memories or abilities the brain once had, an invisible thing called a soul that was the real you all along pops out like loot from a video game enemy and goes somewhere else seems kind of silly. Trauma to the brain can erase memories, impair any kind of function, change morality, change the personality completely, and even alter sexual orientation. So what is it exactly that a soul does? If the very character of a person can be changed through brain trauma, doesn't that sort of kill the idea of mind-body duality? If souls exist, at what point in the evolution of the human race did we start to receive them? Where do they come from? Why can't we detect them? On a slightly broader note, if souls come from somewhere other than our physical reality before we are born, and then fly off when we die, what of that spirit world? Evidently, souls can only get body and leave a body. because we see nothing else happening on that front. If vengeful ghosts were real, Adolf Hitler, Albert Fish, and Frank West would have had a pretty bad time of it. Similarly, we don't see dead grandmas coming back to heal or comfort their grandchildren. We don't see any real evidence of other types of non-human spirit creatures, either. If gods or devils existed, you'd think at least some of them would would care about what happened in our physical reality and take some kind of action. But that doesn't happen today,and as far as we know, it never happened in the past either. I wish there were a convincing reason to believe, but it all seems so silly and obviously untrue. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Old_Monkey 06/18/21 5:14:32 PM #2:	No <cite>Old_Monkey posted [p:955177917] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>No </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Smackems 06/18/21 5:14:47 PM #3:	No, but i believe in life after love --- Common sense baked a funk cookie - some dude <cite>Smackems posted [p:955177925] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>No, but i believe in life after love </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Lost_All_Senses 06/18/21 5:15:03 PM #4:	I believe in death after life. It's controversial, but I'm standing by it. --- Name checks out "Try to talk and they ain't listening, but they'll point it out when you get ignorant" - Dreezy <cite>Lost_All_Senses posted [p:955177935] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>I believe in death after life. It's controversial, but I'm standing by it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
I4NRulez 06/18/21 5:15:19 PM #5:	Smackems posted... No, but i believe in life after love everyone keeps beating me to the joke today! --- The night brims with defiled scum,and is permeated by their rotten stench. Just think. Now you're all set to hunt and kill to your heart's content. <cite>I4NRulez posted [p:955177947] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>Smackems posted... </cite> <quote>No, but i believe in life after love</quote> everyone keeps beating me to the joke today! </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
RetsuZaiZen 06/18/21 5:15:23 PM #6:	Sure --- Why do nerds always get caught up on the details? Michael Jordan is both the greatest and most overrated basketball player of all time. <cite>RetsuZaiZen posted [p:955177949] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>Sure </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bishop9800 06/18/21 5:16:18 PM #7:	I believe it's a good album, but I prefer All Eyes On Me more. --- There are enough attention whores on CE as it is. <cite>Bishop9800 posted [p:955177969] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>I believe it's a good album, but I prefer All Eyes On Me more. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Smackems 06/18/21 5:16:26 PM #8:	I4NRulez posted... everyone keeps beating me to the joke today! Tbf this is the joke everyone expected and that makes it a doodoo joke --- Common sense baked a funk cookie - some dude <cite>Smackems posted [p:955177975] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>I4NRulez posted... </cite> <quote>everyone keeps beating me to the joke today!</quote>Tbf this is the joke everyone expected and that makes it a doodoo joke </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
TheOtherMike 06/18/21 5:18:20 PM #9:	No. <cite>TheOtherMike posted [p:955178025] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>No. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Shablagoo 06/18/21 5:20:53 PM #10:	https://youtu.be/zWehxXZ9pic --- "If you wanna grow your business you need to exploit more." ~Austin_Era_II "Out of those two? Racist for me... easily." ~Vicious_Dios <cite>Shablagoo posted [p:955178099] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>https://youtu.be/zWehxXZ9pic </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
R1masher 06/18/21 5:21:29 PM #11:	I believe in life after conception --- R1R1R1R1R1R1 <cite>R1masher posted [p:955178120] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>I believe in life after conception </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Dark_SilverX 06/18/21 5:21:42 PM #12:	yeah we be reborn as tree --- Resident Evil: Resistance is best Resident Evil. don't compare games to feces -- if you've an opinion worth mentioning, do so civilly <cite>Dark_SilverX posted [p:955178129] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>yeah we be reborn as tree </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Lost_All_Senses 06/18/21 5:23:29 PM #14:	Dark_SilverX posted... yeah we be reborn as tree Takes puff of reborn human Daaamn bro ... that's wild --- Name checks out "Try to talk and they ain't listening, but they'll point it out when you get ignorant" - Dreezy <cite>Lost_All_Senses posted [p:955178189] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>Dark_SilverX posted... </cite> <quote>yeah we be reborn as tree</quote> Takes puff of reborn human Daaamn bro ... that's wild </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
darkmaian23 06/18/21 7:27:00 PM #15:	I kind of find it disheartening how few people took my topic seriously. <cite>darkmaian23 posted [p:955182206] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>I kind of find it disheartening how few people took my topic seriously. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Smackems 06/18/21 7:29:16 PM #16:	darkmaian23 posted... I kind of find it disheartening how few people took my topic seriously. Sir, this is a Wendy's --- Common sense baked a funk cookie - some dude <cite>Smackems posted [p:955182278] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>darkmaian23 posted... </cite> <quote>I kind of find it disheartening how few people took my topic seriously.</quote>Sir, this is a Wendy's </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Old_Monkey 06/18/21 7:39:34 PM #17:	What if life & death were an ouroboros & we switched places with our id every time we died, returning to the womb in a constant cycle of rebirth? That would make certain short-lived individuals the most powerful creatures in existence!! And also a lot of other people would be extremely upset. Hey, this is starting to sound awfully familiar all of a sudden. If that were true, something would positively need to be done about it. Whats the saying Im looking for...... Anyway, theres this old idea that every time you sleep, you experience death or something like that. <cite>Old_Monkey posted [p:955182651] in Do you bel... [t:79521261]...</cite> <quote>What if life & death were an ouroboros & we switched places with our id every time we died, returning to the womb in a constant cycle of rebirth? That would make certain short-lived individuals the most powerful creatures in existence!! And also a lot of other people would be extremely upset. Hey, this is starting to sound awfully familiar all of a sudden. If that were true, something would positively need to be done about it. Whats the saying Im looking for...... Anyway, theres this old idea that every time you sleep, you experience death or something like that. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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