Originally Posted by sleepy jack (Post 567323)

I don't believe there is any possible way any Musicbanter afterlife can exist. I think everyone here can agree that we experience the world of Musicbanter with a brain; which stops working when we leave Musicbanter. So even if some subatomic matter (like your "soul" which I've never heard a good definition for by the way...) there will be no way to experience it because the thing that is "you (musicbanter)" is dead.

Before someone responds to this with the classic "ah! but you haven't left Musicbanter and there's no way to gather information from the outside world so we can't know so it's useless to discuss it." I want to say unless you're going to live with Cartesian skepticism all your life (which I can completely understand) then you have to accept that we have some intelligence and knowledge. This is my argument towards this and the basic summary of how I came to the above conclusion. I can understand thinking that way but it's never gotten anyone anywhere and when it comes to examining the big questions it can bring a measure of solace but I do think we've acquired a lot of knowledge beyond I think therefore I am. We know about the enormous size of our solar system all the way to the tiny building blocks of matter. We gained this knowledge through scientific examination. Science being ultimately the act of disproving something and accepting something as highly likely when all those avenues of disproof are exhausted. There are gaps in our knowledge but I believe that if they are to be filled it won't be with an old book but with science. I think in every bit of our life we apply logic. Most people (who are sane and alive and in good health) leave buildings by door because all evidence suggests that gravity will harm you if you exit via high window windows. I think logic can be applied to the spiritual realm (though most people choose not to for some reason even though they apply it to everything else) and when you do that I think the possibility of life after death no longer looks like a possibility; but an impossibility.

Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent (Post 568098)

We walk from one virtual world into another one.

Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 568238)

I have tried and failed many times to find a life beyond this blue screen.

Originally Posted by right-track (Post 568244)

I like the way you think.


Sounds like you're in need of a clean reinstall Lee. ;)