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im_sneaky on 13 April 2009

Of course all religions are made up. Humans made them. You think God made a religion? Then you must prescribe to the particular religion you think he made. But each person thinks that only 1, or 1 set, of religions aren't fake. Everyone thinks everyone elses religion is fake. So comforting. Of course all religions are made up.



 

 

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GamingChartzFTW on 13 April 2009

Extraterrestrial life = Likely
Life after death = Unlikely



WessleWoggle on 13 April 2009
786_ali said:
Slimebeast said:
highwaystar101 said:
Extra terrestrials, since they almost exist because the universe is so vast and the variables of lifeforms are immense.

Let's face it life after death is nowhere near as likely, it's just a notion that was used to scare religious people back in the dark ages into giving their money away and acting under control.

 

 U just dismiss religion like that? U know it's very hard to find any tribe or civilisation in human history that wasn't spiritual or religious. The idea about an afterlife is hardly limited to just a bunch of corrupt medieval priests.

I don't want to get into a religious war/discussion but Slimebeast is right. Every civilisation since the first man has had a religion, you can't just dismiss it like that.

I'm 100% sure that both exist

 

 

 

I'm 99% sure you're lying since you said 100%.



O-D-C on 13 April 2009

both, why not?



WessleWoggle on 13 April 2009
786_ali said:
 

And regarding the thousands of variations, as a Muslim I believe in the Islamic one. I am assuming that Christianity and Jewism describe Hell and Heaven in a similar fashion. We believe that these three religions are the only true ones, the religions of the Book, but we do not acknowledge the others.

Why do you think your afterlife is the true description of the real afterlife?

As for not acknoledging the other religions, here's some quotes from Confucius...

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

 



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WessleWoggle on 13 April 2009

There's equal antedoctal proof for both aliens and afterlife, so I don't know which is more likely.



supermario128 on 13 April 2009

There are extraterrestrials!




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Viper1 on 13 April 2009

The very nature of the question grants plausibility on the side of extraterrestrials.



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highwaystar101 on 13 April 2009

One of my fav quotes, which I think may be apt for how I feel about the after life is...

"Faith is what you have when you know something isn't true"

I forget who said it, I think it may have been Tesla or Edison or someone.



ManusJustus on 13 April 2009

Extraterrestials would be more likely.

We know the chances of life (molecules capable of replicating themselves) is not zero, and since the unvierse is nearly infinate the chances of there being other life out there is pretty good.

Chances of life after death are almost non-existent. In life after death, your mind or concious somehow goes somewhere else or enters another body (depending on belief), but in modern times we now know that all our mind is is a series of chemical reactions in a physical brain. When the brain stops working and decomposses all memories and personalities stored as chemical reactions no longer exist.