@pawnjp The "cloud" still resides on servers. Try running Photoshop without any hardware. Your entire "self" exists because your brain supports it. If you feel this is not true, please explain exactly how this is so.
@EricZombie I'm with you sweetheart. Just trying to point out that with the advent of "the cloud", that someone is going to come back saying that god is the ultimate supercomputer outside of the verifiable universe etc. etc...
I guess it really depends how you define "God", and how you define the "afterlife". One could call time or even matter God. I wouldn't consider myself a theist or an atheist. Only reason I'm not an atheist is because I have experienced certain things that doesn't make some aspects of a supernatural existence (outside of standard physics) too far fetched. Although I am open to the possibility that I could be mistaken due to my flawed human senses.
@f14birdy The closest label you could put on me religious wise would be nihilist, but that's not really a religion.
Hypothetically speaking If people (or just some) had some sort of "soul", I think it would be more indirectly attached to your consciousness. Maybe something more primal than one's ID psyche that wouldn't retain ones memories, but something else... can only speculate.
When all the cards are down on the table I'd guess no afterlife exists, nor any supernatural existence.
"God" is largely a malfunction of the temporal lobe. The rest is just emotional manipulation for people who are completely naive as to how the universe actually works.
How could "software" exist without the "hardware"?
The cloud dizzle., God is the cloud..
Perhaps not the bestest argument anymore.
pawnjp 10 months ago
@pawnjp The "cloud" still resides on servers. Try running Photoshop without any hardware. Your entire "self" exists because your brain supports it. If you feel this is not true, please explain exactly how this is so.
EricZombie 10 months ago
@EricZombie I'm with you sweetheart. Just trying to point out that with the advent of "the cloud", that someone is going to come back saying that god is the ultimate supercomputer outside of the verifiable universe etc. etc...
pawnjp 10 months ago
@pawnjp Of course, that is always the claim. God magically exists outside of existence. It's moving the evidential goalpost.
EricZombie 10 months ago
I guess it really depends how you define "God", and how you define the "afterlife". One could call time or even matter God. I wouldn't consider myself a theist or an atheist. Only reason I'm not an atheist is because I have experienced certain things that doesn't make some aspects of a supernatural existence (outside of standard physics) too far fetched. Although I am open to the possibility that I could be mistaken due to my flawed human senses.
f14birdy 11 months ago
@f14birdy The closest label you could put on me religious wise would be nihilist, but that's not really a religion.
Hypothetically speaking If people (or just some) had some sort of "soul", I think it would be more indirectly attached to your consciousness. Maybe something more primal than one's ID psyche that wouldn't retain ones memories, but something else... can only speculate.
When all the cards are down on the table I'd guess no afterlife exists, nor any supernatural existence.
f14birdy 11 months ago
"God" is largely a malfunction of the temporal lobe. The rest is just emotional manipulation for people who are completely naive as to how the universe actually works.
bamboo4tameshigiri 11 months ago
An explanation using only scientific language? Is magic a scientific term?
Guess not.
bowlsallbroken 11 months ago
Your definition of religion might a tad narrow but that doesn't remotely detract from you argument in re the so-called afterlife.
Kailoa36 11 months ago