"No afterlife is unacceptable to me!" - The Atheist Experience #656

Matt from Kokomo, Indiana has difficulty accepting the idea that there might not be an afterlife. He also brings up near death experiences and the weight of the soul. This is an urban legend that goes back to 1907. (According to this legend, the weight of a soul is 21 grams; not 7 grams.) You can read the story here:
► http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-great-afterlife-debate/


This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #656 of May 9, 2010, with Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee. (Topic: Viewer calls.) This entire episode can be watched on Blip.tv and Ustream.tv:
► http://www.blip.tv/file/3601823
► http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6805471


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[LoogyHead]

I like this caller. Hes actually trying to get extra information. Yeah he was swayed a little bit by his experiences and the stories, but he still retained skepticism.

[publiusdg]

Well, electrons and ions are some of the things that power us, and they are energy and they do have a weight. Obviously it's almost fucking insignificant, but still. I call bullshit on that website that says people lose weight immediately after dying.

[glitchuser4]

If the "soul" is weightless and ascends into the sky, then why do these idiots support this crackpot research... so hypocritical...

[mryellow123]

He's got a line of thought there. Silliness, but cool sci-fi.

Once heard a postulation that "Quantum Entanglement" could be shoe-horned into holding your "soul" together as an enduring structure after death, separate from the body.

As for "no afterlife is unacceptable". Should read the bible. Talks many times about how dead people are dead, there is no after-life in the bible. There is resurrection to live in Zion, which is different thing entirely to living in the clouds with grandma.

[justkilledit21]

@macdaddylives are you one of those fucking idiots who thinks theres a 2012 doomsday or apocolypse?

[macdaddylives]

@justkilledit21 dont worry about living your live the best you can, your going to cease to exist soon enough

[SquirtTV]

What noobs haven't they seen south park? You crap yourself after you die! That's where all the weight goes!

[robotpanda77]

This guy could have saved some time and just googled this stuff.

[zzBillyz]

Nice caller. He sounded sad though.

[MMAbadassbrett]

@Shotxofxvalor SOO SORRY GRAMMER POLICE.

[livedandletdie]

Hey anyone else that prays to the Invisible Pink Unicorn that cannot be disproven in anyway not even by religious people saying he doesn't exist because they say so. Do you believe?

[livedandletdie]

@publiusdg Energy do not have weight at all Electrons and Ions(polarized atoms and salts.) Are not energy but carrier of energy.