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Published on Jun 23, 2012

Can you have a meaningful life without an afterlife? I asked several friends to join me in exploring the merits of human existence and the concepts of posthumous reward and punishment. It is my hope that this video will answer religious claims that a secular life is meaningless and void and remind us all to cherish our precious and temporary tenure on planet earth.

My deepest thanks to AronRa, DarkMatter2525, DPRJones, Evid3nce, HealthyAddict, Laci Green, Thunderf00t and ZOMGitsCriss for their contributions to this project. I also encourage you to subscribe to their channels and support their work, and I've provided links here (in alphabetical order). All my best. -Seth Andrews

AronRa
http://www.youtube.com/user/aronra

DarkMatter2525
http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatte...

DPRJones
http://www.youtube.com/user/dprjones

Evid3nc3
http://www.youtube.com/user/Evid3nc3

Healthy Addict
http://www.youtube.com/user/healthyad...

Laci Green
http://www.youtube.com/user/lacigreen

Matt Dillahunty
http://www.atheist-experience.com/

Seth Andrews
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinki...

Thunderf00t
http://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t

ZOMGitsCriss
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZOMGitsCriss

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  • MagnumDB

    Pascals wager. Depending on how you live your life with said belief you can miss out on a lot. Having faith has cause families to split, children to die, brains to not reason. You may be praying to the wrong god; maybe there's a god but he only allows those who think critically into heaven. Maybe Satan was the correct one to worship. Or Vishnu. Or maybe a god we haven't even discovered yet who will punish us for not discovering on our own. You can loose out on an eternity in heaven by believing.

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  • Marcelo Aguirre

    you are correct, nobody can believe about this quickly. i know one thing for sure, really lucky that i registered and earning more than $40 daily from this web site :). i got it from here. you can also try it: bit.ly/119FGsI?=smzdr

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  • Dustin Hehmann

    "This happy fantasy" is the following statement. And the video is littered with fallacious arguments/statements/concepts like this.

    Rather than attempting to support their view, of no after life, they attack the contrary view, which itself is fallacious, make assumptions/assertions which is fallacious, and boldly claims its false and the atheists/non-believers are right without ever directly supporting their belief, which is fallacious. Invalid arguments, with no basis outside of their opinions.

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  • Dustin Hehmann

    The entire video is promoting the concept that its easy, well known, common sense, ect, that belief in an after life is a dream, illogical, a fantasy, ect.

    The entire approach, is fallacious, listen to this quote; "I think fragile, fearful, humans were afraid of death, so they wrote their own ending to the story..."

    That right there insinuates The Bible was written by men, which indirectly strips it of its divinity, and basically claims its false in every way, in a round about way.

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  • Dustin Hehmann

    It uses fallacious arguments, to assert absolute knowledge, which directly attacks any believer, not just the generic concept of an Afterlife, and even if that was true, that is a direct attack on many religions

    As far as bullying, the entire video. It is intellectually bullying the ignorant. By posing questions, and imposing answers as if they were absolute. Circular reasoning, appeals to ignorance, and many other fallacies committed, hasty generalization of contrary view, to make it sound dumb

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  • theablebrigade

    Nowhere in this video does ANYONE say you are an idiot if you believe in god. . . Nowhere! All it is doing is disagreeing with the common notion that a life without an afterlife is pointless. What part of that seems to you like they are bullying their viewers?

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  • DeathLordFhyeg

    I agree that eternity in either situations would suck big time...

    If I were to blindly believe in a religion, I'd chose one with reincarnation :)

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  • Michael Scott

    "How did you get all of the amazing Atheist YouTubers to be in it?"

    That's a pretty ironic response, considering TheAmazingAtheist wasn't in it.

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  • Dustin Hehmann

    Understand, that I don't mean to offend the average non-believers, my attacks are directed at the misinformation being taught in the video, and people promoting these false ideologies. On the right you should see a video "Nothing more to talk about" by same user. If you check it, you'll find a post from me, stating all the logical fallacies used in it, to promote their beliefs. A fallacy is an invalid argument, in 1 way or another, they use nearly every fallacy in the book, to force their belief

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  • Dustin Hehmann

    I don't mean to, but I'm also deeply offended by the ignorance projected in this video, it is a direct attack on my religious beliefs, and its one thing if they're expressing a real-world view that God isn't verifiable scientifically, therefor why believe, ect. It's another when they use logical fallacies, invalid arguments, to bully their viewers, expressing an opinion that basically says your an idiot if you believe in God. It's offensive, and ignorant, and sad that people believe in it.

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  • MutableJohn117

    Shit man you don't need to post fucking eight comments for one comment your not going to change anyone's mind while acting like a dick.

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