Afterlife

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
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DarkMatter2525
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DPRJones
http://www.youtube.com/user/dprjones

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Healthy Addict
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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.

[buakaw]

''Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?” - Epicurus

[Dustin Hehmann]

And the purpose can only have a few goals.

Promote the general position.

Dispute/Refute the contrary position

And a number a byproducts of these 2. They're clearly not trying to promote "the truth", because truth would not include fallacious statements and claims.

And if the video was truly objective, and unbias, it would not assert such false claims.

It is a demonstration of the extreme ignorance, we are willing to allow ourselves to embrace in order to hold on to erroneous logic/beliefs.

[Dustin Hehmann]

And forgive me for "crowing the comment feed", but people should see and know if they are buying in to fallacious arguments/claims/beliefs/state­ments/positions.

There are many people who are not sure what to believe in regards to God/Religion, and may even be seeking out to falsify God, to agree with their predisposition that God probably is not real.

Regardless of God is real or not, I obviously believe He is, arriving at a conclusion through fallacies is anti-educational, harmful to the mind.

[Dustin Hehmann]

A fallacy can be committed whether or not the position as a whole, claim, argument, belief, ect is true or not. The truth of the argument has no direct connection to 1 false/invalid claim, or reasoning.

Example; my assertion about God being true because the contrary has no evidence, is in itself, false/invalid.

However the generic concept/position, that (a) God does exist, may in itself, be true, and opinions/beliefs/claims/argume­nts have no direct relation to what is actual, or true/false.

[Dustin Hehmann]

Yes I would have a problem with people who support my beliefs using fallacies... do you know what a fallacy is?

It's an invalid argument, position, claim, belief, ect., expressed using poor or invalid logic/reasoning.

For example, "God exists because there is no evidence that God doesn't exist" would be a fallacy, asserting something is true because the contrary lacks evidence is a fallacy.

I could even argue asserting "contrary claim has no evidence" is a fallacy in itself, as it is invalid.

[theablebrigade]

The purpose of the video is not persuasion though. I have yet to see one of these apparent "fallacies." Would you have a problem with individuals who believe in what you do using fallacies to back up their claims? Please respond by messaging me, I do not want to crowd the comment feed with this anymore.

[Dustin Hehmann]

arguments, positions, beliefs, claims, ect,

"In this video they are not attempting to argue a point, they have other videos for that. Ex: "There isn't an afterlife" is not an argument, it is a statement"

That is even worse, a statement, is a claim, one that must be supported by sound reasoning, logic, evidence, ect. Instead they use fallacious statements to support their views, and assertions, not based in facts, but beliefs/opinions, asserted as facts.

They're profiting of promoting ignorance.

[theablebrigade]

You are falsely categorizing the statements in these videos as "arguments." In this video they are not attempting to argue a point, they have other videos for that. Ex: "There isn't an afterlife" is not an argument, it is a statement. They are simply expressing their feelings about the afterlife through an atheistic perspective. They make plenty of statements but they are not arguing a point. Also, how is it wrong to monetize a video expressing an opinion like most other youtubers do?

[Dustin Hehmann]

Let's see,

Clams:

Monetary gain; verifiable through ad in video

Fallacious Arguments: Verifiable by definition. Review the list, in relation to the video, by the same user, titled "We have nothing to talk about", and if you do so objectively, you will agree.

Precise List: Verifiable, refer to above step.

So yes, I would say that these are all objective observations based on verifiable truths, which an objective observer can verify for themselves

As for subjective/bias individuals, I cannot help

[Bahbulcake]

is that your subjective opinion or objective truth? It is not any different that any given religious candidate or mystics put out, some buy into reincarnation other believe judeo-christian heaven, hell/sheol and other claim that people remain on earth as ghosts errant spirits, atheists in general don't claim anything as there is no solid proof that things like Thetan, soul or spirit excist in the first place, what is wrong with their claim exactly; who is right here? I want to know.

[Molonio63]

This is fucking BRILLIAT! Bravo!