This is not a popular belief. There are more religious people in the world than none religious people.
But to your point; there exists no evidence that there is something after death, certainly not in the wishful thinking way people do. Ergo, there is nothing after death.
You had me right to until the last sentence. Without evidence of anything beyond death, all interpretations of what’s beyond death are equally valid. Some require fewer assumption than others so you could say by Occam’s razor they’re more likely, but making fewer assumptions still means making assumptions.
A shared experience constitutes good evidence. But the experience might involve a special technique for getting the experience. So if you don’t do the technique then you don’t get the evidence.
The technique might involve serious time and effort. So most of us will never do it.
So now we have 2 sets of people, those who did the technique and those who didn’t, with different evidence in hand, arriving at different conclusions.
I have never, in my 48 years, had anyone I’ve known in real life try to assert their beliefs on me. Perhaps I’m just lucky. My own mother is a Christian, whereas my father is agnostic. Neither have tried to tell me what is or isn’t. They tell me what they believe, which is fine. It’s only a certain type of atheist, of which I’ve met several, who feels compelled to loudly and confidently tell me about the nature of existence with absolute certainty.
To believe that we die, that’s it and there’s nothing more to it is perfectly reasonable. But to assert it as a fact implies that they have knowledge beyond others, which I find difficult not to interpret as arrogance.
I’ve had everything and everyone try to assert their beliefs. If nobody has ever approached you about anything then you’ve been very lucky indeed.
Anything from Jehova’s Witnesses and their dumb little pamphlets, Muslims blaring prayers across the street while displaying billboards on intelligent design, to scientologists starting the most disingenuous arguments.
These are fairly normal occurrences in cities. Perhaps not so much in the countryside, but even then I’ve had the Christian priest always casually bringing up joining Sunday mass.
This is not a popular belief. There are more religious people in the world than none religious people.
But to your point; there exists no evidence that there is something after death, certainly not in the wishful thinking way people do. Ergo, there is nothing after death.
You had me right to until the last sentence. Without evidence of anything beyond death, all interpretations of what’s beyond death are equally valid. Some require fewer assumption than others so you could say by Occam’s razor they’re more likely, but making fewer assumptions still means making assumptions.
A shared experience constitutes good evidence. But the experience might involve a special technique for getting the experience. So if you don’t do the technique then you don’t get the evidence.
The technique might involve serious time and effort. So most of us will never do it.
So now we have 2 sets of people, those who did the technique and those who didn’t, with different evidence in hand, arriving at different conclusions.
I have never, in my 48 years, had anyone I’ve known in real life try to assert their beliefs on me. Perhaps I’m just lucky. My own mother is a Christian, whereas my father is agnostic. Neither have tried to tell me what is or isn’t. They tell me what they believe, which is fine. It’s only a certain type of atheist, of which I’ve met several, who feels compelled to loudly and confidently tell me about the nature of existence with absolute certainty.
To believe that we die, that’s it and there’s nothing more to it is perfectly reasonable. But to assert it as a fact implies that they have knowledge beyond others, which I find difficult not to interpret as arrogance.
I’ve had everything and everyone try to assert their beliefs. If nobody has ever approached you about anything then you’ve been very lucky indeed.
Anything from Jehova’s Witnesses and their dumb little pamphlets, Muslims blaring prayers across the street while displaying billboards on intelligent design, to scientologists starting the most disingenuous arguments.
These are fairly normal occurrences in cities. Perhaps not so much in the countryside, but even then I’ve had the Christian priest always casually bringing up joining Sunday mass.