If you believe that you exist in the afterlife with with animal attributes like emotions, touch, taste, temperature, pain when youre a spiritual being free from of that form.
July 20th, 2023. Does Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity Suggest That There Is an Afterlife?
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I don’t believe there’s an afterlife of any kind, the evidence and arguments I’ve seen for it are insufficient to justify accepting it as true.
Exactly, being happy isn’t a goal we can set for ourselves, it’s a byproduct of other needs being met.
You can be made happy by doing drugs. You're scraping barrel by relating animal emotions to a being that has no emotions.
Need help out of the corner? You can wash paint off your shoes but the tracks remain.
I'm not in a corner, you're grasping at straws and not thinking clearly. Belief, or lack of it, is a conclusion from evidence, or lack of it, not evidence itself.
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Or, as Mark Twain said "Faith is believing something you know damn well ain't true."
Yeah, perhaps I should have qualified that a little more carefully: “Belief, when it’s not delusional wishful thinking…”
Attempts to twist words aside, "belief" in the sense you mean, is simply "satisfaction that the evidence presented supports the explanation better than any alternative." Obviously contrary evidence, should it be found, will reduce that satisfaction. People who are afraid of having their mental security blankets taken away insist on stupid fallacies like argumentum ad populam, argument from antiquity, and word games.
I'm utterly baffled by the minds of people who say "Whut wuz good enuf fer mah Daddy is good enuf fer me!" On the internet.
Am I?
Do you believe 0 is divisible and everything came from nothing?
Thats the biggest faerie tale going and its taught to the PhD level and lives wasted computing nothing.
If beliving zero is divisible gives you comfort when the alternative doesn’t....
Yes.
0 divided by anything is 0.
There are cogent reasons for thinking it might be so, see Laurence M. Krause’s book “A Universe From Nothing,” but the book has been cogently criticized too. The jury’s still out on that one.
I don’t think you know what you’re talking about there, that is not the physicists’ definitive conclusion.
I don’t believe things because they give me comfort, that’s one of the dumber reasons for believing something.
The collapse (death) of the Ψ-wave Schrödinger function forces physicists to use
the mathematical "renormalization method" to revive the situation. . . .
Isn't the "method of renormalization" similar to the "method of reincarnation"? . . .
Mathematicians use the "method of renormalization". . .
Religious believers use the "method of reincarnation". . .
Both believe . . . death is not the end of existence
the mathematical "renormalization method" to revive the situation. . . .
Isn't the "method of renormalization" similar to the "method of reincarnation"? . . .
Mathematicians use the "method of renormalization". . .
Religious believers use the "method of reincarnation". . .
Both believe . . . death is not the end of existence
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Nope, don’t see that connection at all. The former is a mathematical technique for dealing with infinities in the equations of quantum field theory, the latter is a belief in some religious systems, but it’s not universal.
And you, a geologist, think you’re in a position to gainsay the results from several generations of physicists and cosmologists when you don’t really know their subject?
What was there for physics prior to the Universe? 0
Where in physics is 0 divisible?
Retrograde analysis should pack it all back into 0. Does it?
Where in physics is 0 divisible?
Retrograde analysis should pack it all back into 0. Does it?
You think you know enough to reject the Big Bang theory, you figure it out. I don't propose to offer graduate-level physics courses here.