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You don't know that.


You do know it. All empirical evidence from thousands of years of scrutiny points to you ending when your body dies.

You dont treat any other piece of knowledge with the same demand as you do the (lack of) afterlife.


It's not empirically testable. Nobody has truly died and come back and no one can. Even if all religions are false it does not follow that there is absolutely nothing after clinical death.

This is just a limitation of science, because we need a conscious mind to test and/or interpret the results.


Would you consider as evidence the observable life cycle of all things in nature around us on this planet?

Human exceptionalism -- our nascent ability to reason -- does not exempt us from being animals in the biosphere in which we evolved.

And space (beyond our planet) is observably not a paradise for things that live on Earth. Unless we are all reincarnated as tardigrades.


> it does not follow that there is absolutely nothing after clinical death.

Where's your evidence?

What if I claimed when you die you are reincarnated as a zebra on omnicrom-5? Why is that more or less reasonable than an explanation some religious leader made up one time when he was high?

Anyone can come up with some ungabunga, but unless you have evidence there's no rational to believe it.


The point is there is no evidence, and also there is no claim that I am making. It is unknown. The only claims of resurrections are religious in nature, which proves my point.


There's plenty of evidence, what do you even mean?


dude... whether it's jesus or eternal nothingness, it takes faith to believe in both. There's no evidence for any of this so the only correct answer is we don't know.

> All empirical evidence from thousands of years of scrutiny

Yes, I'm very curious to see empirical evidence of what happens post-death and someone who lived to tell us.


Since religions come and go, there are hundreds, it can be empirically reasoned that it isn't Jesus, because Jesus is just the latest made up thing. IF there was one true god/religion, then why haven't we stuck with the same one for 200k years, right from the beginning. Why aren't we born knowing it? Why don't we know it from birth? Instead we believe whatever we were raised with. And that is a pretty flimsy basis to base some actual physical reality that exists after death.

On other hand, guess since we don't know what is after death, we can't also say with complete 100% certainty that it is nothing. But for there to be something, then that would mean there is something in this physical reality that gets transported, and we should be able to detect it. And since there has been nothing detected after a lot of tries (experiments), at this time there is nothing.




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