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Are you scared of death? / what do you think comes after death?
Køtt:
--- Quote from: hillkill on November 09, 2017, 06:47:29 PM ---Yeah, that's not how the burden of proof works, buddy. You need to prove that cessation exists; you don't need to prove that cessation doesn't exist. In the absence of any other evidence, "afterlife" is the default state.
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huh
TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: hillkill on November 09, 2017, 06:47:29 PM ---Yeah, that's not how the burden of proof works, buddy. You need to prove that cessation exists; you don't need to prove that cessation doesn't exist. In the absence of any other evidence, "afterlife" is the default state.
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That makes absolutely no sense. Imagine if I claimed that, because we don't have evidence of a teapot orbiting Mars, there most likely isn't a teapot orbiting Mars. Then you replied with this:
"You need to prove that lack of a teapot orbiting Mars exists; you don't need to prove that lack of a teapot orbiting Mars doesn't exist. In the absence of any other evidence, 'a teapot orbiting mars' is the default state."
Clearly that's nonsense; nonexistence (or the null hypothesis) is the default state for anything when there's no evidence to the contrary.
You can believe in an afterlife if you want - I won't stop you - but such a conclusion certainly isn't logical.
Darryl McKoy:
--- Quote from: hillkill on November 09, 2017, 06:47:29 PM ---In the absence of any other evidence, "afterlife" is the default state.
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What are you on about lol
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on November 09, 2017, 07:31:36 PM ---You can believe in an afterlife if you want - I won't stop you - but such a conclusion certainly isn't logical.
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enlightened atheist
Kearn:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on November 09, 2017, 07:31:36 PM ---Imagine if I claimed that, because we don't have evidence of a teapot orbiting Mars, there most likely isn't a teapot orbiting Mars
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except this is a definitively physically observable issue which already throws the brown townogy out the window