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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
What happens when you die? We don't know, and can't know.
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Agreed...
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I choose to have an opinion on the subject, based on my experience of the world and science
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We don't know, and can't know. World experience and science say nothing about the subject.
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and my moral sensibilities of how the universe ought to work.
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And this criteria would not be considered reliable for anything else. Anything on which the reliablility could be checked.
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I often make guesses about everyday occurrences that are nothing more than my best guess given the information I have to work with. I could certainly be wrong, but I have to have a certain amount of faith that my opinion is true, or everything would be at a standstill. Whenever evidence comes along to refute it, I revise my opinion. Just because I have faith in the conclusions I have drawn does not mean I am unwilling to reconsider.
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What you're describing is an educated guess. An educated guess is based on past experience. There is no past experience on which to base a belief about what happens when we die.