This life is not the end. It is a means to an end.

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[–]Musky 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There may be something else after death, but it won't be like this. So much of who we are exists in our earthly physical brains. I wouldn't want to miss out waiting for something better that might never come.

Spending an eternity in a kingdom inhabited solely by pious religious people would also be boring.

I think men crafted an idea of heaven that suited them and their goals, and if it exists, God will probably ask the fervently devout: why did you not value and enjoy what I had already given you?

[–]package 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

From one's own perspective it is impossible to not exist, thus life after death is guaranteed. Even if it takes until the heat death of this universe and five more after, the very next thing you experience after death will be some point in the future where you exist again.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From one's own perspective it is impossible to not exist, thus life after death is guaranteed.

What?

It's perfectly possible to not exist.

Even if it takes until the heat death of this universe and five more after, the very next thing you experience after death will be some point in the future where you exist again.

The heat death of the universe goes on forever. Lumps of iron sparsely spread throughout a truly enormous void, barely lit by hawking radiation from the last evaporating black holes, if the curvature of space is positive, or unlit with hawking radiation disappearing at light-speed forever into the void if its not. There is no "after that".

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not with that attitude it's not. J/K. I think they are saying that it's part of how human consciousness is built that religion/afterlife is innate. You can try to imagine nothingness, but can you really imagine/understand it?