why do so many non-religious people seem to completely reject the mere possibility of an after-life, or even just a soul, or some kind of spiritual energy connecting lifeforms?
The problem is imagining how any kind of afterlife would actually work, how is the content of your brain somehow preserved and transferred and where does it go? and why? Theres so many questions that cant be awnsered really.
If you imagine something that awnsers these questions, its gonna be something incredibly wild and supernatural, and therefor not very believable.
To me it always seems if you believe in an afterlife you should go for the best possible scenario since debating the odds is off the question anyway. And the best case scenario for me is that everyone can just reincarnate as whatever they want.
And absolutely anything goes, heck why not reincarnate as Ash Ketchum in the Pokemon universe? Or just relay your bug report to the other versions of you working this simulation, run a patch and try your life again. Anything anyone could imagine could be possible, and beyond.
This stuff only gets respected and humored because it’s a sensitive subject, because dying is such fucking bullshit.
What happens to pepsi cans when you recycle them? Do they go to the great combined Pizza Hut - Taco Bell - KFC in the sky?
