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We philosophizers don't, wrong question. Rather "the whole" – universe – might be described as (the) observable, expanding, unbounded debris-field of ...

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... and because "nothing" causes it to be. Actuality consists of every possible way the world could have been and can be described. Actuality is the i...

We matter to ourselves and one another because all those who came before us mattered to themselves and one another had existed. We will matter implici...

:100: This vaguely reminds me of arch-elitist Leo Strauss' advocacy of indispensible "political myths" & "noble lies". Yes, in fact, philosophy, as th...

Yes, it's the horizon of the present.

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Okay. If so, so what? Why isn't this brief interval enough for you? We spend about one-third of our lives asleep, and oblivious, without any assurance...

If that's the OP's point, then, IMO, then it's based on a profound misunderstanding of how nature must be in order for natural sciences to work. Given...

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Okay. Edited for typos. @"ItIsWhatItIs" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/787051

:100: :fire: Our species creates, or assigns, value on the basis of scarcity. "The chosen" of religion, and especially "the one god", not only polariz...

If I understand you correctly, why does 'eternal life in the omni-memory of the ultimate being/omega point' seem to you "equally pointless and possibl...

QED. :victory: :sweat:

There's no shame, TC, in admitting you were mistaken (i) comparing QM to religion and (ii) suggesting that QM is the kind of thing a great scientist l...

EnPassant's description suggests acosmism even more than theism.

Actually, projection is "bad philosophy".

"Lasting things" like sanctifying marital rape? holy wars? homophobia? patriarchy? witch hunts/trials? pogroms?censorship? blasphemy laws? :brow:

No, not at all. They have two goals: (A) in America, to advocate the deliberate transition of the US into a much more secular state and civil society ...

Well, if that's the story you tell yourself, invicta, why the angst expressed in your OP about "death" versus "eternal life"?

I cover this same ground on my TPF profile but conclude everything is self-organizing, evolving, dissipating and not "created".

And what does invoking "God" have to do with this? I'm guessing "the invocation of God" is some sort of mneumonic trick (mantra/mandala/koan-like trig...

So you find "ghosts" (i.e. disembodied awareness / consciousness) credible? If so, why?

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And how does "the invocation of god help (anyone) regain awareness and consciousness"?

The theist proselytizes as his religious tenets require and the atheist objects on the grounds that she rejects being preached at or persecuted for di...

You've lost me. I don't see how "the invocation of God" (which one?) "helps regain ... awareness and consciousness".

Why not just believe in "eternal life" and leave g/G out of it? Eternalism rather than theism (i.e. "higher power"-ism)? :chin:

I prefer to call Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens,et al mere "anti-religionists". :up:

I'm not a Sam Harris fan. As far as I'm concerned, "New Atheists" like him tend to traffic in irreligious polemics and pop-philosophizing (or patent s...

:lol: I remember this fiasco well. "Let him who is without sin ..." but those pimps for Jesus cast stones anyway. :naughty:

Yeah, but QM is the kind of "preposterousness" that works whether or not anybody "believes in" it, unlike any religion.

From the posts I've skimmed I'm not sure what this discussion is about now.

My condolences, TiredThinker. I have speculated on a number of other threads about 'reincarnation', 'immortality', 'life extension' (e.g. immorbidity ...

Only insofar as many, maybe most, of the organizers, fundraisers & high officials of many, or most, religions tend to not practice what they preach as...

:up: :100: "Progress" towards what? and for whom (and not for whom)? Btw, I haven't read this book. Also, like Nietzsche, I think h. sapiens is merely...

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That's you: Bart Simpson, The Great Enformer. :rofl:

Given that the premise of your question does not convey what I've stated, I have no idea how to answer.

:lol: Denial is a helluva drug!

Sometimes, for some of us, boredom with ourselves is worse. Also, thc gummy bears & pots of Darjeeling.

True, and that's because 'dark matter' is physical. If it's a physical phenomenon, then sure. I don't understand how a "nonphysical afterlife" can be ...

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I don't follow any of this. Maybe incomprehension – misreading – goes both ways.

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In principle any (mathematized) laws of nature. Remember: 20th c Conservation Laws are not significantly inconsistent with 17th c Newtonian Laws of Mo...

Whenever 'nothing matters' crosses your mind remember that thought also includes 'and it doesn't matter that "nothing matters"' and then go on making ...

I'm a philosophical naturalist (paradigm) which includes both m-physicalism (models) and m-materialism (data), and I have no bleepin' idea what the OP...

"Blessed are the gullible ..." :smirk:

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