Posted: Apr 30, 2017 3:29 pm
At least not judged by a theist!
I was at a party, discussing what happens after death, one guy said he thinks we are reincarnated. He asked me what I think, to which I explained I think our consciousness and who we are as people dies as our neurons die. To which he (typically!) responded: Science can't explain everything. Enter: *eyes rolls*.
Later while travelling on the subway together, he asks: "But don't you think there is such a thing as fate or destiny? Like if you bump into a friend that day, it was destiny?". Me: "Well it's just coincidence isn't it? We all live in the same city, so the chance of me bumping into someone is higher".
He continued to elaborate that he believes that we join a collective consciousness in the afterlife. Then we can choose to be reborn again with a set of life challenges that we choose. Of course there's many logical holes in this idea, however being polite to an acquaintance, I'm not gonna pick on them, I merely said out of genuine curiosity: "Oh, that's a very interesting idea" (I enjoy sci-fi so...).
I acknowledge to him by saying: "Isn't it coincidental that all the variables of the universe are such to give rise to life?". So I then tried to explain the multiverse theory, and explained that many of the parallel universes would be dead, that there are no coincidence under this theory because every possibility is tried out. At this point, he pretty much looked at me as if I was bat-shit crazy and went cold on me. I was like... you think my ideas are crazy?!?! Jesus effing Christ!
A half-hearted hand shake later and I guess that guy will never talk to me again!
I was at a party, discussing what happens after death, one guy said he thinks we are reincarnated. He asked me what I think, to which I explained I think our consciousness and who we are as people dies as our neurons die. To which he (typically!) responded: Science can't explain everything. Enter: *eyes rolls*.
Later while travelling on the subway together, he asks: "But don't you think there is such a thing as fate or destiny? Like if you bump into a friend that day, it was destiny?". Me: "Well it's just coincidence isn't it? We all live in the same city, so the chance of me bumping into someone is higher".
He continued to elaborate that he believes that we join a collective consciousness in the afterlife. Then we can choose to be reborn again with a set of life challenges that we choose. Of course there's many logical holes in this idea, however being polite to an acquaintance, I'm not gonna pick on them, I merely said out of genuine curiosity: "Oh, that's a very interesting idea" (I enjoy sci-fi so...).
I acknowledge to him by saying: "Isn't it coincidental that all the variables of the universe are such to give rise to life?". So I then tried to explain the multiverse theory, and explained that many of the parallel universes would be dead, that there are no coincidence under this theory because every possibility is tried out. At this point, he pretty much looked at me as if I was bat-shit crazy and went cold on me. I was like... you think my ideas are crazy?!?! Jesus effing Christ!
A half-hearted hand shake later and I guess that guy will never talk to me again!