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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (29723)	8/17/2012 10:33:49 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I did not think the question was at all unreasonable. No. I have no reason to posit an afterlife. Nothing in reality suggests that a deer, an ant, a lion, a crushed beetle, or a cremated human somehow revives in a different manner while retaining a memory or identity. Of course the elements survive. In order to posit an afterlife I would need to invent a story without a single shred of evidence. Why would anyone want to do that? Why stop at life and death. Why not simply posit that after death, ants go into the 471st dimension and exist for 67 years as humans with cucumbers in their brain? Why not posit that? What do you think was going on in your brain a million years ago? Obviously...nothing. What do you think goes on in your brain when you get knocked unconscious? Not a Hell of a lot. Do you think you can experience life without a brain. Can you experience life without life? Do you think when I spray a nest of carpenter ants or crush them under foot that they are still living? Or do you think because their nervous system is less cognitive than ours that perhaps they actually DO die? -g- How about cows and pigs? Are they still living an afterlife even though we have their meat on a barbeque? Believe me, Bruno. When I die I am never speaking to you again. And that is final. I can be stubborn when I have to be...