Is there an afterlife?
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After 3 votes and with 12 points ahead, the winner is...
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CON: there is no afterlife
PRO: there is an afterlife
AFTERLIFE: a post-death continuation of human consciousness and experience of self; such that physical death can't be considdered the end of a person.
- An afterlife means that person X continues to be self-aware and experiences conciousness like live humans do
- An afterlife must kick in after the physical death of a human being, ensuring his continued existence and conciousness
- The person in the afterlife must be the same person as the person who died, lest death is actually the end of persons living on earth
- This means that personality traits such as habbits, memories and cognitive abilities must be preserved into the afterlife
- An afterlife thus continues the congnitive, concious and emotional experience (and evolution) of human beings after their physical death
- PRO is asserting the existence of an afterlife, which is an extraordinary claim, meaning he has an extraordinary BoP and his case requires extensive evidence
- CON (I) is here to rebutt PRO's arguments and provide sufficient grounds not to believe in the existence of an afterlife
Death: the end of life [Cambridg dictionary]
Merriam Webster offers the afterlife as existence after death, a later period in one's life, or the period of use/existence/popularity beyond what is normal/primary/expected
- the life, for example in heaven, that some people believe begins after death
- Default to CON position in lack of evidence
- Life after death is incoherent, because if life continues, death never occurred
- With no brain and no senses, consciousness after death is impossible
Full forfeit
Forfeiture
Forfeiture by Pro. Con has successfully made a case of physical death being impossible for consciousness to keep existing in you and has withstood Pro. Pro made what seems like reductio ad absurdum and changed definitions and was still successfully handled by Con.
Con wins on Arguments and sources. Source-wise Con argues existing definition and science. Pro has no sources that argue that his interpretation is the correct one. Con wins the whole thing in the end.
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Guys how do you not know this we are simply aliens that are playing a VR game when you die the game ends and you take off their headset or keep playing as someone else but the VR game is so realistic that most of us forgot we are in one. its sooo obvious
Reopening is the PRO gamer move guitar is gonna make.
You don’t. You respawn.
"Is there an afterlife"
"There is in Minecraft"
I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
He has changed his religion from Christianity to agnosticism.
Back in the day, I swear you were a Christian.