I would like to clarify something that I see a lot of people stating.
There is no "you in a void." There would be no you. You will, most likely, simply stop, just like when you go unconscious when you sleep but before you dream. That gap in your memory, that time-skip, that nothing.
You can't "experience" nothing, or a void, because you aren't there.
My best answer to the question "what do you believe happens when you die" is "you are dead." If there is anything else, we will find out, for sure, then, if there's even an "us" afterward.
It's not preaching atheism, it's telling people who ask, or blindly assert, that there is no such thing as death, and that our consciousness exists without a biological, material framework.
We literally have no way to test that, to either corroborate or disprove that idea. Anything we can say about it, aside from the annihilation of a material based consciousness, is pure speculation or wishful thinking.
Note that I am talking about people who directly confront you about it, not going up and proselytizing to random folks.
To religious people, talking about their religion is no different than preaching about it. They often don't recognize it, that way, and it's not everyone. Many religions have precepts about proselytizing, and many people who are deeply religious tend to view every encounter as a chance to share the word.
I'm not saying you were, or that you even desired to be. I'm saying it's very hard for some to distinguish the two, even on a separate, intellectual level.
I would like to clarify something that I see a lot of people stating.
There is no "you in a void." There would be no you. You will, most likely, simply stop, just like when you go unconscious when you sleep but before you dream. That gap in your memory, that time-skip, that nothing.
You can't "experience" nothing, or a void, because you aren't there.
My best answer to the question "what do you believe happens when you die" is "you are dead." If there is anything else, we will find out, for sure, then, if there's even an "us" afterward.
That is true, I would have said that, but I didn't want to seem like I was trying to preach atheisum.
It's not preaching atheism, it's telling people who ask, or blindly assert, that there is no such thing as death, and that our consciousness exists without a biological, material framework.
We literally have no way to test that, to either corroborate or disprove that idea. Anything we can say about it, aside from the annihilation of a material based consciousness, is pure speculation or wishful thinking.
Note that I am talking about people who directly confront you about it, not going up and proselytizing to random folks.
I didn't say it was, I said I didn't want to seem like I was.
To religious people, talking about their religion is no different than preaching about it. They often don't recognize it, that way, and it's not everyone. Many religions have precepts about proselytizing, and many people who are deeply religious tend to view every encounter as a chance to share the word.
I'm not saying you were, or that you even desired to be. I'm saying it's very hard for some to distinguish the two, even on a separate, intellectual level.
No big, though.