As a theist i respect this guy.. saying "this world will be better place without religion" is the same as saying "i should be more happy if i was born in different family". Like or not, modern society that we have today historically can't be like 'today' without religion in the first place. Maybe should be better without the religion? How do you know?
Life and Death duality is not easy to grasp. Without knowing what death is , you live without knowing what life is... If you experience what death is consciously, you actually start living life.. Death is a mystery, if not experienced while you are alive...Life is as illusive particle when compared to death, which is one single wave on which everyrhing collapses, basically an experience that leads to wisdom with the superposition of the body, mind and soul on the spirit..
I think Death as a teacher is perhaps somewhat overrated. Knowing we are mortal is essential for spiritual growth, but I think Death doesn't give meaning to Life, _Life_ gives meaning to Life. If you can't find meaning in Life without always being constantly mindful of the spectre of Death, I doubt you will find meaning in Life *with* mindfulness of Death.
A friendly and nice conversation about the social purpose of religion but what does that have to do with life after death? That doesn't seem to be his specialty?
For people that believe in non-existence after death. How do you know the non-existence goes on forever? How do you know that you're not going to turn into another person or an animal or something? Cause if you really don't exist you have no idea that you died. You wouldn't even know what you are let alone who you are.
@@dj_OVI_J_TIMIS Ya, you're probably correct. Shermer looks so f'ing young. I appreciate these older clips being uploaded but another problem is that these fields of frontier science are being advanced so rapidly that a 5 year old talk about conciousness, quantum mechanics, cosmology etc.... is almost obsolete in its assertions about theory.
This is one guy I would love to see you have a NDE experience and come back and Change his way of life And see what he would have to say about that I would love to see what he would have to say then
"Does our consciousness end forever? Nothing could be more frightening!" I would argue that spending an eternity in a universe with no justice is far more frightening than death, and also far more likely... You aren't 60 years of awareness preceded by and followed by two eternities. That is a ridiculous thought. Eternity is eternity, and it is clearly an eternity of life, not death...
“The problem is fanaticism, not religion” 👍👍👍 I really like Michael Shermer’s agnosticism... with a few reservations (very much enjoyed “The Moral Arc” and “How We Believe” by the way). Perhaps “God” is just a social construct, but I think that’s shallow. I prefer the more ‘realist’ view that what people call “God” is the fundamental foundation of our psyche - the “ground of our being”, mostly invisible to us, but whose wisdom is accessible through methodologies developed by all religions eg. prayer, silence, meditation, contemplation etc. In this view, our conscious mind is just the tip of an iceberg, but the huge resource of the Unconscious (like the invisible part of the iceberg) is real and available to us, if we learn how to listen to it. IMO, fundamentalists are guilty of idolatry in their unshakable certainty that truth is static, and that they can possess it in a book, tradition or ideology. Such hubris! I like & respect Michael Shermer for urging us to cultivate a degree of doubt & uncertainty therefore in his Skeptic column. The questioning openness that so characterises this channel, is what enables the discovery of new truths and understandings.
crazyjoe 98 ...and one true religion that worship ‘Him’, or many? Also “He”...? Is He male, or is that just a figure of speech? You see, I think truth has many names, and is bigger than any one religion or paradigm can conceive. Hence IMO most religions contain some aspect of Truth. Do you know the old metaphor of the 7 blind men describe an elephant? Each is in touch with a different bit, and thinks that is the ‘true’ elephant. If that is what you are saying.. I very much agree with you.
@@uremove but the elephant is still an elephant. You will find the Truth just as long as you truly go searching for Truth and do not settle for anything less than Truth.
The choice to not believe in life after death is a human’s desire to not be accountable for his actions. He just want to be free even at death. Shermer is just throwing opinions and creating a different God religious people believe in. Natural world never created itself. Big Bang you quoting is even a theory by a Catholic priest. Why was he not an atheist having created that theory.
_Death is nothing to us because good and evil lie in sensation, which ends with death. Thus believing death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy by ending the yearning for immortality...If we don’t fear death, why should we fear life?...Thus dreaded death is nothing to us because when we are, death is not and when death is, we are not…._ -Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus (third paragraph) 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌
The evil and the wicked go to nothingness. The issue with death is that you wont have the opportunity to experience besutiful things. It is not about suffering or not. It is about that takes you the opportunity to keep enjoying besutiful things. And from the thir person point of view you will never going to meet again your loved ones. Ohhh wait I remember that materialists say that they dont fear non existence because before they were born they didnt exist also but the analogy doesnt work because you were not aware that you were going to be born and being consciouss and in the other hand you are aware that you are going to stop being consciouss forever. It is like not being aware you are going to a party but after you are there you are aware that you are going to leave that party and the party continues without you.
I don’t get what the big deal is? Why cant a person who believes strongly in the Lord also believe 🛸’s also exist? With to overwhelming amount of eye accounts and witnesses over the decades for zero benefits keep mounting up with no end. Ignore all that? Is that what an intelligent person do if this much evidence continued to pile up with no end?
@@GeoCoppens Our Creator's plan. Our Creator is the invisible consciousness that creates everything. There has never been a material object because it's impossible for real material to be made from thoughts.
@@GeoCoppens All religions, science, mathematics, thousands of languages and the building of visible things with human hands came from information called the Beast.
Revelation 1: 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Apparently, there is no right way to share your opinion if you aren't a believer. If you are direct and frank about your opinion, you are "strident." If you soft pedal your opinion to try to spare feelings, you are "patronizing." Oh well. I can take being called either, so long as I am confident in being "correct."
This video should get more likes. The interview was good. You might not agree with the interviewee but that is not a reason for a dislike. It ain't his channel. It's the interviewer's.
Why it is misleading and full of hubris. Not a reason to dislike, bombing other nations then blaming for reacting, killing the Unborn, and then blaming people for reacting. So killing millions of kids is ok then? Yep in your book, to kill the rocking chair.
@@sgt7 no, you were highlighting your opinion. You saying "it is not a reason for dislike" is your opinion, exclusively. If I choose to give it a thumbs down, that is my opinion. Maybe your intention was not, this. But, your comment was.
Moayad Salih What do you expect in a 10 min interview? He even acknowledged that the issue was complex. In any case what he said was a fair high level summary.
Why is the idea of life after death so difficult to grasp? Are we just hung up on the religious connotations? Get rid of them, we don't need them. We all have already experienced life after death. What were you 1000 years ago? Most definitely not alive. You had absolutely none of the characteristics we consider "being alive", in fact, there was no "you". The universe, without a doubt, can (and did) create you. There are exactly ZERO physical laws that limit the number of times you can be produced. Likely? The likelihood of a given outcome within a set of possibilities increases with available time. Given enough time, ALL possibilities come to fruition. Current estimates put the universe at about 14 billion years old, however, new theories indicate the process may be infinite. Possibilities over infinite time equate to a 100% chance of not only occurring, but reoccurring infinitely. The question has always been about continuity, not probability... will you remember being you? Does this iteration effect the next? I guess that depends on how exactly the universe handles the processes that currently think they're you. We are not separate from the universe. We are as much a part of it as our solar system is part of the Milky Way. All one and the same. We are the universe, thinking, learning, creating. My perspective on the importance of all my bits and pieces is likely important to its function, but ultimately those bits and pieces are serving a much, much larger function that is not "us", but everything. I'm good with that.
I think there is there is absolutely nothing after death and most of my family are Christians but I think after the brain dies there will be absolutely nothing there will be no thoughts and most people say they think there will be darkness but I don’t believe that either if someone where to die and come back alive I don’t believe they would remember a single thing in between the two and I have nothing against Christians I encourage you to believe that if you want to and I wish I could have such a mindset like a Christian but I just can’t get myself to believe anything other than there is nothing and my brother says that he would want to have his body frozen or to have a machine that would at least let him think or have thought after death but I believe that if a body is frozen things break in your body that are beyond repair and I wouldn’t want to have my brain in a machine to think and the reason for that is I would spend however long I love after that to think of my dead family and friends that have been dead for a long time but if you read all of this I would love you to leave your opinion under mine
Clip title mentions life after death, where was that discussion? The religious guy gets offended by the atheist guy. That’s almost nine minutes of a typo and nothing new.
Looks like this was filmed at Mount Wilson Observatory. More specifically, shot In the dome that houses the same 100in telescope where Edward Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe. Very cool.
Science is a religion. It seeks explanation because we fear not having an explanation. But science really has few answers. It excludes data it can't explain. The more we learn about reality, the more questions arise. Does matter really exist? What is reality. Some strange phenomena exists for which science has not a clue.
Some natural phenomenon like walking ; eating ....does not need so much complex analogy.... Life after death ...needs explanation from soooo many people with 1000s of different answers means there is one and only one answer :::: STOP BEING DELUSIONAL ABOUT SOME FAIRY TALE LIFE STARTING AFTER U R NO MORE....
Shermer answered this clearly 10 years ago: Michael Shermer - Is Consciousness Irreducible? ua-cam.com/video/dj6-iA3T7PM/v-deo.html Now askig "Is Life After Death" is ludicrous.
I like this series of UA-cam videos. However, I am greatly disappointed that this video has nothing to do with the Title or Tag Line of the video “Is Life After Death Possible”. Come on, are clicks that important that you have to lie about the content of the video? Shameful!
The title is misleading, People go to fanatism in the political or religious if there is no way out and they are excluded. it gives them a sense of power to overcome. So when the US or its allies bomb the crap out of the Muslim world, they cannot use modern armies, they would be slaughtered, so they resort to hit and run. That seems pretty logical to me, - modern battle bad, twin towers hit and run "Good ". It also helps if the host country lets it happen as well. The guy talks about the evil of religion, which is true but the evil of secularism is there, such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol pot, the communist Chinese, Western secularism, with its abortion clinics, trying to kill thousands if not millions by corvid herd immunity, sending out do not resuscitate forms to perfectly healthy human beings. Their only crime is being disabled. A religious person reacts in horror at killing the unborn, the guy being interviewed calls the reaction to it fanatism. But killing the unborn is secular fanatism to the selfish self, to the unborn, to the father, to society, and the person having an abortion.
"Life's origin, human consciousness & the eukaryotic cell are the three epi-phenomena of biology"-- --Richard Dawkins ONLY "scientific atheists" would argue so adamantly re a topic they themselves (and everyone else) acknowledge to not have condignity with ANYTHING known or understood by humans. "If it makes us superior to unwashed religiose... IT'S TRUE!" HOWL...transparent much?!?
Yes we hindus we believe in life after death. We have to pay for our karma otherwise we do whatever we want on this earth like today God is punishing us. We are not lisening ang respecting
Shermer will never experience the value of faith in God because he is alert that faith should not rule his lump of flesh called brain which he thinks is the thing that has made him the topmost creature in the whole creation. Well, if human brain is so powerful then is it telling the cow to feel love to her newborn calf ? Is that lump of flesh creating love so powerful and universal in nature ? Well, why doesn't he run to preserve those lumps when mllions of persons are led to the crematorium ?
It’s better to believe in God than to not believe in God because when we die and find out there is a God that’s good and if there is no God . AT LEAST we give ourselves a “chance “ for an after life!
That's the old "Pascal's Wager" argument... and it is pointless. Which of the many thousands of deities should you choose? How gullible is the deity you believe in if it can be fooled by a "might as well" argument?
you were nothing for 13 billion years. when you're dead you won't be fearing. but the scary thing is all of these questions no longer need answered when you're dead. having said that you were nothing for 13 billion years yet you are still here. we don't fully understand what will happen -- say if time will just stop or be reset. at some point a function in physics may allow for a reset. nothing is immortal and presumably that includes the universe as we know it, too. well atleast not in a technical sense maybe. quantum mechanics or some other hidden physics may come into play at this point to bang another universe -- a string of universes... you have have lived this existence before. not an afterlife just a repeat existence. When time stops nothing is able to move. entropy. cold. the big freeze actually things can move but only in the quantum word or whatever.
@Billy Boffin Hi. You have much to experience my young friend. As an old EM doctor and hundreds of resuscitations, and many NDE patients, even children who have no idea what an NDE is, I've heard these stories too many times. Keep going.😊 Watch "Dr Mary Neal NDE" on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/l6Mfd8BvZtU/v-deo.html
It's not the end you decide, before you were born you were living. Man immediately after death is no different to what he was 5 minutes before. That is in regard to his Outlook and his character and his personality. He begins to realise that life here and heaven is normal a natural thing and he himself is exactly as he was . Man must adjust himself to his condition in which he finds himself.
Is Life after birth possible ? There ain't No dead, only the Living Dead. How do We see that We are Eternal ? Is Un-change-able the same as Eternity, Why have No one seen the Living behind the Being ? have You seen your self ?
I think there is a commonality with any faith based thinking that affects the overall thought processes and including up to political ideologies, it is connected by a strong internal thought process. Religion suggests that fanaticisms develop more quickly, on different levels, and by what M. Shemer mentioned in the video as well, even if they are strong enough to leave the faith. In addition psychopathic and sociopathic personality disorders must be happening throughout history and into today, and when coupled with religion, they are cunning individuals that are hard to identify until its too late or are in control of others thoughts to an extent. And there are multitudes of levels of their behaviors from what I see from my personal observations, this while also listening to the teachers explanations of this area on human personalities to work something out personally, it is a deep well for sure.
I think Jesus would agree with Shermer that religious fanaticism or extremism is the problem. After all, Jesus was all about dissing the Pharisees as hypocritical and denouncing their extreme rules and choosing love instead.
Please closer to truth ... one vedio aday because I like to concentrate on the vedio I dont want to watch it in a rush .I'd be grateful if you consider my suggestion
To answer this question quickly. There is no life after death. Human is a soul. This soul is eternal, no death. The body is taken from earth and usually belongs to earth. So what is the question?
@@ggstylz His PhD is in "His dissertation was titled Heretic-Scientist: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Evolution of Man: A Study on the Nature of Historical Change "... LOL...
Why ask this peanut about something he knows nothing about and that he openly doesn't have any time for. You wouldn't ask your butcher about complex financial advice. Felix why don't you interview an intelligent Christian scientist. I expected better from you. Do you interview astronomers about horticulture?
So... the right answer is to ask a myth-believer about mythology? That's like someone who is a PhD in Religious Studies... might as well be a PhD in Invisible Pink Unicorns. There is value in asking a non-myth-believer about myth-belief insofar as the non-myth-believer can speak rationally about the presence of religion (even if not based on anything real) and its impact on society... and on the facts and scientific method that do not indicate support for myth-belief.
@@ducheau100 I have an IQ of 140. That means I am in the top 10% of humanity. All the more intelligent people I meet, the more people I know that knows the bible is based on lies.
@@tedbishop If you're that smart (which is early 3 standard deviations above the mean, meaning you misplaced the decimal by a factor of ten) then you ought to know the Bible is just a book and has nothing to do with the truth of life after death. The Old Testament, in particular, is a history book, and no more a "pack of lies" than any other history book you have read. You may have a high IQ, but it isn't working very well.
@@tedbishop 140 is WAY higher than the top 10%. You may very well be, but I would guess you are possibly a teenager based on your argument. Life gets weird, man. Buckle up, and prepare to be humbled.
This chat has absolutely nothing to do with the topic advertised, life after death.
I was so into it i never thought of that.
Their discussion had NOTHING to do with the title of the video
I like it, "religion is primarily not about explaining the natural world". Yes, it is primarily about spirituality.
Its sad how less the views are for closer to truth videos and interviews.
People dont have the intellectual curiosity for stuff like this. I love stuff like this
As a theist i respect this guy.. saying "this world will be better place without religion" is the same as saying "i should be more happy if i was born in different family". Like or not, modern society that we have today historically can't be like 'today' without religion in the first place. Maybe should be better without the religion? How do you know?
yes plus it would be much better with out countries (meaningless handful of soils)
For a moment I thought dude was quoting Joe Pesci from good fellas. "OH I AMUSE YOU?"
🤣 Best comment ever read🤣
There’s no religion, but , humanity
Life and Death duality is not easy to grasp. Without knowing what death is , you live without knowing what life is... If you experience what death is consciously, you actually start living life..
Death is a mystery, if not experienced while you are alive...Life is as illusive particle when compared to death, which is one single wave on which everyrhing collapses, basically an experience that leads to wisdom with the superposition of the body, mind and soul on the spirit..
I think Death as a teacher is perhaps somewhat overrated. Knowing we are mortal is essential for spiritual growth, but I think Death doesn't give meaning to Life, _Life_ gives meaning to Life. If you can't find meaning in Life without always being constantly mindful of the spectre of Death, I doubt you will find meaning in Life *with* mindfulness of Death.
A friendly and nice conversation about the social purpose of religion but what does that have to do with life after death? That doesn't seem to be his specialty?
For people that believe in non-existence after death. How do you know the non-existence goes on forever? How do you know that you're not going to turn into another person or an animal or something? Cause if you really don't exist you have no idea that you died. You wouldn't even know what you are let alone who you are.
i am surprised to hear Shermer being so non-cynical.
He also looks a lot younger here. Maybe he got more cynical as he got older
This has to be at least 10 years old.
More then 20 i'll say, but that's not a problem. The problem is why not sharing the year also?
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Ya, you're probably correct. Shermer looks so f'ing young. I appreciate these older clips being uploaded but another problem is that these fields of frontier science are being advanced so rapidly that a 5 year old talk about conciousness, quantum mechanics, cosmology etc.... is almost obsolete in its assertions about theory.
It’s 15 years old
This is one guy I would love to see you have a NDE experience and come back and Change his way of life And see what he would have to say about that I would love to see what he would have to say then
Probably come up with some hair brained excuse about his brain chemistry.
The only issue I have: the metaphysical question has not been answered.
Adam from “Adam Ruins Everything” is pissed because Shermer said alpha male :((
"Does our consciousness end forever? Nothing could be more frightening!"
I would argue that spending an eternity in a universe with no justice is far more frightening than death, and also far more likely...
You aren't 60 years of awareness preceded by and followed by two eternities. That is a ridiculous thought. Eternity is eternity, and it is clearly an eternity of life, not death...
“The problem is fanaticism, not religion” 👍👍👍
I really like Michael Shermer’s agnosticism... with a few reservations (very much enjoyed “The Moral Arc” and “How We Believe” by the way). Perhaps “God” is just a social construct, but I think that’s shallow. I prefer the more ‘realist’ view that what people call “God” is the fundamental foundation of our psyche - the “ground of our being”, mostly invisible to us, but whose wisdom is accessible through methodologies developed by all religions eg. prayer, silence, meditation, contemplation etc. In this view, our conscious mind is just the tip of an iceberg, but the huge resource of the Unconscious (like the invisible part of the iceberg) is real and available to us, if we learn how to listen to it.
IMO, fundamentalists are guilty of idolatry in their unshakable certainty that truth is static, and that they can possess it in a book, tradition or ideology. Such hubris! I like & respect Michael Shermer for urging us to cultivate a degree of doubt & uncertainty therefore in his Skeptic column. The questioning openness that so characterises this channel, is what enables the discovery of new truths and understandings.
Truth isn't static, Truth is a person and He has a name.
crazyjoe 98 ...Only one?
@@uremove in the end it doesn't matter what you call Him, but He has one identity.
crazyjoe 98 ...and one true religion that worship ‘Him’, or many? Also “He”...? Is He male, or is that just a figure of speech?
You see, I think truth has many names, and is bigger than any one religion or paradigm can conceive. Hence IMO most religions contain some aspect of Truth. Do you know the old metaphor of the 7 blind men describe an elephant? Each is in touch with a different bit, and thinks that is the ‘true’ elephant. If that is what you are saying.. I very much agree with you.
@@uremove but the elephant is still an elephant. You will find the Truth just as long as you truly go searching for Truth and do not settle for anything less than Truth.
The choice to not believe in life after death is a human’s desire to not be accountable for his actions. He just want to be free even at death. Shermer is just throwing opinions and creating a different God religious people believe in. Natural world never created itself. Big Bang you quoting is even a theory by a Catholic priest. Why was he not an atheist having created that theory.
I've listened to this several times, but I don't think the title/heading describes the content. Sorry to say.
_Death is nothing to us because good and evil lie in sensation, which ends with death. Thus believing death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy by ending the yearning for immortality...If we don’t fear death, why should we fear life?...Thus dreaded death is nothing to us because when we are, death is not and when death is, we are not…._ -Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus (third paragraph) 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌
The evil and the wicked go to nothingness. The issue with death is that you wont have the opportunity to experience besutiful things. It is not about suffering or not. It is about that takes you the opportunity to keep enjoying besutiful things. And from the thir person point of view you will never going to meet again your loved ones. Ohhh wait I remember that materialists say that they dont fear non existence because before they were born they didnt exist also but the analogy doesnt work because you were not aware that you were going to be born and being consciouss and in the other hand you are aware that you are going to stop being consciouss forever. It is like not being aware you are going to a party but after you are there you are aware that you are going to leave that party and the party continues without you.
I don’t get what the big deal is? Why cant a person who believes strongly in the Lord also believe 🛸’s also exist? With to overwhelming amount of eye accounts and witnesses over the decades for zero benefits keep mounting up with no end. Ignore all that? Is that what an intelligent person do if this much evidence continued to pile up with no end?
Is this Michael Shermer's grandson or is this old recording
Really old. Probably early 2000s or late 90s. There are some Cal Tech lectures from the late 90s and Micheal looks about the same age in those clips.
Shermer is sceptical about having a Grandson !
Gee, I wonder what Shermer's position will be. Zzzzzzzz
LoL
It's not only possible, it's our Creator's plan to save all created men after their visible bodies perish.
Who's plan?
@@GeoCoppens Our Creator's plan. Our Creator is the invisible consciousness that creates everything. There has never been a material object because it's impossible for real material to be made from thoughts.
@@BradHolkesvig A religious fantasy with NO basis in reality. In other words a DELUSION! Like all religious thought!
@@GeoCoppens All religions, science, mathematics, thousands of languages and the building of visible things with human hands came from information called the Beast.
@@BradHolkesvig Wonderful!!! Give me the address and telephone number of the Beast! You know so much!
Revelation 1: 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Apparently, there is no right way to share your opinion if you aren't a believer. If you are direct and frank about your opinion, you are "strident." If you soft pedal your opinion to try to spare feelings, you are "patronizing." Oh well. I can take being called either, so long as I am confident in being "correct."
As you, yourself lump all believers into a tidy little category to justify your own opinion..lol
This video should get more likes. The interview was good. You might not agree with the interviewee but that is not a reason for a dislike. It ain't his channel. It's the interviewer's.
Why it is misleading and full of hubris. Not a reason to dislike, bombing other nations then blaming for reacting, killing the Unborn, and then blaming people for reacting. So killing millions of kids is ok then? Yep in your book, to kill the rocking chair.
@@Mulberry2000 Sorry, I'm lost here. I was just saying the interview was very good.
Okay, we will make sure to follow your rules next time.
@@smithgov it's not my rule. I was highlighting a norm.
@@sgt7 no, you were highlighting your opinion. You saying "it is not a reason for dislike" is your opinion, exclusively. If I choose to give it a thumbs down, that is my opinion. Maybe your intention was not, this. But, your comment was.
And who cares about what Shermer says? Explaining religion away as a tool for social order is just a manifestation of shallow-mindedness.
Moayad Salih What do you expect in a 10 min interview? He even acknowledged that the issue was complex. In any case what he said was a fair high level summary.
_Moayad,_ feel free to prove god exists with evidence. Til then, nobody's proven religion is based in reality.
Why is the idea of life after death so difficult to grasp? Are we just hung up on the religious connotations? Get rid of them, we don't need them. We all have already experienced life after death. What were you 1000 years ago? Most definitely not alive. You had absolutely none of the characteristics we consider "being alive", in fact, there was no "you". The universe, without a doubt, can (and did) create you. There are exactly ZERO physical laws that limit the number of times you can be produced. Likely? The likelihood of a given outcome within a set of possibilities increases with available time. Given enough time, ALL possibilities come to fruition. Current estimates put the universe at about 14 billion years old, however, new theories indicate the process may be infinite. Possibilities over infinite time equate to a 100% chance of not only occurring, but reoccurring infinitely.
The question has always been about continuity, not probability... will you remember being you? Does this iteration effect the next? I guess that depends on how exactly the universe handles the processes that currently think they're you. We are not separate from the universe. We are as much a part of it as our solar system is part of the Milky Way. All one and the same. We are the universe, thinking, learning, creating. My perspective on the importance of all my bits and pieces is likely important to its function, but ultimately those bits and pieces are serving a much, much larger function that is not "us", but everything. I'm good with that.
I like this idea
It's one of the better ones I've heard 👍
I will believe it as soon as Jesus comes back. Any day now...
Hmm, life after the end of life? Not bloody likely!
I think there is there is absolutely nothing after death and most of my family are Christians but I think after the brain dies there will be absolutely nothing there will be no thoughts and most people say they think there will be darkness but I don’t believe that either if someone where to die and come back alive I don’t believe they would remember a single thing in between the two and I have nothing against Christians I encourage you to believe that if you want to and I wish I could have such a mindset like a Christian but I just can’t get myself to believe anything other than there is nothing and my brother says that he would want to have his body frozen or to have a machine that would at least let him think or have thought after death but I believe that if a body is frozen things break in your body that are beyond repair and I wouldn’t want to have my brain in a machine to think and the reason for that is I would spend however long I love after that to think of my dead family and friends that have been dead for a long time but if you read all of this I would love you to leave your opinion under mine
Death is an illusion. Your family and friends who have passed away are alive, more alive than any of us can imagine.
There's more to the show. Lol
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Waiting for your demonstration with fact and evidence... not holding my breath however...
Clip title mentions life after death, where was that discussion? The religious guy gets offended by the atheist guy. That’s almost nine minutes of a typo and nothing new.
Looks like this was filmed at Mount Wilson Observatory. More specifically, shot In the dome that houses the same 100in telescope where Edward Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe. Very cool.
Science is a religion. It seeks explanation because we fear not having an explanation. But science really has few answers. It excludes data it can't explain. The more we learn about reality, the more questions arise. Does matter really exist? What is reality. Some strange phenomena exists for which science has not a clue.
The shotgun mic and the wire are doubling the subject.
Some natural phenomenon like walking ; eating ....does not need so much complex analogy....
Life after death ...needs explanation from soooo many people with 1000s of different answers means there is one and only one answer ::::
STOP BEING DELUSIONAL ABOUT SOME FAIRY TALE LIFE STARTING AFTER U R NO MORE....
From a probability stand point, you've found the one finite thing in the universe, but also can't explain it.
Is that Chuck Norris in that picture when he lost fight against Bruce Lee?
Scientist have discovered that after a Person has expired That They are still Consciously Aware It's a Long story You Might say ?
Shermer answered this clearly 10 years ago: Michael Shermer - Is Consciousness Irreducible?
ua-cam.com/video/dj6-iA3T7PM/v-deo.html Now askig "Is Life After Death" is ludicrous.
Would be interesting to watch videos on problem of evil
After I die I will be, where I was before my birth...
He does seem condescending. And, did he really have to say, "... if you got circumcised?"
I found his opinions interesting.
Good video.
Why?
Anyone knows what is Robert religion?
Satanism.
Oh here's Mr. Know it all
Well done (from a transcendental deist)
But the only self destruction way for us to end is by religion or our advancement in the greater outer spac
I like this series of UA-cam videos. However, I am greatly disappointed that this video has nothing to do with the Title or Tag Line of the video “Is Life After Death Possible”. Come on, are clicks that important that you have to lie about the content of the video? Shameful!
That was my comment as well.
7:06 : WHAT??? Science is absolute knowledge. Electrons EXIST for sure. So what is Shermer saying here?
Are you SURE electrons EXIST? Or did you just make them up?
The shroud of Turin explains all
The title is misleading, People go to fanatism in the political or religious if there is no way out and they are excluded. it gives them a sense of power to overcome. So when the US or its allies bomb the crap out of the Muslim world, they cannot use modern armies, they would be slaughtered, so they resort to hit and run. That seems pretty logical to me, - modern battle bad, twin towers hit and run "Good ". It also helps if the host country lets it happen as well.
The guy talks about the evil of religion, which is true but the evil of secularism is there, such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol pot, the communist Chinese, Western secularism, with its abortion clinics, trying to kill thousands if not millions by corvid herd immunity, sending out do not resuscitate forms to perfectly healthy human beings. Their only crime is being disabled. A religious person reacts in horror at killing the unborn, the guy being interviewed calls the reaction to it fanatism. But killing the unborn is secular fanatism to the selfish self, to the unborn, to the father, to society, and the person having an abortion.
Humans are not primates.
Loved how Michael Shermer explained it to him.🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Life's origin, human consciousness & the eukaryotic cell are the three epi-phenomena of biology"--
--Richard Dawkins
ONLY "scientific atheists" would argue so adamantly
re a topic they themselves (and everyone else) acknowledge to not have condignity with ANYTHING
known or understood by humans.
"If it makes us superior to unwashed religiose...
IT'S TRUE!"
HOWL...transparent much?!?
Yes we hindus we believe in life after death. We have to pay for our karma otherwise we do whatever we want on this earth like today God is punishing us. We are not lisening ang respecting
Shermer will never experience the value of faith in God because he is alert that faith should not rule his lump of flesh called brain which he thinks is the thing that has made him the topmost creature in the whole creation. Well, if human brain is so powerful then is it telling the cow to feel love to her newborn calf ? Is that lump of flesh creating love so powerful and universal in nature ? Well, why doesn't he run to preserve those lumps when mllions of persons are led to the crematorium ?
Of course there’s life after death. Do you or anyone you know have descendants? Other than that………
It’s better to believe in God than to not believe in God because when we die and find out there is a God that’s good and if there is no God . AT LEAST we give ourselves a “chance “ for an after life!
That's the old "Pascal's Wager" argument... and it is pointless.
Which of the many thousands of deities should you choose?
How gullible is the deity you believe in if it can be fooled by a "might as well" argument?
an omniscient god would easily see through this facade and still send a false believer to hell. And is it not also a sin to lie?
you were nothing for 13 billion years. when you're dead you won't be fearing.
but the scary thing is all of these questions no longer need answered when you're dead.
having said that you were nothing for 13 billion years yet you are still here. we don't fully understand what will happen -- say if time will just stop or be reset. at some point a function in physics may allow for a reset.
nothing is immortal and presumably that includes the universe as we know it, too. well atleast not in a technical sense maybe.
quantum mechanics or some other hidden physics may come into play at this point to bang another universe -- a string of universes... you have have lived this existence before. not an afterlife just a repeat existence.
When time stops nothing is able to move. entropy. cold. the big freeze actually things can move but only in the quantum word or whatever.
Lol. Real Christians don’t go to church for inspiration, but adoration that belongs to God.
Yes, its unadvoidable. 😊
@Billy Boffin Hi. You have much to experience my young friend. As an old EM doctor and hundreds of resuscitations, and many NDE patients, even children who have no idea what an NDE is, I've heard these stories too many times. Keep going.😊
Watch "Dr Mary Neal NDE" on UA-cam
ua-cam.com/video/l6Mfd8BvZtU/v-deo.html
GET IT OVER WITH and accept death is the ultimate end.
How do you know?
It's not the end you decide, before you were born you were living. Man immediately after death is no different to what he was 5 minutes before. That is in regard to his Outlook and his character and his personality. He begins to realise that life here and heaven is normal a natural thing and he himself is exactly as he was . Man must adjust himself to his condition in which he finds himself.
Is Life after birth possible ?
There ain't No dead, only the Living Dead.
How do We see that We are Eternal ?
Is Un-change-able the same as Eternity,
Why have No one seen the Living behind the Being ?
have You seen your self ?
I think there is a commonality with any faith based thinking that affects the overall thought processes and including up to political ideologies, it is connected by a strong internal thought process. Religion suggests that fanaticisms develop more quickly, on different levels, and by what M. Shemer mentioned in the video as well, even if they are strong enough to leave the faith. In addition psychopathic and sociopathic personality disorders must be happening throughout history and into today, and when coupled with religion, they are cunning individuals that are hard to identify until its too late or are in control of others thoughts to an extent. And there are multitudes of levels of their behaviors from what I see from my personal observations, this while also listening to the teachers explanations of this area on human personalities to work something out personally, it is a deep well for sure.
Isn't the Universe just all about recycling?
I can listen to Michael Shermer or Jesus, I choose Jesus.
JEBUS? 🤦♂️🙄
I think Jesus would agree with Shermer that religious fanaticism or extremism is the problem. After all, Jesus was all about dissing the Pharisees as hypocritical and denouncing their extreme rules and choosing love instead.
And I do not choose Jesus, I listen to myself.
Especially in calamities religion is more stronger.
Please closer to truth ... one vedio aday because I like to concentrate on the vedio I dont want to watch it in a rush .I'd be grateful if you consider my suggestion
NTS 85/u
- religion & politics
- voluntary rules following and trust (moral trust chain)
- patronization
power of religion as social force, sobjetive personal realities, ex-heaven
I come from the future and afterlife exists
Interesting, whats it like
This doesn't explain life, death, and soul.
@Billy Boffin People have seen a soul jumping out a body. People of different cultures also reported to see ghosts; that's they believe in it.
@Billy Boffin how do u know? Your theory is no different than anyone else's
And He made the stars also 🤔 and the sun abd the moon and you & I
To answer this question quickly.
There is no life after death.
Human is a soul. This soul is eternal, no death.
The body is taken from earth and usually belongs to earth.
So what is the question?
lol
A real scientist will never deny tbe existence of tbe God of the bible
Michael Shermer upgrated himself as being a "DOCTOR"....... on his last videos -channel.
He has a PhD.
@@ggstylz That doesn't make him a DOCTOR..my little friend...
@@ggstylz His PhD is in "His dissertation was titled Heretic-Scientist: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Evolution of Man: A Study on the Nature of Historical Change "... LOL...
@@kafka27 Not being the etymology guy, but as this is just semantic and convention I have to say, Ph.D. literally means Doctor in Philosophy.
@@gustavodeoliveira702 this moron is pretty far away from being a " doctor "...
Thank you , another wow factor show my good sir
Why ask this peanut about something he knows nothing about and that he openly doesn't have any time for. You wouldn't ask your butcher about complex financial advice. Felix why don't you interview an intelligent Christian scientist. I expected better from you. Do you interview astronomers about horticulture?
So... the right answer is to ask a myth-believer about mythology?
That's like someone who is a PhD in Religious Studies... might as well be a PhD in Invisible Pink Unicorns.
There is value in asking a non-myth-believer about myth-belief insofar as the non-myth-believer can speak rationally about the presence of religion (even if not based on anything real) and its impact on society... and on the facts and scientific method that do not indicate support for myth-belief.
First because I'm not alive
theism and life after death are such pathetic beliefs.
Whys that?
@@megan1445 good question
@@megan1445 because there is no evidence for the validity of either premise. Seems to be an ego thing based on fear
@@rickwyant genetic fallacy your response.
Now we know why Michael’s an atheist… something happened to him. 😂😂😂
How about atheist ??? Do they also follow these rules 🤔 . They certainly do !!!
Abortion is not fanatic?
what a sad guest
There is no life after death.
how do you know
@@ducheau100 I have an IQ of 140. That means I am in the top 10% of humanity. All the more intelligent people I meet, the more people I know that knows the bible is based on lies.
@@tedbishop lmaoooo i dont believe in life after death but having a 140 iq doesnt mean you're intelligent let go of that fat ego of yours
@@tedbishop If you're that smart (which is early 3 standard deviations above the mean, meaning you misplaced the decimal by a factor of ten) then you ought to know the Bible is just a book and has nothing to do with the truth of life after death. The Old Testament, in particular, is a history book, and no more a "pack of lies" than any other history book you have read. You may have a high IQ, but it isn't working very well.
@@tedbishop 140 is WAY higher than the top 10%. You may very well be, but I would guess you are possibly a teenager based on your argument. Life gets weird, man. Buckle up, and prepare to be humbled.
I didn't watch this. But, I think anything is possible. Probability ====> 0 < P < 1. It's simple. 🥲