That sounded well thought out. I think you're right that we have a strange attitude toward death. But I don't know if religion is necessarily just an escape from the prospect of death, although I guess it also serves that purpose. If you aren't religious, then so be it, but since there isn't much empirical proof for any religion, or for atheism, I would say that you've just made your guess at whether God exists. Theists have made a different guess. The fact that religion helps us deal with death doesn't mean we made it up -- that could be true, but it isn't necessarily.

• Personally I do not care - yanniru - March 29, 2001 - 18:38 UTC
  • No, no outsode existence. - alexander - March 30, 2001 - 00:11 UTC
  • Souls/immaterial - tenacious - March 30, 2001 - 02:21 UTC
    • Not string theory, its dark matter - yanniru - March 30, 2001 - 12:53 UTC
      • interesting... - drunknown - March 30, 2001 - 13:07 UTC
        • Dark matter - yanniru - March 31, 2001 - 01:50 UTC
      • There are no god(s), soul(s) and such stuff. - alexander - March 30, 2001 - 17:54 UTC
  • Do not exist outside body. Nothing to worry about. - alexander - March 30, 2001 - 18:20 UTC
    • Please define when you are dead - yanniru - March 31, 2001 - 02:30 UTC
      • I think, definition of a death is absence of life. - alexander - April 2, 2001 - 19:02 UTC
        • And so the beginning of life - yanniru - April 2, 2001 - 22:38 UTC
          • Hartbeat , or nerve system signals, or pain, or breath, or ...? - alexander - April 4, 2001 - 21:05 UTC
            • But he does bring up an interesting point - stormcrow - April 5, 2001 - 01:43 UTC
            • Abortion - yanniru - April 5, 2001 - 16:40 UTC
            • I am inner directed - yanniru - April 5, 2001 - 16:42 UTC
• Best guess based on available evidence - tenacious - March 30, 2001 - 02:24 UTC
  • Yes, because of poor knowledge of natural laws. - alexander - March 30, 2001 - 17:46 UTC
  • It was Voltaire - stormcrow - April 1, 2001 - 04:48 UTC