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Suppose It Was Revealed To Mankind There Is In Fact No After Life, What Then?

Which means it's false until we can verify it.
No, it merely means we're unable to verify it, which has zip to do with whether it's true or not. Zip.
 
There is only life and change. This is just a phase like childhood.

Well that is a philosophy you live by, it doesn't apply to me
 

I think your idea of truth is a bit misplaced.

"All claims are false until proven true."

You can make a plausible claim without proof.

For example we all know gravity exists. I know if a lumberjack cuts a tree down somewhere in Russia I can assume a tree will fall due to gravity even if I live here in America I can assert that somewhere in Russia a lumberjack cut a tree and it fell.

How?

Well we know lumberjacks exist, and we know gravity exist. I can therefore make a generalized claim and it being true.
 
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Well that is a philosophy you live by, it doesn't apply to me
Its the philosiphy our law is based on. An accusation or claim against you is presumed to be untrue until the prosecution can show otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.

In science all theories are presumed to be false until there is compelling evidence supporting them.
 
I think your idea of truth is a bit misplaced.

"All claims are false until proven true."

You can make a plausible claim without proof
OP is not about a plausable claim. OP is about a claim we accept as true without evidence. Theres a word for that: religion.
 
If a message cannot be verified, it cannot necessarily be accepted as true or false. But that does not mean that the message is true or false, The message stands on its own, independent of verification.
Verification is what a message stands on.
 
Its the philosiphy our law is based on. An accusation or claim against you is presumed to be untrue until the prosecution can show otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.

In science all theories are presumed to be false until there is compelling evidence supporting them.

Not sure what textbook or professor told you that but I was taught the scientific method. Where you make a theory/hypothesis, and you test this hypothesis in a scientific setting where you determine whether under scientific conditions your hypothesis is true. The scientific community does not say a metaphysical reality is false until proven true, science says something is neither false or true if it is not testable.
 
Not sure what textbook or professor told you that but I was taught the scientific method. Where you make a theory/hypothesis, and you test this hypothesis in a scientific setting where you determine whether under scientific conditions your hypothesis is true. The scientific community does not say a metaphysical reality is false until proven true, science says something is neither false or true if it is not testable.
OP's hypothosis, he says, is not testable.

What OP has is slightly less than a crop circle. At least we can test crop circles.
 
OP's hypothosis, he says, is not testable.

What OP has is slightly less than a crop circle. At least we can test crop circles.

I think you are too analytical regarding the OP. The OP is more speculative than presuming something to be true, in other words, it is nothing but a "what if" scenario. Grant it, the concept of the OP's statement of "message" was rather vague, it's still nothing more than a "what if" scenario.
 
At that moment there would be no point to the continued existence of human life. Without a higher calling, humanity has no purpose and life has no meaning.

The instant it was proven would be the last instant of my life.
 
At that moment there would be no point to the continued existence of human life. Without a higher calling, humanity has no purpose and life has no meaning.

The instant it was proven would be the last instant of my life.

You would make a bad Jew.
 
I think you are too analytical regarding the OP. The OP is more speculative than presuming something to be true, in other words, it is nothing but a "what if" scenario. Grant it, the concept of the OP's statement of "message" was rather vague, it's still nothing more than a "what if" scenario.
I don't know how to be less analitical then what I am.

As a result, a possible outcome of OP's "what if" is that the over-analitical segment of the population will care more about validating the message than we will the message's actual content.
Recall the movie Independance Day with Will Smith. As the alien craft hover over our cities, counting down the apocalips, imagin a group of people passionatly debating the laws of thurmal dynamics and intersteller space travel, deliberately oblivious to what is about to happen.
In this way, such a message wouldn't change much of anything. I think that's why God stopped hangin out with us in person.
 
Then it's probably a good thing I'm not one.

Perhaps, but it's highly likely that your critical thinking skills would have been ratcheted up a few notches.
 
Perhaps, but it's highly likely that your critical thinking skills would have been ratcheted up a few notches.

Not really. I grew up in a militantly Protestant Christian home, with more church workers and clergy than I can count in my bloodlines and I still got over it.
 
The only way I could ever imagine is that it would have to have some amazing math and physics theories to show that other planes or dimensions or what not do not exist.



....Which math would probably be extremely impressive to the 17 other humans that could understand it....


... leaving another 6,999,999,983 of us saying, "Um, what?"
 
Urgency and violence.
 
I think you are too analytical regarding the OP.
I found this, thought it was worth sharing...

TRACOM Group SOCIAL STYLE DescriptionsC. Customary Approach to Decisions-making
The Analytical Style person tends to make decisions based on facts and verifiable information. They need evidence and want to be sure that decisions made today will be valid in the future.
Our need to validate the message is imperative and inescapable. There can be no conversation with us on the content itself until it's authenticity is validated.
 
Well...if we received some sort of message "to planet Earth" then many will just assume that it is from some extraterrestial and the way death works no one living can know such a statement is Truth. And many would doubt it is the truth since because the message alone is proof that there is other life in the universe and it doesn't "end here".

There would be a change though. One would hope for the better, but it could be the worse to. Depends on if fear won out over pragmatism.

You simply don't get the point. Don't break it down and analyze. Respond to it as it is offered.
 
I found this, thought it was worth sharing...


Our need to validate the message is imperative and inescapable. There can be no conversation with us on the content itself until it's authenticity is validated.

It is validated because it is.
 
Of course not. What makes you say that?

Geneses does not say the Earth is X years old. Young-Earth Creationism is the invention of people. You will not find it anywhere in the whole bible.

Even still...7,000 year old cheese? No thanks.
Élitist! You take what you are given, like all the other free citizens, and like it!
 
Verification is what a message stands on.

A hypothetical example:

I have a motorcycle in my garage. I will not you anywhere near my property, let alone looking in my garage windows or opening the door. Therefore you cannot verify the existence of my motorcycle. Does that mean that I do not have a motorcycle in my garage?
 
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