I need to vent....

[Warlord]

In fact, let me just sum up the discussion so far before BU's resident asshole attempts to muddy things up any further than he already has.

(12-01-2014 07:21 PM)Method Wrote:  Ha. Life's great mystery is what happens when you die.

(12-01-2014 09:08 PM)salvador Wrote:  Are you a virgin or a catholic?

When you die you no longer exist. That's what happens to ants and it's what happens to us.

(12-02-2014 12:41 AM)Warlord Wrote:  @Salvador

Do you have any proof to support your belief system, or do you take it merely on faith? Scientists at the University of Southhampton just completed a four year study (the largest of its kind that has ever been done) on cardiac arrest survivors and other patients with near-death experiences. The conclusion was that around 40% had out-of-body experiences with varying and sometimes startling recall of people, events, and conversations taking place during the time they were clinically dead. The conclusion from this panel was that consciousness survives death, to one degree or another. The only mystery is how long.

(12-02-2014 05:44 PM)salvador Wrote:  It was a silly and arguably bad joke that I'm pretty sure Method didn't take personally.

The point is that nobody, not your scientists or the catholics or anyone else knows the truth about what happens when you die. And no amount of research short of dying can ever answer the question. Which is why Method called it life's greatest mystery and why giving an absolute denial was an attempt at a joke.

That said, Woody Allen said it best: "between air conditioning and the pope, I'll take air conditioning"

(12-02-2014 09:57 PM)Warlord Wrote:  I agree with your first sentence, which is why I initially replied to your original post on the subject. I somewhat agree with your second sentence, though not wholeheartedly. I believe mankind has too much to learn and too far to travel before he can start making absolute statements.

Unless of course you are BU's resident asshole - who views himself the equivalent of a god he claims doesn't exist.

That's it. Subject "A" makes an absolute statement regarding an issue that is far from decided. Subject "B" points out why making such an absolute statement is incorrect. Subject "A" accepts the correction that there isn't a sufficient amount of knowledge about the subject to make absolute statements. Subject "B" is satisfied with the discussion and let's it rest.

Subject "C" creates a strawman argument (based purely on butthurt emotion) about a subject he is woefully uneducated on. And then proceeds to argue it as vociferously as he knows how, proving once again in the process that the gaping mouth of a nimrod results in breath that smells like feet.