Atheist Homeschool

There was an article in Scientific American about why people have a hard time letting go if the idea of an afterlife. They theorize that it’s just human nature to believe in something existing after death, that our own nonexistence is simply incomprehensible. Even people who claim to “know better” still have a psychological tendency to believe that something lives on. We’re not talking about the energy that has been described as out soul, we’re talking about our thinking mind. What do you think? Is our thinking mind likely to continue to exist, in any form, after our death? It’s different form the idea of our energy melting back into the realm of the unseen. This is the human mind we’re talking about. I just don’t see how ti can happen, but presumable, I’m psychologically probably lying about that. Who knows. Who cares. Knowing changes nothing, right?

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