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Proof that a soul or afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE!!


Below is proof any believer's fantasy about an afterlife is IMPOSSIBLE! The pathetic Christian response to the impossibility of a soul is "the bible says so". LMAO! You can't give even ONE example of a dead person whose consciousness still exists somewhere other than the human brain!

Our minds,souls,spirit,and consciousness are all physical in nature1. Thousands of years of investigation has shown us that our brains comprise and produce our true selves, although because that for most of human history we have had no understanding of how our brains work most Humans have falsely believed inferred that we have souls2 and this idea has infused our folklore, cultures, myths, religions and has instructed our interpretation of dreams3. Souls and spirits do not exist. Our bodies run themselves. We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurones in our brains. Our innermost self is our biochemical self.

“Human and animal mental processes look just as they can be expected to look if there is no soul or other immaterial component.”

Prof. Victor J. Stenger (2007)

http://www.humantruth.info/souls.html


Jesus NEVER existed! He is Judeo Christian MYTH!

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Quite so.

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I think I would also add that as species evolve and get more RAM and processing power, it seems likely that they, like humans, begin to imagine concepts and ideas. One of those is the realization that we are self aware, and that seems like a hard thing to grapple with because of the complexity of evolution and the sciences that support the process.

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