Scientists: There Is No Life After Death

Nor is there a God. There also is no other intelligent life in the universe. We are utterly alone, on a journey with one and only one destination — oblivion. How’s your day going, by the way?

Clem Samson
The Haven

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Did anybody else pay attention in science classes in high school? I kinda did. I mean, not really. But somehow this truth was passed onto me by science and I just accepted it, many years ago.

I’ve been trying to make the best of a bad situation, frankly.

I don’t feel “existential” about any of the aforementioned obvious truths. The main reason for that is I once had a concussion. I was completely knocked out in a traffic accident. Unconscious for a full ten minutes. I had a great realization afterwards: oblivion is quite wonderful.

When I die I am quite sure it will be exactly like this concussion. I will “pass out” and experience exactly nothing.

Nothing at all. What’s so bad about that?

You Can’t Handle the Truth!

I don’t mean to go all Jack Nicholson on you. I mean, maybe you can handle the truth. But seems to me huge swaths of the population just don’t get it. They either cling to…

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