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?
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…
