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Al Pacino confirms "there's nothing there" after we die— "You're gone" (www.avclub.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

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A near-death experience left the actor with a sacred knowledge sure to ruin your plans for the great beyond

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Could you? Or could you only empirically prove that there was no horse in the box when you opened it? Maybe there was a horse in it that ran away very quickly immediately before you looked in.

It's extremely unlikely, for sure, but not physically impossible. Even if it's a very small box, maybe it was a very small horse. Perhaps one of those duck sized horses I've heard so much about on other, inferior sites.

I think the meaning of the phrase isn't meant to be literal; or, actually, sorry, is meant to be extremely literal. Without absolute knowledge of the universe, you can't prove with absolute conviction that a very small, very fast horse didn't exist in your hypothetical box. It's a pedantic saying, to be sure.

But yeah, I agree about the afterlife.

(If I had a nickel for every conversation I've had on Lemmy about the afterlife in the past day or two, I'd have ten cents, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.)