Jane Goodall says she believes in the afterlife because of "experiences I've had"

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Jane Goodall says she believes in the afterlife because of "experiences I've had" - Boing Boing

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[Mindysan33]

Via Allan Rose Hill.

[Melizmatic]

@Mindysan33

Via Allan Rose Hill

Kinda vacuous, this content.

[milliefink]

Oh well, doesn’t sound like she’s saying she believes there IS an afterlife, let alone like she’s trying to impose her beliefs on anyone else. Given the latter especially, I’m fine with someone in their 90s finding peace however they can with their likely imminent demise.

[Chuckles]

I believe there is no afterlife, based on my very powerful personal experience of not having visited an afterlife. Your move, Jane.

[smulder]

@milliefink

doesn’t sound like she’s saying she believes there IS an afterlife

… got us to click though

[euansmith]

I clicked to find out who Jane Goodall is. My memory is getting wore and worse.

[newbrain]

I barely believe in aftershave, let alone afterlife…

[chenille]

…Ok, but if you died and there’s no afterlife, what are you doing here?

[atteSmythe]

[Abraham_Limpo]

Well, thanks to Cher I do believe in an afterlove.

[Mindysan33]

[Brainspore]

Sticking around for eternity always seemed like something that would get tedious after a while, but would be nice to think that we at least get an After Party.

[Jonathan_Mayo]

@boingboing

I happen to think there is something because of experiences I’ve had, [and] because of experiences other people have had – very powerful ones."

Good for her. I don’t know how I could be expected to base my own beliefs on how other people feel about their own experiences. So maybe not all that helpful when it comes to a debate about an afterlife, existence of a soul, or religion in general. I can’t prove of disprove her assertion, luckily I don’t have to either.

[Mindysan33]

Since people keep ignoring the content for the headline… she basically said that she doesn’t know what happens when she dies…

@boingboing

“There’s either nothing or something, and if there’s nothing there’s nothing, and that’s it,” Goodall says. "If there’s something I can’t think of a greater adventure than finding out what it is.

[milliefink]

@Brainspore

Sticking around for eternity always seemed like something that would get tedious after a while

Right?

[chenille]

People with finite lives often claim that eternity would be terrible, and I can’t say I disagree, but I’m also not sure if we’re the best ones to judge. It kind of feels like a trilobite brushing off going on land since what would you even do up there.

[anothernewbbaccount]

@euansmith

My memory is getting wore

Well, stop wearing it, then!

(Sorry, not sorry, as it gave me the chance to do that variant on the old Tommy Cooper joke.)

[Brainspore]

@chenille

It kind of seems like a trilobite brushing off going on land since what would you even do up there.

Well, if you were a trilobite then going on land would suck.

Humans aren’t built for “eternity.” So if any incarnation of my consciousness was able to find happiness and meaning over an eternal timeframe then it would bear little resemblance to who I am as a person anyway.

[Shazsta]

Do you also not like the idea of a transporter? aka a cloning death machine

My friend hates the idea of them because he says once there is a break in your consciousness you cease to be the same person.