Dear David,

«Why do you think there will be a next time around?»

This is the most likely possibility, so it would be irrational to assume otherwise.

As a rule, most things we do once, we will be doing again, perhaps not exactly to the last minute detail, but still. If we eat, the probability is that this will not be our last meal: we might not eat again the exact same food with the same spoon, but most likely we will eat again, and not just once. If we tie our shoelaces, the probability is that we will tie them again. Perhaps the edge will be a few millimeters shorter or longer, perhaps it would not even be the same laces on the same shoe, but most likely we will tie shoelaces again, and not just once.

So having once associated our consciousness with some physical body, in most likelihood we shall do this again.

Dear Yuyutsu,

You think the next time around is a likely possibility, but that is your belief. You have provided no evidence for your belief so there is no reason for me to accept that is a likely possibility. I think it is more reasonable that there is no next time around. I think that the simpler assumption is the more likely.

Dear David,

Well of course, nobody could ever provide a physical evidence for that which is non-physical, else that too would have been physical!

You are, I hope, aware that you are conscious, it would on the one hand be laughable if someone insisted that you are not, but on the other hand you will never be able to provide evidence for that subjective experience which for you is undeniable.

«I think that the simpler assumption is the more likely.»

Upon seeing a flower, assuming that it is the one and only, is not a simpler assumption.

I would normally have passed by without commenting, I'm less evangelical than I used to be.

@ttbn called atheists "monsters." This kind of dehumanising characterisation is not very Christian.

The 10 Commandments might be a good source for virtue signalling, but you clearly didn't read them very well.

Thanks for your papers, Peter.

For a few years, I have been pushing the idea that Over Cheaters, Bully Narcissists at different times in society's take over much of the administration of government, businesses, banking etc. The result of this is war.

The point is mankind has really reached the end of its ability to host large scale wars on this planet so how are we going to find our own way to subdue this personality type?

Usually, it's we go to war & that kind of resets things until the next conflagration.

There is some evidence for the criminal behavior of various groups in our prson population.

https://brucegerencser.net/2021/07/does-atheism-lead-to-criminal-behavior/

The author of the website referred to above is a former prison chaplain who is now an atheist. It includes statistics of the religion of prisoners and of chaplains. There is no evidence that atheists are monsters.

I am an atheist and don't feel like a monster. I love my wife and children. I wish humans would be nicer to each other. The atheists I know behave differently from each other. They seem to have a range of behavior and ethics similar to those with beliefs in a deity or deities.