what if … ?

… death really is the end?

do you know when you fall asleep?

how would you know you were dead?

in the October issue of Scientific American, Jesse Bering [director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, where he studies how the evolved human mind plays a part in religious thinking] suggests the concept of an afterlife is critical to construction and maintenance of social and cultural systems; that’s why we create religions, to promote concepts of an afterlife as foundations for our societies

but if those social and cultural systems are based on a false concept, how valid are those systems?

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