So you are lying when you tell your child or anyone else they will not see someone they know again in death. I understand the ones that say-I really don't know.
Since science has not without a doubt concluded what happens to a individual upon death and none of you are dead then it is a bold face lie to tell someone *No you will not see so and so again, but you have memories. Plus if they asked you *how do you know*? you would not be able to say without a doubt the answer.
Honesty comes from the ones who actually said *I don't know*
So unless you have a truth many don't know about you are lying.
2007-09-06 11:26:38 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, please, I can turn it around on you. You are LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH when you say there is an afterlife, god, heaven and all the rest. You have no more proof than I do. But, you have that nasty moral law that says "thou shalt not lie."
Your argument is silly and pointless. When there is no evidence for something, the logical hypothesis is no belief. You don't find evidence for the Easter Bunny, and you have no problem not believing in him.
Your logic is tragic.
2007-09-06 11:41:25 · answer #1 · answered by atheist 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
You may find it more honest to say "I don't know" although I suspect you chose to side with a more agnostic point of view merely to jab at the atheists.. again. You really do seem to enjoy doing that.
However, I do not believe that is the more honest answer. Don't like it? Too bad. Get over it.
You seem to take offense to people saying "No you will never see your father again" but seem to conveniently leave out the other side of the I-don't-know coin... which is to tell them, "yes, you will see him again someday."
I've read your Q&A on here for months now, and feel pretty assured that should you ever find yourself in that position, you would pick the latter. Would that be a lie in your opinion, or would you actually believe it as *your* truth?
Please, kindly step off your high-horse.
2007-09-06 11:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey...all I say IS I don't know...so I guess that means I'm honest...I've seen some things that might make me think that there is some life after death...BUT it could just have been a hallucination, since the only times I've seen it were at night.. That could mean anything. So, I really don't know if there is any sort of afterlife, I doubt it but who knows? But please don't group me...
-EDIT- Also, by that form of logic...Agnostics are right and everyone is wrong...right? So if you're in any form in a religion, get out of it and become Agnostic, whatever someone believes, it's right to them. So how 'bout you stop the holier-than-thou look on things and grow some sense that whatever a person believes is right to them.
2007-09-06 11:36:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you yourself admitting that you don't know? I can honestly admit that I don't know for certain that there isn't life after death, but then again, I don't know for certain that this is indeed the United States and I'm not really trapped in the matrix. I can only work from the information that has been accumulated throughout the history of man, and that is a conclusive statement that the afterlife is pure speculation, not a pure reality.
2007-09-06 11:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How does my answer lie - I do not have children and if I do decide to adopt in the coming years I will tell them the truth which my parents told me:
~death is the end of biological life and there is nothing to fear from it.~
I really would like to know how you perceive that as being a lie.
2007-09-06 11:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"So you are lying when you tell your child or anyone else they will not see someone they know again in death."
You don't think outside the box very well do you?
It's not lying if it's what a person believes to be true. Why does the world have to be based on only your view?
2007-09-06 11:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
Are you really using fundamental epistemological doubt to accuse people of lying?
Do you say someone's lying when they answer any question? How do they conclusively know the correct answer hasn't changed between the time they last checked and the time they tell you? They don't. This means that anytime you ask a question and somebody answers they must be lying.
It also means that you must be lying any time you answer a question.
2007-09-06 11:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
why do you say atheist lie.... why is it the christian always call someone else the liars.... there is a bible prophecy about the masses of people deceived... those are the christians... who have been following the father of the lie.. you are so convinced you are right that you have made yourself the liars.... someday it will be proven and what will you do then.... when will the appologies come... how many more lives will you curse before you realize your errors.... christians lie... they lie about god, they lie every time they say here's the truth... you can't even read simple words of fact in that bible without looking for another unlinked verse to justify your moronic beleif....
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2007-09-06 11:42:18 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If they say for sure of what they believe then they are not being truthful to the child. But if they explain in detail to the child that they believe that you will never see them again but that they have no proof of this then they are not lying.
2007-09-06 11:40:29 · answer #9 · answered by plyjanney 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Odd. Do you tell your kids about Santa? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy?
You're lying too.
Isn't it better to lie to a kid and let them find out on their own than to take away their innocence?
Agnostic.
2007-09-06 11:41:16 · answer #10 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋