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Re:Ask HN: What concepts, if popularly understood, would mos... by meiraleal on Saturday October 27, 2018 @08:00PM (#18318375)
- That there are no gods - invisible friends aren't real, there's no afterlife, Jesus doesn't love you, the universe wasn't created for humans, ethics and morality weren't given from the sky etc.

This is a VERY personal concept that you can't prove, just like religion (which atheism and scientism are very similar to these day).

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Re:Ask HN: What concepts, if popularly understood, would mos... by horatiocain on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:22AM (#18325249)
They don't need to prove that, it's the default.
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Re:Ask HN: What concepts, if popularly understood, would mos... by meiraleal on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:47AM (#18327463)
- there's no afterlife

How does the "default" death answers that there is no afterlife? You need to be a believer in both cases. And then depending on the answer of this one, all of the others could also change.

Also, the very definition of God is that you can't see it, so negating its existence because our 5 senses can't get it isn't a default negation of the existence of God. To be a real skeptical you need to be doubt and understand both absolute answers.

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