Movie “The discovery”

[Jadamas]

I watched the movie yesterday.

First, I would like to know if there’s currently researchs by scientists to prove the existence of an afterlife.

When watching the movie, I was surprised to see the quantity of people deciding to suicide just because they know for sure that there’s an afterlife. Do you think that it is realistic?

 

[Regiomontanus]

I watched the movie yesterday.

First, I would like to know if there’s currently researchs by scientists to prove the existence of an afterlife.

When watching the movie, I was surprised to see the quantity of people deciding to suicide just because they know for sure that there’s an afterlife. Do you think that it is realistic?

Hello. I found that movie a bit disturbing but thought provoking and I liked it.

As for scientic evidence for an afterlife, I do not see how that would be possible. But considering the fairly dramatic increase in the suicide rate (in the US at least) in the last decade or so ( CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically ) as it is, perhaps, as the movie suggests, such knowledge would be a horrible tragedy.

Peace

 

[Woberts]

On;y the dumb ones would partake in this mass suicide. Mostly because they don't know which afterlife they'll end up in.

 

[Sunstone]

The methodology of the sciences is incapable of researching the existence of an afterlife. That is, the sciences can tell us nothing about it, one way or the other.

 

[HonestJoe]

The methodology of the sciences is incapable of researching the existence of an afterlife. That is, the sciences can tell us nothing about it, one way or the other.

What makes you say that? What do you believe makes any kind of “afterlife” fundamentally different to, say, ancient history, distant stars or the inside of the sun as to make it completely inaccessible via any form of scientific process? Note that there is a difference between what is theoretically possible via scientific method and our current capabilities in using it.

Anyway, isn’t your position internally contradictory? If we can’t study the afterlife in any way, how can you make any definitive statements about it, including declaring that it can’t be studied?

 

[Nakosis]

I watched the movie yesterday.

First, I would like to know if there’s currently researchs by scientists to prove the existence of an afterlife.

When watching the movie, I was surprised to see the quantity of people deciding to suicide just because they know for sure that there’s an afterlife. Do you think that it is realistic?

The grass is always greener...

Perhaps it is why we are kept in the dark. Not that I particularly believe it true but perhaps we need to learn something in this life. To struggle through some adversity. If you didn't like the current state, it be easy to check out hoping for better circumstances in the next life.

Even in the movie it's be a little weird, you regret something you did, you'd just check out so you get a do-over. Currently, there's no redos that we know of in life.

 

[Brickjectivity]

As for scientic evidence for an afterlife, I do not see how that would be possible.

Relativity suggests that our pasts remain - that yesterday is not truly gone and tomorrow already exists despite our inability to see it. In a way its a kind of afterlife if you allow it. It means each moment is eternal.

Have you ever heard the song Don't Fear the Reaper?

Then again quantum and string theories could be interpreted to suggest that we are all really one person living multiple lives unknowingly, that you and I are really the same particle expressed different ways and at different times. That is less well accepted than Relativity, but it could be true.

 

[shunyadragon]

I watched the movie yesterday.

First, I would like to know if there’s currently research by scientists to prove the existence of an afterlife.

Real research by real scientist does not prove anything.

There are some scientists that are researching these claims, but it is fraught with difficulties as being subjective and not the purview of fallible hypothesis concerning objective verifiable evidence.

When watching the movie, I was surprised to see the quantity of people deciding to suicide just because they know for sure that there’s an afterlife. Do you think that it is realistic?

No, if the case it is very sad.