The words ‘Just believing’ are not there in the dictionaries of science

Krishna: Because ‘"recycled" into nature’ is an evidence based fact and people with the courage to accept facts as they are, are treated as ‘intelligent’.

Actually ‘believing in an afterlife’ is a more comfortable way of seeing things but highly delusional.

People often accept baseless stories over facts due to cognitive biases like confirmation bias and the illusory truth effect, which favour information aligning with existing beliefs and familiarity. Emotional factors, a preference for simple explanations, and social influences such as fitting into online communities or echo chambers also contribute to this tendency. Additionally, the effort required to understand complex facts can make simpler, albeit baseless, stories more appealing.

This natural tendency to cherry pick and twist the facts to fit with our existing beliefs is known as motivated reasoning and is done by people who cannot accept evidence as it is.

Motivated reasoning is a pervasive tendency of human cognition. People are capable of being thoughtful and rational, but their wishes, hopes, fears and motivations often tip the scales to make them more likely to accept something as true if it supports what they want to believe.

Research on motivated reasoning showed that people weigh facts differently when those facts are personally threatening. It takes more than right information to make you believe something you don't want to believe than something you do. You just delude yourself when it comes to your fears and strong wishes. Research shows these people also interpret facts differently if they challenge their personal beliefs, group identity or moral values.

They also accuse their opponents of willfully ignoring the ‘truth’ they believe in. If someone firmly believes some fact to be true that you just as firmly believe to be false, it is hard for either of you not to see that other person as stupid, disingenuous or both.

These are psychological facts.

Okay, now show me “genuine scientific evidence” for after life, not religious texts or anecdotal stories.

If you do that, I will trust you.

The words ‘Just believing’ are not there in the dictionaries of science.

Isn’t this what we see day in and day out in Nature? This is called ‘recycling of a dead body’.

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