I don't think that's a good analogy for >death because you can't really compare the complexity of the mind and consciousness to fire which is not sentient.
Im sorry you don't understand nurology.
I suggest you study stroke victims and Alzheimer's patients, and do so without injecting your magical presuppositions.
You will find consciousness is a byproduct of a functioning mind.
So what do you believe about what happens after we die?
>Either you believe or you don't believe. If you don't believe in any gods, there's your answer
Again, I reiterate; The Universe is much more vast and and alien to us than we currently know, what makes you so sure that there is no God?
Also are you actually asking what God is he talking about or are you just saying that because you don't believe in any gods in general?
>If that's true then how do you know they are just mental fiction
The thousands of gods fabricated thus far have invariably been mental fictions. There's nothing new or different about the current crop of gods, just plagiarism, stolen stories and self-contradicting nonsense.
>I can not know
What do you know about Spiderman? Nothing. He is whatever the story tellers tell you to believe. It's the same with all supernatural beings. You must suspend disbelief and pretend they are real like all the other children do.
>So what do you believe about what happens after we die?
We die. The consciousness that inhabits this cranial cavity will no longer have a viable place to reside. Might be the same as before I was born.
>what makes you so sure that there is no God?
What god?
How do you know the brain isn't just a tool that the soul uses to interact with the world? Just because you cut the cord to a video game controller to a console doesn't mean that you yourself stop existing.
>Also are you actually asking what God is he talking about
That hardly matters to a non-believer. There's not a dimes worth of difference in any of the tales.
>are you just saying that because you don't believe in any gods in general?
This. I believe in all kinds of irrational crap, but not any gods.
>The thousands of gods fabricated thus far have invariably been mental fictions. There's nothing new or different about the current crop of gods, just plagiarism, stolen stories and self-contradicting nonsense.
So everything is spun off from Vedism?
>Believe in the vast, unknown, alien space frontier. Something immeasurable, not able to be properly seen, takes faith to believe in its vast unknown knowledge.
>Has trouble contemplating a supreme being able to operate beyond our known understanding of physics and time.
Some people...
>I believe in all kinds of irrational crap
Curious, what would some of those beliefs be?