John Hick - Is Death Final?

Death is the ultimate defeat. No matter how many successes we have, we are all doomed to suffer the final failure. But some claim that death is not final. How can they do so?

[downrightannoying]

doing an essay on this guy it’s very difficult but his voice is nice

[robertlight]

We should not let what we wish to be true affect what we can know to be true. - Voltaire.

[Kritiker]

Maybe we have to give up ourselves so that in our next life we won't carry along any burdensome pain e.g., guilt regret etc, from our current lives. Who knows...

[jackmabel]

" Is Death Final?" Sounds good! Or, as the Frankenstein monster stated in one of the 1930's Frankenstein movies: "Don't like living. Like dead."

[syngensmyth]

When you look closely at bereavement apparitions and speak to those that experienced them and hospice workers who witness death bed visions there seems to be just too much to write off as subjective hallucinations. After watching this Chanel whoever states, "Yes but that can all be explained by false perceptions or whatever" presume to know more than the great intellectuals of the world.

[Jerry-hvnq]

I eliminated some eggos this morning in my stomach.

[mbolez]

I think Robert might have to accept that he's never going to get the answer he wants

[bennguyen]

Would have liked to have heard more of John Hick. Perhaps a talk with Georg Northoff on the Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness.

[fraser_mr]

These interviews are old. This John Hick guy died in 2012.

[catherinemira]

💯👌. The torch analogy isn't encompassing enough: we know, through experience, that we can have profound and transformative experiences ( good or bad) from people or animals or even circumstances and not just from our our own genetic ancestors. Families are inescapable but not necessarily the only way to be influenced or impacted in an emotional and spiritual manner. Life is too complex for one idea only even if it is a compelling one. But if our genetic blueprint is the template on which life works as the essential catalyst, then yes, it becomes a matter of genetics + life = spiritual journey/evolution.

[JM-sxrp]

Wouldn't any studied and qualified commenter actually argue and provide reasons for the opinions and criticism in their posts instead of launching barrages of ad hominems like mud at the interviewees? If you throw too much mood around, you'll only lose ground (if there's any left) and get your hands dirty.

[moesypittounikos]

It's impossible to describe the color red to a blind man, but we know red exists, and even tho the blind man can never fathom red, for you and I the color red doesn't require philosophy, or equations ot a religion. For you and I, it just is.

So we can never know that which is outside our living brain. But maybe those on the other side are like the seeing and we are like the blind man.

Maybe our sense of sight and having no sight is a clue. What if other senses existed, not sight but something we our blind to? The example of a blind man and the color red is the clue.

[moesypittounikos]

Well i guess he is there now! I wonder, does John Hick remember his last life or is it like a dream where the John character is completely forgotten about but for a whisp of a memory?

[El_Rebelde_]

im not sure that makes sense. if we are just like runners in a relay race who die and pass on the torch to the next person in the relay, my thing is where do you get more people. we went from 6 billion people to 7 billion people. where did those extra 1 billion "souls" come from? they couldnt just have been passed on from someone else.

[paulramirez]

I think that living forever is akin to being in hell. If you know you always will have tomorrow, then what is the motivation to get up every morning and do something meaningful today.

[RickDelmonico]

How are we connected to the universe? Think in terms of a hologram with fractal features. Differentiation is an illusion. Think of a field with each person extracting from the field a particular arrangement that is unique. You are simply one aspect of an infinite expression. You are a collection of material behaviors, an entanglement of variation.

[mobiustrip]

The relay race analogy is apt, but let's call it what it is: evolution.

[ShadyForest]

His idea sounds a lot like Andy Weir's "The Egg".

[RobCLynch]

People lose sight of the fact that before we were born, nothing mattered whatsoever and after we become un-born, nothing will matter at all. So I suppose it's a case of making the most out of the 'now'.

[cranna]

Just take a look at the works of Dr Ian Stevenson and Dr Jim B Tucker.