The WHWWD Thread

Yes - exactly along the lines I was hoping for.

I really enjoy The Good Place on TV - it is a light-hearted satire on afterlife beliefs but it manages to pose some great philosophical and ethical questions. One recent episode had Chidi's ex-girlfriend arriving in the "Good Place" and explaining that, as a neuroscientist, she could always explain the experience as a delusional hallucination of the dying brain. I think that you are right in that, even when presented with the reality of an afterlife, many will either deny the fact they have passed over or try to rationalise away the experience because of a lifetime of ridiculing the very idea.

Ah good. I’ll give it a bit more thought in that case. 

As for choosing to see what conforms to our own preconceptions and not what is reality, I think most of us suffer from that from time to time even in this life don’t we? I know I have lol

Sooner or later though reality makes its existence impossible to ignore. Then we either live with cognitive dissonance, learn to adapt or suffer the consequences don’t we?