Belief_In_Life_After_Death_Comes_From_Emotion,_Not_Reason

Belief In Life After Death Comes From Emotion, Not Reason Belief In Life After Death Comes From Emotion, Not Reason Bertrand Russell (Philosophy of Religion, B. Davies, p.721-723) What happens after life is over' Philosophers used to think that the soul once created would last forever, even without the body. Russell points out that this is false. He defines our life as an ever-changing entity continually moving by our process of nutrient and wastage. In which atoms come and go and do not have a continuing existence. The body is a matter of behavior and appearance, but not of continuity of a person in which is a constant of habit and memory. We base our selves on the recollections of the past and continue to improve. So if this were the case then once life is over our mind or soul would continue to function as before with a new set of occurrences. He goes on to say that this could happen, but unlikely to. He compares memories to a flowing river that water will continue to change, but would keep a constant flow. If mountains were to appear then the river would stop flowing. So then that the mind would cease to exist just as the river would. Our death, mind, life, after, wrong, since, should, river, right, really, people, man, fear, emotions, each, continue, behavior, about, values, valid, universe, say, points, person, perish, memory, memories, make, knows, history, goes, flowing, emotion, constant, body