I'll get back to you DayBreak Bahamut
Terminal Est (Sorry I'm being too lazy to quote you)
Death, in itself, whether an afterlife exists or not, does not exist. You are correct in saying that, for death is indeed the absence of something, and, like cold, does not exist. Yes, I was trying to say that cold does not exist for it does not. There are only varying levels of heat unless it is totally absent. As for that philosophy, don't blame me blame Einstein
lol. Either way you have to admit that it is a good metaphor, even if it isn't true. Anyway...
Whether you think a certain temperature is hot or cold is up to you. But either way you cannot deny the existence of heat. That's what I was trying to get at with the God/good thing. In certain conditions, like for someone who is insane, it is up to you to decide whether that is good or evil. There are some things like that that will always remain unknown in our limited knowledge.
I never said that Good and Evil in themselves are a perspective, but what you consider to be good or evil IS percpective. Whether you believe in Good or evil is just a belief. But Good and Evil do not exist in a literal sense, obviously. It's not like I can go up and shake Good's hand. But, like with heat/ cold, there could be a source. Heat doesn't merely exist, as with everything, so that is why I believe that the good of God and the evil of the devil, or wherever the origin comes in is absolute.
The problem is how to prove good and evil if they don't truly exist. Well, those concepts might very well provide the existence of God. It all starts with morality. When an animal kills its prey, is that evil? Of course not it's trying to thrive and survive. But when a human kills, under circumstances that we could consider "evil" (not self defense or anything like that), we have our morality, our conscience kick in. But also, Morality can be considered relative and pointless. But like with heat, it's still there. So morality is imposed on you by many sources. By you, your family, your country, your religion, society, the entire world! So what imposes it on the world and humanity itself? Plus, scientifically speaking, we shouldn't have the morality that we do. Sure it insures our survival by taking care of our fellow man, but what about when a firefighter risks their life for a defensless soul, or a police officer endangers themself against a threat to another human life. People give their lives everyday for this "meaningless" sense of love. Why attempt to save the lives of those who are doomed, when you're only going to "waste" more lives. Shouldn't natural selection have weeded out this sensless "yearning to do what is good"? That's where science fails us. That's why I believe in God and good, the devil and evil. I don't know if He is really omnipotent and omnicient, or if I should even worship him the way I do or at all. But I still believe in good and evil coming from some sort of being(s), an absolute source.
.... that felt good. In the literal and non-literal sense
I just had a breakthrough right there.