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got carried away on the current of the video
but believing/disbelieving has no influence on the truth/falsity of the after-life
except in the comic book Sword of my Mouth, wherein -spoiler alert- everybody's innermost spiritual beliefs manifest, and all the Christians swept up in the rapture die asphyxiated soon as they float into the stratosphere, then wind up orbiting earth in a frozen clump, like that island of plastic bottles in the Pacific.
Is their belief in the after-life false, and they just die in space, so spiritual beliefs manifest only in this world/life?
or does their belief in heaven make heaven really real?
Their belief in an afterlife was not false, it just didn't function in the way they thought it would. The comic doesn't draw the traditional dichotomy of life/death = life/afterlife, but rather presents the afterlife as a function of familiar mental processes confronted with new and mysterious spiritual and physical rules. It appeals to me, since I've always thought that it's a logical fallacy to demand that post-braindeath conform to systems of live human understanding.
The comic doesn't disprove your statement, but it recontextualizes the question. Sorry if it's pseudo, I am more into the comics than the philosophy, though I like both.
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