Its the usual conflation problem. If you think/doubt one thing, you must think/doubt all these other things too & are evil/ignorant.
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That seems to be what it comes down to at root.If u don't agree completely, u disagree completely & moral or educational failing responsible
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eg, I don't think this specific incident is necessarily an example of racism/sexism = I don't think racism/sexism exists.
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In this case, I don't think burying ppl with tokens is itself an indication of belief in an afterlife. Much other evidence of belief exists
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Maybe if we go hundreds of years w/out belief in an afterlife, we will just tip bodies in holes & not care about a good 'send-off.'
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But I suspect there's more to the human need to tend to our dead, make them 'comfortable', & personalise our goodbyes than this one belief.
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It's completely irrational to spend a lot of money on pillowed coffins, put bodies in best clothes with personal tokens &set fire to the lot
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But, in other ways it's absolutely rational because it fulfils psychological needs to show we cared abt you, we knew you, you were special.
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I don't think this fully explained by belief in an afterlife & I don't think it'll go away if no-1 believes in 1 for centuries. Cld be wrong
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Why...would someone be offended by that?
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I'm assumed to deny all the evidence of belief in an afterlife among Neanderthals, coz I don't think that is necessarily it, I think.
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Maaaan, people get blocked in here for a litany of crap. Social media has made it easier for us to tune out. Is that helping the world?
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"I don't have any GOP friends" Of course you don't cause anytime someone says something that you don't agree with, you block them.
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I find that statement mostly fascinating. I often wonder what burials really can tell us.
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We buried Laddie with his blanket and favourite toy. Couldn't not have done.
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Monster!
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Even *with* an afterlife, it's still odd, b/c 'Can't take it with you.' As funerals are really for the living, tokens probably are, too.
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That is an odd thing to be blocked for. In Judaism, we are the opposite. We believe in heaven but people must be buried almost naked.
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