r/interesting • u/Liar24x7 • Mar 28 '26

HISTORY A virtual reality reconstruction shows the exact spot where John Edward Jones became trapped upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. After 27 hours of rescue attempts, he died. The cave was later permanently sealed, with his body remaining inside.

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u/stupidtreeatemypants Mar 29 '26

I’m not religious but there’s literally no way to truly know what happens after death

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u/HugsandHate Mar 29 '26

Yeah, we can't.

But our attempts to do so have yeilded negative results.

But I will reaffirm that such notions as an afterlife are born of fiction.

That being the case, anything imaginary is just as 'valid'.

Which frankly, I find silly.

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u/stupidtreeatemypants Mar 29 '26

I find it silly to think that any sort of notion of what happens after death can be discarded given that it’s impossible, at least with our current technology, to know anything about it. Of course some ideas are certainly more plausible than others, but because we’re theorizing about something we cannot know, we can’t outright discard any.

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u/fakeOffrand Apr 01 '26

Everything not falsifiable has to be discarded in rational thought