Ok, but explain this fact, energy cannot be created or destroyed. And it require's something in order to maintain it. When we die, the energy in our bodies [ceases] to exist. Where does it go? And more so then not where did it come from in the first place. I'm not saying that you are wrong cause I can agree with a lot of what you have said....I'm trying to grasp of how I want to phrase this cause it could come off the wrong way...
In Japan, they leave departed bodies out due to the belief that it takes 3 days to for the person's essence to completely leave the body. There is a non-theistic belief system in Japan and china but they believe in Reincarnation. There is also a belief in Judaism(more specifically Kabbalaistic beliefs) that the body doesn't obtain a soul until 9 1/2 weeks after you were conceived. Knowing that energy cannot be created or destroyed due to a scientific fact, then an essence would have to be obtained from somewhere or something, if you say your parents then I say how is that possible due to it being threatening to the mother and therefore she would likely die from this process.
I'm not saying that there is a god or that there isn't a god, or that there is an afterlife, cause until you die you don't know, and I don't believe in a Hell or an everlasting Heaven. All I'm saying is this, humanity is flawed in nature, therefore how can one expect to know everything that there is to know when they haven't even researched it or studied it? I have my take on it, but how can you say that my take on things is wrong when you haven't even studied the possiblity that you may have overlooked something?
There is no religion or belief system higher then the truth. What is the truth? Hell if I know, I'm searching for it still.
This assumes there's some kind of mythical "energy" associated with life and consciousness. If there is, we don't seem to have any instruments that can detect it in any conceivable way.
What we do see is that the body functions on chemical energy, some of which is converted into electrical impulses for a few specific functions.
But most of the energy a human body contains is in chemical bonds. You take in food, and combined with oxygen, it can be converted into other chemicals which are metabolized by your body, for things such as maintenance of consciousness, movement, maintaining an elevated body temperature, and all that other fun "living" stuff.
When you die, you continue losing energy to your environment in the form of heat loss, just as you've done your entire life. The only exception is that after death, your body is no longer producing additional heat through normal means. Any electrical impulses produced will also be converted into heat, and dissipated as well. The rest of the energy contained within you is in the form of chemical bonds. They won't really go anywhere without some kind of outside help, which usually comes in the form of bacteria that now get free reign, thanks to the death of your immune system. As they consume you, some of your chemical energy is released as they turn you into other chemicals which power their metabolisms.
And of course, the products of bacterial decay are very basic elements and compounds, which are then typically used by plants, and combined with energy from sunlight, to deliver food back into the chain.
:music: It's the circle of liiiiiiiife :music:
Nothing mythical or supernatural about it, and no laws of physics are broken. You eat food, you die, stuff eats you, and it turns back into food, all of which is ultimately powered by sunlight.
I have a better question for athiests.
What do you yell right before you have an orgasm? Oh God is out of the question...
LEEEEROOOOYYYYYY!!!
JJJEEEEENNNNNKIINNNNSSSS!
