Is there an afterlife ?

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Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: spidey07
Yes.

I've touched so many people that have passed on.
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Dude, stop fondling the corpses at funerals. It makes people uncomfortable.


I think that consciousness and memory are the result of continuous electrochemical interactions between neurons. When we die, those things go away. The consciousness ends, the memories decay along with the cells. The body eventually decomposes into the dirt.

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die."
 
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Vageetasjn

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Jan 5, 2003
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Spidey, don't expect me to prove a negative, but some arguments just have more value than others. I could be sitting here arguing that there is a teapot in orbit around the sun because you can't prove there isn't one. Or if you prefer, that there is an invisible ghost in the room that doesn't influence anything in the world, but nevertheless exists. It doesn't mean you have to treat my arguments as if they're just as valid as any other.
 
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spidey07

No Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: spidey07
Yes.

I've touched so many people that have passed on.
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Dude, stop fondling the corpses at funerals. It makes people uncomfortable.


I think that consciousness and memory are the result of continuous electrochemical interactions between neurons. When we die, those things go away. The consciousness ends, the memories decay along with the cells. The body eventually decomposes into the dirt.

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die." - Carl Sagan
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See, you believe those electrochemical interactions are contained to your body and don't affect the collective energy.

Sorry guys, I went to college too way back and we all went through the same intellectual, oh my god I'm so stoned, but 'what is reality' conversations. Even if we were not stoned or tripping balls.

Sure it's fun, but you have to realize we don't know crap about the universe. Any real scientist knows this.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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Well, since none of us (AFAIK) happen to be dead at the moment, I don't think any of us can speak from authority. It's all hearsay.
 
So

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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There is absolutely no evidence in favor of one, and plenty of psychological explanations for the reasons people think they've seen/contacted the beyond, so I'm gonna say no. Hope I'm wrong, but until and unless I have evidence to the contrary, I'm going to do my best to make sure I can die happy (and able to look back on my life with pride).
 
PepePeru

PepePeru

Diamond Member
Jul 21, 2005
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finally this age old question will be once and for all settled right here on ATOT.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
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I hope so, but do not know. At this time there is no evidence to support the existence of such a thing.
 
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