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Very probably. I only found out about the various philosophers who addressed the question fo agnosticism and its relation to belief -positions on the god -question, but what counted is that it was logically correct and the 'fence -sitting' regarding God -belief was a common and understandable misunderstanding, but a misunderstanding all the same.
No . . . there is a continuation of life through rebirth. You would not say to a newborn baby that this life was the afterlife from its life in the womb. It is a continuation . . . as ours will be when we are "born again" as Spirit upon our physical death.
My answer to this is that no one knows. Both religious and non affiliated people can cry about knowing the answer to the question of there being an afterlife but the fact is, if no one knows how death feels, has experienced it and has come back, etc. There is no possible way of knowing.
Athiests don't know, religious people don't know, no one knows. There isn't a way of testing it out, applying the scientific method to disapprove it would be a bit idiotic since again, no one can "experience death" literally.
Sorry but to any athiest here who says "no" or religious person that says "yes", you don't know nor will you ever know. You can't know something that no one knows, has experienced, has tested, etc. This is something religion nor science can explain. Unless we somehow find a way to legitimately kill someone and bring them back to life somehow, and have the person state if they recall anything. There is no way of knowing and any person with a yes or no answer is presumably guessing, because you are just basing this off of nothing.
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It would be interesting if hypothetically one could come back from the dead and be reanimated and share their experiences.
Does anyone know of technology being developed to somehow cause this to become a reality?
(Not including incubating a person's mind or body all together and hoping that the future will allow humans to be re-animated both physically and mentally)
I am surprised by the number of people who, like me, reject belief in deities due to the absolute lack of evidence yet subscribe to the idea that any living person has experienced death. I don't believe the latter. NDEs are not death and what we can learn from them is knowledge about our biology. The idea that the thoughts and images the brain creates when pushed to the limits of survival have something to do with spirituality is a leap of faith. Our standards for clinical death are established so we don't give up too quickly on people we could save but don't waste valuable resources on people we cannot. Those standards are pretty good but not 100% accurate. I see no point in assigning some mystical significance to incidents that we did not correctly diagnose.
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Is there any afterlife?
