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Old 08-13-2010, 08:53 PM
 
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I would suggest a book called life after death the evidence by dinesh dsouza where he interviews many people that had been declared dead. How on earth can a woman while being pronounced dead and then being revived know that a doll was top oif a hospital roof when she had never been there. These are just some of the incredible parts of the book.

Slingshot sounds like you have become the authority of life after death. Tell us how do you know this for sure? The answer is you dont. Seems like you are just trying to answer in a way that is slanted towards your biased opinion.
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Old 08-13-2010, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Detroit/South Korea
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I would suggest a book called life after death the evidence by dinesh dsouza where he interviews many people that had been declared dead. How on earth can a woman while being pronounced dead and then being revived know that a doll was top oif a hospital roof when she had never been there. These are just some of the incredible parts of the book.

Slingshot sounds like you have become the authority of life after death. Tell us how do you know this for sure? The answer is you dont. Seems like you are just trying to answer in a way that is slanted towards your biased opinion.
Well like I said before, all of them are different, so if you do believe in the testimonies, then there is no one singular truth as to what happens when you die.

And even if you did read the testimonies or the book, you still don;t know for sure either...still just hearsay.
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Old 08-13-2010, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Middle of the valley
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We don't know. We can faith, we can believe... but we do not have the knowledge. Near death experiences can be nothing more than lack of oxygen, or other chemical reactions in the body and brain.....

We may be reincarnated, go to Heaven or Hell, or become mulch.

I suppose none of the options matter in the long run. If you're reincarnated you get another chance, you go to Heaven or Hell based upon your life, or you cease to exist. Or something in between, or different, or.....

I think because we are self-aware, we are also self-absorbed, and can't imagine that just one life is all there is. This can't be what we are all about, we are more than our limited life span, more than the fraility of our human body. We have thoughts, a spirit... we are more than what we appear.

I'm not sure we have any more significance than a cell that dies in the left quandrant of our liver.

But I don't know.
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Old 08-13-2010, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Free State of Texas
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Think of it this way....what was it like before you were born? That's what it's like after you die.
How do you know this?
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Old 08-14-2010, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Well like I said before, all of them are different, so if you do believe in the testimonies, then there is no one singular truth as to what happens when you die.

And even if you did read the testimonies or the book, you still don;t know for sure either...still just hearsay.
Exactly. So the only thing you're going to get from asking the question in the first place is a lot of arguing based on opinions.
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Old 08-14-2010, 09:20 AM
 
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How do you know this?
Just my opinion. It makes sense to me.
As a human we don't really know our spiritual self. What our spirit/soul was like before birth and after death will always be a matter of discussion, IMO.
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Old 08-14-2010, 09:33 AM
 
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I would suggest a book called life after death the evidence by dinesh dsouza where he interviews many people that had been declared dead. How on earth can a woman while being pronounced dead and then being revived know that a doll was top oif a hospital roof when she had never been there. These are just some of the incredible parts of the book.

Slingshot sounds like you have become the authority of life after death. Tell us how do you know this for sure? The answer is you dont. Seems like you are just trying to answer in a way that is slanted towards your biased opinion.
Absolutely correct. Isn't that what everyone does on this subject? Also, when anyone reads a book, they are only reading someone else's take on whatever the book is about. IMO. Besides, how can someone be interviewed after they are dead? Either you are dead or you are not. Being "declared dead" doesn't make you dead. I can declare my friend as being dead but that doesn't make him dead. Again, IMO.
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Old 08-14-2010, 10:17 AM
 
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Those of you that are not believers in the after-life should experience an entity. Yea, I know, laugh all you want. I thought the same thing until I experienced it myself. I was just like you, a non-believer. But let me tell you, there is something more after we die. You only have to experience what I and many others have experienced to believe it.
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Old 08-14-2010, 11:13 AM
 
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Those of you that are not believers in the after-life should experience an entity. Yea, I know, laugh all you want. I thought the same thing until I experienced it myself. I was just like you, a non-believer. But let me tell you, there is something more after we die. You only have to experience what I and many others have experienced to believe it.
There's only one problem. You're not dead. Dead is not "dying" and then coming back to life. Dead is dead.
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Old 08-14-2010, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Bellingham, WA
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Funny how when I was a Christian, wanting to fit in with my Christian friends and family who were claiming to have experienced such supernatural things like glimpses into the afterlife, I never experienced any of it. I would pray to God begging to be shown his power/glory/love etc, and the only sensation I ever got in return was that of talking to myself under the guise of "prayer". After years of having zero experiences in favor of the existence of God, I finally started to think that maybe it was because he doesn't exist. At least not in the way I was told, if at all.
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