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Some people see "the light". Other people don't see anything. They blackout and wake up in the hospital without remembering anything. There are others who see darkness and weird stuff and describe it as a version of "hell".
Science says the brain is still active even 20 minutes after you are pronounced dead.
Are there any case studies of a person who died for like 40-60 minutes then came back to life? Meaning they came back to life after the time limit expired for the brain to have any possible activity?
I think people use the afterlife as a source of comfort that life continues and they will see their loved ones. The thought that dying is the end. You will just die and that's it is a thought many people can't comprehend.
There's also the idea of reincarnation where your "energy" will be transferred to another living thing and you start a new life from that living thing.
This lyric, song, is a story in itself: "...show me something that's never something again?" -lyrics
I slipped on ice and hit my head...got up okay...seemed fine...and I saw my keys on the ground, and that is when I remembered them. Then I saw my cap on the ground, and I remembered it...if I didn't see it I didn't remember it...when those people that woke up without remembering anything, I bet as soon as they saw a blanket, they remembered what it was.
Then after that, I couldn't find my eye glasses...for days I looked, I couldn't find them. And then I remembered where I fell, and went to look around the spot...and found them.
You mean like Christ was the lamb sacrificed from the foundation of the earth, by Abel; born again as Christ, and returning as a roaring lion. Literal, and spiritual...not necessarily one or the other.
Should we call it afterlife? or life everlasting?
What religions call afterlife, is obviously a mystery to them and is usually quite silly and always, "I don't really know."
But life everlasting...that ever la string...might be just stringing us along...
When you die, or after a good knock to the head, or a stretch of time, things get lost or forgotten; I think we have everlasting life, we just have a memory problem.
And I think we have access to a deeper more stable memory bank of Mr. Subconsciousness that links from one memory to another and if you start asking yourself the questions, digging around in that memory bank, you will find that you know things that you didn't think you knew...the more you dig and stir it, the more it comes back...good or bad; pleasant to some, troubling to others, when you have to honestly face your other self = a universal sub-consciousness of everything existing and operating beneath and beyond consciousness...where does consciousness return to in the end, if not back with Mr. Subconsciousness?
What is this living Sub-being that exists and operates with us beyond our consciousness?
I call it God.
I kinda think I ought not post this...but I think I will anyhow. It might could help. Just airing myself out.
you don't agree with calling anything god. that's the problem.
i have always said that science and religion are complementary.
my observation is that you often and consistently re-name and re-label all concepts and elements of "religion and spirituality" into science terms. that is not " co-existing." that is erasing and removing the concepts and elements you either don't like, don't agree with, don't believe, don't understand, feel squeamish about, feel are inferior. you use the phrase "less valid."
it is censorship. it is a behavior that removes, alters, changes that which you find unacceptable into that which you find acceptable. it is often "telling people what they mean" instead of allowing what they state or mean to stand as is.
You haven't given us anything like a good reason (nor has Mystic, who is trying to do the same) to do so.
".. science and religion are complementary.
Time to open the Theist - English dictionary again.
"Godfaith -claims can be made to appear substantial with fiddled science."
We have seen this with fiddled history, Archaeology, Biology, cosmology and notably quantum physics. The latter has been a rich source of Woo intended to create some kind of case for God, right from the start.
You haven't given us anything like a good reason (nor has Mystic, who is trying to do the same) to do so.
".. science and religion are complementary.
Time to open the Theist - English dictionary again.
"Godfaith -claims can be made to appear substantial with fiddled science."
We have seen this with fiddled history, Archaeology, Biology, cosmology and notably quantum physics. The latter has been a rich source of Woo intended to create some kind of case for God, right from the start.
The only one fiddling science and muddying the waters here is you and your ilk, Arq. You seem zealous and completely unrestrained in your ability to misrepresent, lie, smear, and denigrate anyone and anything theist. Your actions suspiciously seem to confirm Arach's suggestion that you might be a paid propagandist and atheist shill. But that does nothing to explain the similar actions of Harry and the others of your ilk here. Such zealotry in support of something you claim cannot be known is an enigma.
The only one fiddling science and muddying the waters here is you and your ilk, Arq. You seem zealous and completely unrestrained in your ability to misrepresent, lie, smear, and denigrate anyone and anything theist. Your actions suspiciously seem to confirm Arach's suggestion that you might be a paid propagandist and atheist shill. But that does nothing to explain the similar actions of Harry and the others of your ilk here. Such zealotry in support of something you claim cannot be known is an enigma.
The only one fiddling science and muddying the waters here is you and your ilk, Arq. You seem zealous and completely unrestrained in your ability to misrepresent, lie, smear, and denigrate anyone and anything theist. Your actions suspiciously seem to confirm Arach's suggestion that you might be a paid propagandist and atheist shill. But that does nothing to explain the similar actions of Harry and the others of your ilk here. Such zealotry in support of something you claim cannot be known is an enigma.
Not from where I am sitting, I would sooner think somebody was paying you to represent Christianity when you dont believe the bible to be the word of God, at least we know what Arq is.
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My audience is not there and is unlikely to ever be there.
