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Is there life after death?
There is life after death; it is heaven. 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Reincarnation 22%  22%  [ 4 ]
Time is cyclical; we will relive our lives. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I can't say for sure. 22%  22%  [ 4 ]
You die and that is it. 50%  50%  [ 9 ]
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19 Dec 2020, 12:06 am

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It's an unapproachable topic - both for the political and historical tensions and because what we do have to empirically look at is cloaked in absurdity.

Even as a non-physicalist myself hearing people talk about NDE's only does so much for me.


I'm also a non-physicalist, and also consider NDEs to be a living joke in itself.

Why is that so?

Fraud.

Eben Alexander a living fraud. Sued several times for malpractice. Lost them. Above all else we MUST buy his story.


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19 Dec 2020, 12:22 am

Deltaville wrote:
Eben Alexander a living fraud. Sued several times for malpractice. Lost them. Above all else we MUST buy his story.

I see something different.

They might converge into clusters but they don't converge in a broader sense. What probably bothers me even more is said encounters cause people to simultaneously come back with certain 'gifts' and increased new age solipsism and probably less capacity to actually make practical contact in having any useful effect on the world they live in. There are a few of course who were intensely analytical before, intensely analytical after, one guy I'm thinking of is a particularly profound Jungian, but rather than being able to break down what other people experienced he also experienced something quite different.

In a way this backs my sense that if there's conscious experience after death, or a universe brimming with consciousness, the set and setting is more of a haunted naturalism or animism, ie. all the trappings of the world we're used to but far more minds of all sizes wandering about. I like John Gray's joke about this (if you're not familiar he's an existentialist, atheist, also somewhat skeptic of reductive materialism) that people may very well die to go somewhere else where they can ask all of the same questions about where they are or why they're there.

This is where I debate with myself where these people just got juiced by their brain dumping all of their neurotransmitters at once or whether the world 'outside' is as solipsistic and self-interested as we tend to be, and accordingly when it does make contact with our particular fitness landscape those points of contact tend to be trite, manipulative, or downright absurd. I'm sure there's some amount of the former, just that there's a lot of other content that doesn't reduce well to that.

Also having kundalini syndrome is a trip. The ins and outs of that tend to persuade one who's having it that nature's mostly a deeper field rather than there being much of any sort of divine supervisory board.


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19 Dec 2020, 4:59 am

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A different view: You don't.

Due to the law of conservation of energy, nothing can really be destroyed.

While the concept of "You" may not exist after death, everything that "You" are made of will continue to exist in some form - it has just been converted into something else.
When you switch off your computer, do its processes continue to operate somewhere else?

While it is true that energy is conserved, once the source of that energy (a living brain) is switched off (dies), there is no longer any energy to sustain its processes (thoughts).  So, when your brain dies, your thought processes end, and whatever becomes of "you" after that is up for conjecture.


"You" are the life experiences and personality which resides in the brain cells.
Once your brain is gone, "you" are gone.
Anything else is irrelevant, in the personal context. 8)



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19 Dec 2020, 5:13 am

then why were both me and my mom simultaneously awoken by my late father yelling out our respective names a day after his death?



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19 Dec 2020, 7:02 am

auntblabby wrote:
then why were both me and my mom simultaneously awoken by my late father yelling out our respective names a day after his death?


It is inherently dubious to presume any anecdotal evidence would sway those who believe in the contrary.


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19 Dec 2020, 7:53 pm

I believe that I will be going to Heaven when I die. That's just my belief, though. I respect the beliefs of my other WP members as well.


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20 Dec 2020, 3:38 am

hurtloam wrote:
Life after death doesn't necessarily mean heaven though.

Have you ever researched the Jewish perspective?
Would they object if us heathens pillage Esau and Jacob's final resting place if it does exist?



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20 Dec 2020, 3:40 am

auntblabby wrote:
then why were both me and my mom simultaneously awoken by my late father yelling out our respective names a day after his death?
He sounded pissed.



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20 Dec 2020, 3:58 am

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Don't know. I'll have to post a thread about it when it happens.


Ghost thread



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20 Dec 2020, 7:48 am

StayFrosty wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
then why were both me and my mom simultaneously awoken by my late father yelling out our respective names a day after his death?
He sounded pissed.

he was overjoyed. the hospice nurses noted that at the moment of his passing he had an ear-to-ear grin as he stared at something off in the distance that only he could see.



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20 Dec 2020, 11:16 am

WHere i Live Folks Worship
Death And Name This
Place Less Than

Heaven Within

iN A Place

Named 'Church'

I've Already Seen

What Happens When

Folks Die Alive That's

All i Really Need to Feel About Now

Life

Truly

So Many

People Never

Even Really Start

to BREaTHE Heaven Within

For 'You' See Otherwise 'When You die you Live'....

Look at It this way, if 'You' can and or will, Whether

It is Rationally Correct Or Not; Yes, Imagine

This Life is All THere is; Folks Born

into the Eyes of 'The Child' and

Wonder for all that is

And then someone

Tells them

They are not

Worthy And to

Hope Most For What

Happens After Death; Perhaps,

This is 'the Karma of the Grasshopper'

Born Again Again into the Same Lie of Living Death...

Stepped

On Shortly

After They

Are Born

Crunched

Into So Much

Less of what they

Will Be With Wings

as Locusts Returning

Free Again to Breathe...

In Other Words,

Heaven is Hell

And Hell is Truly

Heaven for Those Who

Come to See More than Pages, Letters

Words, Only Covers; Idols Worshipped in a Book oF Lies...

to Demagogue Subjugate And Control

With Rotten Carrots And Rotting Sticks Now Same oF Lies...

Again the Most

Ironic Part

'THeir Book'

Says The Kingdom

Of Heaven May only

Be Found in Living Breath

Those Who Look Elsewhere

Per Luke 17:21 Always Lost and

Never Saving Their Inherited Grace of Bliss...

Meh; No Different ReAlly Than All the Other Theistic ReaLiTy Religions for Now....

Nirvana, Bliss, Satori, Samadhi, Prana, Kundalini Rising, Tao, Autotelic Flow

Unlimited Metaphors We All

Co-Create Basically

Yes, The Same

Essence of Heaven

Within Gained often

Lost in Idol Forms Just

Shells of Words Worshipped Idol Alone...

Here's A FAct, Now, If You Live Forever now

You Never Die

Forever

Now....

Logic, Common Sense,

Only For Those Star Flower/Seeds

Bright Enough to Shine now...

Still Resurrecting

For Now

From

Super Nova Explosion

Crucible Fire Star Dust Seed
Flowers US Still Living for Now....

Living Is A Miracle of Breath Now,
If You Truly Live, You Never Worry

About Anything Else now but Living...

Seriously,

Ask Any Living

Creature that

Does Not Worship Symbols Over Breath Now...

They Won't Have an Answer; Only 'Breath' Enough to See....

And

Be

'i Am' Now...

Generally Speaking

From Studying Human

Nature; Folks Are Born, 'The Child'

Dies Within And If They Are Fortunate

AND DO THE WORK ALL THE BLOOD, SWEAT

AND TEARS Never Giving Up like me They Are Born Again in a Golden

Age Now, as Fully Documented And Recorded For Evidence of course still now;

Some Folks Name 'This', 'the Hero Archetype';

Other Folks Just

Name

It

Returning

to Heaven Out of

Hell On Earth Now...

This Story of Humanity

is Cross-Cultural And Truly Never Ever Alone....

Some Folks Truly

Live And

Other

Folks Do Not;

'Some Folks Dance

And Some Folks Do Not';

-'Guardians Of the Galaxy' of Love too....

And

-'The Child'

Plus -me Just

Another Voice

Crying Out For/As Bliss

For No Other ReaSon Than Heaven Now...

i Do

NOT

Have

to Imagine...

BREaTHiNG IT NoW.

FootNote: WHeRe i Live

(Trump Town USA, FL)

Is Not WHeRe i ReAlly LiVE;

For You 'See' This Place Is WiTHiN...

My Place Breathes.... love flowing fearless free eternally now


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