how far do you believe??

[jamasterc]

u know in God,heaven,hell,ghosts,jesus



personally i think that there is only heaven cos this world is bad enough as it. but there are different types of heaven and whatever is in your mind when you die happens to you.whether that is took be with God or in paradise or whatever. u know what i mean????

[Kikey_Kikeowitz]

Yes, I know what you mean. And, you're right.

If you die, and truly believe you're going to hell, you're going to go to hell. But it's not 'HELL.' It's a whole thing that your mind created. It's not real, but at the same time, it is real.

If you die and are an athiest, I'd be willing to bet that your soul will be dormant for quite some time. Maybe not forever, but for a while.

I'm not sure about agnostics, though. Perhaps they die and just chill. Unsure about either direction, they perhaps have the best idea, and will be open to anything after death.

[AYBABTU]

perhaps you simply

cease to exist.

Like everything else in this world.

[Kikey_Kikeowitz]

quote:Originally posted by AYBABTU:

perhaps you simply

cease to exist.

Like everything else in this world.

Could be.

Of course, if it's true, you'll never know. Why even bother discussing it?

[zorro420]

"You" are simply the result of a mind-bogglingly complex set of interactions between neurons. It's a scientific fact that this is what creates your consciousness, your "soul" if you will, the "you" that sits in your head and makes your body do stuff. When the neurons stop firing, you cease to exist.

Unless, of course, your death somehow created an "echo" that caused that same set of interactions to continue operating in a different medium than your neurons (after all, it's the interaction that makes "you", not the cells themselves). Maybe that's what "ghosts" are, some sort of echo of a once-human, operating in some sort of energy or something that we do not yet understand.

There's a scientific explanation for everything, no exceptions. We just haven't found them all yet. Or even an infinitesimal fraction of all of them, for that matter.

[Kikey_Kikeowitz]

quote:Originally posted by zorro420:

It's a scientific fact that this is what creates your consciousness, your "soul" if you will, the "you" that sits in your head and makes your body do stuff.

Do enlighten me and show me the proof. A link from any credible scientific journal publishing this theory will suffice.



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[---Beany---]

quote:Originally posted by AYBABTU:

perhaps you simply

cease to exist.

Like everything else in this world.

Perhaps heaven is 'not existing'. After all sleep is pretty damn good, and you aint exactly aware of it.

Ever wanted to not exist? Acheive enlightenment today and this wonderful deal can be yours.

[jamasterc]

u have a point zorro420 maybe a echo but theres no harm believeing that there is a heaven. but science CAN not explain everything. BUT LETS NOT FORGOT ALBERT EILSTEIN(spelling) SAID THAT IF WE USED ALL OF OUR BRAIN WE WOULD NOT NEED OUR BODY. SO MAYBE WHEN YOU DIE YOUR brain subcouness spirit what ever does leave your body and goes some where else

[XliMun(Frontalobe)~]

quote:

Acheive enlightenment today and this wonderful deal can be yours.

There are no deals up here, it's all pretty straight forward.

Consciousness could be an electromagnetic field...Just thought I'd throw that in.

Also quantum matter can exist in 2 places at the same time, at least. So maybe a barain or consciousness can exist outside the body.

How can you even prove that our consciousness is actually in our body/brain anyway?

...I'm quite sure we can't.

Slightly off topic but this thread was going to that scrap heap anyway.

[M0rt]

OMG! Terry Pratchett was right