Is there proof of life after death (Proof Of Life After Death)

Quote: Originally Posted by MHz

If you have that sort of power a little hindrance from something as weak as religion should be no problem at all (overcoming the effects of). You could most likely overcome it in a week at most......So, in the meantime is that you standing to the side with your hands in your pockets? What is that called again, ah yes, doing nothing.

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

Goodmorn EA;

"But what do they say when man in fact did not invent the religion? And that God – be glorified – sent His envoys: the apostles to warn man of the consequences of the association with God?"

Who could seem like gods to primitives? What has been witnessed that was beyond the scope of the ancients experiance and how would they preserve the accounts of those meetings and those visions? The evidence lies all arround us and permeates oral histories and artifacts.
How did we come to envision heaven as above us as opposed to some valley or an island?

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

and the angels fear their Lord Who is above them on His throne.

eanassir, and you find this passage of particular inspiration - that angels fear god? I find that just stupid. There is nothing to fear from a benevolent creator or that creator is not benevolent but a psychopath.

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott Free

The Book of Genesis was not revealed to Moses; the Children of Israel inherited it from the time of their grandfather Abraham. Then they included it in their bible or the Torah collection.
Then when Nabuchodonosor conquered Palestine and destroyed Jerusalem and its temple, he tore up the Torah which was written on the parchment (: the gazelle skin) and was kept wrapped by fine silk.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

eanassir said:
If the boss or the director of a company does not punish the workers whatever they do: whether they work perfectly or neglect intentionally; then what consequences will be of the work in such a company?

Cliffy said:

"bosses can go to jail in Canada for "punishing" their employees."

Quote: Originally Posted by freethinker58

The answer to the question of life after death is amazingly simple. It starts with a question: If you can exist once, what can prevent a future existence? The answer is this: If an existence can't be prevented by a superior intelligence and if the necessary ingredients for existence are present, nothing can prevent a future existence. Prevent is the key word. If it can't be prevented, it probably happens again and again the same way it happened the only time we're aware of it happening.
It makes no sense to limit an existence to just once in an eternity unless you're referring to a continued spiritual existence that jumps from physical body to physical body. Of course, we have to question whether or not consciousness is possible without the aid of a physical body.
We must realize that reality (all that exists) is eternal. In other words, something had to have always existed in order for anything to exist. Something had to be the catalyst. The reality we know didn't just spring from nothingness. There is no such thing as nothingness - a reality in which nothing exists. That's easily observed.
Most astrophysicists believe the "big bang" theory at this point. They believe that the universe sprang from something called a singularity. That means it was another form of energy before a dramatic change took place. What we know (or believe we know) is limited to that at this point.
One question that...

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Quote: Originally Posted by freethinker58

The answer to the question of life after death is amazingly simple. It starts with a question: If you can exist once, what can prevent a future existence? The answer is this: If an existence can't be prevented by a superior intelligence and if the necessary ingredients for existence are present, nothing can prevent a future existence. Prevent is the key word. If it can't be prevented, it probably happens again and again the same way it happened the only time we're aware of it happening.
It makes no sense to limit an existence to just once in an eternity unless you're referring to a continued spiritual existence that jumps from physical body to physical body. Of course, we have to question whether or not consciousness is possible without the aid of a physical body.
We must realize that reality (all that exists) is eternal. In other words, something had to have always existed in order for anything to exist. Something had to be the catalyst. The reality we know didn't just spring from nothingness. There is no such thing as nothingness - a reality in which nothing exists. That's easily observed.
Most astrophysicists believe the "big bang" theory at this point. They believe that the universe sprang from something called a singularity. That means it was another form of energy before a dramatic change took place. What we know (or believe we know) is limited to that at this point.
One question that...

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Perhaps YOU don't seek the info, but an awful lot of others do. Otherwise why would we have such a thing as curiosity if we didn't seek info that things are as they are?

Quote: Originally Posted by Niflmir

The issue isn't that existence continues. The issue of life after death is a question of continuity of consciousness. Physics says there can be no loss of energy(up to vacuum energy). Ergo, whatever I am physically will always exist in one form or another. The continuity of consciousness is always a fundamental aspect, even in reincarnation: if I will never remember my previous lives, than karma means nothing to me. The person I am affecting is not myself.

However, biology states that my memories and so the sense of self are imprints in a brain and it provides directions for which even a remedial intellect can terminate their existence: stop blood from flowing to the brain. There is proof that the memories are contained in the brain tissue and that a person can continue living once parts of the brain containing these memories are removed: the memories are not imprinted on what makes a person that person.

As for the big bang. No. Nothing existed before that point in classical GR. Even in quantum cosmology you can create energy from (basically)nothing. In fact, dark energy does just that and is a purely classical effect. There are hypotheses which assert that there was something before, but they are currently untestable and unnecessary, although quite interesting.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaG

Quite. If the electrochemical activity stops, that is it, there is no energy left to continue the memory process. It has dissipated and moved on to other things, I think.

Nothing is nothing, no thing at all, it is the antithesis of anything or something. Even dark energy is something, I think.

Quote: Originally Posted by Niflmir

Dark energy is (as far as we know) the energy of the vacuum, the energy of empty space. As the volume of space increases, so too does the energy associated with it. In this way, energy is continually being created in our universe.

This is the leading explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe: a cosmological constant. It is slightly odd--well maybe that is an understatement.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaG

That's the hypothesis. Anyway, it is still something even if it exists.

In a nutshell, I don't believe in "magic".

Quote: Originally Posted by Niflmir

Neither do I. But quantum mechanics and dark energy aren't. They just appear to be.

Everything is magical the first time you experience it, after all.