Life after death: exists?

[monolith94]

I believe that my soul, my soul, whatever you call it, I think of it as the word ME will continue to exist after my body has passed its prime.

There have been plenty of leftists who believe in the afterlife. The example I'm thinking of is Bill Burroughs, who wrote some excellent texts on the stuff. Check out "The Western Lands".

I refuse to believe that I can cease to be. I just find it impossible. My body has an expiration date - I do not.

[SlowwHand]

Monolith

[Boris Godunov]

"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!" - Mrs. White in Clue

Yes, there's life after death. My rotting corpse will give life to all the wormies and things that will be nourished by it.

Other than that--probably not.

[jolair]

IMHO in these days the question should be:

Is possible life before death?

BTW: No.

[monolith94]

I plan on having sex after marriage...
Interesting dimension to that allegory - some ONLY have sex after marriage!
Perhaps some people only truly live in death? Interesting idea.

It's like Reese Witherspoon says in Freeway - "I reckon all I really need to continue is my will".
My will. My will I consider undying. If the universe plans on snuffing this sucker, they have a fight on their hands.

[Boris Godunov]

That sounds nice, but since death causes the cessation of brain function, and no one has been able to explain how a consciousness can exist sans brain function--not to mention a physical, conscious body--then I don't see any basis for it.

[Japher]

Not to belittle this discussion, but that article was awful... Did the author even know how to formulate a sentence. Utter crap.

As for life after death... I vote Banana.

[monolith94]

My explanation is that the brain alone cannot create the individuality that we all have. The brain is a tool for the heightened consciousness we all have.
How does it do it? Well, you have to be a guy who can take a leap of faith, I guess. I personally have no trouble with that.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by monolith94
My explanation is that the brain alone cannot create the individuality that we all have. The brain is a tool for the heightened consciousness we all have.
How does it do it? Well, you have to be a guy who can take a leap of faith, I guess. I personally have no trouble with that.

question for monolith:
what about identical twins? do they have seperate souls?

[monolith94]

Of course. They may have similar personalities, and identical appearances, but they are individuals. Or do you suppose to tell me that identical twins NEVER DISAGREE?

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by monolith94
Of course. They may have similar personalities, and identical appearances, but they are individuals. Or do you suppose to tell me that identical twins NEVER DISAGREE?

ok, when one person becomes two in the womb they are assigned seperate souls.

now, if there was a matter duplication device (or a malfunctioning transporter ala star trek), and i walked into it, and two of me walked out, would we have two distinct souls?

[SlowwHand]

Give it up.
Atheists can't grasp the concept of souls.
As far as Boris, he's so positive that God's condemning him to Hell-fire, he'd never admit the possibility of eternity.

Disclaimer:
Not an anti-anybody/anything remark, so hands off the Complaint icon, thank you so much.

[monolith94]

jesus h. christ! what an argument!
having no experience with matter duplicators I'll have to say I don't know.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by monolith94
jesus h. christ! what an argument!
having no experience with matter duplicators I'll have to say I don't know.

having no expierence with any soul-detecting hardware I'll have to say i don't know.

[Guest]

whatever you think of the actual question, the link posted is nit anything you can rely on....