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22 Oct 2018, 9:40 pm

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I think I might actually be more agnostic than truly atheist.

I don't think any religous teachings have all the answers about what really happens to us after death. Maybe they're all right in some way? And maybe they're all wrong?

I personally think it would nice if everybody continued to exist after death. Even the ones who do terrible things.


But how can you think when your brain is dead?


Well people who are religous or spiritual believe that a person's soul or spirit is seperate from their brain or any other part of their body. It's supposed to be the embodiment of who they were as a person on the inside.

It's kind of like how in some cultures the caterpillar represents the "mortal body", when they become a cocoon that symbolizes "death" because they are completely still and unable to move, and then once they emerge as a beautiful butterfly that represents the "soul". A beautiful being that emerges after the process of death and flies away to make a journey.

So where do people keep their soul or spirit, if not in their brain or body?


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22 Oct 2018, 9:51 pm

No...
It is the associated pain that usually accompanies the process which concerns me... :mrgreen:



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22 Oct 2018, 10:15 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
I think I might actually be more agnostic than truly atheist.

I don't think any religous teachings have all the answers about what really happens to us after death. Maybe they're all right in some way? And maybe they're all wrong?

I personally think it would nice if everybody continued to exist after death. Even the ones who do terrible things.


But how can you think when your brain is dead?


Well people who are religous or spiritual believe that a person's soul or spirit is seperate from their brain or any other part of their body. It's supposed to be the embodiment of who they were as a person on the inside.

It's kind of like how in some cultures the caterpillar represents the "mortal body", when they become a cocoon that symbolizes "death" because they are completely still and unable to move, and then once they emerge as a beautiful butterfly that represents the "soul". A beautiful being that emerges after the process of death and flies away to make a journey.

So where do people keep their soul or spirit, if not in their brain or body?


I never said it wasn't in the body. It's just not in the brain or any other particular organ. It just represents everything we are as a person. Our thoughts, feelings and ability to love and hate.

And besides I'm not exactly religous or an expert on spirituality so you're asking the wrong guy to explain it. :mrgreen:



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22 Oct 2018, 10:35 pm

Stupid questions generally merit equally stupid answers.


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22 Oct 2018, 10:39 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Stupid questions generally merit equally stupid answers.

I don't think either were stupid. What is up with you saying that?



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22 Oct 2018, 10:43 pm

It is an aspie site I suppose.


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22 Oct 2018, 10:56 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
It is an aspie site I suppose.

I still don't get you but whatever.

I don't believe there is such a thing as asking a stupid question. The only thing stupid is not asking questions at all



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23 Oct 2018, 6:15 am

I think the way I'd phrase it - there are some questions where if a five or six year old asked them in a particular way you could take them as sincere questions. If an adult asks them in that specific way you're in a different territory.


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23 Oct 2018, 6:49 am

I would imagine if one has not yet achieved and fully experienced what they sense or feel that they needed to in the present corporeal state which they occupy, that may well be possible grounds for the generation of fear. As yet another experience.



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23 Oct 2018, 6:52 am

Why You Should Not Fear Death