Life after death, Without God?

Nilloc James · Post by **Nilloc James** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:41 pm

Is it possible for their to be life after death (of the human body) without there being god or another divine being?

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For the sake of semantics,

death= total end of brain function, dead as a door nail, not near death or heart stopping.

Life after death= any form of existance of CONSCIOUSNESS (or "soul") after death whether it be heaven/ hell, reincarnation or floating around as a ghost.

Sir Rhetor · Post by **Sir Rhetor** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:34 pm

Life after death is possible, but I have a hard time believing something which has a strong, almost exclusive connection with religion, because religion has a disregard for actual evidence, and thus reality as well. In short, the Old Testament, for example, is simple (blood-soaked) caveman opinions which helped them bring meaning to their lives; something to work for and accomplish by the time you've died.

Interestingly, this plays perfectly into what I picture primal man to be like: goal oriented. Feed the family, defeat neighbor tribe (and covet their women), and later, do things like build towers to touch the heavens (not that I think that it happened, but there may have been attempts).

I think that there is a greater probability that we are living in a computer simulation than that a literal interpretation of Genesis is true, IMO.

NeedlesOrKnives · Post by **NeedlesOrKnives** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:09 pm

That doesn't stop people from guessing. Even though there's no way of proving any theorys or guesses, death and the possibility of an afterlife has fascinated people forever.

Cathar1950 · Post by **Cathar1950** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:41 pm

NeedlesOrKnives wrote:That doesn't stop people from guessing. Even though there's no way of proving any theorys or guesses, death and the possibility of an afterlife has fascinated people forever.

I would think we all wonder and imagine even if we think we know. We have no personal experience to compare it with and other's should be at least doubted as a good show. We will wonder until the day we die and then it will either not matter or be something else we couldn't imagine with our being there and maybe we vanishes to me and me us and we.

So why rush and we should make the best of this and maybe we do take something with us but we do leave something behind. somethings last briefly and some endure in others even if only as a statistic and data for some unknown future.

NeedlesOrKnives · Post by **NeedlesOrKnives** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:01 pm

With time, everything is forgotten. Even ancient dictators and rulers of the ancient world are barely remembered anymore.