re: What happens when we die?

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There are hundreds of videos and books of people who have seen heaven and met Jesus. They describe in detail of how marvelous heaven actually is. I encourage you to read this information from eye witnesses.

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I don't believe this at all.

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Being good will not get you into heaven. It has nothing to do with it. Good people go to hell all the time.

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Neither this.

How ridiculous. What's the point of life, in your opinion? To be born (with sin), baptised (to cleanse the sin) then and accept JC as your savior?. That's it? The end?

What a bunch of childish foolishness.

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Our conscious is merely a function of our brain. Once that dies, so does your conscious.

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In all probability, yes. But you cannot really say for certain.

dude, I've moved on from your attacks in this thread. If you want to rejoin the conversation at hand, so be it. Take a breath. I'm no longer mentioning God.

I've brought a few cardiac arrests back on the ambulance, well I should say we did. I've had one tell me to the T about slipping while getting out of ambulance. I've had one they told me while he was flat lined and cpr on going telling my driver "this ain't nascar, be careful." My dad flatlined and recalled angels but said not like what we think of angels. Said it was more like warriors and he knew exactly what they were there for. He was shocked in ER and brought back. He remembers seeing demons also but they wouldn't get near him b/c of angels. Never known him to lie. He never told me all that until years later when I asked him. We didn't church much before then. Next day he told me to go get baptized and he has been going to church regularly since heart attack 20 years ago. He has already posted in this thread fwiw. Awkward we know each other's screen name I know

Religions are political organizations that have nothing to do with God. That may be why religion does nothing for you.

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And if it could, this would indicate that it would also pre-date our life.

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Which brings us full circle to the idea of reincarnation...

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Matter is neither created nor destroyed. Perhaps conscious isn't either. perhaps our humanity os created as teh aggregate of all the minute consciousnesses congealed and brought together as we grow (through first formation of our DNA helix).

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I totally agree with you.

Question is: Are we, humans and animals, a collection of individual conscious', or perhaps one conscious of which all life merely taps into.

Think of conscious as perhaps water in the Earth. We drill wells to reach the water. Eventually the wells go dry but the same amount of water still resides within the Earth. We just need to drill a new well.

If what we know as conscious exists uniformly throughout the universe, does that mean the universe itself is perhaps "intelligent"?

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Our conscious is merely a function of our brain. Once that dies, so does your conscious.

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GeauxTigerTM

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Seems the most likely, yes. It's essentially the software running on the hardware that is your brain.

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Good metaphor but not necessarily accurate

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Case in point...brain injuries. When one has a traumatic brain injury, where does what was lost go? is it still there, hiding? Off to heaven waiting for the rest of it? Or is it more likely that as the machinery is broken the software has no place to reside?

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The information is still there. The connections are just damaged. For what it's worth, we don't know what an individual experiences within his her brain visions throughout a traumatic brain injury. For all we know their dreamscape is still very vivid. Or not. We don't know.

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Seems the most likely, yes. It's essentially the software running on the hardware that is your brain.

Case in point...brain injuries. When one has a traumatic brain injury, where does what was lost go? is it still there, hiding? Off to heaven waiting for the rest of it? Or is it more likely that as the machinery is broken the software has no place to reside?

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An apt analogy, imo.

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The information is still there. The connections are just damaged. For what it's worth, we don't know what an individual experiences within his her brain visions throughout a traumatic brain injury. For all we know their dreamscape is still very vivid. Or not. We don't know.

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This is true. Much like a faulty hard drive, the information can still be there, but inaccessible. The operating system (the consciousness in this analogy) can still be functional, but you can't open all of the "programs".

what about the "soul"??? I hope that isn't a taboo topic...

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I'm just stating my opinions on the matter. That is a far cry from hard fact. I could be completely wrong.

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We all are just stating opinions in this thread which is why it's such a fun topic.

This topic allows us to truly contemplate our place within the universe and what it means to be "alive" or "dead".

For what it's worth, I'm not sure I believe we're ever truly "alive" or "dead". I believe we may exist in multiple forms, but we cannot understand the complexities of the universe, our place within the universe, or what it truly means to "exist".