Jman06:
Bro, there is physics beyond that which you were taught in class. That's metaphysics.

Human is an embodiment of energies. In fact, virtually all the energies found in the universe are embodied in humans. I hypothesize that what constitutes consciousness is an aggregation of all these energies existing under certain wave conditions provided by the body. And that when the body dies, this aggregation of energies ( consciousness) exist in another realm.

KingAdegoke:
death is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone.

that's when you finally "know the truth"

KingAdegoke:
death is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone.

that's when you finally "know the truth"

FunkyMetahuman:
I had a dream last night that I was flying like superman even when it never crossed my mind..

I believe I can fly.. *heading towards next skyscraper*

nobody should stop me o.

ifenes:


How did the flight go? Painful?

FunkyMetahuman:
on my way to Mars now

Jman06:
Aquarius

ValentineMary:
And what is this truth?

KingAdegoke:
we shall verify the after life. hell or heaven. paradise or Hades I care not. but the glory beyond flesh. oh it's going to be awesome

KingAdegoke:
we shall verify the after life. hell or heaven. paradise or Hades I care not. but the glory beyond flesh. oh it's going to be awesome

Jman06:
My believe in afterlife stems from my own personal experiences and not from what some guys somewhere wrote in a book.

I am one guy who dreams alot right from childhood and my experiences through dreams cannot just be a mere "projections of my brain" like some other atheists would say. How can the brain suddenly become hyperactive during sleep or during sicknesses when
the physical bbody is supposedly resting/weak?

How can i explain the fact that in most cases I find myself in strange places where I have never been to all my life and sometimes with strange peeopl?

The phenomena of dreaming, NDEs, and OBEs are pointers to the existence of an afterlife.

I think I like the views often shared by a poster here @ifenes on this matter and I am considering reading some books on metaphysics so as to gain some knowledge on this.

Please I'll like to read comments from other atheists on this issue. Thanks

KingAdegoke:
death is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone.

that's when you finally "know the truth"

KingAdegoke:
we shall verify the after life. hell or heaven. paradise or Hades I care not. but the glory beyond flesh. oh it's going to be awesome

What makes u certain that there is a glory beyond the flesh

ValentineMary:

Consciousness is found in many organisms at varying degrees. Let us take a mesophytic tree for example. If the root of that tree extends in search of water and it encounters a toxic solution, what happens? the root turns away. That's a level of consciousness caused by the cell receptors. But as we evolve our level of consciousness also involve thus the human present state. So consciousness is not a metaphysical thing in any way. I would recommend Michio Kaku's talk on 3 level of consciousness to u.

akindlesfarm:

And who told you animals and plant don't have soul , soul is that energy which makes living things alive and when they die the energy recycles to form a part of another life , we are souls carrying frequencies and we would always live. What is living is living what is not living is not living, if you say there is nothing mysterious about life then tell me how life started or where consciousness comes from

ValentineMary:

I sense the bias here is the misuse of the word energy for soul. Energy is what makes us alive and it's an integral part of life. When we die, it goes back to the environment and is recycled. We can measure and study energy.

As for consciousness, my hypoyhesis on the origin is that it came fort from the wanting to exclude foreign dangerous material from destroying the cell structure. As for the origin of life, there are several hypothesis but we can't cling to any now. But that should not be a basis for a metaphyiscal being out there. It would be like finding relevance in human ignorance.

akindlesfarm:

Well it would be hard for me to explain, the best way for you to know is when you experience something supernatural, as for me this world is too strange and mysterious that I must believe in the supernatural. Even great scientist like Newton and Einstein never denied the existence of a God

This is just appealing to authority. Because Newton believes it does not substantiate the claim. Newton also practiced alchemy. Do u believe in alchemy

And pls note that Einstein definition of God is quite different from yours. Einstein was a pantheist who believe the universe and everything in it is God. He revrened the Spinoza God. And according to Dawkin's God delusion, pantheism is a branch of atheism.

ValentineMary:

This is just appealing to authority. Because Newton believes it does not substantiate the claim. Newton also practiced alchemy. Do u believe in alchemy

And pls note that Einstein definition of God is quite different from yours. Einstein was a pantheist who believe the universe and everything in it is God. He revrened the Spinoza God. And according to Dawkin's God delusion, pantheism is a branch of atheism.

akindlesfarm:

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
God does not plays dices with the universe
Albert Einstein