Thread: Do you believe in a 'Afterlife'?

Originally Posted by Conkt

If you're talking about psi, than that is not true.

Originally Posted by dajo

If you're talking about psi, than that is not true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_O9Qiwqew

It's from xkcd -_-

Well it fit anyway.

And Conkt wanted to make a point, didn't he?

Originally Posted by dajo

Well it fit anyway.

And Conkt wanted to make a point, didn't he?

I actually don't think he did....

Hehe, oh well. Maybe I wanted to make one

Edit:

Originally Posted by Mario92

...of course, those experiences being purely subjective and not taking place under reasonable experimental conditions. I'm not saying that there is no way in hell that the afterlife exists, but I remain quite skeptical. Why should humans, a tiny speck in the universe, have a paradise engineered for us and waiting for us when we die, which as far as we know consists of only chemical processes shutting down? It seems rather ridiculous to me.

Why does the 'afterlife' has to be something resembling a paradise? Could be quite mundane actually.

Or something entirely else.. ?

Originally Posted by dajo

Why does the 'afterlife' has to be something resembling a paradise? Could be quite mundane actually.

Or something entirely else.. ?

If the afterlife is mundane, I will kill my afterlife self.

I find it funny that they say I'M trolling, yet they are skeptics that are constantly in a religion/spirituality sub-forum trying to debunk all of it lol. Someone's looking for answers are they?

aww that i make you mad...LOL...damn Xei you so sensitive.

THAT is trolling...

The afterlife and Psi are completely different things.
Science has proven that you are your brain. That is to say, by altering the brain you effectively become a different person. By destroying the brain, you are no more. In death, the brain is destroyed, or in Walt's case, made inactive and unusable.
PSI is still within the realm of possibility. It has not been scientifically proven, but there are reports of it such as the previously posted Youtube video. It should be noted that there is evidence that Whales have ESP, and can communicate telepathically.
My XKCD comic was a bit of a joke, but it was also there to punctuate Mario's video on how there have never been any result-yeilding instances of PSI in a scientifically controlled environment.

Edit: HaRd_WiReD, the Law of Attraction likewise has no scientific backing, and is a member of the New Age Club.

umm, actually psi has been proven in a laboratory environment. Or at least one kind of psi, ESP.

Hardwired, you need to join reecejones87's mass meditation sessions. Your most recent post here is pretty much what the whole thing is about. Raising your vibrational pattern to project confidence and love throughout the world.

Originally Posted by Conkt

The afterlife and Psi are completely different things.
Science has proven that you are your brain. That is to say, by altering the brain you effectively become a different person. By destroying the brain, you are no more. In death, the brain is destroyed, or in Walt's case, made inactive and unusable.
PSI is still within the realm of possibility. It has not been scientifically proven, but there are reports of it such as the previously posted Youtube video. It should be noted that there is evidence that Whales have ESP, and can communicate telepathically.
My XKCD comic was a bit of a joke, but it was also there to punctuate Mario's video on how there have never been any result-yeilding instances of PSI in a scientifically controlled environment.

Neuroscience does point to us being our brain. I'm just not very sure that
this is the end of it. For example entanglement shows us that there can be
direct connections between particles that have no obvious connection.

Anyway - psi and the afterlife are not neccessarily unrelated, imo.
Because the idea of conscious activity outside of the brain would point
to 'us' not being only limited to the brain and therefore opening up
entire new possibilities of 'us' existing outside of the brain or our body.

You may of course also argue that even if psi does turn out to be true
that this is no evidence at all for there being an afterlife, but I do think
it would just open up a new perspective, or basis for argument, for us
existing outside of our brain and therefore maybe transcending after death.

What do I think? I really don't know.