What do you think happens when you die?

[RevStoningpot]

And that's most likely due to the conversion of european pagans to christianity. And yet that still isn't the same as the dead human type ghost i'm thinking of.

[RevStoningpot]

i was able to find this little piece of useless shit
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 303AAgjzxI
I think the answerers were confused and tryed to explain where the ghosts themselves come from

[LoneSoldier55]

You probably go to the same world in an alternate universe where you narrowly escape your death, and live in this universe not knowing that you had died in another. JUST LIKE APOLLO THIRTEEN or something like that.

[RevStoningpot]

I recently heard about a theory of evolution of matter. The basic idea was that atoms favor collectiveness and make the choice to bond the way they do. But more so he talked about single cell life forms and how they communicate chemically. At any rate the conclusion i drawed from this was that nonspiritual people will write off the soul as nothing more than our brains telling us how to feel etc. But if things with out brains are capable of desire then there must be some thing deeper that drives that desire. And if his theory of matter making choices in some way is right then that would mean all matter has some form of a soul. I have yet to figure out what exactly a soul is but i know there is more to it than what we see on the surface.

[RevStoningpot]

You probably go to the same world in an alternate universe where you narrowly escape your death, and live in this universe not knowing that you had died in another. JUST LIKE APOLLO THIRTEEN or something like that.

Isn't it odd for scientist to disbelieve god soul etc. and yet believe in somthing like alternate universes? I think an alternate universe theory would actualy give more credibility to mythologies.

[Gnatogryz]

Isn't it odd for scientist to disbelieve god soul etc. and yet believe in somthing like alternate universes?

I can't see any contradiction here. Also, I don't think that they "believe" in them, just think they might be possible - and if they do, it has to have a base in science.

God, ghosts etc. on the other hand didn't stem from science.

[waronchickens97]

Death is often refered to as the destruction of conscious, wheras ghosts are thought to be a spiritual embodiment of the conscious. This is a direct contradiction, and only one theory is based in science. Guess which? :P

[Gnatogryz]

Death is often refered to as the destruction of conscious, wheras ghosts are thought to be a spiritual embodiment of the conscious. This is a direct contradiction, and only one theory is based in science. Guess which? :P

This is not the only definition of death, nor the only definition of ghosts (or souls). Also, if death = destruction of consciousness, then I guess plants and bacteria never die? :)

[RevStoningpot]

alternate dimensions stem from religion as well. WTF do you think heaven and hell are. Also plants, maybe don't have consciousness but they do have feelings and desires. A plant crys when deprived of water, and registers responses to stimulus when hooked up to a polygraph. Sounds like consciousness to me.

[LoneSoldier55]

I think there's a difference between Consciousness and being Sentient.