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I do Debbie, the life we are living is hell and when we die we go to heaven and its a much better place than this! Davex

I do, but like several others am not ready yet. However, I do have a problem with my bone marrow which is likely to curtail my life span :-( I think what worries me is the manner of departing this life. Will it be painful, peaceful, sudden etc. Very profound thread. PP xx

I believe in care to avoid the danger of wishful thinking and examine as sceptically as you can any nice conclusion reached about anything in this painful treacherous world. I am never shaken in the following proof of life after death: It's impossible to experience a moment of time except as a passing event. That means the experience includes that it passes into a resultant state. Hence, the experience of any moment of time includes the experience of later moments of time. You can jump ahead through time, as unconsciousnes shows, but there still has to be an expereinced time that all of it you've had before passes into. Do the thought-experiment of trying to postulate a last moment - it will always fail, for this reason. Therefore, a mental life can't cease to exist. Therefore, there is life after death, and of a spirit nature not dependent on the dissoluble physical side of us, and Cartesian dualism (spirit in brain) must be right. Therefore, brain damage affects channels of communication between the hosted spirit and the outside. As there is no physical force to enforce reincarnation and no reason for it to wipe memory, I don't believe in it, nor in a separate realm of heaven/hell you get zapped into - just ghosts is the simplest belief favoured by Occam's razor. Also simpler to believe ghosts are seen in normal states of senses because they are really there, than they are a mental illness there is no other evidence for. But past life memories, and split brain and multiple personality cases, suggest that your body's experiences can be tapped into by others and damage to the single soul's control over a brain can open rudimentary hosting fo others in parts of the same brain. If immortality is linked to the nature of time, and sceptics ask what is a spirit made of - then a simple model is that spirits are the particle form of time. Relating to the universe around them through atomic-scale vacuum fluctuations of space. brains could evolve to host such a particle in a body. It's logical we would need a body life to awaken our senses, as without a period longer than just an instant, joined to a material structure, what else could trigger us to have any sense awarenesses? Amnesia and other memory damage proves memory must have a physical reality, but not that it lies in matter, so I propose memory is encoded in space, in your own spatial fluctuation around you as a time particle. A signature image of yourself, applied by vacuum fluctuation to light particles (photons) travelling such as to magnify it to asize visible to the living, is a theory of ghosts I contributed to the SPR in 1990. It explains why ghosts are rare and images rarely last over 1 minute, and often recur in places where image patterns have been left that the spirit can activate, and in low light can be accompanied by cold. Light and radiant heat are the same thing at different wavelengths, so the spirit is taking the heat to produce the light!

Yes, there is life after death. Although I am making preparations - will, enduring powere of attorney etc, I am not expecting to die in the near future (I could be wrong in this assumption). However, I am expecting the coming of Jesus at any time. When that happens millions of us will disappear without dying, and be reunited with those who have died. An exciting prospect Anne

I have just nudged a previous thread on the same topic. There are some very interesting posts. Brian (i)

My Dad used to say iam not afraid of dieing,just the lead up to it. Gill

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I agree with canny lass Anne! I will either die & spend eternity with God, or Jesus will return for his own during my lifetime, and off I will go! Hasten the day!! Too many promises and prophecies about God's plan for mankind have come true, for this one not to be true too! Denise

I agree with Denise and Canny Lass Anne. Joyxx

I do