Quote: "As far as near death experiences go, this can usually be explained by the pineal glands secretion of DMT like chemicals into the brain when extreme stress is imposed on the body (in such cases like dying...)"
**** But does nothing to explain numerous very specific testimonies and detailed descriptions of things going on around them (collaborated by eye-witnesses), from people that were unconscious and even considered dead.
Explain that folks!
Quote: "I think all this belief about life after death comes from the fact that we have evolved in such a way that we naturally want to keep living and so that this translates into a propensity to believe with out proof or the slightest shred of evidence that when we are dead we are still alive but in a different place or dimension."
**** Can you READ? Maybe try reading next time before typing. To many folks, accounts from people that have come as close to death as possible, and then brought back through resuscitation efforts, that have reported very specific details about leaving their bodies and reporting all that they saw while outside of their bodies (with many accounts being verified and supported by other eye-witness testimony), IS EVIDENCE, to many, that life does not end after physical death.
Many of these accounts are very credible. There are numerous powerful testimonies from children.
Sorry if these accounts contradict your own beliefs. But you'll be okay.
Quote: "I think a more rational mind does not try to comfort itself with such beliefs."
**** You mean like the kind of "rational mind" that thinks all things; The Universe, Earth and all Life thereon all came about from nothing at all, by nobody at all, into complex, purposeful, organized features and things all by themselves. Yep it all happened through fat chances and lots o' lucky things!
You mean THAT KIND of rational mind?
Myself and others have already stated that nobody can say for sure exactly what happens. And a measure of respect and tolerance should be shown for those that believe differently, IMO.
But when somebody wants to show up here on this thread, to start ridiculing others, that believe differently from them, you can expect to get SPANKED for it along the way.
Vinny