There are countless religions, and have been since prehistoric times. Most of these religions have included a version of an 'afterlife', of some wonderful place where humans reside after death. The Bible claims that Jesus was 'resurrected' after his death and then 'went to Heaven'. JWs believe they will be resurrected into a Paradise Earth where there will be absolutely perfect conditions. But, my question is: Where is the definite PROOF that anyone has EVER somehow survived after undergoing physical death? IF Jesus was in fact resurrected, why has he not shown himself in 2000 years? We have only a 2000 year old book to go by as 'proof'. That's all!!! A book that also talks about Talking Snakes and an Ark holding EVERY bird, animal, insect, etc not to mention a person who is eaten by a 'large fish' and survives for three days unharmed. The facts are that EVERY LIVING THING on Earth dies at some point. When they die they are GONE.....forever!!! No 'afterlife'. Birds, Animals, fish, trees, insects, etc. They all die at some point. My contention is that when humans die, they are likewise gone forever.....dead and not coming back in any form. Obviously this is very hard for a huge number of people to accept. So instead of facing their mortality, they fall for Magical Thinking stories about another life after physical death. Folks, this current life is IT!!! Make the most of every minute of it. It's really all we've got.
Where is the REAL proof that anyone has EVER experienced 'life' after death??
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Shanagirl
That is the eternal question. I found this interesting article on a documentary that goes more into the science rather than the religious or magical thinking.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/through-the-wormhole-is-there-life-after-death/
Through the Wormhole: Is there Life after Death?
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In the premiere episode of the second season of Through the Wormhole, Morgan Freeman dives deep into this provocative question that has mystified humans since the beginning of time.Modern physics and neuroscience are venturing into this once hallowed ground, and radically changing our ideas of life after death.
Freeman serves as host to this polarized debate, where scientists and spiritualist attempt to define what is consciousness, while cutting edge quantum mechanics could provide the answer to what happens when we die.
It probably wasn't long after ancient people developed a belief in the afterlife that they began trying to contact those who had crossed over to the other side.
Necromancy, the term for such communication with dead souls, comes from the ancient Greek word nekromanteia, but the practice dates back much further than the Greeks. Egyptian and Chaldean magicians attempted to conjure up the deceased and speak with them, and God specifically barred the ancient Hebrews from engaging in the practice in Deuteronomy 18:10-11.
In the epic poem The Odyssey, Homer describes his hero Odysseus casting spells according to the instructions from the sorceress Circe, in an effort to speak to the prophet Tiresias and gain assistance to return home
Roman neuromancers believed that it was easiest to reach the dead in caverns and near volcanoes, which they believed to be passageways to the underworld.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/through-the-wormhole-is-there-life-after-death/
Shana
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Viviane
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Oubliette
How could there be proof for something that is not real?
While absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence, the fact that there has never, ever been conclusive, incontrovertible proof of "life after death" in the last 150,000 - 200,000 years of human experience is pretty compelling.
You'd think that if we really did continue on somehow that, of the billions and billions of people that have lived and died, at least one of them would have found a way to send a clear, unequivocal and indisputable message. Just even one ...
It hasn't happened yet.
In the premiere episode of the second season of