Hi y'all - certainly we can examine this. First page "And yet people in every culture believe in an afterlife of some kind or, at the very least, are unsure about what happens to the mind at death" I cannot accept this statement.
On Oct 17, 11:06 am, CrossBow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps the human psyche, or soul, is a standing wave front of merged > brain systems crashing to nothingness, when by accident, we are > damaged enough to be pronounced dead (No electrical current - no > function of any kind). These systems only cascade fail slowly as we > die of other problems. By slowly I mean in an electrical sense, which > is actually so fast you wouldnt notice the ebb... > > this is a good subject and article. Can we pick and pull pieces of its > body to examine? > > << it doesn’t tell us why people see the soul unbuckling itself from > the body and floating off like an invisible helium balloon into the > realm of eternity. After all, there’s nothing to stop us from having > afterlife beliefs that involve the still active mind being entombed in > the skull and deliriously happy. Yet almost nobody has such a > belief.>> > > People "see" strangeness while grieving, or with atltered brain > tructures/chemistry, and outside input from chemical friends. To see > and observe death on a cold day... observing the last chilled breath > dissappear on the wind, should provide an appropriate image. An out of > body experience, explainable by science, brings the sensation of > floating above the body. There are so many ways to come at that > impression. Trapped in a decomposing body? How unaesthetic. Repulsion > explainable by the deterioration of the flesh. Not even our evolved > fanciful fantasy equipment can overcome that one. > > Can we discuss the entirety of death? this is fun. > > On Oct 15, 3:33 pm, "Liz Purkrabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=never-say-die&ec=su_neversaydie- Hide > >quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
