Religion aside , is there any plausible evidence for life after death? Are ghost
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Religion aside , is there any plausible evidence for life after death? Are ghosts a good thing?
What if nothing happens after death? Just blank. Like you were before you were born. Look at the effect of brain damage. It can change literally every facet of who you are. It can change whether you get mad easily. It can change whether you can control yourself. It can change who you are attracted to sexually. It can remove memories. It can control whether you can speak. It can control whether you can recognize faces.
In short, you are a body. Your personality and soul does not exist apart from your body. When your body is no longer running, your personality won't exist.
This terrifies me every minute of every day.
I find it hard to focus a lot of the time because it consumes so much of my thoughts.
It truly is the most terrifying thing there will ever be.
That is why ghosts are a good thing. I am searching through the scariest videos, of the most haunted places. I think ghosts, ghouls, or other-worldly creatures, are somewhat (in a sense) proof of afterlife. That there is something more than the physically world, such as a soul. I never saw a ghost in my life, but I would love to go to the most haunted places in the world, most haunted forests, in the middle of the night. In search for any sort of paranormal activity, or ghosts. Most haunted, abandoned places, alone, in the middle of the night. If I find any sort of ghost, etc... I will be so comforted. I will super happy. I will literally cry of joy. Because, this is empirically evidence, that I experienced first hand of some sort of after-live. That, there is a good chance that I will continue to exist after my life on Earth. That my lightbulb will not simply go out forever. That, perhaps, I will be able to "live" somewhere, someplace. To think again. I will be myself, and I will still be existing.
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(Answer) The question “what will be after death?” is simply nervous eating in the hunger of an existential crisis. It is not eating because of hunger, but rather snacking to distract oneself from the “now.”
To put life after death into better perspective without any religious philosophies, one might consider physics. According to the physics of the universe, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only pass from one form to the other. Furthermore, according to the theory of general relativity, mass and energy are interchangeable.
Considering that humans are carbon-based life forms that contain mass, their degradation will result in the release of energy through decomposition, cremation etc. The parts that each entity consists of are - physical, mental and emotional/spiritual. The physical is our body, the mental is our memory and functionality while the emotional or spiritual part is what forms our personality and temperament. These are all forms of energy. What is physical is tangible; the mental element is easily sourced to different areas of the brain while the personality is easily experienced but intangible.
Our personalities are unique. This is because our identical twin may go through the same experiences as us right from our birth but will have a different personality from us. This fingerprint of the soul is a form of energy that has not yet been deciphered. It is a form of energy that is transferred into another form perhaps upon death. Just like the lack of knowledge of the consistency of the Higgs Boson particle, the soul which forms our personality is also yet to be properly defined. It is a quark that binds every element of an atom together, yet there seems to be no measurable sign of it as yet.
Considering that our brains were not formed before our conception, there is no memory of our soul before that. Therefore, we can assume that it is neither proved nor disproved that our inherent personalities were present or not before the formation of our body and brain. We have probably passed on from a plane onto earth and we may go to another plane after death.