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So let's change the analogy from a lamp to an automobile. Slightly more complicated analogy, but is it really any more difficult to understand when it breaks down that it is not a spiritual event?





I think you've misunderstood me from the get go. Outside of cellular death, I believe that the consciousness, soul or whatever else you would like to call it, is an energy source independent of cells.

I also believe that energy does leave the body and what happens to it afterwards is anybody's guess. Whether it's a static charge 100 feet away or a blob of gas 100 billion light years away is irrelevant, it still exists. It definitely nothing to look forward to in any case.

In the grander scheme of things I guess that means I believe that there is an existence after death, but I wouldn't consider that life. Simply an energy potential.