Mourinho
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The elaboration of Near Death Experience is delusion. I call it Fantasy and stark Non-Sense.
The explanation of consciousness seems unsatisfactory because It is important to clarify our terms before starting using them. Would tell me what is consciousness?how do we perceive it? I hold on to that because i think it's a mistake to think that consciousness and spirit can be used interchangeably.
Boy!!when one talks about Body. It implies something physical made up of atoms, limited in space and time. Therefore, I do not understand the new body you are talking about?
Things of Hell or Heaven are typical construction of your own mind. They only exist in your mind. They are not independent themselves.
If you do not wanna live longer then why do you believe in immortality or life after death. The belief in immortality suggests to some extent a desire to live longer.
Speaking of Hell and Heaven, here's a passage from a very interesting book;
"Teutonic Goddess of the Dead and daughter of Loki was named Hel, a Pagan god of torture and punishment. Another "L" was added when the books of the Old Testament were formulated. The prophets who wrote the Bible did not know the word "Hell"; they used the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which meant the grave; also the Greek Tartaros, which was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth), and Gehenna, which was a valley near Jerusalem where Moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned.
It is from this that the Christian Church has evolved the idea of "fire and brimstone" in Hell.
The Protestant Hell and the Catholic Hell are places of eternal punishment; however, the Catholics also believe there is a "Purgatory" where all souls go for a time, and a "Limbo" where unbaptized souls go.
The Buddhist Hell is divided into eight sections, the first seven of which can be expiated. The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.
(Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries
have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured into Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do we get there?"!)"
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