The Ancient Sadducees believed this as well. Most Jews today, following the Pharisaic tradition, believe in an afterlife, but not all. Thanks for your reply.
There was a movie called “Flatliners” that involved the study of life after death.
This thinking sounds to me close to that of Hinduism, that is, the individual self as an illusion and a gradual return to the life of the universe without a personal consciousness. But better for having made the journey.
What energy do you mean? My body is a net consumer of energy; this is why it needs food. I can grapple with the idea of ‘life’ but what is ‘lifeforce’?
I agree with meltzerboy and his thinking. Matter would be a different reality than energy though no? Or dust to dust of the flesh.
Part of the same reality I think.
Electrical signaling, for example sodium or potassium which relate to what you are saying in relation to the nervous system thus life itself. Though the ultimate of life can be destroyed as we well know in the physical sense. We also know energy cannot.
Well, i think the majority of people who self-identify as atheists in the modern era (such as myself) attach themselves to the notion of Scientific Materialism - in which case this is kind of it. Once the body ceases, all that complexity ceases to exist.
This is precisely my belief as well. Cease to exist. No consciousness. No thinking or feeling or experience can occur unless we are alive!
No, I am especially opposed to the idea of there being a place we go to. However, I am not opposed to ideas one might find in pantheism or certain nature-based religions (dont know any in particular though) that there is an aspect of immortality in the sense that our bodies are recycled into nature. That can hardly be considered an afterLIFE but it is a religious belief related to what happens when we die so I think it answers the question.
