Dualism (Identity)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, March 15, 2015, 06:39 (3540 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: I do not believe that the consciousness survives the death of the body. My belief is, to use my computer analogy again, that a back up is made to a spare disk at death. ECC 12:17 says that "the spirit returns to god". But, it is important to not that the word that is translated as spirit is not referring to some consciousness that continues existence, literally translates as 'wind' or 'energetic/active force'. It is my belief that on death, the 'spirit returns to God', returning the energy to where it originated and carrying with it a backup of the data of that individual.
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>David: If your scenario is true, how do NDE'rs see other people who have died?-I have no good answer for that. I can not say for certain that they do. Suffice to say this much, though. From a christian perspective, there is another layer of life that is somewhat parallel to our own. The spiritual realm is said to actively interact with the material realm that we are all familiar with. Do they really see people that they know? I am not sure. Do they see something? I do not doubt that at all. However, as far as having knowledge of things that their senses could not tell them, there is a fairly simple answer. Our senses are, in many ways, so much noise. If our brains are receivers, then it is not unthinkable that we also receive information from the world around us that is routinely drowned out by our known five senses. It could be that turning off the noise from the body enables us to 'hear' these other sources of information that much clearer.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.