The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Saturday, October 30, 2010, 19:43 (5137 days ago) @ BBella

DHW: I think your post takes us as far as we can go. -BBELLA: I'm not sure if it's really as far as we can go. We can look around and look for evidence of an afterlife in our own lives, the lives of people we know, or other credible witnesses or studies. We don't have to believe the evidence, even if it's something we ourselves experience. But that there is anything in our surroundings that even remotely suggest there might be an afterlife, should give us a step toward the possibility. 
Of course, as we've said before, there is a possibility our minds are making us think these things are so, but it's just as true that my mind could be making me think I am writing this post to someone called dhw as well. My mind is open to both being true.-I must confess that gullible though I may seem, I'm convinced that BBella exists. Not only does she respond in a manner of which I am incapable (which suggests that she is not a projection of my mind), but I also have evidence of her responses in tangible form that can be verified by others. I have no doubt either that Dr Parnia's patients exist (see David's post under OOB revisited), and if some of them pass his ceiling test, I will trust that he's not deceiving us unless proved to the contrary. But there's still a big difference between believing that BBella exists, and believing in an afterlife because of experiences that might possibly have other explanations. Nevertheless, like yourself, I keep an open mind, and my remark that you had taken us "as far as we can go" was not meant as an injunction to stop searching, listening, discussing etc. It's just that no matter what theories and evidence we come up with, we still won't know until, as that wise lady BBella put it when convincing me of her existence, we "pass from here to there. Or not".