AFTERLIFE, XYZ

[Athene]

No, the only reactions testimonies of supernatural encounters get from me are a raised eyebrow or a polite nod. I believe that people making these sort of claims are confused or mistaken. Also....people lie sometimes.
I wouldn't bother trying to personally verify and test their claims by the standards of reality.

 You're right people do lie about some things sometimes, mainly to boost their own self, at least in their eyes. However I'm not one of those, I see such things as disingenuous and self defeating in the end. I know that God exist, I have personally experienced Him through answered prayer, and seeing things happening within the church I belonged to before leaving to serve at another church. I do not make things up, there's no use in such things this is also self defeating in the end. As for the natural and supernatural how can you compare the two, one is testable some of the time and the other is revealed when God sees it's appropriate. There's only one way to test life after death, to die and then that person can't tell you what he/she found out, because death is either permanent or God's not going to allow it. I'm curious as to what you want to discover through this thread? Pretty soon I'm going to be designing and building a couple of pieces of furniture, this will take up a great deal of time and will demand my time to get them done on time. So, soon I want be visiting here often, I'm trying to end my participation in most threads, hoping to find out what you want to discover through this thread.

GC

I wasn't attempting to discover anything when I composed this thread. I was challenging the idea that atheists
lack belief as a matter of rebellion, willfulness, anger etc. I was suggesting  that some atheists would very much like to believe that the loved ones they've lost could somehow continue after death, and carry on somewhere they are safe and loved.

Some non-believers are simply who are people stuck with the understanding that wanting something to be true, doesn't make it so. That may be all that separates you from many of the atheists you know.

Hope all goes well with the designing and building.