An alternative to atheist thought

[BlindedWantsToSee]

I agree with you about New Age crap, but I think you are making a mistake. How do you explain the testimonies of thousands of people that have had life after death experiences? These people where completely brain dead for brief periods of times, but they were conscious and had experiences outside of their bodies.

No, that's a shifting of the burden of proof. The question is, how do you explain them? And what is the relevance to your point?

I have done research on the subject, and the evidence I have seen convinced me that indeed our awareness survives the death of our bodies, meaning the body is completely dead for several minutes before it is revived, but the person is self aware and perceives his/her surroundings while his/her body was dead (had no pulse and no brain activity). Then they were resuscitated, and they gave account of what they did, saw, and heard while their bodies were dead. There are many many documented cases of this phenomena. It seems legit enough to me.

To me this means that we are all very likely to have to make decisions after our bodies die. I think we will do better for ourselves if we are prepared to make those decisions when the time comes to make them. That's the relevance.

But, you know, even if we don't exist at all after our bodies die, we do exist now. I mean we have feelings, thoughts, wants, hopes, concepts, ideas, dreams, etc. Whether these things I just listed are material or non-material is irrelevant. The fact is we experience them. I am offering an alternative explanation of why our experiences, and those of all other people/life on the planet, are the way they are. I posted my interpretation of everything I've learned in my life, taken as a whole unit or system. The uni-verse is one whole thing...