So you when to hell now what.

[Huggy Bear]

I'm not using for evidence of anything other than to point out the hypocrisy of dismissing NDE's as "hallucinations" when it is pure conjecture with no scientific data behind it.

Agreed. It is foolish to characterize as "near death" experiences for which there is no corroborating scientific data. First hand reports have their interest in psychology but it is hardly support for thinking experiences reported by living people tell us anything at all about the nature of death or dying.

Fair enough

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Huggy most normal people go with the most likely explanation.

When I'm searching for the last cookie in the cookie jar that only I can reach and find nothing, I assume I must have eaten it and not realized it was the last one or forgotten.

When you're searching for the last cookie and find nothing, do you assume it was abducted by aliens after which it underwent numerous operations and experimentation and was subsequently returned to the wrong cookie jar?

But you don't KNOW what is most likely do you? After all, can you explain consciousness? what is it that makes you self aware? Even science knows that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

As the Bible teaches, you existed long before your body was created and you'll exist long after it is gone. the only one with the power to destroy your essence is God.

Matthew 10
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.