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O yes! Hell no!
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Do we continue to exist even when our bodies die?

Life's short

O yes!

Side Score: 155
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Hell no!

Side Score: 175

Arguments Tagged As: O yes! [clear]
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Yes, we still exist in this world, but in the form of memories. The definition of "we" here is not only meant for physical appearance ( such as ghost form or zombies), but the "we" here also stands for the memory that we left deep inside people's heart. That is why the heroes and heroines, such as Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, and Mao, who had fought for freedom and independence in the past are still remembered until today. The infamous dictators such as Hitler and Stalin are also remembered until today due to their "purge" and cruel dictatorship. Although our physical appearance may have been destroyed by the nature, our past actions will be remembered by our families and friends.

221 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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It depends on how we define ourselves. Obviously who we are today differs from who we were earlier. If the essential qualities of our being change drastically, do we cease to exist or do we continue to exist as a changed being? I like to think of my dying body as (to paraphrase Einstein) merely a wilting leaf on the tree of life. I don't think that "who I am" began in my mothers womb. I hopefully live on through my offspring both biologically and ideologically.

58 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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Depends how you look at it. I don't think we continue to exist in a way that our souls are somewhere, but I believe we usually continue to exist in the sense that our presence is kept alive through family and friends (if you had any).

177 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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I'm not a religious person, but Ronlyn Dominique's argument in "The Mercy of Thin Air" convinced me of life after death. She put it very simply: nobody knows what makes the heart beat. The brain sends impulses to voluntary and involuntary muscles of the heart, but what makes the brain send these impulses? Chemical signals? And why are these chemical signals sent? There must be some other reason.

And this is why I believe in a soul. Matter and energy cannot be destroyed. John Mellencamp may put it best: "Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone."

177 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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i beleve in ghost and stuff wen you think in the big picture thers got to be more......

202 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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your soul cant just die... your spirit still lives on through all of the people you have touched during your life...

a soul isnt someting like before you were born, i believe its like your inner core that developes as you grow, and its like a force that cant just dissapear.

239 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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Our consciousness and our desire and attachment to this world still exists therefore not only we will exist after our bodies die, we will reborn again because of this attachment to this world

248 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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i believe that our sole is still there so we go in another thing that has just been born.

296 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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I figure it this way. What is nothingness? How can we just cease to exist? As humans we cannot physically understand being nothing because it is not possible. Primarily there are two answers to this debate. People who believe in religion or ghosts and people who don't. I believe in God but I also believe in spirits. Now, religion aside (because this has nothing to do with the debate) spirits do exist. There are EVPs and so forth that science has proven is above the natural but there is also other proof that spirits of people dead and gone are still around. Whether just imprints on nature or intelligent beings spirits do exist which is a life after death.

334 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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''Either are for Jesus and you go to heaven or you are against jesus and you go to hell''.

I go to hell because i don't believe in Jesus christ ?

Even when i did noting wrong ?

This proves that god is unrealistic and he doesn't love us.

This is like a threat which threatens people to believe in him.

Threaten people to have faith in him when only people believe in him because they were forced into believing that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, You go to hell.

Thats how stupid christianity is..

244 days ago | Tagged As: O yes!
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