<img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I might not be the most popular member around, but I'm attracted to discussing that which really has not been solved up to date. What's the meaning in discussing how wet the water is? - Everyone knows it and if you don't go and see for yourself and if you still reject this fact then you are an ignorant idiot.

Going back to the God issue. I think it is important to go step by step to know whether you'll go to heavens, to some place else or even nowhere at all. You must all admit that the thing that we call "soul" is incredible and compared to the regular stuff we see each day is of a much higher order. Now we must ask ourselves whether a soul can die. Given that it inhabits a human body which is nothing more than a complex combination of organic tissues, I believe it is safe to say that the body and the "soul" (and mind for that matter) are not completely linked into one. There is a strong correlation, but it is not the unity. And although Plato's ideas were later rejected, this concept actually adjusts itself pretty well to his theories (About the soul, the body and that little thing in the head (don't know the name in english) which joins the two). When a body dies through natural causes, be that age or an accident, what happens to the soul?

I would say that it remains alive because it is not physical and not age, nor accidents affect it (or maybe a body is a must for it to live? - what then? - reencarnation? - this is a different approach). Besides, it is hard to resist the thousands and thousands of cases realated to ghosts, spirits and similar. I would say that souls stay alive but living an invisible for us life, cannot connect with humans in any way (except for the anomalies with ghosts ...).

I cannot go any further ... my point is that souls remain in universe but noone cares about them. They continue to live as they did before, only wihtout physical interaction with the world.

As for the Bible and God, I find it more like a way for people to have something that won't "leave you alone" in the most difficult moment. And though God will hardly help you with any actions, you will feel more courageous and straight having in mind that he's behind you.

Noone is better nor worse by criteria of religion. Some believe in one God, others in another, others don't believe at all (ignorant people if they think that planet Earth is all there is), but it's more a question of education and traditions than scientific knowledge. You can't say "What an idiot you are, you believe in God!" meaning that the person you speak to is stupid and ignorant, but you may show your scepticism when someone starts promoting an idea of that God exists in this form, that he did this, he did that, there's book that has recorded all that, etc ... Religion is like art, a very personal thing that cannot be quantified by means of scientific approach.

These are more or less my ideas on the subject so far.

I would also like apologize myself for being a bit to straightforward with the statements not taking into account the inner state of the people.