Afterlife

I may not be conventionally religious but I do believe in and afterlife. Why? Let me tell you a true story.

Two years ago my brother-in-law passed away at Christmas time. He had purchased a pre-owned home, and the previous owner had installed a new air conditioner just before he moved in.

Two months after he passed away, his wife did a total clean out in a garage sale of everything that was his or reminded her of him. By Saturday afternoon, anything that was left went to the good will or the garbage including their framed wedding certificate.

The total "hall" on that sale was $965. That afternoon the compressor on the AC burned up for the total bill of $935. Considering the money spent on the ad in the newspaper there wasn't much left as surplus.

I can only feel that he, from the other side, felt that, "If you're going to dump me, you're not going to profit from it." I think he zapped the AC.

Considering the age of the fairly new air conditioner there was zero reason for it to crap out, and to crap out on the exact day that all his belongings were sold off.

Coincidence, well maybe, but it seems to me unlikely.

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What brand was the air conditioner? Was it a Daewoo or something?

The only people that have any idea of whether there is an after-life are those who have died for a few minutes or longer and returned.
Yes, there are those that say their experiences were not real, but physiological in nature, but how do they know this for sure?
Once you have had one of these experiences, no one can convince you that what you experienced is not real, because they were not there and can not know.
So, if you want to know, you will have to wait your turn. Then you will have the experience to draw upon and make up your own mind.

If time doesn't actually "pass", as has been discussed here before, the whole question of the 'afterlife' is itself somewhat diminished in relevance.

In a 'timeless' universe, the cradle and the grave are not a beginning/end of existence per se, but are simply boundary conditions of an essentially 'static' world-line existence.

Then spacetime events such as 'life' and 'death' are reduced to mere vantage points in a static space-time continuum. If that's the case, then every being who ever lived, will always perceive itself to be living, in its own cradle-to-grave time frame. Not a very comforting thought, since many have experienced exceedingly unfortunate lives. In fact the whole idea is downright creepy and I'm sorry for bringing it up. 8O