Talk:Theory of the Afterlife/@comment-31077845-20170228192845

I'm the one who's not very spiritual at all and believe completely in the sciences that can provide way more logical answers that lie in biology and behavioral psychology that don't involve what must be REALLY damned bored spirits (earth is going to get really crowded with all these dead people just sort of loitering around). Plus these spirits are described as walking around; do they still have to obey the laws of physics? Are they still affected by gravity? If not then why are they all still walking or even on earth and if so they uh...they couldn't exist, as that would violate a whole bunch of natural laws. And also as a person who's seen firsthand the kind of effect on personality and actions drugs can have on people, science can explain that but ghosts really can't. Same goes for medication (so still drugs) and therapy, anything that can bring about a relatively abrupt shift in personality and function. And for that matter, being as all those neurochemicals therefore definitively exist, while still being molecules and thus being formed and maintained by energy gleaned from the world around us which gets most of it from the sun, how would these ghosts think or feel or have emotion?

Normally I wouldn't be quite so nitpicky, I'm just not 100% sure if this is meant to be considered as a fictional story or a legitimate theory on the afterlife. If it's the former then pardon my rambling, but if it's the latter I'll just say I didn't come to be a scientifically minded agnostic existentialist because I was told to be that way, my entire family is christian in a more new age sense, I came to be that way after a lot of thought and study. And like I said I'm agnostic which basically means "I don't adhere to any religion but believe we can't ever be entirely sure" as it's theoretically possible we're dealing with things beyond our comprehension, but if that miniscule chance were to be true it would involve something beyond our comprehension, not anything our human minds could even wrap their brains around.

And actually this sounds close to the old African tradition of ancestor reverence, where they believe the spirits of their dead ancestors stick around their previous place of residence affecting their ancestors, although by their belief system whether your ancestors bring you good fortune or sickness and misfortune is based on how you treat their remains. So that's got even more loopholes, but it just shows how heavily culture can color our perceptions; to them, since families mostly live in one home and the only time one moves would be to maybe get married and move to the home of someone else who has similar beliefs, the idea of the family splitting up and potentially moving into houses where no one has ever died let alone having their remains around never ever occurs to them.