Quote Originally Posted by integra82786
This thread has gone through so many different arguements and discussions, thats what I love about religion. No one knows whats really true and whats all stories because no one has the proof. Everyone just has opinions. And that's really all any religion started out as, opinions on why we're here and where we go next. I don't think ANYONE has any right to put someone down because of an opinion they might hold. So what no one has proven living beings do or dont have souls. We have proven that no chemical reaction goes without some sort of product. Thus the energy in our bodies must go somewhere. I don't believe that the energy survives in a living state as much, but that you spread it amongst everything you've come in contact with in your life. The people you influenced, the knowledge you passed, the effect you had on society, it all absorbs the essence that used to be you. After your gone, your friends and family still talk about you, the people you tought things to still use you as a reference. You know how when you think about "back in the day", the stuff that makes you smile on the inside, the feeling you get thinking about relatives that passed on before you and the ways they influenced you. It's all energy passing through the air.
Actually, the "energy" our body uses to function is derived from chemical reactions in your body. When you die this stops happening in an organized fashion and your body is decomposed by bacteria. That's all there is to dying in a firm, scientific sense.

If you're implying we have some kind of metaphysical spiritual energy, that has no base in fact or link to chemistry, so I'm not sure whats up with the relationship you would be trying to establish.

I realize you think this is all opinions and everyone is neither right nor wrong, but when you try to link your opinion with bad science (pseudoscience and scientific half truths seem to be favorites of the religious) or bad logic, you are indeed wrong.