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Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

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6. what's this science thing you referred to?

Reply to NonMetro (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 28, 2015, 08:26 PM

Oct 2015

Last edited Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Well since energy nor matter cannot be destroyed or created, everything everyone who has died was made up of is still very concretely and in a completely real sense still around. The particles just are not in that very rare organization that was an individual human. That's what I meant.

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need to process loss in the only way they know how AlbertCat Oct 2015 #3

Maybe It Is Healthier NonMetro Oct 2015 #4

what's this science thing you referred to? AlbertCat Oct 2015 #6

Thanks! NonMetro Oct 2015 #7

This always seems like a very misunderstood thing Lordquinton Oct 2015 #5

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And do they stay the same as when they died? Arugula Latte Nov 2015 #11