azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

something to think about. lets step back a few paces, to ourselves in the embryonic stage, our gestation period before birth, after conception, or creation. we had no idea that the world in which we began, in the womb, was only the beginning of our life. we did not know anything else outside our little universe inside our mothers. we presumably accepted that this was life and there was no reason to imagine something or somewhere outside of our mother. there certainly is a life outside of this one, all the facts predict so, such as, the tunnel of light, a memory of the birthing experience into a world yet unknown until birth. a world of light, sounds, into the arms of our family, people and places we had never seen before, our first breath. life tells us that the embryo although alive, has yet to be born, so it is fair to assume based on past experience, that there is indeed another plane of existence outside of this one. death to the past life, the only one you knew, and birth, to the new life. just like a baby, conception to birth. statistics show that what has happened in the past is likely to happen again. now having said that, the universe? the world in an embryonic state, suspended in a placental space, what we can understand would suggest that, like the baby, the earth, has yet to be born outside of this universe. if we can exit our mother, escape the earths atmosphere, we too can exit this universe. indeed this is only the beginning of a truly amazing journey, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

"We did not know anything else outside our little universe inside our mothers."This is a false premise. It's impossible to claim that an unborn child is capable of intelligent thought, let alone thought at all. I don't question that it is alive, but rather that it is capable of thought anymore than a spleen is or hair follicles, at least up until the moment of birth. Additionally, there is little to no empirical evidence that everyone experiences "a world of light" or a "tunnel of light". There is less evidence still that one is capable of remembering birth.It seems that your technique for reasoning in this argument is inductive. However for an inductive argument in this subject, one would need to compile data their entire life until death in order to arrive at a conclusion. The other approach (i.e. deductive) requires one to first believe that their is some afterlife, and then one must somehow compile evidence that indicates specifically an afterlife to support the hypothesis. However, as stated previously, that kind of data is impossible to find without actually dying already first.As for "what has happened in the past is likely to happen again". This is certainly true in biological terms and sociological terms. However when one speaks of the universe, of the INFINITE universe (a logical response to the infinite universe is that there are infinitely many variables), one must also realize that the chance that something that happened once will happen again will be infinitely small, perhaps even zero. It's the same in a mathematical function where the x-value would be time y is some event. for every x value, no matter the length of the line, there is exactly ONE y value.The basic problem with your argument seems to me to be a faulty analogy. Please try again.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

who were you then, before you? In a view such as your own you believe you were alive, but not quite alive? To have thoughts, feelings or awareness? Did you not hiccup before you could breathe?
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

"who were you then, before you?"You are asking me a philosophical question that has existed presumably since man formulated the first thought, but I will try my meager best to answer. Not without diving into what consciousness is, I would say that I was a collection of cells that functioned together, and during the late stages of pregnancy, developed basic emotions and feelings (hunger, fear, dependency, etc.) and even later still a consciousness developed."Did you not hiccup before you could breathe?"Poetic, but entirely irrelevant.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

I love the way you used birth to illustrate our "birth" into after life. Plus 1! :) (I wish I could push the plus button more, get this post to the top) Great post!
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

does anyone here believe in the "before life"? doesnt life exist before you? the matter of creation is absolute, a human created you. humanity is the mystery
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

What do you mean by "A BEFORE LIFE"? If you mean YOU EXISTED before you were born in a previous life as another person or as a Butterfly then I have to ask you how you know this ?? But if you mean your parents were the "before life" ?? what exactly are you saying ?? I respect your belief as simply a belief or desire or even a need. But if you have evidence of your previous life as a Butterfly then great - lets see it. One thing is for certain, the American media will be onto you in a flash.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

Afterlife is called death. After death is called... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

I believe that we have spirits encaged in us that will never die out. Even though our influence on the world will some day be finished that doesn't mean there is never another hirizon, we all just keep living in this ever changing climate called time.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

And why do you believe we have spirits? A lot of people believe in spirits, but why do you? Do you have any evidence?
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

Yes there is always a chance for this situation. they fact that the time is eternal for every one is the suggesting feature for this statemnt
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

Here are the arguments of afterlife according to Quran: 1- Just as our Creator gave us life in this world He will bring us back to life on the Day of Resurrection. 2- Allah Who created the heavens and the earth and was not tired of it can easily bring the dead back to life. 3-Allah Who created the heavens and the earth can create the like of them. He can create the Hell and the Paradise. 4- It is He Who originates the creation, then will repeat it and it is easier for Him. As doing the same for the second time is naturally easier than the first time. Although neither the first nor the second creation is difficult for Him. 5-Afterlife is the natural demand of our morality as we know that good and bad are not equal and same and they shouldn't be. Should the reward of prophets and pious people (who are the best people of humanity) and the worst people be the same. Should human beings and trees or insects be dealt equally that both die and that is all? Here are some verses from Quran having such arguments. (Al Kahaf Sura No 18, Verse no 37) Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then He fashioned you into a perfect man? (Al Dukhan Sura No 44, Verse no 38) And We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them for amusement. (Al Maryam Sura No 19, Verse no 66-67) And man (the disbeliever) says: "What! When I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?" Doesn't he remember that We created him before, when he was nothing (Yaseen Sura No 36, Verse no 77-83) Does not man see that We created him from a mere sperm-drop? Yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open quarreler. And he makes comparisons for Us and forgets his own creation. He says: "Who will give life to these bones after they are rotten and have become dust?" Say: "He will give them life Who created them for the first time! And He is the All-knower of every creation!" He Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold, you kindle from it. Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth, Able to create the like of them? Yes, indeed! He is the All-Knowing Supreme Creator. Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be" ــ and it is! So glory to Him in Whose hands is the dominion of all things: and to Him will you be brought back.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

We are all energy , essence and matter, We are all molecular globs. Our soul is lighter and does continue. I believe that the tunnel of light is not just death , but birth also .Afterlife does exist. Its more awsome than "heaven" , its electrical , its hard to explain , almost magical in its appearance , though it is lucid. Religion and prayer has nothing to do with it.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

What evidence do you have of any of this? The body has energy in it, but we are not energy. At any given movement you are losing and gaining energy, most of the energy you lose is through something called "heatloss" so you are constantly losing energy and you replenish it primarily through eating food. You cannot misuse scientific terms to support pseudo-scientific conclusions. Energy is not the same as a "soul" or "spirit", it has a very specific scientific meaning.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

So you are saying that we are not energy , essence and matter ? oh ok. Prove it ? Sorry , i cant do that. Who are you to say its not the same ?P.S Sorry i dont know about scientific terms and what they mean.  Im just an un-informed human that thinks and feels for its self.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

We are composed of matter, and there is energy (heat, kinetic, electrical, nuclear) in our bodies, but there is no evidence of a 'spirit' or 'soul' in our bodies. Even if there was to what extent does it carry our memories, personality, and sentience? And in what way is it connected to an afterlife? To assert knowledge on any of these questions is foolish speculation.The 'Unknown' is exactly that...
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

The 'Unknown' is exactly that... yes it is .......................so i suggest if your so anti-self-attuned that you rethink your foolish speculations , and dont waste your time trying to convince me any further.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

To what foolish speculations do you refer?And why is it a waste of time to convince you? Is your mind already made up? Are you afraid that perhaps that might be no afterlife?
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

Yes , My mind is made up.Well perhaps you are expecting that i assume this afterlife has a similar fashion of existance as this life in which we exist now. I have no assumptions about it and i would not have a clue as to wether or not there is solid physical substances such as what exists in this life , in this after-life.If there was no afterlife , why should i care.That would be a waste of this life if i spent my time worrying about wether or not i will have a life after this one to worry about.Now that would be a worry.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

In my opinion it is better to live your life assuming there is no after-life, that way you can make the most of this life, and if it turns out there is an afterlife, then you will be pleasantly surprised.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

This is hard to make a decision on for me because I believe that if someone believes their is an afterlife,then they're correct and the same goes for those that don't believe in an afterlife. Most people base decisions like this off of religion,and as we very well know,most religions have some type of afterlife. I do believe in an afterlife,although I'm not quite sure which one I believe in. Reason being is I believe in heaven and hell but at the same time I also believe in reincarnation. I've had many friends who have told me that felt like they have lived this life before and I sometimes get proof (arguably) of reincarnation. So,life after death = depends on personal belief
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

Some dub a person's mental identity as "the soul", an imperishable spirit that transcends the physical. What others would call the soul I call "a configuration". Biologically speaking, "you" are a chemical and physical variation of a standard human brain. The universe being "almost infinite", it is likely that the same configuration will arise somewhere else in it. As your conciousness is a function of this configuration, your awareness would be a given. As to the question of whether several instances of the same configuration can exist at once , I have, as yet, no definitive answer.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

I believe that there's a life after death. It is like proving that we have a God. According to the bible, God promised us to have a life after death.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

This is why I know life exists after death. This is my own personal experience and memories of death. Here there is no debate.I was plagued with health problems in the first ten years of my life. I had to pay careful attention to these experiences because they occured on the same day, July 5th, of different years. I had fever seizures shortly after birth to age five, in one of these seizures I suffocated on my own tongue at age one in my crib. When my mother came in to check on me I was dark blue, my feet distended and not breathing, my uncle saved my life with mouth to mouth. I was certainly to young to have a memory of this experience or so I thought later. At age five, same day I drowned in an above ground pool, I stared up at the surface where my three year old sister was floating, she tried to get the adults attention because somehow she knew I was in trouble. I myself was in a mystery at this point because while standing there looking up I didnt know how to get there. That is the last thing I remember, and then nothing. After I had taken my official breath of water my sister was able to get my other uncles attention, who jumped in the pool fully dressed, cowboy boots on and pulled out of the pool and then administered mouth to mouth, different uncle, same day, same gift of life. Again my only memory was standing on the bottom of the pool staring at the surface, wondering how to get there, then nothing. After these two experiences I had two reoccuring nightmares for years that would repeatedly would have me waking up screaming. The nightmares not especially scary at all, strange in fact because they were about cake and ice cream, my mother, and leaving the planet earth. How? One was sugar cones of ice cream stacked one atop the other high into the sky I could not see the end but I knew that the top ice cream was my mothers ice cream and I climbed these cones that led me high above the earth into space until I reached it. I take the cone and I eat it, my mothers ice cream, having left her behind on the earth I woke up screaming, that dream was over, the same every time for years. The next nightmare was about cake. I sensed someone with me it felt male, but my attention to detail wasnt focused on him, but he had taken me to the outer orbit of earth, and vividly I remember seeing our planet down below as an astronaut would, I knew it was earth, I didnt think much about why I was above it and not on it. After being taken to orbit by this presence I would then begin to cover the whole earth with cake, I was making a cake to cover the whole planet, and then suddenly as before I realized that my mother was down there on the earth and I had just covered her in cake and I felt as though I buried her on the earth under my cake, and I would wake up screaming. Again this nightmare persisted for many many years, so often that the vivid images are still with me. As this story has one more profound experience I am going to pause for now, I hope there is someone who would like to hear the ending, as I will write it soon.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

This is why I know life exists after death. This is my own personal experience and memories of death. Why would your unfortunate experience with the repeated negligence of those charged with your care as a child and a combination of vivid imagination and manufactured memories cause you to decide life exists after death?
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

Here there is no debate.Having seen nothing in you account that amounts to convincing evidence of an afterlife, I am inclined to agree with you.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

I see someone is doubting the whole of my experiences. For the end of my story I will begin now. At ten July 5th 1981 I hadn't been myself lately as I was an active child. I wasn't as energetic as usual, felt a bit sick with a headache for about by now. It was a hot summer day in northern California when my friends stopped by to ask me if I wanted to go to their grandmas and go swimming. I faked feeling better and off I went to go swimming just up the street from my home. A short time later I dove off of the diving board into the pool, when I surfaced it felt as though I had an explosion inside of my head. So painful I could barely see. My friends thought I was crying wolf and started teasing me about a bee being on my head, but all I could do was scream and try and find the edge of the pool and try to get out which I did. Twenty paces or so later as I held my head together as I thought my brain was coming out I collapsed into a patch of clovers covered in bees. My neighbor seeing that I was in serious trouble helped me to my house where I was then rushed to the hospital. My next memory was opening my eyes and seeing my mother, I smiled, I was in the ambulance being rushed to a city hospital in the next town. I had suffered a ruptured blood vessel in my cerebellum, a brain aneurysm, for which after the angiograms and spinals I was being prepared for surgery and expected not to live. I remember none of what was happening around me as I was unconscious at that point. What I do remember is my experience of leaving the world I knew into a place in the heavens. Here is what I seen:It was dark, like the night sky, all I could see were pinpoints of light much like stars, I knew who I was and where I had come from and who I had left behind. I was not hot or cold, hungry or scared, lonely or longing, I had no emotions in the human context nor was I sad. I felt as though I was being held in a bubble or cupped in unseen hands, I had no emotions so feeling safe was not relative. I could see, I remembered myself, and in this state I remember holding out my arms to look at my hands as if to see myself, I felt myself doing this but there was nothing there for me to see, I was not inside my body, yet I knew that I was alive and I knew I was a spirit and no longer a physical being. I understood the concepts of being outside the body and being a spirit as if I had always known it, there is no fear here, and just to let you know the spirit can see, and the spirit remembers who he is, and the soul hungers not.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

It was dark, like the night sky, all I could see were pinpoints of light much like stars, I knew who I was and where I had come from and who I had left behind. I was not hot or cold, hungry or scared, lonely or longing, I had no emotions in the human context nor was I sad. I felt as though I was being held in a bubble or cupped in unseen hands, I had no emotions so feeling safe was not relative. I could see, I remembered myself, and in this state I remember holding out my arms to look at my hands as if to see myself, I felt myself doing this but there was nothing there for me to see, I was not inside my body, yet I knew that I was alive and I knew I was a spirit and no longer a physical being. I understood the concepts of being outside the body and being a spirit as if I had always known it, there is no fear here, and just to let you know the spirit can see, and the spirit remembers who he is, and the soul hungers not.Your brain was in an altered state, you were not dead but functioning with your brain in incomplete consciousness.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: yes

I think there is because we cant just not be in the world anymore. Maybe we come back as spirits, roam new worlds, start again as someone else with out knowing it.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

Yes. I believe that there is an afterlife, either Heaven or Hell, depending on whether people know Jesus or not.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

As a Christian, I believe the bible is true, and that God created heaven and hell.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

Of course there is an after life. Just read John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life".
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

I believe thaere is. Although there is only one possible way, to date, of knowing for sure. Thats dying and experiencing what comes, then coming back to life to tell us about it. There no way anyone can say for sure. I qwould like there to be. Not existing would suck, im sure.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

In a sense that there is something like singularity, all locations at every magnitude at all times in one single zero-sized spot at one single moment. But such an idea is not important to us humans.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: Yes

If there wasn't an afterlife, then what would one be afterwards? Is it possible to be nothing? Really, that kind of thing is beyond human comprehension.For one thing, people have to have souls. Everyone has a kind of light in their eyes before death, and if people don't have a soul then how come we haven't created any humans? Taken dead ones and made their hearts beat and brains function? It would be very hard, but possible, if we isn't have souls. So, in that case, there would be some kind of afterlife for our souls anyway.
Debate: Is there an "afterlife" after death?
Side: No

In order for there to be an afterlife, some part of you would have to survive death.When you die, your physical self ceases to function. This means your brain, your nervous system, your eyes, your ears, your nose etc... cease to function.We know that memory is stored within the brain. If the brain ceases to function, you no longer have memory.We can trace instincts, and emotions to different centers of the brain. If the brain ceases to function, then once again we lose the ability to have these instincts or emotions.Cognitive thought also takes place in the brain, and like the others I mentioned would be impossible without the brain.In fact, there are conditions in which the brain is damaged and we can witness what happens when parts of the brain cease to function. Alzheimer's for example causes people to lose their memory.So the question is, if some part of you did survive after death, would it even be you?There would be no thought, no emotions, and no memory. You wouldn't be able to see (no eyes) or even process sight (no living nerve cells).Essentially, what you experience after death is the same as what you experience before birth. Nothing.Therefore, unless you can point to some specific part of a person that exists outside of the body, and could continue on after death then the only logical conclusion is that there is almost certainly no afterlife.