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Originally Posted by xexon  Death only affects the physical body.
The awareness that you have now is the same you have after death, but with fewer limitations.
To enlarge your awareness, you have to use awareness to do it. It won't happen while you rot in the grave. That part belongs to religious mythology.
Now is the time.
If you wait for death to reboot you, you'll always be looking for death, not eternal life.
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I spent more than the first half of my life believing in heaven and hell, and I'd very likely still be laboring under such fallacies if I hadn't started demanding that my operating beliefs be based on logic and reason.
There are myriads of things I'd like to believe (personally, I like the Muslim concept of 70 virgins better than the Christian concept of pearly gates and streets of gold - very nice, but also a bit cold). But as an agnostic, I can only believe in what stands up to some modicum of rationality. And neither Islam nor Christianity, nor any other "world religion" I've studied even comes close.
What you refer to as "rebooting" is nothing more than the "leap of faith" that I tried to make, but was never successful at, simply because I was called on to completely abandon any semblance of logic and reason. If God created me as a sentient human being with a functioning brain, why would he require me to put it in neutral in order to join his fold?
None of that ever made sense to me, and still doesn't.