What is this, pigs-fly week? I didn't know they served mints.

Wolfgang, I have nothing but respect for a person who can abandon a fond conviction in the face of evidence. It is a noble act, of great integrity, to be so true to what you see, that you are willing to let go of something important that you thought.

Little Hawk, however, does not deserve quite as much vehemence as you offer him, I would suggest, because he is discussing things that simply don't fall on the same table, or at least do so from a different spectrum. I would be interested to discover evidence so compelling of the absolute materiality of all things that it would somehow outweigh all the evidence I have encountered of things being otherwise.

But I promise you this. As you may have surmised I have a fond conviction that in addition to having a reasonably good body (for its age) which I can be one with at will, I also have a mode of existence which is completely whole, aware, intentional, perceptive, and independent of the body.

I do not believe that dying is a simple and final blackout where all consciousness terminates.

But when I die, if it turns out that that IS what I experience, I promise you I will willingly change my mind about my cherished, but fallacious, convictions,, and will accept the evidence I encounter.

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