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one claims existence or not is irrelevant because we do exist or we wouldn't be able to make such claims.

To make a long story shorter, it is very, very, likely that you are alive. Pinch yourself, breathe the air, think about your thoughts, remember the past, measure' the electromagnetic energy coming from your body, feel the machine that does the measuring and test it to verify it is real. You are alive, especially when you are alive as a human being. So yes there is another level to all this, get ready when you are dead, you are still alive. According to some Christians eternity is a gift from God. How is this so? When one's body dies, so does one's brain, what is left? The soul? Just because the existence of the soul is not clearly verifiable by science does not falsify the existence of the soul. The soul is a possibility of life, and it would be logical to claim that the criteria of logic, or that which logic encompasses is unable to incorporate the soul in to its understanding due to a lack of evidence. This does not mean that one cannot logically state the soul exists through non-fallacious argument. Rather it means that such an argument would be considered unsound or unsupported. Such a belief itself is reasonable as it leaves the burden of proof up to the soul. Should one simply believe in something as the soul, one bypasses the need for such proof, and gambles per se on life. Non-believers and/or agnositcs often take a proof position rather than faith position in light of this uncertainty of evidence. For arguments sake then, let as call human life 'de-facto being' and spiritual life 'non-defacto being and/or non-being' as we do not know for a fact that exists. Let us then make the statement that since we do not know that it is not true that a soul exists either, the possibility of life after death also exists. Non-being then is differentiated from non-existence which is absolute certainty or the belief in an absolute certainty that complete non-existence is possible. This is so as non-being is the not being alive in the common sense, whereas non-existence is the not being alive in any sense.

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