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The Afterlife Party (Soul Food for Thought)

from Truth Before Comfort by Buck Bowen

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What is the soul? Is it physical?
Does it ever die? Is it immaterial?
If it’s immortal in ethereal form
I’m curious, where did it exist before we were born?
Where does it reside? Is it inside our head?
In our entire body? Is it limited within our chest?
Does the soul change?
If a child dies young, does the soul persist to grow to its adult state?
And if you’re challenged mentally or physically
Upon your death do you acquire insight or ability?
And what about the twins arising from a single egg
When the cell divides does the soul comply and split two ways?
Into half or whole?
Do conjoined twins get to have their own? What’s an actual soul?
I’ve yet to be given a definition that’s consistent
Plus not in contradiction with the laws of physics 1

It’s soul food for thought, that I got
‘Bout the afterlife party, the afterlife party
It’s soul food for thought, if you want
‘Bout the afterlife party, the afterlife party

If the soul happens at the moment of conception
Then, it is a process and can be detected
But if it can’t as would some say
I wonder how they knew the soul existed in the first place
Could they be more wrong?
The soul as a non-substantial substance is an oxymoron 2
By what mechanism does a soul detect an image?
If it doesn’t have a retina I suspect it’s lacking vision
How can it retain our personality after we die?
When we know our neurons cease to survive 3
Perhaps you know someone who’s had a stroke with tragic loss
You’re saying they regain the faculties lost after they’re gone? 4
I think you better check again
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence 5
And about the truth,
Assertions without grounds can be dismissed without proof 6

It’s soul food for thought, that I got
‘Bout the afterlife party, the afterlife party
It’s soul food for thought, if you want
‘Bout the afterlife party, the afterlife party

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from Truth Before Comfort, released September 13, 2013
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01. Sean Carroll: We Don’t Have Immortal Souls:
•http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/sean-carroll-we-dont-have-immortal-souls

Physics and the Immortality of the Soul:
•http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/#.Ue4UEOCetsQ
Seriously, The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Really Are

Completely Understood:
•http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/09/29/seriously-the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-really-are-completely-understood

02. The Soul: “Skeptic Robert T. Carroll suggests that the concept of a non-substantial substance is an oxymoron”

03. “When brain cells die during a stroke, abilities controlled by that area of the brain are lost.”
•http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=stroke

04. “Two million brain cells die every minute during stroke, increasing risk of permanent brain damage, disability or death.”
•http://www.stroke.org/site/DocServer/STROKE_101_Fact_Sheet.pdf?docID=4541

05. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” appears in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update) [Episode 12] 1:10 sec

06. “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” appears by itself in Christopher Hitchens’ book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007).

Footnote: Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Rabbi David Wolpe, Rabbi Bradley Artson Shavit debate Is There An Afterlife?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VXiF1MRvIE

This song was born while reading p. 283 of How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass by Christopher DiCarlo, 2011.

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