Xibalba said:

...when it just doesn't apply at all. The kind of energy they are thinking of is some fuzzy bastardized New Age definition related to Chi or life-force or auras or whatever, when the original quote is straight physics and as such only applies to your body's heat energy and electrochemical energy, which is all released in a totally non-mysterious way when you decompose or are cremated.

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Xibalba said:

My point was that I'm tired of hearing people keep using the old "energy can't be created or destroyed, it only changes forms..." line that got drilled into their heads in seventh grade as support for their faith in life after death, when it just doesn't apply at all. 

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So how does it not apply? Would it make you feel better if I edit the post to read "state change" instead of "energy"? 
By the way, I never ever claimed anything about life and death, nor soul nor any of that other spiritual stuff. I only suggested that the idea of THE ONE MIGHT BE DESCRIBED AS ENERGY. Don't make conclusions before annalysing the information before you. What I meant was that due to the complexity of the relationship between all thing, living or inanimate, and the energy stored or used and the transition of that energy may suggest that the ONE would be where the energy realesed is collected. Now if you would like to suggest reasons why that might not be, feel free to do so, I am just playing with ideas, not making conclusions since I cannot support or disprove anything.     

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The kind of energy they are thinking of is some fuzzy bastardized New Age definition...

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I mean no offense by this, but how can you say what someone else is thinking? I was simply offering an idea to be discussed. I was not trying to suggest any underline belief and, if you read the original post you will see that only an idea was offered which was meant to be discussed. Don't assume you know what others are thinking.