What do you believe in regarding death
Do you believe in the idea of an after-life in some shape or form?
Maybe reincarnation some way or another?
perhaps your spirit or 'life energy' transcends your body, and you can explore the galaxy?
Personally, I haven't ever really been able to cling to any belief behind death...I'd like to believe that we are more than just a lump of flesh, nerves and synaptic relays, but...I dunno, the brain is an amazing thing, so amazing that it can even fool itself I think.
The only thing I don't believe in, is hell. I solidly don't believe in it, the concept just doesn't compute for me.
Whenever I think about death I get really depressed, because I can't grasp the concept of not existing...rather, not existing consciously, because even when I do die, the matter that made me will still exist in some form or another.
If you believe in something, what leads you to believe it? what conclusions did you come across when thinking about it? did you ever sit down and really think about it?
When you press "post new reply" did you think long on the BS 'joke' answer you will provide?
anyone care to start this one off?
Maybe reincarnation some way or another?
perhaps your spirit or 'life energy' transcends your body, and you can explore the galaxy?
Personally, I haven't ever really been able to cling to any belief behind death...I'd like to believe that we are more than just a lump of flesh, nerves and synaptic relays, but...I dunno, the brain is an amazing thing, so amazing that it can even fool itself I think.
The only thing I don't believe in, is hell. I solidly don't believe in it, the concept just doesn't compute for me.
Whenever I think about death I get really depressed, because I can't grasp the concept of not existing...rather, not existing consciously, because even when I do die, the matter that made me will still exist in some form or another.
If you believe in something, what leads you to believe it? what conclusions did you come across when thinking about it? did you ever sit down and really think about it?
When you press "post new reply" did you think long on the BS 'joke' answer you will provide?
anyone care to start this one off?
Comments
Personally, I don't fear death, nor do I welcome it, but I'm not afraid of it because I know there are better things ahead.
Originally posted by InactionMan
It's the same as when you pass out. Everything starts fading and goes black. Except when you die that's it. I firmly believe that this is all there is.
Ditto.
There is no afterlife. When we die, that's it, game over.
A distinct lack of dreams, though, which will make it a little less satisfying.
Originally posted by HOM
Ditto.
There is no afterlife. When we die, that's it, game over.
yeah, that's basically the conclusion I come to...which is really depressing.
Originally posted by HOM
There is no afterlife. When we die, that's it, game over.
How sad for you to believe such a thing
I suppose this means you only believe in the physical world, that which you can see.
I believe God is all about relationships. Everything in creation relates to other things in various ways. The order of nature shows us the relationships within the biology of living plants and animals within and amongst the wider realm of creation. Everything relates in this system. We are relational beings and have relationships with others in our life here and now. I believe God is seeking our recognition of his will and purpose for this master order. I believe God is a spirit and longs for our spirit to come into accordance with His be it a range of our least of earnest attempts to our more clear attempts to seek Him. God asks for our obedience but forgives us of our sin. God makes promises and the entire Bible is packed with messages or teachings of obedience to God's principles and / or the understanding of God's will. Such yielding and gaining of knowledge and practice of these truths are rewarded be it in the natural or the supernatural. Rewards that nourish the flesh or rewards that nourish the spirit for the prospect of further developed understanding from our standpoint.
I believe life is a supernatural gift and God without doubt is supernatural. To God be all glory as he is the source of all that is.
Fellowship
Originally posted by Dale Sorel
How sad for you to believe such a thing
I suppose this means you only believe in the physical world, that which you can see.
Rather that which you can touch
The closest thing I consider to death is falling into a black hole--the curvature of spacetime gets so extreme as one approaches the event horizon that the entire external universe vanishes into a point and disappears into nothing (think of it as going deeper into an infinite tunnel where the light at the end of the tunnel is the rest of the universe).
I think the real question is what is existence?
Originally posted by Existence
...what is Existence?
you're freaking me out man :lol"
Originally posted by murbot
I'll answer next season when we don't have a CBA.
Yes, there will be no NHL Center Ice down here and therefore plenty of extra time to contemplate such things. Even if there is no lockout and the Pens get Ovechkin (Malkin at worst), there still might not be anything worth watching for some of us... word is they're staying in Russia regardless of whether they get drafted. Ovechkin signed a multi-million dollar contract extension already so there's little incentive to come over here. He's either going to be with Pittsburgh or Washington... I'm sure he's thrilled.
But seriously, we've been down this road before. I have to hope there is some kind of afterlife for most of us. The heaven and hell thing seems a little to obviously a means of controlling people, as every religion and every primitive tribe known to man has some version of this and the only way to get in is to always "play by the rules". Even if the rules of one tribe or religion are completely at odds with another. The whole notion is just very inconsistent and even less so when you consider the nature of God.
Unless he just likes to create us for entertainment to see where free will takes us, I have to imagine that for most of us, when we die he brings our consciousness back to him somehow... so that we can understand everything that is now beyond us. The stars, the universe, the hows and whys.
Near as I can figure, I the only way you miss out on this is to deny your own humanity and basically treat everyone (including yourself) like an ass. The wreckless people who act like they just don't give a damn, whether it's cutting in line or running you off the road or screaming in your face or something worse. I'd like to think those people just take a dirt nap literally, and all consciousness leaves them. Sort of like they stamp out their own spirit in life and by the time they die, there's nothing left.
Whereas with the rest of us (hopefully), there's something left and it goes... out there somewhere... to see the cosmos maybe and the origin of all things.
Myself, I believe in reincarnation. When I die, I'll go to sleep for a little while, then wake up somewhere beautiful, with friends from this life and lives of the past. This place will be a nice spot to just chill out for a little while - reflect on the life I just completed, chat up some old buddies, talk to the gods a little. It'll be good times. When I'm ready to join the living again, I'll be reborn into a whole new scenario.
The afterlife is what we make it out to be, really. If my ideas sound outrageous, then just accept that they only really exist as padding from the unknown. After all, how many people can tell you that they have experienced the afterlife first-hand? In the end you just have to believe in whatever makes you the most comfortable with death, or whatever you find to be the most logical. Those two factors don't always match up. \
its real weird to think that nothingness can exist...has there been any scientific study of this???
Me neither. There are no repeat performances, no encores, the show isn't going to tour. So make it a good one.
But then seems to me that makes it all the more special; all the more important to try and get it right.
Originally posted by segovius
I go for 'eternal recurrence' - that is on death you are born again to the same parents in the same place in the same year and live your life in exactly the same way till you die at the same time.....over and over and over.....
That's why you get deja vu - you really have done it all before, it is not a signifier of reincarnation and makes no sense as such.
Actually, this is kind of an interesting take on things, especially if you apply the "multiverse" thinking to it. Where, you may be the same person, born to the same parents. But maybe your actions are exactly the same up to a point, where upon you do something or make some decision differently than you did the first time (or time before), and from then on everything in your life could be subtley (if not completely) different.
Or maybe your life is totally different because in this multiverse, your parents conceived you a month earlier or later, or a year earlier or later. Basically the whole multiverse thing boils down to the possibility that there are potentially "other yous" out there (past and future), and each one follows a unique path based on the decisions made by that version of you. How all those "yous" would be tied together (assuming it's possible), I have no idea.
The whole multiverse thing is kind of flighty IMO (not as scientifically grounded as other cosmological principles), but I think parts of this theory / thinking are worth investigating as they might be a part of the puzzle. I think truly all major religions and all reasonable ideas about these sorts of things are "partyly" right, and maybe in the end, we find the "truth" is an amalgamation of some or all the ideas. That we sort of "sense" some of it, but because of our own biases and cultural issues we can't sense the whole truth as long as we're down here living.