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 Jack Albertson
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 A theory on life after death
#8630650 - 07/13/08 06:53 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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1st off i must request that this not be moved to S&P
Well here it is. I was thinking about the idea of heaven and how christianity claims that you'll see everyone/thing youve ever loved. I was trying to make sense of this when i had this thought. Suppose this life and the decisions you make in it are recorded on youre soul or energy, your personality, how much positive or negative you contributed to the cycle, etc. Considering the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, what if when you die your electrical energy/soul leaves your body and travels into space. When it reaches space it's drawn to one of many places/dimensions based on the characteristics of your energy. Negative energies are drawn to a dimension of negativity and vice versa. i think that would account for the seeing all of your friends and family in heaven. If they were positive enough to make the journey.
Just a thought.
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 bloodbrother778
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I have a thought on this matter.... I heard about a belief in one of the eastern religions (think it was buddhism) that the soul will go through a "cleansing process" after death based on what you've done in this life, and that kind of got me thinking, maybe all of us have to go through "hell" at some point in order to get to "heaven", and I think this "hell" would be like having difficult psychedelic experiences that are very scary but in the process make you much more enlightened, and the ones of us that go through such experiences during life will be in the fast lane to "heaven" after we die. Btw I'm using the terms heaven and hell metaphorically because I'm not religious but I think they do loosely describe the places I'm referring to. Just a thought....
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dblaney
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What if souls/energy-bodies are actually electro-magnetically charged. Then, since opposite poles attract, negatively charged souls would be attracted to positive dimensions, and positively charged souls would be attracted to hellish dimensions. Or maybe all souls go to the big battery in the sky.
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dblaney
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Quote:
bloodbrother778 said:
I have a thought on this matter.... I heard about a belief in one of the eastern religions (think it was buddhism) that the soul will go through a "cleansing process" after death based on what you've done in this life, and that kind of got me thinking, maybe all of us have to go through "hell" at some point in order to get to "heaven", and I think this "hell" would be like having difficult psychedelic experiences that are very scary but in the process make you much more enlightened, and the ones of us that go through such experiences during life will be in the fast lane to "heaven" after we die. Btw I'm using the terms heaven and hell metaphorically because I'm not religious but I think they do loosely describe the places I'm referring to. Just a thought....
If that's true, then I really hope that everyone has a bunch of really, really, really shitty psychedelic experiences soon.
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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"
"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer
Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Jack Albertson
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Re: A theory on life after death [Re: dblaney]
#8631988 - 07/14/08 12:06 AM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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interesting.
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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 truekimbo2
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jack, i believe something kind of like that. was thinking alot about it too tonight.
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Nice.
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Jack Albertson
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Re: A theory on life after death [Re: truekimbo2]
#8632794 - 07/14/08 09:11 AM (4 months, 19 days ago) |
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truekimbo2 said:
jack, i believe something kind of like that. was thinking alot about it too tonight.
Explain
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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I don't make much sense of the concepts of heaven and hell as related to the journey from birth to death. I really just believe that heaven and hell are states of being that are felt throughout our lives and which could possibly be extended to the theoretical realms beyond the big unknown we all have to face someday, namely death. But I am not sure what lies beyond, and I've never known anybody else who holds this certainty, so it doesn't leave much to work with for me. I would say focus awareness on life itself, the life we all share now, the life we can choose to live now, and when that time comes, when the next life maybe happens to knock on our door-- well then, that life is also to be lived now.. if it comes.
And if it doesn't.. well then you could at least rest in the truth that you lived your one only life to the fullest.
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Re: A theory on life after death [Re: AlteredAgain]
#8639319 - 07/15/08 06:45 PM (4 months, 18 days ago) |
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why not try and ready yourself for graduation day?
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: A theory on life after death *DELETED* [Re: Jack Albertson]
#8640177 - 07/15/08 10:01 PM (4 months, 18 days ago) |
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Re: A theory on life after death [Re: lavod]
#8641732 - 07/16/08 09:12 AM (4 months, 17 days ago) |
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I like this idea aside from the fact that it isnt really cyclical.
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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I've had the thought many times... but there's no "negative dimensions" or any such for me. I don't think you will "see" anyone.
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Re: A theory on life after death [Re: Brugman]
#8646132 - 07/17/08 08:56 AM (4 months, 16 days ago) |
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when i say see, i guess i mean sense.
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
www.myspace.com/psilobeats
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The idea of eternal life proposed at the end of the movie American beauty might be the best explanation of life after death I have ever heard... you just have to realize that time is irrelevant
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Jack Albertson
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Death is an illusion.
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
www.myspace.com/psilobeats
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