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Octavius
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The living dead.
#5594672 - 05/05/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Many of us here, I'm sure at one point or another, have thought about death and life after death. If there is another side after we die, sorta like a parallel existance, or even an existance that isn't so parallel, it is a relief to know that this life doesn't end with complete darkness. Do we or do we not need to think about this stuff to continue on with our lives, this is a very important question because in my experiences it took me a whole lot of time to get through this issue. So what are some thoughts of yours on the afterlife, reincarnation and other issues of the same nature?
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5594692 - 05/05/06 03:33 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"it is a relief to know that this life doesn't end with complete darkness"
It would be a relief for me! But I don't know! I wish! I want to be a galaxy so bad
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5594718 - 05/05/06 03:42 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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So what are some thoughts of yours on the afterlife, reincarnation and other issues of the same nature?
I don't believe in any sort of afterlife whatsoever. Some people find it rather discomforting to imagine that death is the end of any sort of consciousness, but I choose to look at it as being realistic.
At any rate, I refuse to knock the beliefs of others. Just because they don't happen to coincide with mine doesen't make them any less viable.
Ya dig?
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Octavius
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Thanks for the responses. To me I see different routes of returning to life, only if we dematerialize our bodies back to small minute particles of life, like one celled organisms. Then return just the same way we were created through Evolution.
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5594740 - 05/05/06 03:54 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well I can tell you one thing: dead mammals stink really bad!
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5594741 - 05/05/06 03:55 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Really it's impossible to know. We can theorize and listen to people who've had Near Death Experiences, but we can never know for sure until it is our time to go. Perhaps life can be likened to a dream, and when we die, we just wake up into another dream, eternally. Or maybe we continue to wake up into successive dreams until a certain point is reached. All very interesting ideas, but ultimately I feel they are most irrelevent, as our imagination of what will happen many years in the future should not influence our Present Moment.
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Re: The living dead. [Re: dblaney]
#5594757 - 05/05/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's not impossible to know. Either you know or you don't know.
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5594760 - 05/05/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You only need to think about death if you need to think about death. If you don't then you don't. It only affects you if you want it to. A dog dies. Does a dog need to think about death?
Who knows what happens when you die?
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Icelander]
#5594776 - 05/05/06 04:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i believe in the afterlife, and also many different dimensions and realms of existence
i like to look at it as a dream with some constraints, but much less so than our current physical limitation
death imho is a very liberating thing, where as the physical body is a very limiting thing
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Re: The living dead. [Re: TheGus]
#5594792 - 05/05/06 04:20 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You could be right. In the mean time...
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Re: The living dead. [Re: Octavius]
#5595033 - 05/05/06 05:41 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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it is a relief to know that this life doesn't end with complete darkness.
Here's something to consider. If consciousness doesn't go on, there would be NOTHING, as in no consciousness, not "consciousness remaining in complete darkness". Of course thats a scary thought like "lights out" while still awake/conscious in a strange new place can be.
Its hard, impossible actually to imagine zero consciousness, zero awarness. All you can do to get close to it is think back to time lost, while put under anesthesia, while sleeping without any memory of dreaming, or during an unconscious black out. That's not scary.
If consciousness ceases then nothing is nothing to fear. If it continues, it continues in another form of light to be aware in so, nothing to fear again.
I wonder how many people while attempting to imagine what its like being consciouly dead picture themsleves aware in a dark coffin six feet under and freak out about as they would if they were consciously aware and alive? Of course that thought is creepy scary as all hell. Its not like what the ceasing of consciopusness would be like though.
If it goes on it will be like what so many who have had NDE's say you feel pulled up through a light tunnel (subtle energy bodies withdrawing up and out through the crown chakra) and your awareness moves on to other planes of existance.
If this is it for our one and only experience at consciousness, I like something Abe Lincoln said;
It's not about how many years you lived but how much you lived within your years.
He was a wise man.
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