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easyrider
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Yeah, I definitely wouldn't mind living for eternity but it is just too good to be true. Dont get me wrong though I have no problem going to sleep for an infinite amount of time.
ptalar said:I believe religion gives us the impetus to go on.
ptalar said:I believe religion gives us the impetus to go on. To strive. To be a better person. It strives for the better person by telling us there is an afterlife where we will live for eternity.
easyrider said:Yeah, I definitely wouldn't mind living for eternity but it is just too good to be true. Dont get me wrong though I have no problem going to sleep for an infinite amount of time.
sysreset said:I wish you would explain. I do not believe in any religions or afterlives but I feel I have a very strong impetus to go on, to strive, to be the best person I can be. My impetus comes from, I suppose, either an inate animal drive or a sense of purpose to create a better world. Religion might tell people to do good things, but what actually makes them WANT to do them? Is it really the religion or is is something else??
ptalar said:The Western World appears to be getting less religious so we may be more incentivized by the vices of life and don't realize it.
rewebster said:No one has picked "A Chance to Roam the Earth "----a lot of people do roam the Earth (if they are able) before they die as an adventure--maybe that's what they do 'after' too?
EnumaElish said:For the conscious self death is a dreamless sleep -- verbatim from a friend who technically died and was resuscitated.
There may be a part of my being that will outlive my corporeal existence, but it is not equivalent to "me" -- only part of "me."
One does not need to be religious to consider life as a gift. Indeed, it seems to me that a non-religious person like myself has even MORE reason to consider life as a gift.PeteKL said:A religious person once told me long ago that I should consider life to be 'a gift'. If a person has never existed and never will then that person cannot be unhappy or in bad health and never lose everything in the end including its life. If we go to the morgue or the cementary and we see nothing but the dead then what after life could there be? If the human conscious/awareness is determined by the flesh, brain, nerves and various chemicals which decay after death then how can we exist in an afterlife? We are determined by the body of this life. Does the invisible soul overpower the bad behaviour of the drug addict?
baywax said:Thankfully, death isn't.
Esnas said:Thankfully, death isn't what?
baywax said:Death isn't. It is not. Death doesn't exist. (our only evidence is the result of death)
Death is an empty address book.
Death is no ring tone.
Death is never - never - ever having to say you're sorry.
Death is when you smell bad, but you don't know about it.
Death is when you miss your own, big send off.
Death is a word.
Esnas said:Death is as much a mystery as life. The two cannot be seperated. If death does not "exist" then, neither does life.
baywax said:Life is only a mystery if you haven't lived. Death is a mystery because no one has returned from a year of being dead to tell us about it.
Esnas said:Someone once told me not to speak of death as being the opposite of life. He said that death was only the opposite of birth. I am intrigued by this view. When you say "life is only a mystery if you haven't lived", I assume that you mean "if you have not lived fully". Is this correct?
baywax said:Some people are so afraid of death yet are so afraid of life that they have never lived.
People like this hate living because it, quite logically, means certain death.
Fear of the unknown is a natural reaction. And death is a complete unknown.
However, a person who hates life or is frightened by life will not have experienced much of what life has to offer. So, in this instance, life is an unknown as well, and the person will be afraid of it too.
"Fully" or a "full life" would have to be defined.
Esnas said:"The full life." "A life well lived". There have been attempts to describe this. I suspect that a person who has lived life to it's fullest would not be afraid of death. He or she would embrace death as the natural consequense of having been born and would not be bothered much by it.