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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:26 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:41 pm
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As mentioned above, many believe in after-lives of various sorts, others in reincarnation, but I personally agree with the idea that when you die, that's just it, the end. You simply cease to exist as a person. Your body remains to rot but your mind is gone. The electrical impulses of the brain stop and thus so do "you." So, I agree with the above post on one thing -- "make the most of your life while you can" -- because it's all you've got. Sure, lots of people complain that's sad to think about, and true, it is too bad we can't just live forever as ourselves I agree, but I think the fact that there's no "after life" for which you have to waste your whole life devoting all your actions to thinking about a later life to is liberating and it's good that you don't have this re-incarnation system either because, like the above post said, it would be really frustrating to put so much into a life time only to go through a big painful death and be confounded, all your accumulated efforts, experience, accomplishments and learning lost, back to square one starting all over again.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:48 pm
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If we had eternity what would we strive for, there would be almost no motivation for anything, I mean we would have all the time in the world right? As for heaven and hell, think about how those sound. Would you really worship a god that sends thousands of people to suffer for eternity, or would you want a perfect life, with no meaning at all, basically a glorified purgatory, hell with the absence of pain. Then there is the recycled soul theory stated above, it would not be you. It might sound comforting to know that your soul lives on but it would not be you. You are made out of what happens to you, how you deal with it, and your perspective. when you lose all of these you are dead, it is all over, goodbye. Personally I see death and the split second before it as a realization that you have played your part in shaping and protecting reality before you get the chance to leave the problem to others. Please refute everything I say fiercely because I am tiered and I want to be able to fully explain what I mean when I get back.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:14 am
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On one hand, I dislike the idea of a sort of afterlife, wherein, depending on one's actions in this life, one will live in eternal bliss or eternal suffering (the heaven and hell concept.) i haven't heard mention yet of an afterlife that does not necesarilly subject one to a forever of joy or hardships (although, admittedly, it is possible someone said it and i just dont know of it). also, i don't see why we can't simply end when we die. On the other hand, however, the more fanciful side of me has me thinking, what if we become/go to whatever we belived in when we die? a sort of example would be like, if one believes in heaven or hell, then when, he dies, he'll go to one of those. if another believed in life that he would go to some magical land filled with enchanted corn and dncing trolls, then that's where he'll go to. (yeah, i realize this may seem really, erm... strange<-for lack of a better word)
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:50 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:29 pm
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I believe that when you die, you simply die; for your body. You see, I believe that your body lives, your soul lives, and your spirit lives. They go three different places because they are three different things that can not go the the same place. For your body, I believe, has to pay for all the bad things in your life, thus it rotting afterwards of your death. For your soul, I believe, gets to pay for all the good things you've done; being able to live on in another living form. But for your spirit, I believe, gets to do as it wills. Your spirit is where you mind lies. So you won't forget everything, you won't get to know a "Heaven" or "Hell" because you're not going there. You can wonder the earth or go up in space for all you care.
Now I've breached another subject in the above paragraph, read on if you want.
Ghosts, are what I believe Spirits that are too attached to earth to leave and go out and explore the rest of what is. And I say there there are a lot of them, too! It's just that some are stronger than others' Spirits, and that's why we can not see them all.
Now I believe this is a really fine idea of what happens once we die. But you believe what you want.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:23 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:43 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:56 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:42 pm
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