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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Afterlife.. (NSC)
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015
Time: 6:22:12 PM
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Message ID: 292619
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Thread ID: 292493

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Afterlife.. (NSC)

Interesting in what you believe TM, and it's more likely to be so than what some of the religions teach people, and I totally agree with your feelings about Hell. But are we really that special, and not just one of a trillion zillion living things all over the universe (I do believe in life elsewhere)? Well a part of me would say "yes, we are that special", and another part of me would say “no, we are not”. But for the part of me that feels that we are, well, I always felt that if this afterlife thing is so, then maybe, our soul - or whatever you want to call it, after we die, lifts up into space and starts to travel about in space and one day, maybe as far off as a million earth years later, that part that’s left of us lands on another planet (or even on Earth again, but not likely) and starts a new life elsewhere way from Earth – and we have no knowledge of our past life once this new life starts. So yeah, maybe something crazy like that happens, and you and I have both lived before years ago somewhere else, and we don’t recall it, since our earthbound brain wasn’t around back then to experience it, or remember it.

Perhaps a third of me feels that something crazy like that can happen, or not actually as I noted but something in that realm, but I guess the rest of me knows better and feels that no, that isn’t how it happens at all, yes there’s other life out there in the universe, but it has nothing to do with us or our past. When we die, we just die, and that’s just it, like it or not, and if you went to church every day of your life, you still aren’t going to see this great God up in Heaven and also see all of your late loved ones again who got there before you…. I had a conversation a few years back just like this with a close, Buddhist monk friend of mine…. She remembers (maybe that isn’t the word I need to use) being an actress in London in the 1920s in her past life, and I told her that part of Buddhism I don’t believe in (I don’t remember any past life), and I told her the above story, and also that deep down I think we just die and that’s it, so she said to me, “Well Keno, when we die we will find out if you’re right or not”, and I said to her, if I’m correct, no, we will never find out, since when we die, so does our brain, and it will be like we went to sleep, with no dreams, forever, and will never wake up or know I was correct.

I realize that thought of being dead forever and never awaking again is something some, if not maybe most humans, cannot accept or believe. I understand that, but it’s more than likely how it will be in the end for all of us. I don’t know for sure if there is or isn’t an afterlife, but I know for sure there isn’t some god with a son and a holy spirit (or ghost) waiting for me, nor a devil waiting for me if I refuse to believe in this god, even if I’m a good person. Only other thing I know for sure is that we all do die and we all will end up in the very same place when we do, and if that place is oblivion, so be it, if that is what happens, going to church isn’t going to change anything, and we must accept death, as the old saying goes, nobody gets out of this human race alive. Just stop worrying about all of it and enjoy what you got and live for today, as living today is something we do know a bit about. But if one wishes to believe in a god, then go ahead and do so, just don’t force that stuff on me.

For me this life would lose "Most" of it's meaning if this life was all there was to our true existence in the Universe. It would certainly be less meaningful.

Again, I cannot see why, and I’m glad I don’t look at it in that light. Life has a ton of meaning to it without believing in that stuff. It does for me and I know it does for many others who are also nonbelievers.

there is a single supreme being running everything from beyond

And how did this supreme being get started? Some force had to make the spark to create such a being, and if you want to call this being “god”, fine, but where did god come from, who made this god? Everything comes from something, was it the big bang that started god? If so, what caused the big bang? Of course, these questions cannot ever be answered by anybody, not now, and not a trillion years from now. Anybody who claims to know the answer to this is full of shit. But that’s why religions and this belief in a god or gods, or in an afterlife, is so interesting to me. It is a great question as well is if there’s an afterlife, etc. Heck that alone is worth living for, to try to figure it all out the best we can, even if the answer will never be learned.

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