Heavens not so great

[Tyrfingr]

Originally Posted by aperio

I swear to you I don't mean for this to come across sounding sarcastic, but it must really suck to live a life where you have have seemingly convinced yourself that this is all there is and when you die, it's lights out, nothing more. Seems rather pointless really.

Well think of it this way.. Death is like before you were born. How horrifying is the thought of going back to that. Besides we simple mortals know nothing of the afterlife. Perhaps reincarnation isn't a falsarium either, we just don't know. That's were faith plays a part, you hope for what you want things to be in the end, a sort of comfort that death isn't the final end.

[CopyCat]

I can't buy the reincarnation theory, no kind of logical scientific thinking would suggest so...
And even if it were so, what good would it be if you had no memmory of it... Like say if I had
been Friedrich Nietzsche or Moses in a earlier life... It would have no meaning to my
reincarnated self, so what good would that be ???

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[Tyrfingr]

Originally Posted by CopyCat

I can't buy the reincarnation theory, no kind of logical scientific thinking would suggest so...
And even if it were so, what good would it be if you had no memmory of it... Like say if I had
been Friedrich Nietzsche or Moses in a earlier life... It would have no meaning to my
reincarnated self, so what good would that be ???

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I don't buy the reincarnation either. I am a sceptic who simply live as i was born, and see the world with what my senses tells me. I only mentioned reincarnation as a valid option of what might happen after death, at least it makes more sense than any established religion printed in books with laws to follow. I believe in science, but i don't apply it to everything that requires a little more, say, philosophy. Our counciousness for instance and when and how it begins, and the diversity of it seems a little hard if not impossible to explain in scientific terms. Existencial questions i believe are something that every person needs to come up with an answer to on their own in order to make sense of everything. It is of course just my oppinion on the matter. I don't dwell on these questions more than on these occations, life to me is just that. Life. As for the end, who knows, it might just blink out - The end. I'm just a simple mortal with no answers to what lies beyond my conciousness, if as i said, there is anything beyond it at all.


To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest blessing for a man, men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

--Socrates (469-399 B.C.), quoted by Plato in the Apology.

[Toaster_Jesus]

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