Tuesday, December 13, 2005
The Other Side
I wonder what it's like. If there is anything once you die. Sometimes I feel like there must be, your soul can't just disappear, but then again it seems so naiive to believe that. I ask people that don't believe in a soul to look at someone, a random person, and tell me that there is nothing more to them than electrical impulses and organs. That they are a robot. So far no one has been able to admit it. They'd have to be a complete pessimist to say that and I'm glad I've never met someone that depressing.
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wouldnt they be a nihilist?
and i am more inclined to the buddhist belief of karma than heavan, souls and life after death.
I see lifeas a one-shot thing. No soul. Personality, certainly, but nothing that'll last once it's all over.
I find that such a depressing thought. All you are, personality and all, is just electrical impulses. I don't think I could ever see things like that, when I look at someone I feel like there is more to that person. Although I don't believe in the heaven and hell system, the idea of that was basically just created to keep people in line.
Ooh nice, the other side. Is there anything? White light at the endo of the tunnel? God-like figure? A happy eternity in fucking paradise? Yeah, sure. About as likely as being judged for all my actions in life, in order to decide my ultimate fate. What a joke. It'll never be known for sure anyway, so I don't see the point in speculating. Maybe the soul will fly up to the top of a giant tree, which it turns out is actually God, and it's a really fucking stupid tree, so it keeps blowing all it's money on lottery tickets. Maybe.
I don't see why there is no point in speculating. I know you can't actually know, but there is something to be said for actually thinking about it and what your own belief system is. And you can hardly say that judgement day is a joke since you yourself said that anything is possible.
speculating about the nature of death helps us to understand the nature of life.
If one thinks of it logically and scientifically then the "mind" is electrical pulses. Therefore, it is energy. Energy, as any astute science-faring teenager will know, cannot be destroyed and cannot disappear, it can only change from one for or another. Therefore it is logical to assume that the "mind" must carry on in one way or another, scientifically speaking.
However, there is also a case for the heaven and hell theory in nature. If we look at nature we can see that it is full of opposites: light and dark. Hot and cold. Happy and sad. Pleasure and pain. Matter and anti-matter. Now, you could say that this is just a matter of human perception, but that is exactly the point: could the nature of human perception be determined by the nature of the universe? It is certainly possible.
The Buddhist principle of all of consciousness and life being as an ocean is also supposed by certain scientific theories. One such would be the basic principle of diffusion, which states that, with no outside force being applied, atoms will move from a high concentration to a low concentration. The same can be said for energy, as our universe could one day undergo large scale entropic decay, essentially losing all heat and freezing as all energy is spread out evenly throughout the cosmos. Could this be what happens when we die? Will our mind and consciousness be separated from our body and become part of a sea of consciousnesses? Perhaps.
One theory i have been thinking about recently is that the universe itself may be god. it would be all powerful (it created existence), it created itself (we're talking about a universe, not a multiverse), it never really changes (the theory of an expanding universe could be due to the fact that light has not reached the universes end yet- due to it being infinite)... i haven’t worked out all the kinks yet, but i like thinking about it.
i like stuff you don't have to think about, hence my dislike of death.
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