I have and continue to devote all my time in serious thought, to life. I am not the least bit concerned with life after death. I am betting my life that if we simply reach out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to God in life, God will look after what follows. There is no question that death is a fact of life. However, despite anecdotal evidence, until we actually get there to verify it, life after death will remain a theory.
The roots of our present day theory go deep into our past, probably back to the point in our evolution where our ancestors realized they dreamed in a different ‘place’ than they lived. With a short step from fact to theory they could easily have equated sleeping with death and then come to believe the part of us that dreamed went to that place where we dreamed, after death. As they began to think more about the hardships of life, life after death evolved into a better existence to compensate for the difficulties. Over time primitive beliefs became more complicated religions in which the after life was an existence we entered only if we accepted a particular religious belief and followed prescribed religious practices during life.
In the early days of an evolving commerce, religious leaders began selling memberships in their religions, which included advance bookings at the Paradise Valley Resort. It was advertised as a place where life after death is everything we wish life before death could be. Entering the resort was supposed to be like winning the lottery in perfect health and living forever after life like the rich do before death. Membership in one religion even offers special privileges for martyrdom. As an added incentive most warn that failing to sign up guarantees an eternal stay in Hell’s Hole Lodge.
When I do give the possibility of life after death slightly more serious thought I wonder if the marketeers might have it wrong. I consider the likelihood that if there is life after death it is the mirror image of life which at the present time would not be a desirable place to be. A more worrisome thought is that existences on both sides of the ‘border’ are linked; and thus life after death is contingent on the continuation of life.
If this is a possibility then we are in serious trouble because our present apparently self-destructive activities are not only destroying life, they are also destroying what might be “after life”. This means eventually we will have neither our present place nor “a better place” in which to be. Faced with the prospect of limiting our future it seems to me both believers and non believers, should be trying to save our present the only way we can, by reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to God, our common natural activity which replaces self-destruction with self-realization. see ref.
Hi DEB you made me laugh when laughing here is the devil killing a possibility of making the truth i see you are lying you cannot expose in such rhetoric way different superficial says when at the same time you are saying especially for a poet i wish all people like you with a sense of love God stop trying to convince who they can’t i wish that we don’t care of words they need to justify their beings and just do as we feel as we think our truth maybe this will be the time that God said it shall
sorry but does he really look to you as spaghetti or did you see in thoughts why spaghetti i see flying monster you mean dragon as satan but you know God is not satan anyway why satan is a noodle shape?
Iman you are a hoot
You have this wonderful way of accusing people of lieing just because you don’t believe, this is philosophy a sharing of ideas and thoughts. Chill out and relax .
moderate is to lie philosophy is not a convivial intellectual gathering but i you say i love philosophy means i die to say the truth i feel justify DEB proove that your exposure of general views was felt necessary to what confuse you in truth or to introduce the value of what you expect of truth
In my post the word “moderating” means “make less violent, intense or rigorous”. I would like to comment further but I have difficulty understanding you. I am not sure whether the problem is at my end or at your end but I think a “period” once in a while would help.
I avoided my own post because the ‘eye doctor’ was lurking around waiting for another chance to help me see the ‘light’. Only a legend like Bessy could offer him a free one way trip with such class. For awhile I thought my brother had disguised his ‘voice’ but then decided he couldn’t be that effective. For the same reason I knew it couldn’t be my two sisters or their husbands, my sisters two sons or the spirit of my dead grandmother. Maybe by now he too thinks I am hopeless.
Regardless, I am going to take a chance and wonder if I shouldn’t rewrite “life after death”. Written for my site, it was meant to be about life. I am not a “doomsdayer” but I do feel humanity is self-destructing. I hope it matters that we don’t. If that is not to be our fate I know everyone must participate in the common purpose of preventing self-destruction by pushing the great ball of human activity up the slope to self-realization. To engage those who believe life is all about preparing for death, I tried to plant the thought that they too had better contribute to the effort just in case life and what might be after life are linked.
iman get your dictionary because i want you to understand what i am going to say you’ve been here a week you’ve made 100 posts and as far as i can tell no one has understood any of them except when you called me a moron it seems that Christianity is your first language and english is your third and your ability to use both is lacking being a Christian i know you understand that at the end there will be two doors on the left there is the door to heaven and on the right is the door we take to go to hell please take the right door
what is a door of heaven? this is what you have to say if you really see that door but keeping repeating words from somewhere said long time ago just to shut down your doubts and not to work on them as you had long time for this and not respecting the only one who is telling you of it is the attitude of a liar who fears death so much that he keeps on denying to think heaven and prefer to survive on devils who never sell but misery
i said it s kind i said who loves to love what did you say DEB other than agressing my will of loving your mind?