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04 Sep 2010, 9:11 pm

GreySun369 wrote:
Does my idea sound too crazy or based on misinformation? :?

your ideas are great 8)
i have good personal reasons to believe in the existence of eternal spirits. and since spirits are a form of energy, i believe that they are part of the 3rd law of thermodynamics which states "all energy is conserved- it may not be destroyed, only transformed." also, a one-lifetime limit on incarnations seems like an awful waste of spiritual potential.
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05 Sep 2010, 4:38 am

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I've also heard the theory that nothing completely goes away in this world, that our atoms (or something like that) continue to exist after we deteriorate. Maybe the tiny peices we're made of is what our "soul" is? And they just continue to go through cycles and rebuild into new things? Then after our planet dies as it'll happen eventually, our particles float through space to become new life on other planets.


"Every atom in our body is as old as the big bang."


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05 Sep 2010, 10:23 am

I fear that there is an afterlife. I'm fine with ending, but I don't want to get stuck in some religion's hell because I didn't know which one to pick.

Sociobiology suggests that religion was a result of evolution, that our brains got so smart that we realized our own mortality, and we needed something to make that not such a horrible thing to contemplate.

I think the real issue we have with ending is the same issue we have when we get to the end of a good story (novel, movie): We want to see what comes next. But I've seen plenty of stories that never have sequels, and plenty of canceled TV shows, so I cynically figure that my life is the same way.

It may also be useful to consider time as static, and that each moment that you existed has a different "you" in it, like an insect trapped in amber. Each "you" sees all the previous yous and thinks that they're part of the same being. If you looked at time "from the side", you'd see yourself as a long pink worm, starting at the moment you were conceived, and ending as you die. A slice through the worm is you at a single moment in time. So why does it matter that the worm has ends?