luni, 25 mai 2009

Erase your afterlife!

So what happens when we die? One of the greatest appeals of christianity has always been afterlife. The fear of purgatory and the longing for eternal life have worked well to gathering millions of followers to something as bogus as the gospels.

They say that after the catholic follower dies, he or she goes to heaven to rejoice in utterly boring stuff for eternity. Now that really sounds silly. It means that in heaven in whatever form possible, there are trillions of people, because of course, not only catholics go to heaven, god loves us all. So heaven is a place, not on earth, quite crowded with good people being bored for eternity.

An explanation that so many people believe in, yet there are many simpler, and none simpler than the one the Way of the Emptiness gives. WE DIE! THAT'S IT! Of course, our soul does not. But our soul as the driving force of our body essentially dies with us, it's memory erased the moment it goes back to wherever souls live when they don't have a form.

Does that mean that we live eternally? No. Our soul does. The closest theory to that idea is of course the one with the past lives. But it misses the point. It is impossible to us to remember, even unconsciously anything from another life of the soul wearing us today. Because when the soul steps back into its own eternal wait for a body it forgets ever having one, it feels newborn again, longing for some form to take, not knowing what that might be and surely not looking for someone in particular, on earth or anywhere else.

So yeah, live, because then you die and there's nothing else.
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2 comentarii:

  1. I would dissagree...the soul can retain some facts ans memories from each life/body he has. These memories are the so called deja-vu moments, those moments that you are not aware of until the moment they actually happen.i am a firm believer in reincarnation, and maybe this is why i cannot accept the fact that, after each life, the soul become a tabula rasa...
    But i do agree that we should live each of our lives, because you don't know when you will get the chance to have the same things.

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  2. I'm not really sure why no one would accept the fact that there might be no soul.
    I mean ... of course I understand it's paintful to see it like that, but in the end it's not imposible. E.g. when a computer processor crashes, nothing else works. That could be exactly the same for humans. Everything a human is can be created (as smaller scale) already in existing robots. There are robots and software programs that can learn and take decisions based on past memories - exactly like humans. Feelings can be created as a special reaction in the brain ... nothing fancy. So what is that thing that keeps us away from thinking that we are only robots, and nothing more?
    So yes, live, cause there nothing else after that ... not even soul :)

    Cheers,
    Stef.

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