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Re: what's your take on the afterlife
05/18/11 01:42 AM
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> i agree on there being something beyond what we perceive, even the idea of a unified
> consciousness can make sense, but what compelling evidence is there that we will be a
> part of it? even the idea of a unified consciousness can make sense.
No evidence, really. Sometimes you just have to follow your gut.
> as for near-death incidents, i thought the same thing at first. that it was
> exceptional and proof... but the more you talk around and open up, you realize that
> many people, millions, have had the same experience. at what point does your
> experience become not un-common and simply just a part of living?
Kind-of my point as well. Maybe there ~IS~ something steering us, guiding us. Maybe it just seems unique and special when it happens because nobody really talks about it, or passes it off as silly hokum. Maybe the experiences would be the 'norm' if we were more aware of what causes them.
Everyone was certain the earth was flat for a while too...
> if you throw enough apples in a wood-chipper, some of them will come out unscathed.
> do you say it's a miracle, or a product of massive numbers versus chance? from the
> apple's perspective it's a lifetime experience, profound and thought provoking...
> from the guy operating the wood-chippper, it's "dang, there's another apple that made
> it through". silly analogy yes, but the concept is the same.
What if those apples were meant to survive. What if some 4th dimensional force that we can't quantify at this point needs those few apples to survive for some weird reason. What if ~we~ are the ones being tossed through an upper dimensional wood chipper...hell, what if the entire earth is actually an apple. Even more trippy, what if our solar system is just some random atom in a macroscopic molecule of cosmic "apple". We could all be quarks, or gluons or some shit...
> i'm not at all trying to poo-poo your parade, but this is the type of objective
> thinking i've somehow gotten myself into.
No poo pooing seen. I know what I feel, and am open to any interpretation of it possible.
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