Spirituality, Religion, it's all bullshit....

[Red]

Originally Posted by sarettah

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It is the hope of something more afterwards that keeps you tied down. The realization that "This is it" is freedom

I don't think it's hope of something afterwards, it just makes sense that there is an afterlife. Look at it this way,
the body is made up of chemical and electrical energy.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, just transformed.
Anyone that has had someone die in their arms, knows the feeling of that energy leaving the body(some consider it the soul, I'm giving it scientific terms for those in doubt of spirituality)
So where does it go? Why not into another housing?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Red

I don't think it's hope of something afterwards, it just makes sense that there is an afterlife. Look at it this way,
the body is made up of chemical and electrical energy.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, just transformed.
Anyone that has had someone die in their arms, knows the feeling of that energy leaving the body(some consider it the soul, I'm giving it scientific terms for those in doubt of spirituality)
So where does it go? Why not into another housing?

All natural things have energy that is constantly being recycled. Those things in nature that we recognize as "living" go through a life cycle (birth-life-death). As we observe from the world around us, when a "living" thing dies and you put the living thing into the ground, it's chemicals, molecules, etc are absorbed thus passing the kinetic energy inherent in those particles into the soil where when/if it is picked up, it helps in the life cycle again.

There is no reason to suspect that "WE" still exist within that energy. "WE" are a structure of thoughts/memories/whatever stored within the cells of our brains. When those cells die (or enough of those cells die) "WE" cease to exist.

The energy continues, "WE" do not.

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by sarettah

All natural things have energy that is constantly being recycled. Those things in nature that we recognize as "living" go through a life cycle (birth-life-death). As we observe from the world around us, when a "living" thing dies and you put the living thing into the ground, it's chemicals, molecules, etc are absorbed thus passing the kinetic energy inherent in those particles into the soil where when/if it is picked up, it helps in the life cycle again.

There is no reason to suspect that "WE" still exist within that energy. "WE" are a structure of thoughts/memories/whatever stored within the cells of our brains. When those cells die (or enough of those cells die) "WE" cease to exist.

The energy continues, "WE" do not.

[DrGuile]

Originally Posted by Red

I don't think it's hope of something afterwards, it just makes sense that there is an afterlife. Look at it this way,
the body is made up of chemical and electrical energy.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, just transformed.
Anyone that has had someone die in their arms, knows the feeling of that energy leaving the body(some consider it the soul, I'm giving it scientific terms for those in doubt of spirituality)
So where does it go? Why not into another housing?

That's scientific like Im a 40 year-old MILF.

Oh man, you probably got "signed up" in a few cults eh?

[Red]

Originally Posted by DrGuile

That's scientific like Im a 40 year-old MILF.

Oh man, you probably got "signed up" in a few cults eh?

I'm not saying it's a proven scientific theory, I'm just saying it makes sense.
I've had a few experiences that lead me to believe that there is something more and that we each go through many incarnations.

The reason I believe that our "essence", if you will, travels with you is this.
When I was 19, I was in the hospital with a blood clot in my leg. At one point, I had fallen into the deepest sleep I had ever experienced and felt myself floating above my body. (before this occured, I had absolutely no belief in astral projection) I saw the doctor come into my room and have a conversation with my mother. She was telling him that my breathing didn't look right. I remember fighting, trying to wake up. When I finally did, I repeated the entire conversation my mother and the doctor had, told them exactly what they had been doing while talking. They sent me down for a lung scan and found the blood clot had moved to my lungs and I was very close to death. Most people who have been with a loved one when they die say that they can feel the spirit leave the body.

Also when I was in my 20's I was a participant in a study at the University of Pennsylvania dealing with hypnosis and past lives. I discovered 2 previous lives. At the time I still wasn't sure how much of it to believe, but around that time my mother had been at a friends house who also happened to have another friend there who is a psychic. She was not there as a "psychic" she was simply there because she was a friend of my mother's friend. Anyway, she was talking to mom and asked to hold her wedding ring. She got very few impressions of my mother, but a ton of impressions about me. She told my mother I was a very old soul and told her about my past lives. She described exactly what I had experienced. I had never met this woman, nor had I told my mother about the hypnosis.

So go ahead and call me crazy, but I have my reasons.