Afterlife?

this is one of those romantically simple half truths.

the reality is that:
yesterday we created today.
today we create tomorrow.
and we do that statistically, by all of us together, how each of us live.

there is no magical formula. if we deny the mechanism we deceive ourselves.

the half right of course, is that outside of the physical realm, in which entropy occurs, there is not the single vector of time we experience in the 3 cartesian dimensions of space.

 

Eternity is the life cycle of the universe. Eternity is all there is.

 

The only thing he gave away was already able to be deduced from the actual definition of the word 'afterlife' But we do not even have to take Bird's word for it because it could also merely mean 'afer this life' :2thumbsup:

 

yeah, we live on.

 

"We are all, Spirits in a material World" methinks

 

that's how i take it to mean "after this life", regardless of whether anything resembling physical life in any way is involved, or anything physical at all.

 

this however, is infinitely granular, its not something homoginous.
more that infinite diversity, or close enough to infinite, is "all" there is.

 

After death you either reincarnate or hang out on the astral plane depending on personal karma .

 

There are a few "green cemeteries" around here, in SC. But you have to get buried in one of those places to be buried like that.

My family has a plot in a church cemetary so that is where my dead body will go. I wish they accepted an unpreserved corpse in a pine box. I'd prefer that.


Re an afterlife, I don't think our personal energy disperses nor ceases to exist...I believe we, as individuals in non-physical form, will continue on another plane, and our actions here in the flesh will determine what we go through on that other plane. That being said, I do or don't do things not based on what may or may not happen after my body dies.

Yes, I have definite beliefs; but in my day to day actions I'm not so concerned about what may or may not happen when my body ceases to exist. My greatest incentive is knowing I've done what I should and being able to look at myself in the mirror and like what I see.

 

eternity is too long to stay dead.

 

Perhaps eternity is a human idea as well

 

yes. this is quite possible.

and the op's propisition is one possibility. one among an infinity of others. neither more nor less probably then any other of them.

but because there is so much that is not known, i like to think, every possibility no one has as yet imagined, is at least, if not more, likely, then every one that anyone ever has.