what he was talking about involved the semantics of it. the part where he said people say they are Christians but don't follow all the rules but they follow the customs etc etc
That's because the word "Christian" means something different to them. It's more than mere semantics.
I don't give it much thought. I like to live in the moment, I don't want to spend time thinking about what might happen to me other than being eaten by bugs while in a wooden box in the ground.
I guess that I'll just input that I've heard a few anti-creationists say how they might think it possible that a kind of "reincarnation" might be plausible, but not in the regular ways proposed by certain religions, but in ways that we can't necessarily comprehend; after all, why were we given a first "identity" in the first place? I'm still not sure what they mean. But I can say that atheism doesn't always mean belief in a infinitely voided afterlife...AFAIK.
Nothing.
Blackness.
Life is over, goodbye. Your brain and body can't function, so why should you be able to see, hear, or smell anything? I mean really, you'll just rot in a hole.
I don't outrightly believe that -NOTHING- occurs, but on the same note, I've never seen any proof of anything occuring, suppose I'd be agnostic in that respect.
I don't believe in any deities, higher powers or anything like that, but when my Poppa passed, he visited my Nana frequently. She wasn't crazy, didn't have dementia, wasn't spiritual, but she was visited by him, and I believe her. I don't know what that means, and I won't pretend to either.
Permanent. Nothing.
Permanent. Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Beyond your comprehension, i presume?
Anyways, unless you are somehow reborn via having all those atoms and such being birthed the exact same way as you were, then lucky you
you have a 2nd life
Since those atoms had separated, you would be a new person, and the chances of all of those atoms coming together again are extremely, EXTREMELY small.
I know
maybe i didnt emphasize my point enough.
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You are now reading this. You just lost the game.
You have just read this. You are also manually breathing.
Humans prepare for the future all their lives, yet meet the next life totally unprepared.
"No matter where you prepare your last bed,Walking Skeletons
No matter where the sword of death falls,
The terrifying messengers of death descend,
Horrid and giant; and glare with thirsty eyes.
Friends and family, weeping, surround you.
Eyeing your wealth and possessions,
They offer prayers and enshroud you.
Unprepared, you pass away;
Helpless and alone."
Not Cave Johnson.
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Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
So as to not poison my response I have only read the first two posts.
Depending upon the surrounding conditions: my body will either rot or be preserved (natural mummification is a possiblity). Once my brain breaks down I will cease to exist as a conscious entity, though approximate copies of me may live on in the memories of those still living. My body will decompose and the nutrients will be recycled. I will eventually be forgotten, like the billions of others before me. I can be happy that the nutrients of my body will nourish future life to come and I can hopefully give back the atoms I loaned for my brief existence in the universe.
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If you are a Battletech/Mechwarrior geek you may enjoy my Timberwolf/MADCAT model (the source of my avatar) (warning: image-heavy link target) I will often edit my posts after I have posted them in an attempt to improve their clarity (I value a few high quality posts over several low quality ones; the more lengthy the post, the more time it requires to edit) so you might want to wait for a while if this post is recent and refresh to see if anything has changed before replying to it.
In Buddhism we hold that the retributive process of karma goes on for more than one life. It's known as Samsara. It is the process of being born over and over again in different times, perhaps infinitely. Only when Karma is realised, it ends the cessation of rebirth and ends the suffering.
A common way of putting this is to imagine the entire world as an ocean, and we are all ripples. Due to winds, tides... a wave may seem an individual entity creating some illusion that is has self or purpose, but it is gone in the next moment. It is water motion. This process can be compared to life. The up and down motion of the sea is no different from the wheel of life, surging, falling and resurging.
And thusly applying the Laplacian operator to ourselves yields our second time derivative up to some constant multiple that is the inverse of the square of our wave speed.
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Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
About Karma: Nobody knows for sure what they did in the 'past life' however, and how that's guiding their 'present life'. So the whole thing becomes meaningless, for, if you don't even know what you were and what you did in the previous life, how is it going to help you learn from your mistakes and become a better person in this life?
It's not really about keeping score. You basically just use the teachings as a guideline for this life. Using the water matephor basically look at it like sticking your finger in a pool of water at one specific point. The ripples you make will be small in comparison to the tide but it does make difference... if small.
Disclaimer: I'm not Buddhist but I enjoy some of the philosophy of Buddhism. I wouldn't say I "believe" in reincarnation or Karma but I find them to be interesting concepts.
That's because the word "Christian" means something different to them. It's more than mere semantics.
edit for clarity: nothing else happens..
Many good things come from Sweden, like minecraft and.... umm.... did i alredy say minecraft?
if u put redstone in jukebox, will it play redzone?
Blackness.
Life is over, goodbye. Your brain and body can't function, so why should you be able to see, hear, or smell anything? I mean really, you'll just rot in a hole.
I don't outrightly believe that -NOTHING- occurs, but on the same note, I've never seen any proof of anything occuring, suppose I'd be agnostic in that respect.
I don't believe in any deities, higher powers or anything like that, but when my Poppa passed, he visited my Nana frequently. She wasn't crazy, didn't have dementia, wasn't spiritual, but she was visited by him, and I believe her. I don't know what that means, and I won't pretend to either.
I know
maybe i didnt emphasize my point enough.
You have just read this. You are also manually breathing.
Not Cave Johnson.
Now there's a man who knows how to live.
Depending upon the surrounding conditions: my body will either rot or be preserved (natural mummification is a possiblity). Once my brain breaks down I will cease to exist as a conscious entity, though approximate copies of me may live on in the memories of those still living. My body will decompose and the nutrients will be recycled. I will eventually be forgotten, like the billions of others before me. I can be happy that the nutrients of my body will nourish future life to come and I can hopefully give back the atoms I loaned for my brief existence in the universe.
I will often edit my posts after I have posted them in an attempt to improve their clarity (I value a few high quality posts over several low quality ones; the more lengthy the post, the more time it requires to edit) so you might want to wait for a while if this post is recent and refresh to see if anything has changed before replying to it.
And thusly applying the Laplacian operator to ourselves yields our second time derivative up to some constant multiple that is the inverse of the square of our wave speed.
It's not really about keeping score. You basically just use the teachings as a guideline for this life. Using the water matephor basically look at it like sticking your finger in a pool of water at one specific point. The ripples you make will be small in comparison to the tide but it does make difference... if small.
Disclaimer: I'm not Buddhist but I enjoy some of the philosophy of Buddhism. I wouldn't say I "believe" in reincarnation or Karma but I find them to be interesting concepts.
It's scary to think about, sometimes I wish I could believe in souls or something so it didn't seem so unknown and macabre.
-Brony-
Sort of off topic I suppose but you post gave me an amusing conclusion.
"This debate is about whether or not life ends with a period or a coma."
Yeah, stupid now that I've typed it out but I was briefly amused.