RE: Afterlife vs Not
December 14, 2010 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2010 at 12:40 am by Malfader13.)
(December 13, 2010 at 12:31 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:(December 12, 2010 at 11:28 pm)Malfader13 Wrote: Whats your point of these questions?
Your OP seems to view the belief in no afterlife as negating the value of existing. My point is that if that idea is true then wouldn't knowing that you are going to sleep negate the value of being awake? It isn't exactly the same because we all know we are gong to wake up the next day, but similar in that we begin the day from sleep and end it in sleep, much like we are born from nothing and return to nothing after we die.
Well, I cannot personally equate sleep with death. Every one I know has recovered from sleep and been able to tell me the experience of it if I had the occasion to ask, or they to tell me. I however have not had an experience of a consciousness coming back from death to give me an account of the experience. So I go to sleep nightly, and almost as often wondering if I will wake, hoping I will, thinking most likely I will. You bring up an interesting train of thought I will have to ride out "we are born from nothing and return to nothing." That is, are we actually born from "nothing". I am really going to have to toss this around for awhile. Thank you.
