(July 20, 2015 at 11:39 am)QuarkDriven Wrote:(July 19, 2015 at 4:00 am)Little Rik Wrote: In nature the small merge into the big.
A drop of water will sooner or later merge into the creek.
The creek will merge into the river and the river will merge into the big ocean.
A cell is composed of matter and consciousness.
This consciousness can be tiny as much as you want but nevertheless there is a minute tiny amount of consciousness.
When we eat we absorb these cells.
The physical side of these cells build our body but what happen to the consciousness side of the cells?
Will it die or will enter or better say merge into our bigger consciousness?
According an Atheist point of view when the body die also the consciousness die so there is nothing left there other than
the physical side that build up our body.
Does this belief make any sense?
If it does make sense than why carnivorous people are more aggressive while vegetarians are more relaxed?
It seems that what we eat determine the way we act and think and therefore make sense to say that the consciousness of the
cells in the food that we are eating merge into our consciousness.
If we follow this line of thinking then we also have to consider what happen when our body die.
Will our consciousness die when our body die or will carry on and merge into what our feelings wish to take us?
Why would our consciousness die when as we can see in nature nothing die?
The small always merge into the big so to me it is totally UNSCIENTIFIC to say that with the physical death everything die.
What? Who says cells have consciousness? I kind of agree with what you say in "the small always merges into something bigger than itself, but I think you have the meaning behind that all wrong... No "immortal consciousness" will turn into something bigger... Energy is neither created nor destroyed... just transferred. when we die, our bodies will give up that energy and give it back to the earth, so in that sense, yes, the small (us) "merges" into something bigger.... energy, not consciousness....
You presume that the earth or matter is something sort of solid that will always be what it is now.
According to yoga matter is the solidification of something much more subtle like God thoughts so what
goes down must soon or later come back up.
Uranium is on the way up, plants too, animals too and so man.
Everything change and move.
What we give back to earth is not us.
The consciousness is not made of matter.
We surely evolved from matter but the consciousness within the matter wake up long long time ago and now
that we evolved to the human stage our consciousness doesn't really want to go back to the stage of matter
and start the journey from small to big once again.
No thanks.
Unless of course you strongly believe in matter.
In that case the chances to go back to matter are a real possibility.
But no, anyone with a tiny amount of brain matter would avoid that stage as ebola.
