(August 24, 2015 at 6:05 pm)Celestine Wrote: Making a lot of assumptions there, one you assume I believe in the big bang or the big crunch, I don't.What the HELL does the big bang or the big crunch have to do with this!?
Death is nothing to be afraid of, once you are dead there will be no more suffering, no more anxiety just peace. Now this might tempt some people into committing suicide, it is my belief that you can not escape life. I believe strongly that we collectively will experience existence again and again in some form or another for all eternity, an eternity of the joys of living as well as an eternity of suffering that comes with being alive. I view it as rather depressing and would prefer to being dead forever which in a sense I suppose I will be, in the sense that i will never again be who I am now. My greatest concern with my own belief is that by this logic I will exist one day as a female which I guess kind of works out if I come across as something like a praying mantis.
I am beginning to ponder if consciousness is a universal material by which all things happen, and that our brains are simply using it in the way that a light bulb uses electricity, I wonder what would happen if you would remove the part of the brain that defines us as individuals. You may ask what happens to you after you die, but have you ever asked how you came to be in this world in the first place? Many would say that since we have brains we are aware of ourselves, so in there must lay a clue to the answer, but does consciousness limit itself to our brain? If it is a universal material then it would not, and rather than a cosmic consciousness being a higher level of consciousness I would call it the base level. It should be noted I really don't like using the term consciousness because it means the state of being aware, and I would much rather there be a name for this hypothetical substance. If there is one already then I do not know of it.
Peace? The part of the brain that identifies and registers peacefulness will be shut off when I die, along with the rest of my brain. Nope. Your completely unsupported conclusions do not tempt me to anything but. Eternity does not exist, at least in the sense that things will be happening for all of eternity. The inevitable heat death of the universe would stop eternity right in its tracks. With your logic, you have been and will be a female an INFINITE amount of times, the same amount of times that you have had sex with a monkey in your previous lives.
Blah blah blah. Do you have ANY evidence to support ANY of these claims? Jesus, you are a endless spouting fountain of crap.