The afterlife and the soul

[Brian37]

After death you will only exist in the memory of those who knew you, asking where you go after that is like asking where the music goes when the band stops playing.

Damn, awesome analogy. I am sooooooo stealing that!

Again, in several recent threads I feel it is important to keep restating the same thing. Being finite and accepting that is not advocating doom and gloom. ABBA is no longer together, and every time I play their songs, the song ends. The Redskins haven't won a Superbowl since 91 and they suck, but everyso often they beat Dallas. 

You go to a music concert knowing it will end, but you still go. You go to a movie knowing it will end, but you still go. You go to a sporting event knowing it will end but you still go. You read a book knowing it has a last page, but you still read it. You don't fear life before the concert starts. You don't fear life before you go to the movie. You don't fear the book before the first page.

Fearing a non existence afterlife is like fearing your pre life. Nobody frets over the death of a weed in their lawn, or a cockroach. Nobody thinks the dinosaurs have "souls". Humans are simply one species on one tiny speck riding in a giant weather pattern that will be here long after we are gone.

I think that the conditions that lead to us being here are fucking amazing to think about without filling it with gap answers and fictional utopias. Life has ups and downs and some get affected by both some more than others. But all you can do is take the bad with the good and keep moving on.