What is 'You'?

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(This is a short video exploring what it means to exist in this world. You probably can tell that from the title but i'm required to type something and not just post a video with no desc. so yeah )

Oh man isn't that the greatest question? People take for granted that we are here, and attribute it to this or that, and life is this or that, we all argue, but no one really knows. I was going to post a thread in this area about what makes people happy but decided to post here instead. I for one have been someone that has researched a lot of corruption in my life. Almost made me cynical to a point. Personally I believe in God, and the afterlife, mostly through what people have come back through near death experiences of the afterlife and how life here actually has meaning beyond what is in the physical, and controls where are souls go.


I had a paragraph I just deleted, but point is why are people not willing in a material world to carry out murder to make the world a better place, and then sacrifice themselves for a greater cause? Not that I would, but if there was nothing in the way of thinking it would affect life after death, why are things so well behaved. I'm assuming it's a survival trait.

You seem to be talking about two different things.

Why shouldn't we murder to make the world a better place? Well murder should be the last option, but if we run out of options, and it will objectively make the world better for all human beings, then in some rare circumstances I would say it would then be acceptable.

However the common question most religious people like to ask is "If there is no punishment in the afterlife why not just murder everyone?".

Here's the thing. No one need some external threat of punishment for murdering someone. Death is ALREADY punishment. Life is it's own reward. Yes, not everything is equal and if someone murders millions like hitler he won't be punished in equivalent to the lives he took. It sucks. He's dead. It's over. Now the only thing we can do is make sure we prevent things like that from happening again. The point is that I don't care if someone faces eternal torture or not for their actions, I really don't. Their punishment is death, and because of that the suffering stopped. I don't need them to be tortured more because it's over. It won't fix anything.

I'm sorry I can't find the words right now to explain what I want to say but I hope you get what i'm trying to say.


The golden rule by no means is new from the bible. It existed thousands of years prior. "Treat your neighbor as yourself" was a universal consensus because it was the most effective and beneficial for society. It's the realization that I am a human with thoughts, feelings, and dreams, and so are you. I wouldn't want to murder someone because I am not okay being murdered.