(September 6, 2011 at 3:03 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ... Why are we here? Where did we come from? Why do we die? Why must we suffer? All of these are great questions.
Science doesn't really answer these questions either, any more than religion really does. It can tell us the mechanics relating to our existence, can describe the chemistry, etc, etc, etc, but as to why I am I and you are you and others are themselves seems like pretty well unanswerable to me. I'm talking about subjectivity, which seems to operate on a pretty random basis. I mean presumably Gadaffi hiding in a bunker or whatever (they haven't found him yet have they? - I haven't seen any news for hours) feels just as much "I" from his point of view as I do from mine (and you yours, obviously). Yet I've always thought that's a pretty weird phenomenon. Why can't we jump around into each others' IDs? Why is MY consciousness MINE and what happens to IT when I quit this mort... I mean when I DIE?
Well my guess is as good as yours (personally I assume its the same as "going to sleep" under anaesthetic when you have an op, but without the waking up the other end bit), and so is anyone else's, but basically anyone who claims to "know" about that kind of stuff HAS to be talking BS. Because, how come they get the special knowledge denied to everyone else? Only then you come to the "nice" goddists, these really intelligent ones, university and EVERYTHING, know wha' I mean? Right on top of stuff, brains like a Tardis, and then WALLOP you find they are full of the spirit of the lord and that. Wow man, gets me every time that one! Really does my head in.
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