RE: Life after death?
July 4, 2014 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2014 at 5:32 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Purplundy Wrote: If the factuality of an afterlife affects anyone's life today, I don't think even Jesus would like that.
When I still had a seat under that tent I would have agreed with this. I don't think compliance based on ulterior motives would have ever be seen as worthy by a worthy god. For that matter it would still not be seen as worthy by anyone who is worthy, god or no god.
(July 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Purplundy Wrote: I heard a story (from a priest, actually) about people who were told they were dying. Some were going to pray until it happened, some were going out on the town. A little girl sweeping an attic said she'd just keep doing what she was doing.
Pretty Zen-ish, Catholic too? If you're not doing what you most want to do, it shouldn't take a death sentence to get you to do it.
(July 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Purplundy Wrote: Sorry if this sounds preachy, but I believe that once we're gone, we continue to exist. Most theists do. How we continue to exist is up in the air. Is the angel-party heaven as supported as mine by the Bible? Yes. I personally just scrape the bare minimum from the angel-party heaven so I can make more sense to myself and to other people.
The devil is in the details as to what it is about us which would continue after our physical demise. When you look at it, what we are in our subjective lives is pretty thin stuff even when we're alive. Whatever it is that turns a physical process into a personal experience is pretty mysterious. What makes it my personal experience is ubiquitous across individuals. This at least will continue after me just as well as it did in me. Wondering will go on, diaper changing, pain and pleasure will go on. And everywhere our incredible organisms will convert that into an experience of me. Me goes on.