A little bit of a personal crisis

[FatAndFaithless]

Check my reply again, I edited in some stuff that I meant to say.

Well that's a little more to respond to.

Yes I realize that the potential energy in molecules isn't particularly transcendent (though I would argue the fantastic bit just because it kind of is in a way). What my belief is is that's only one bit of the whole picture.

my beliefs mean that we are essentially energy and that when we die that energy disperses, reforms, and becomes something new in the future. I don't find that illogical because chemically that's something that happens every day with living things.

If I were to die in the forest, for example, my body would decompose and energy would be released as different atoms in my body separated. That energy is absorbed by other living things, fungi, wolves, etc., and formed into new molecules and forms.

What my belief says is that this energy eventually becomes a new life somewhere of some sort, multiple lives even. My body dies I'm a part of the wolf cub that used the energy (aether) and nutrients from my body that their mother provided in the womb, a part of another human in the same way, a part of the plant that ued the energy to create a seed...

Does that make sense?

It makes 'sense' in the sense that it's a bit clearer, but still just as unfounded as it was before. Once you die, the atoms that comprised your body disperse, and they aren't 'your body' or 'your energy' because they were never yours to begin with. Your body is comprised of atoms that have comprised countless other people, plants, animals, or minerals before you ever existed, and will comprise countless more after you're gone. The whole use of "I" in your belief system is rendered rather useless because once you're dead, you cease to exist. There is no "I" that can be a part of something else.

It's still bizarre and completely untouchable by science, this ''after I die" stuff. Still illogical to believe.