Is Death the End?

Spending time worrying about what it would be like is pointless, its gonna hapen anyway.

Originally Posted by DaSprout

There are actually answers to you questions all around us. You just need to be able to accept them. But, in my opinion. I believe that death is not the end. It is only the end of life as we know it (in our bodies) and the beginning of a whole new experience all together. It would be really depressing to think that this world was just "it". Wouldn't it?

the thought that there is an absolute end is uplifiting actually. As I grow older I begin to see how I might be so tired as to want to really simply stop, it was great, it was wonderful to be in the land of the living but finally the credits roll and the movie is OVER. Done, finished, complete - that is the operative word, a life completed. Not so depressing.

Originally Posted by canndo

the thought that there is an absolute end is uplifiting actually. As I grow older I begin to see how I might be so tired as to want to really simply stop, it was great, it was wonderful to be in the land of the living but finally the credits roll and the movie is OVER. Done, finished, complete - that is the operative word, a life completed. Not so depressing.

That would be great Canndo. But with my luck...

The spirit, like matter, is never created or destroyed. Matter disentigrates into the earth and the spirit goes on somewhere else. You could be reincarnated or you might not be. Your consciousness continues though, even though the brain and the body die

Lifes a bitch and then you die.

Originally Posted by cannabineer

Why not? Death is the end as surely as birth was the beginning.

That said, i know someone *very* levelheaded who shared an apparently authentic memory from a previous life with me. So since I am no longer cocksure about the beginning, i am no longer cocksure about the end. cn

..go on?........

Originally Posted by cannabineer

Why not? Death is the end as surely as birth was the beginning.

That said, i know someone *very* levelheaded who shared an apparently authentic memory from a previous life with me. So since I am no longer cocksure about the beginning, i am no longer cocksure about the end. cn

Originally Posted by Padawanbater2

..go on?........

wanna hear as well... and sincerely interested...

so.... this person had a memory and???

What would be the point of doing it all over again unless you had an intimate, ongoing, full awareness of your past life? There is little difference between a tabula rasa and a failure to recall from near birth, the events that happened. If we could not compare, if we could not take what we learned and apply it we would not know renewed joy or new wisdom.

Everyone I ever knew who claimed to have past lives had past lives that were infinitely more interesting than their present ones - that has me instantly suspect. Now beyond that - is there some sort of cosmic spritual routing? If spirit is reembodied and there are other spirits in the universe what is to keep us from inhereting an alien spirit? how about the spirit of a dolphin or a chimpanzee? If this is the case, are there new spirits or only recycled old ones? If there are new ones then eventually the numbers kick in - eventually there will be more people who have died than are alive at any one time - I suspect that is coming up real soon now.