The Present - maybe most interesting book ever?

orlWell

New Member
Heyia brothers
Just wanted to share here a book that really got me thinking. It makes more sense than anything I ever read, because it makes sense of everything else. I don't know, it's just crazily sane.
Im gonna post a quote from it:

"Immortality: "It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious."

It is not possible to be aware of being unconscious from your own perspective.You cannot be aware of not being aware. You can be less aware/conscious, such as when you are asleep, but not completely unconscious (dead), because time would stand still for you. A billion years could pass, and you would not know it.

How do you know you are dead? It is not possible to be aware of any gaps in life; it is continuous and never-ending from your own point of view.

Death and birth are a continuous event from your own perspective.

You will die physically, but you will be born into a new physical body. Being born happens, or you would not be here now. You were born into this life. It is what we know happens. There is no evidence anything else happens. True or false?
The "you only live once" theory: Many people say that they do not believe in reincarnation; they believe when you die, you're dead. What about fish, clams, horses, bears, flies? People that say you only live once are saying some souls get to live just one life as a worm, and that is it for all of eternity.Other people believe you are judged by a god after you die. Is the worm judged?"


(excerpt) - from The Present, a free book at www.truthcontest.com

It has a version with religion and a version without religion. "With religion" is for people that believe the Bible makes sense in a metaphorical way. Without it is for people that do not like religions at all.

So, what you think about it? Agree or disagree?
 

Padawanbater2

Well-Known Member
I dismiss the premise. The author believes we are what we're made of and that when we die, what we're made of remains, which makes us immortal. I take issue with the assumption that consciousness, like energy (as he says), can neither be created nor destroyed. Science tells us when we die all bodily functions cease, including consciousness.

In a way it's almost a semantics argument about the bits we're made of carrying this consciousness into another life form once we're gone
 
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