Life After Death (techno, house, single, orchestra, quote)

Terrible Lizard · 01-19-2009, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by anticipation

prelife is so much more interesting than the afterlife.

Adding to signature.

sleepy jack · 01-19-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Kurt_Cobain

What Dreams May Come:
Albert: So what is the "me"?
Chris Nielsen: My brain I suppose.
Albert: Your brain ? Your brain is a body part. Like your fingernail or your heart. Why is that the part that's you?
Chris Nielsen: Because I have sort of a voice in my head, the part of me that thinks, that feels, that is aware that I exist at all.
Albert: So if you're aware you exist, then you do. That's why you're still here.

You don't process information with your fingernail or heart.

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I think there must be something out there. To believe that a millenia of implosion, explosion and mass collision can create a mind capable of art, poetry, different languages, a sunset, is just a tad too much for me. It must've taken something with a little more imagination

Those are rather silly examples. Science explains the earth's rotation and history teaches us all we need to know about the evolution of art and communication. It's not like any of those things are inexplicably divine.

jibber · 01-19-2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Kurt_Cobain

I think there must be something out there. To believe that a millenia of implosion, explosion and mass collision can create a mind capable of art, poetry, different languages, a sunset, is just a tad too much for me. It must've taken something with a little more imagination

You can create a sunset with your mind?! dude that's awesome!

simplephysics · 01-19-2009, 10:15 PM

just shut your eyes and you can too!

jibber · 01-19-2009, 10:17 PM

yeah but you miss out on the pretty colours. Well, unless you're on some heavy hallucinogens.

ixtlan22 · 01-21-2009, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by anticipation

prelife is so much more interesting than the afterlife.

You've had some quite clever insight in this thread friend! All kidding aside.

My two cents on the whole matter:

God is all and everything that we can and can't perceive. It is the concept of the whole. There is nothing that exists separately from God for God is everything. EVERYTHING. You are part of God. You are one of many unique expressions of God, the whole.

The afterlife is no better or worse than the metaphors presented in scripture or the scientific idea of decomposition. In my mind, decomposing into the earth is a beautiful idea. We are all made of earth, we are a part of it. Nothing is "unnatural" as we often suggest. So to decompose and return my energy back into the universe that birthed "me," sounds delightful. It is peace, it is rest. It is the sleep after a long hard, but always interesting awake. Or vice versa, who knows. As far as consciousness persisting after death, it is an unknowable question and therefore I reject it as a waste of time, along with the notion of the beginning and the end of the universe (God, everything). Although ghost stories (I've heard many believable ones) such as our friend's do raise some interesting questions.

And all that being said anticipation's quote (see above) really is insightful. The idea of heaven is often used to enslave us and distract us from the extremely beautiful, happy lives, we could all be living. Heaven is a conscious, place for the living, and so is hell. I am not an atheist or a scientist. I am a unique expression of an incomprehensible whole with ideas that I have gathered while here living. Collecting them is a hobby of mine. I define my own purpose. My God is recognizable everywhere because everything is part of it.

Ziah · 01-25-2009, 06:35 PM

Agnostic, although I'm more inclined to believe that there is no afterlife.

cardboard adolescent · 01-25-2009, 09:22 PM

no, you're the deluded prick!

death is an illusion; people don't die, they just disperse.

Yukon Cornelius · 01-27-2009, 01:34 PM

your still mass. You still exist.. Your just not aware of it. Thats the question
Is being aware life?? Very weird twists and turns in this topic.

jibber · 02-01-2009, 05:00 PM

no, life is having a heart beat. You can be in a coma and unaware of your existence, yet because your heart is still beating, technically you're still alive. I have to say I agree with wayfarer on this topic. No one knows, no one can know, and therefore everything else is just speculation and belief. Plus, why would you spend time bothering over an afterlife when there's more than enough to occupy your time with your actual life. Unless of course you're a boring person with nothing else to do or interest you.

01-19-2009, 10:17 PM	#45 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	yeah but you miss out on the pretty colours. Well, unless you're on some heavy hallucinogens. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-27-2009, 01:34 PM	#49 (permalink)
Yukon Cornelius Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 625	your still mass. You still exist.. Your just not aware of it. Thats the question Is being aware life?? Very weird twists and turns in this topic. __________________ Attempting to find a cure for Stupid...

02-01-2009, 05:00 PM	#50 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	no, life is having a heart beat. You can be in a coma and unaware of your existence, yet because your heart is still beating, technically you're still alive. I have to say I agree with wayfarer on this topic. No one knows, no one can know, and therefore everything else is just speculation and belief. Plus, why would you spend time bothering over an afterlife when there's more than enough to occupy your time with your actual life. Unless of course you're a boring person with nothing else to do or interest you. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

01-25-2009, 06:35 PM	#47 (permalink)
Ziah Groupie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: christchurch Posts: 12	Agnostic, although I'm more inclined to believe that there is no afterlife.

01-25-2009, 09:22 PM	#48 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	no, you're the deluded prick! death is an illusion; people don't die, they just disperse.