I personally think that after death we disappear.. no soul and stuff like that.
Its the same as asking what happens to a bud after we smoke it :-)
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I personally think that after death we disappear.. no soul and stuff like that.
Its the same as asking what happens to a bud after we smoke it :-)
Descartes said "I think therefore I am."
I said "I think therefore I think I am"
Big difference!
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Originally Posted by maik
I think there are two points to be noted:Quote:
Originally Posted by Publicgunmen
1) Our body is changing adapting every instant, so its hard to define an "exact replica" if we consider environmental effects.
2) The probability of an exact replica (in the sense that the two are indistinguishable using any known tests) seems extremely unlikely based on our current knowledge. I don't know the exact figures, but I'm betting that the expected waiting time for this event to occur would have to wait more than the age of the universe.
Even identical twins who have the same dna differ in their fingerprints. Do identical twins have identical DNA?
There have been a lot of interesting views on this topic and the thread was quite a lengthy, but good, read as it gave a lot of different perspectives. Personally, I??m becoming more agnostic with age. I was brought up catholic and went to church every Sunday as a child. As I aged (evolved in my own personal sphere), I began to read? My own personal opinion on religion, it was a political ploy from ancient priests in the medieval times. In most cases, the priests were some of the wealthiest people in the realms and tried to control the government (the Royalty of the time) with their beliefs and preaching??s. Religion also aimed to make people conform to a ??social contract? as they wanted to rid the land of wrongdoings (which was a good concept). By creating religion they hoped to get people to fear something or someone higher than a mere mortal?
First, I have a few questions for the religious?
Is religion more than a mere myth to get society to adhere to world peace? And live life the so-called ??rite? way?
If religion is so sacred why are priests molesting children? is that GOD??s work? If so, what kind of a GOD brings that upon is people? Some religions claim GOD is mean others suggested GOD is kind. There are too many contradictions.
How can one being create all other beings? All beings need food to survive? if ??it? was here before all else, how did ??it? survive? If Adam and Eve was true, that makes the taboo of incest okay (by no means do I condone this).
If religion is true? Which is the right? Why are there so many different versions? Why are people being killed and sacrificed? Were the Aztecs?? and Mayans?? versions of human sacrifice justified? Religion is adapted and adopted by cultures and societies as a means of getting it??s peoples to remain cohesive.
Do you believe you control your own destiny or is someone else controlling it for you?
My religion is a personal inner-peace and a personal strive to be the best I can? I don??t need to worship an immaterial figure for my own personal character development rather it comes from personal experiences and the morals and values passed on from my family and environment.
If religion helps you live a better life, more power to you and keep worshiping.
I believe mother nature is the highest being of all and even she is not a real being or god? just the molecules and chemical reaction-processes of the natural world we know. It was here millions/billions of years before us and will be here long after the human race is gone. Religion in my personal opinion is a ersatz. The reason we don??t have written records or concrete facts of our beginnings is because of evolution. When humans first began to stand upright they could not think logically and rationally, rather they were just another animal living purely off instinct. All animals (which humans really are.. Just another animal) came from amoebas. Fortunately for our sake, we were able to evolve into the rationale (well some of us are rational) beings of today.
I also believe that our world fades to black or just ceases once we die. Although this can make the our entire existences seem bleak, it is the most logical and reasonable theory; I??m definitely a realist as seeing is believing. As others said, we (and our so-called souls) are merely the products of our brains and without them how can we have feeling and a consciousness of where we are and what we are doing? It??s just not possible. When you die your blood vessels constrict and as the flow of blood to the heart and eventually the brain ceases, and in turn, shuts the brain down. Once our heart and brain are no longer a functioning we are simply broken down into a less complex from and returned to the Earth? which is where each and every one of use came from.
Everything we know and believe is purely a hypothesized theory. None of which can be proved. The only thing we do know is that we don??t know everything?
Regardless, we cannot go around condemning others for their different beliefs (no matter how uneducated they are) unless they are trying to push them onto others.
The Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes is a great read...
Here's a great line that I'll always remember, besides, "I think therefore I am"... I do not know the exact quote so I'll paraphrase. It goes something like this; I was assailed by so many doubts and errors that upon my trying to become educated I progressively discovered my own ignorance.
There's some very powerful statements in that document.
whether you believe life after 'death' or not doesnt change the fact that your conscious energy has to go somewhere, it doesnt just 'disappear'...and considering humans dont know what conscious energy is exactly doesnt help, but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist, you have awareness dont you?, something you didnt have before you were born bein as your consciousness didnt exist before you were born, until of course it was created through lifes reproductive process
actually, even after you die electrical pulses still go throughout your brain, in a process called "synaptic transmission" which processes thought information through the brain, so you could actually be dreaming for eternity, or reliving moments of your life in your thoughts over and over forever...Quote:
Originally Posted by KingsBlend420
i just hope i can smoke when im gone:jointsmile:
I wish some disciple had asked it to Jesus... as He actually have been there and come back... surely He would know how it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmo18
You will always wake up.
"a soul is a soul, a shell is a shell. The space in between is full of everything you've felt."
We could also ask her...
http://boards.cannabis.com/current-e...back-dead.html