Posted on 01/22/2011 1:32:46 PM PST by The Comedian
I don’t think I need to abandon my individuality to melt into the Universe. But I have no idea what happens after I die.
If I melt into the Universe instead of maintaining my individuality, what would that mean? That “I” am lost in some big energy soup, with all my memories and emotions gone?
If that *does* happen, I might not like the idea now. But I wouldn’t care about it then - because “I” would be gone.
2000 years ago, roughly, there is a man who showed us that to die is not to lose individuality. He stayed dead for three days, then arose to everlasting life. Implicit in those notions are levels of what it means to ‘be alive’. i won’t bore you with lengthy biblical exegesis, suffice it to say there is more to life than merely the functioning of cells and chemical activity as we sense it.
:’) It’s okay, I got a pre-review copy of it via Ouija board.
“There is more to life than merely the functioning of cells and chemical activity as we sense it.”
Truer words were never uttered at Free Republic. I could not agree more.
I believe that it is *that* part of “life” that existed before our flesh enrobed it, and that will endure after this garment has been shed.
Beautifully put ...
Luc Montagnier, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine in 2008 for his part in establishing that HIV causes AIDS, says he has evidence that DNA can send spooky electromagnetic imprints of itself into distant cells and fluids.Panspermia ping. Thanks The Comedian.
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That sounds borning. Then again, I quite enjoy driving.
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