Pick your religion or not as you choose but be good and enjoy heaven on Earth. Its the only thing you can REALLY be certain of.
In a college Philosophy paper I "proved" that man had a conscience and knew right from wrong.
Absent mental illness, ALL surveyed, agreed that "causing a sentient being harm/pain/death, NEEDLESSLY", was wrong, understood as an innate feeling/knowledge.
Got an A+ recorded grade but my paper disappeared (it was placed in a box outside the Prof's office after exams and was gone and lost forever. Oh well ...
I extrapolated from there another set of principles but concluded that our conscience was either proof of G-d's existence and that he wanted us to be good or that it was a built-in survival instinct.
I lean to the former. ;-)
In case I wasn't clear, enjoy this beautiful world, do good and if there is an afterlife you'll be good to go.
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When witing an article we must. First define termms..
Real-and real to whose percepption
I disagree with the pain & suffering criteria..
Pain and suffering are an important part of soul growth. Birth, teaching moments, facilitating change, establishing morals and values... illness identification... the list goes on
We must also learn to rise above the pain.. it actually motivates departure from the physical body at death.
I’ve participated in group discussions where hospice Dr’s and nurses were proud they overdosed hospice patients to help them die. They don’t understand the death prosess.
You can learn to step out of your body to avoud pain without the medication.
That is sound advice. It’s a shame your paper disappeared. I lost some well-researched college papers, too, that professors never returned.
For a long time, I believed that everything happens by chance, and when we die, we cease to exist. I did not believe an all-knowing intelligent being created everything. I wondered about our existence, but I figured we could never fully understand. I figured all that exists was created by some force of nature that had no consciousness and, thus, no conscience.
Then, someone made this point (paraphrasing): If you believe everything physical in the universe exists, you must believe the abstract things - consciousness with all its thoughts - exist. So, wouldn’t the force that created it all also have consciousness?
Then, some time passed, and some strange occurrences happened, and my whole point of view changed.
There is something more. Maybe death is merely a transition. For now, all we can do is our best in this world, just as you said.