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originally posted by: ArchangelOger
a reply to: DpatC
You, Die, EVERYONE DIES. Don't allow anyone tell you different, your soul goes to be judge if found unworthy then you (your soul) will be cast into the lake of fire which is the second death, quite painful but will not last forever and you are done, no more you, no more thoughts. end of story. That destroys both body and soul. End of story. And no, you will not have a physical body at judgement.
originally posted by: Athetos
Nope
Gunna have to see some proof of your faster than light human spirit experience.
a reply to: EasternShadow
originally posted by: dfnj2015
But this way of thinking about death makes more sense because what is God going to do with the billions and billions of Chinese souls who practice Buddhism. I just can't imagine a God of hate who would be so unforgiving.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: DpatC
So here's what I think happens when you die. When you die you have two choices. Your first choice after you die is you can look directly into the face of God and experience God's infinite beauty. Or, your second choice, for whatever reason you feel you are not worthy of staring into the face of God, each of us being our own worse critic, and you turn away from looking into God's face.
So what happens with each choice. If you choose to look into the face of God and experience God's infinite beauty, what you experience is the very best possible experience one could have. Experiencing God's infinite beauty is a million times more satisfying and fulfilling than just having a brief moment of experiencing sex. You become so enamored with God’s infinite beauty, all time ceases to exist, you stop having conscious thoughts, and you melt into the mind of God experiencing eternal Heavenly bliss.
Experiencing God's infinite beauty the greatest possible experience one can have. No other experience is so fulfilling and complete than the God experience literally by definition. The God experience is like every cell in your entire body is having a simultaneous orgasm. Even though this only happens for a few nanoseconds before physical death, with your brain operating at 100% heightened neural capacity like during a car accident, time stops, and it feels like eternity to the conscious self.
The second choice, for whatever reason, you decide to look away from the face of God. At that moment, God immediately gives you the power of omnipotence. Your mind enters a free-form delusional state where anything you imagine spontaneously comes into existence and is experience. Again, with every cell in your body in a heightened state of excitation time slows down. Even thought it is just a few nanoseconds before physical death you experience having the power of omnipotence it feels like eternity. An omnipotent God can certainly dole out the power of omnipotence and still retain all his powers. But these are not real omnipotent powers but a just a free form delusion creating by the mind experiencing itself.
Now at first this may sound like a really good thing having omnipotent powers. But after millions and millions of years, or what just seems like millions of years, which is only nanoseconds real time, living out all your petty profane desires and imaginations you will become extremely bored. Your mind will have exhausted every possible thing it is capable of imagining within its limited scope of possibilities. Every possible conceivable scenario of experience will have been played out millions of times over. After having sex with two chicks 10,000 times is probably enough. You work out every experience you have shame over until you no longer feel any shame at all. You will work out every anger issue until you no longer have any anger at all. You will work out every regret you have until you no longer have any regrets.
Eventually you will decide there's no point in turning away from God any longer and you will turn back and look into the face of God. However, this time you don't look away. All the reasons you would have to look away have been resolved during your stint of having omnipotent powers. And just after you look into the face of God you have a very brief thought where you think what the heck was I thinking when I turned away the first time? Time will then cease to exist and you experience everlasting heavenly bliss.
Now some of you may be thinking, gee, you die, you turn away from God and you get rewarded with the power of having omnipotence. This may sound unfair if you are immature in your thinking where you take pleasure in the thought of sinners suffering. Or maybe your heart is full of hate and you are seeking revenge against people who have sinned against you. But from our omnipotent all-loving God's perspective, what better way to win over someone’s love so absolutely and completely than by perfectly giving them everything their heart desires in exactly the right proportions?
The real sad thing is no reason why anyone would ever waste any time at all with their own petty and profane desires when they can be looking into the face of God basking in the glow of heavenly eternal bliss. Nothing we can imagine or invent could ever come close to experiencing God's infinite beauty.
And from our omnipotent God's perspective, that is an God of unconditional love, everyone is eventually saved and gets to experience eternally heavenly bliss. Again, there are a lot of haters out there who want revenge so this idea everyone is saved regardless of our Earthly sins or how we practiced our religion, or did not practice at all, doesn't work for them. But this way of thinking about death makes more sense because what is God going to do with the billions and billions of Chinese souls who practice Buddhism. I just can't imagine a God of hate who would be so unforgiving.
This is not something you read in the Bible. You read this and you just know it in your heart it is true. If not, then you will have omnipotent powers and you will have to work out whatever it is that you feel so strongly about. At some point you will join the rest of us basking in the glow of God's infinite beauty. It's all good!
originally posted by: ArchangelOger
a reply to: DpatC
You, Die, EVERYONE DIES. Don't allow anyone tell you different, your soul goes to be judge if found unworthy then you (your soul) will be cast into the lake of fire which is the second death, quite painful but will not last forever and you are done, no more you, no more thoughts. end of story. That destroys both body and soul. End of story. And no, you will not have a physical body at judgement.
originally posted by: DpatC
I mean you die and than you get allocated to either Heaven or Hell. Is that it, is that the end of our journey? Is there nothing after that or if there is where doe's one's Light(Soul) go next?
Is it possibile to attain a level of sentience that would allow one to become a planet,a sun, even a galaxy ? Now please don't tell me that these celestial bodies aren't alive..Just wondering.
In the meantime Im going to wait for the blackman to breathe
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originally posted by: DpatC
1 = 0
I don't think God hate billions of Chinese souls for practising the material way of life in Buddism. They are still God's children, nevertheless. After all, Gautama Buddha doesnt think the state of nothingness ( nirvana ) is a bad thing. I think it more likely, what you sow is what you reap. If Buddhist wish for Nirvana ( permenant second death ), then why should God object their free will?
originally posted by: DpatC
I mean you die and than you get allocated to either Heaven or Hell. Is that it, is that the end of our journey? Is there nothing after that or if there is where doe's one's Light(Soul) go next?
originally posted by: DpatC
Is it possibile to attain a level of sentience that would allow one to become a planet,a sun, even a galaxy ? Now please don't tell me that these celestial bodies aren't alive..
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: EasternShadow
An Abramaic God is a God of judgment and NOT a God of unconditional love like you are suggesting.
originally posted by: Parishna
originally posted by: DpatC
1 = 0
0=0 and 0=infinity.
the concept of zero is one of absolute nothingness. Incapable of being designated by anything tangible.
the concept of infinity is on of absolute everything. Incapable of being anything but the same as zero.
both are equally incomprehensible to our limited minds, only as concepts do we accept them.
Everything is nothing. Nothing is everything.
And within the entirety of both, exist mere moments. that is where we are. Every moment, not the moment before which is gone, nor the moment ahead which is yet untold, but this single moment, is all we can ever consider.
these moments pass as the wind blows, as water ebbs and flows. Each moment unique, and changing. a slow animated gradient. Creating the illusion of time.
everything else is either behind us, zero, or ahead of us, infinity.
freeze time, and we become one with it all.. it is the passing of time that isolates us.
such is the organic realm we chose.