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Originally posted by Mickierocksman
We are just a smart animal – that is all that we are & we are completely insignificant.
The meaning of life for all animals (lifeforms) is to live and then reproduce.
However, we have an added bonus of being smart enough to realise to make the most of our life while we live it.
Because after our life is over, there is nothing more…… and life is short.
Unless you have a child, which is partly made from your DNA - they carry who you were and if you’re a good parent, they will remember you and will pass that down to their children – so on and so forth. That's the only way you can 'live forever'.....
I’m not angry that we have been put here to live, learn, love and reproduce before we die – why would you be?
Mickierocksman
Originally posted by michael1983l
reply to post by Akragon
There is no meaning, there is no before life, there is no after life, there is no test and there is no absolute goal. Life is empty and I wish that I was never given it and that somebody else could have taken it instead.
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
If you know this, then you have explanations for kids knowing things they could never have known without remembering a past life, you have people who have drifted out of their bodies and seen things they couldn't have otherwise seen, there are ghosts and spirits and all sorts of phenomena that are impossible to explain without accepting that there might be a spiritual plane, or a continuation after death.
How is it you KNOW that there is nothing before or after? Or is it that you simply don't care?
Originally posted by Bone75
Originally posted by Mickierocksman
We are just a smart animal – that is all that we are & we are completely insignificant.
The meaning of life for all animals (lifeforms) is to live and then reproduce.
However, we have an added bonus of being smart enough to realise to make the most of our life while we live it.
Because after our life is over, there is nothing more…… and life is short.
Unless you have a child, which is partly made from your DNA - they carry who you were and if you’re a good parent, they will remember you and will pass that down to their children – so on and so forth. That's the only way you can 'live forever'.....
I’m not angry that we have been put here to live, learn, love and reproduce before we die – why would you be?
Mickierocksman
If what you're saying were true, we would have no emotions and the universe would not exist.
Originally posted by AdamsMurmur
reply to post by michael1983l
...don't you think it's amazing to be?...
Originally posted by michael1983l
What if this life we live is just that, here for the blink of an eye and then gone? What if what we do in this life bears no meaning and doesn't make a difference after we are gone? what if there is no evil and no good? as a human race could we handle it if we found out that there was no purpose, no test, no before and no after? What would happen to us if we found out that we are completely insignificant? Is it possible that we would be put here for no reason, would you be angry if you found out you were?
Originally posted by Mickierocksman
The meaning of life for all animals (lifeforms) is to live and then reproduce.
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
If you know this, then you have explanations for kids knowing things they could never have known without remembering a past life, you have people who have drifted out of their bodies and seen things they couldn't have otherwise seen, there are ghosts and spirits and all sorts of phenomena that are impossible to explain without accepting that there might be a spiritual plane, or a continuation after death.
How is it you KNOW that there is nothing before or after? Or is it that you simply don't care?
Kids knowing things they could never have known? I don't know any child fitting this description.
I know there is nothing before or after this life because there can be no conscious thought without a physical machine to produce it. Show me a square foot of empty space capable of forming thought. Give me a small empty cup full of otherworldly information. Let me put my ear to a sea shell and hear a voice whispering the equations that maintain the fabric of this universe. Just yell something into a shoebox, wrap it and send it to me so that when I open it I will hear how the space in the box held your message.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
You've never known a man to walk on water either. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Originally posted by jiggerj
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
If you know this, then you have explanations for kids knowing things they could never have known without remembering a past life, you have people who have drifted out of their bodies and seen things they couldn't have otherwise seen, there are ghosts and spirits and all sorts of phenomena that are impossible to explain without accepting that there might be a spiritual plane, or a continuation after death.
How is it you KNOW that there is nothing before or after? Or is it that you simply don't care?
Kids knowing things they could never have known? I don't know any child fitting this description.
I know there is nothing before or after this life because there can be no conscious thought without a physical machine to produce it. Show me a square foot of empty space capable of forming thought. Give me a small empty cup full of otherworldly information. Let me put my ear to a sea shell and hear a voice whispering the equations that maintain the fabric of this universe. Just yell something into a shoebox, wrap it and send it to me so that when I open it I will hear how the space in the box held your message.
Unless there's only one life and one spirit, then it's not particularized in any single individual's scull, which is just a node in a very large infrastructure forever in stages of transformation.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by jiggerj
You've never known a man to walk on water either. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened.