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Originally posted by arpgme
Why do we exist?
but there is something beyond life and it is pure existence
Originally posted by plank
There is fundamental differences between something that exists and something that is alive.
Originally posted by plank
Once the biological machine is no longer able to keep the specific combination of atoms that permits my body to not decay, i will die. Me as the entity i was will no longer exist. Of course the atoms that were once me will still exist.
Originally posted by PatrickGarrow17
I was going to say something poignant and get a bunch of stars but my mind of pure existence released it while I was typing.
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by arpgme
You were deeply rooted in logic right up until this point:
but there is something beyond life and it is pure existence
How can you go from understanding that even a rock exists, to such unprovable, metaphysical assumptions?
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by arpgme
If everything in the universe is made from, well, everything in the universe, then how can anyone claim that our energy goes on after death while the energy of a bug or a drop of water doesn't?
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by arpgme
Does the energy of a rotting tree slip into some unknown void?
Originally posted by g0dhims3lf
We don't exist until it is proven that we do. Only one that makes the claim of existence has the obligation to prove it therefore until such time I don't believe that we do.
Existence is silence. It is without thought, emotion, desire, or intention - without "form". It is just "being", not being "something" or awareness of something "being", but just "being" itself. Some call it "void" or "nothingness" but this is still "something" because it is existence itself - it just has no "form" (matter/light).
Originally posted by g0dhims3lf
I can conclude that you are definitely not, "pure silence".