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Originally posted by Visitor2012
When you think of dying, you visualize going into blackness when your life energy leaves your body. But in reality, you ARE the life energy that leaves your body. You are not your body, you are the life that is powering it. You don't die, your body does. You have no beginning and no end, in reality.
Are you saying we are not our bodies?
One needs only to look in a mirror to prove this theory wrong. One needs only to pinch himself, smell himself, experience himself and his whole life's memory to know that we are our bodies, our senses, and our memories. The impossible task of finding any example of someone existing without a body is left only to the credulous and quick to believe in romantic ideas.
Originally posted by NiNjABackflip
Are you saying we are not our bodies? How does one arrive at such a conclusion? I would assume because we've been told our whole lives that we are somehow paradoxically separate from our bodies.
One needs only to look in a mirror to prove this theory wrong. One needs only to pinch himself, smell himself, experience himself and his whole life's memory to know that we are our bodies, our senses, and our memories. The impossible task of finding any example of someone existing without a body is left only to the credulous and quick to believe in romantic ideas.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
The computer you are using right now...is the data in the hard drive the computer, or is the computer simply the medium through which the data is expressed?
Does it make sense now?
Pinching yourself does not harm your soul. Oh really? How about the people who regularly undergo out-of-body experiences? Are they simply imagining? There are dozens of credible military officials who will tell you that it's real. What, then, leaves the body? You can still feel emotions when you OBE, you can still think and you can still see and hear. So what leaves the body, if not the soul?
Originally posted by FidelityMusic
Life has always been here with us, we know it, we experience it, we are living. None of us have experienced death, none of us know death, so what is this death you speak of?
Put on a Mos Def track, close your eyes, let the poetry take over all of your thoughts.
Originally posted by NiNjABackflip
Originally posted by Visitor2012
When you think of dying, you visualize going into blackness when your life energy leaves your body. But in reality, you ARE the life energy that leaves your body. You are not your body, you are the life that is powering it. You don't die, your body does. You have no beginning and no end, in reality.
Are you saying we are not our bodies? How does one arrive at such a conclusion? I would assume because we've been told our whole lives that we are somehow paradoxically separate from our bodies.
One needs only to look in a mirror to prove this theory wrong. One needs only to pinch himself, smell himself, experience himself and his whole life's memory to know that we are our bodies, our senses, and our memories. The impossible task of finding any example of someone existing without a body is left only to the credulous and quick to believe in romantic ideas.