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The origins of "I'm a Little Tea Pot" came about when Clarence Kelley was teaching children how to do the Waltz Clog, which is a popular tap dance routine. The children had a hard time learning the dance, so he created "The Teapot Song". This song allowed the children to enjoy both the performing of the action and the song. Making the Teapot song very popular.
The melody of the song is very upbeat, and the lyrics blend together with rhythmically.
"I'm a Little Tea Pot" was published in 1939, and originally written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley. Betty Harris later did a different version of the song and added extra lyrics. It wasn't until the early 1950's that the song was recorded.
The lyrics of the song tell about a tea kettle, and what it does when it heats up. "When I get all steamed up, hear me shout!' This is when the kettle becomes warm and makes the whistling sound to release the trapped steam within the kettle.
This song is sung by children throughout the United States, and has been seen in various TV shows and movies.
A few movies based on novels by Stephen King have featured the song such as the movie "Rose Red".
I'm a Little Teapot" is a well-known children's nursery rhyme about a boiling pot of tea. Many kindergarten schools, pre-nursery & nursery schools teach children the lyrics to this song.
The Words & Music were written by Clarence Kelley and Geo. H. Sanders in New York, 1939.
Printed in Canada by Gordon V. Thompson Ltd. by arrangement with Kelman Music Corporation: New York, NY. Copyright 1941 by Kelman Music Corp, 1674 Broadway, New York City.
For further information about this song, visit "I'm a Little Tea Pot"Wikipedia.
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Continue singing this version for some tea
I'm a little tea pot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout.
When you see the tea cup
Hear me shout
Tip me over
Pour me out!
I'm a little sugarbowl!
I'm a little teapot short and stout,
here is my handle
here is my spout
I'm a sugar bowl!
A much shorter version
I am Teapot. I am a teapot
This my handle
This is my mouth
I pour every cup
I pour every cup.
What I Can Do version
I'm a little teapot
yes it's true
just watch me and
I'll show you what I can do.
I can change my handle
and my spout
just tip me over and
pour me out.
I'm a tube of toothpaste!
I'm a tube of toothpaste
on the shelf.
I get so lonesome
all by myself.
When it comes to night time,
then I shout.
Pull the lid off,
squeeze me out.
Additional single verse
When the kettle boils
Hear me shout
"Tip me over
And pour me out!'.
This is the version you can eat cookies to
I'm a little tea cup nice and round
Fill me up and drink me down.
Put a little honey in your tea,
Then just take a sip from me.
I'm a little cookie, nice and brown
Chew me up and swallow me down
I'm a little crummy, that's just me,
And I taste good with your cup of tea.
Listen to this song's music
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Carl Baker -- Teacher, United States
29 May 2015 at 6:50pm
Certain cultural things like kindergarten songs in English help bring positive things to our children throughout the generations---1960's through today!
Carl Baker -- Teacher, United States
29 May 2015 at 6:50pm
Certain cultural things like kindergarten songs in English help bring positive things to our children throughout the generations---1960's through today!
Kristi, United States
9 May 2015 at 1:53pm
My Dad said that I sang this when I was little, but I don't remember this song or recognize the lyrics at all. It must have been a brief incident, happening only for a year.
Kristi, United States
9 May 2015 at 1:53pm
My Dad said that I sang this when I was little, but I don't remember this song or recognize the lyrics at all. It must have been a brief incident, happening only for a year.
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The little tea pot is a great song for little kids.
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2 August 2014 at 12:04am
where's the so-fa syllable of this nursery song?? i keep on browsing it but i didn't find it...
Diana Dines, United States
14 April 2014 at 10:41pm
Just taught this song to Ms. lily! Boy did she get a laugh!
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Dipa, India
14 April 2013 at 4:07pm
My little boy just liked it
Brooke, United States
7 March 2013 at 3:43pm
i hate when there is a lot of songs to sing along by myself.
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31 December 2012 at 5:52pm
And to more little tea-pots everyywhere
Patricia, Malaysia
18 October 2012 at 8:08am
i enjoyed this song!
Jaycee, Estonia
20 June 2012 at 6:06pm
People visiting this site would be well advised not to take the lyrics literally. I did, and after carefully following the instructions I lost all the loose change in my pocket and was sick all over the carpet. To add insult to injury there was no (drinkable) tea.
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I wanted to do something special & out of the ordinary for my 1000th post. I hopes this qualifies.
Maybe some of you saw this a few years ago maybe some of you didn't.
This is the story of one of the professor's @ my Alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, (in Pittsburgh, PA) Randy Pausch.
His home page is here:
@ the lower left of the page is his story on ABC's 20/20 with Diane Sawyer. If you have 40 minutes to spare, it might change your viewpoint on a few things.
A few years ago, Randy was diagnosed with one of the most deadliest forms of disease, pancreatic cancer. He fought it & did not win the physical battle but he won the battle of the spirit. He lived his life full of love & determination to his dying day. He changed a lot of peoples' lives.
He made a video called the "Last Lecture" That can be seen here on CMU's channel:
There's a few punchlines in it that I don't want to spoil so I will not tell you much about it other then it will not be what you expected. If it doesn't restore your faith in mankind, you should check your pulse!
Besides the obvious benefit I feel it will be to anyone watching & absorbing the information in it, I have my own reasons for sharing it.
I was 1st exposed to the internet back in the early 80s @ CMU when Painting majors were not supposed to be involved in "technology" but there I was @ the college with the oldest drama school in the nation that also had the #1 robotics institute & one of the top engineering & computer programs int he country. So I took to learn about software & wrote one of the first computer graphics packages in Pascal, @ the age of 20, much to the chagrin of my art professors.
Btw, much of the hardware & software on the space shuttle came from CMU. So did a few of NASAs' astronauts.
By 1986 I was shopping online on Compuserve. One of my best friends found her husband on it. This was before the "world wide web" & the gooey interface that has since made the internet so accessible. I even used my art degree to help a fledgling organic food manufacturer get an online presence on the web back in 1996 & helped them grow. In that time I was exposed to much about health & nutrition.
In all that time I have been on countless chat rooms, message boards, social networking groups etc. This is the 1st time in 30 years I have ever gotten to having 1000 posts with any particular group. I want to thank Jensen for creating a needed board that not only covers one of my lost loves in wrestling but also allows for many other topics to thrive as well.
Though I have not met any of you face to face, I have definitely had a few good conversations & arguments with some of the good members here. It is an oddball cyber-family to say the least.
I feel it is my basic purpose in life to try & help others. This is why I have created this thread & post. To share Randy's message with those who are struggling & maybe those who are just starting their young life & need some practical advice as well as some inspiration as you see I am in a similar boat as Randy. I wanted to share this message as I don't think I could really expound upon it any better.
In 1996 I discovered lumps in my lymph glands under my armpits. With the help of just nutrition & a good chiropractor, I made them go away. However in 2007 I discovered lumps in my lymph glands in my neck. We tried making them go away but they didn't want to respond to the original protocol. About a year later I discovered a larger lump & got more tests.
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I found that for all my good diet that I had been unwittingly exposed to several carcinogens that were hard at work. But the doctors were amazed that I was it very good shape if not alive. They said my immune system was very strong because of my diet.
My retail business collapsed that year & the irony is that that turned out to be a good thing. I never carried health insurance. I had only been to a medical doctor 4xs in the past 30 years & that was mostly for stitches & broken bones. Now it seems that I qualify for all these government programs like disability & medicaid. I have discovered that there is a reason for everything.
In the meantime I had a doctor in January tell me that unless I got some more aggressive treatment that I had maybe 6 months to a year to live. I have found a integrative program that has had a lot of success but they don't take insurance & it costs quite a bit of money. I have spent most of my feel time the past month raising the funds to do it all the while I have implemented everything I have learned about treating malignancies upon myself in an attempt to slow it down.
So some of the discussions I have engaged in here on TWT, have come form my real life experiences & not just something I read out of a book.
I have had a few down days but basically when I do, I remember TWO things:
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- Dates: 770-256 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: Late Eastern Zhou Dynasty
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- Devon Gisbert
- Patchogue, NY
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What happens after we die?
People will often wonder, well what happens after we die? Everyone has asked this question at least once in their life it would be foolish to deny that. And it's funny because, well I mean it's pretty self explanatory we die, there's a big funeral (most of the time) people come and mourn over your body then they dig a hole and put you in it. We have SEEN what happens to people when they die and we can go to the nearest grave yard and have a whole post death stake-out.
But if that's the case then why is it that we ask that question? Why is it that seeing what happens after we die isn't enough for us? We know what happens after we die, yet when the philosopher, the teacher, the artist, the scientist, and the homeless man the lays there head down at night they wonder. Is this all there is, is this all I'm good for, just this life and then I vanish?
Ecclesiastes 3:11 it says "He has made everything beautiful in it's time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
Jun 18 2012: Can a mind, with its own limited level of understanding, ever understand itself?
Can anybody therefore ever know what happens after death without direct experience of NDE?
A consciousness trying to fully understand itself, using only its own inherent limitations, can only get to a certain point scientifically - then it has to resort to creating metaphor (and even mythology) to help intuit the rest of it, in the absence of certainty. (Is this where God exists?)
Consciousness is beyond the kind of science that concerns itself only with the known physical world. Up to that point, we are only 'what' - not 'who'.
I think it is the understanding of our 'who' area, that is likely to enable glimpses of what happens after death.
I've quoted this before, and rather boringly, I'm going to quote it again:
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence"
The scientist, Nikola Tesla
John Dunbar
Jun 21 2012: How can you know what happens after death without dying?
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Jun 21 2012: No living person will ever know. Such knowledge will forever be unavailable to us.
How does the mind deal with such voids of understanding?
Science will try to fill that void with facts and certainties gained via the scientific method, which by its very nature can not go very much further than the evidence it needs to support hypotheses.
Religion will try to fill the void with Gods, metaphor, mythology and the afterlife - all of which are untestable and full of uncertainties - yet provide comforting, graspable 'visuals' of what might be there for us after death. The visualising of what happens after we die - and in the absence of such certainty from science - these metaphorical thought processes are all we've got.
This doesn't have to be seen as religion getting the upper hand over science in that visualisation process. I think the whole process can be contemplated within the wider arena of psychology, which is a discipline concerned with both the physical and our perceptions of the metaphysical.
This is the point illustrated in Tesla's quote - that the physical and the non-physical have closer links with each other than we think. If the disciplines we currently have to study them could just work closer together with each other, then we might get a lot nearer to the understanding of phenomena currently out of our reach - such as what happens after we die.
John Dunbar
Jun 21 2012: I agree with almost everything you said.
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You saying that the metaphysical thought processes are all we have got, is true.
That's why I firmly say, that I can never accept anybody's proposal of what the afterlife consists of.
All we really have, are people using brains to contemplate the unknowable. So any thought about the afterlife is going to be loaded with personal bias and human understandings.
We are always going to run into God of the gaps arguments. But what does it accomplish to deem something you don't understand, as God.
I postulate that the things we don't know or understand make for a lack of control.
By projecting a loving, caring figure, who never leaves your side, loves you eternally, and forgives you for your human faults allows for you to mentally dominate the unknown. This restores a sense of control. This control wether false, or not, pacifies anxiety.
That is my position on how the mind fills the gaps of our understandings.
I happen to think science is starting to move down the road you are referring to. Michael Persinger's God Helmet is an example of this. The helmet stimulates the right temporal lobe and induces out of body experiences.
This stuff is incredibly interesting thanks for your well thought out response
-BrianJun 21 2012: Hi again Brian,
A NDE is a threshold experience.. Sort of like entering a dream, but your wide awake.
As I mentioned earlier in another comment thread. Artificially induced NDE have been around for thousands of years .. Baptism was, at one point in history, an actual NDE that the initiate was actually drowned and brought back to life. The person being baptized experienced directly the other side of the threshold. This came to the point where many actually died in the process.
What the Russians have experienced in their space development program with their G machine. A sort of a giant spinning machine where the astronaut is spun around at high speed. It is reported that they too have NDE ... Some say that this is simply due to the lack of oxygen to the brain, but this is often the cause. Its not the lack of oxygen that "is" the experience. The lack of oxygen loosens the souls attachment to the physical body. Drowning people also relate such a story of seeing their whole lives pass before them...
Jun 22 2012: Daniel, people have the same types of experiences when taking DMT and other hallucinogens. People have similar experiences during deep meditation.
Having an NDE doesn't tell you how the world really works, or what death really is.
I don't know if there is a soul or not. I have to say, when i look at the evidence for both sides i feel as though there is not a soul.
Im not quite sure how you can claim that the soul gets loosened from the physical body during an NDE. There is no evidence for this.
There are many things that people remain ignorant of during an NDE. I have never heard anyone ever talk about being able to view there own brain function.
Very rarely do you hear about an NDE that was horrifying. My guess would be, that if you have an NDE and it induces terror, you are more likely to chalk it up to brain malfunction. The stories you generally hear are very peaceful and comforting.
Like I stated before, i don't know if we have a soul, but one that is fastened to our brain and lifts off at death to recognize my dead genetic ancestors seems very implausible.Jun 21 2012: Actually a NDE is not quite the same as dying. The body is still in good enough condition to be revived. Maybe it is as close as we can get, but it is not the same.
Jun 21 2012: Hi Obey,
Things in science are changing fast though. It's hard to forsee the future. With the technology that is available today, its not so difficult to imagine that a whole human being could be "frozen down" slowly and then reawakened. ... They are always talking about this possibility to live an extra couple of hundred years. Wake up in the year 2412 for example... Strange..
I would think that the problem of the preservation of the physical body is not much of an obstacle.
Jun 22 2012: I had not heard that daniel.
Give it 1,000 years or 10,000 and I would not be surprised if we will be able to rebuild a human from a DNA sample. Some theists reject this as it conflicts with their assumptions. There is certainly ethical and other considerations.
Perhaps in my life time we will be able to change human DNA and genes, to play with "creation"
If I can clarify. my best guess is our consciousness is due entirely to our brains. With NDE there is still some sort of intact brain, maybe damaged, maybe lack of oxygen, but still a brain. No evidence for any mind or consciousness close to a human level without a brain, or without something physical.
If NDE is an experience going on in our brain like a dream it is entirely consistent with a material view, unless the experience included some out of body experience that could be verified. Then we would have a big question.
Even freezing, or suspending life is still leaving some sort of body and brain.
If there was a way to destroy the brain, rebuild it and bring the person back to life, and the person recalled out of body experiences of the interim that could be verified, then we would be in search of a better explanation than current neuroscience etc.
Not sure is suspending the body is that easy. Guess we can slow down processes, but how avoid breakdown, rot, damage from water expanding if frozen etc. How long can the brain go without oxygen. How to stop the brain processes. etc. Interesting. Guess is we snap froze someone, they might not be revivable. I'll leave it to the experts.
I guess a lot of our current science and technology would have been science fiction even a few decades or centuries ago. Hard to believe we have only had controlled flight just over a century. My phone is more powerful than computers we had at school. Parents didn't even have calculators at school.
John Dunbar
Jun 12 2012: Sometimes i wish I didn't have the ability to ponder the big questions like what happens after we die, what is my purpose, what is life, what is reality. This ability in many ways has lead the human race to much hysteria and abhorrent behavior. Things seem so much simpler in nature, it doesn't seem as if a dolphin asks any of those questions or would need to( I could be wrong, maybe there are many dolphins who moonlight as philosophers).
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I think life would be significantly cheapened if we new the answers to all of those questions. I believe it is in our nature to be inquisitive about all of these big questions, but i am not really sure how important they are. I also think the curious and inquisitive nature we have is rooted in control. By knowing and understanding the answers to all of these questions we have soothed some anxiety over our futures and dominated nature mentally. I think its ok to say, I don't know what happens after I die and live your life in a meaningful and positive way.
Life is a gift and can be painful and we as humans who are self aware(to a degree) can experience much more pain, but equally more pleasure. I have not always thought this way, but through time it has become evident to me that there are certain questions that are unanswerable and i can still make my way through the world and do my best to help the earth and its creatures.
Jun 12 2012: This is SO beautifully written Brian....I LOVE it!
It is always fun to ponder and consider this question, and I think when it comes right down to it, I agree with your statement...the curious and inquisitive nature we have, is sometimes rooted in control. We (humans) want to "know" everything right now!
We are HERE...NOW, and that is the important piece for me...to live the life adventure in the moment, to the best of my ability:>)
Jun 12 2012: Hi Colleen,
Tell them your story Colleen !!
Greetings from Daniel
Jun 13 2012: Greetings from me to you Daniel:>)
I'm glad to talk about my story, and it feels like old news by now!Jun 13 2012: Thank you Colleen! It is fun to ponder this question the scenarios are bound by nothing but your imagination. Living life in the moment is a great challenge but a worthwhile task nonetheless. We really do not have all that much time here and forgetting that can be very easy in some parts of the world. Afterlife or not I think those who remember that their time is limited enjoy the ride more thoroughly!Jun 12 2012: Stating the obvious, we know our bodies breakdown.
There is a lot of speculative stuff that we can not prove or disprove.
While no one knows for sure what happens to trees, dogs and humans I guess even many religious folks fear death, fear the likely oblivion. Perhaps there are consolations in religions regarding the finality of death but I'm more interested in life before death than a probably mythical afterlife.
Go back far enough and I guess our pre human ancestors may have feared death but did not have the same appreciation of life as we are capable of or the ability to philosophise about life and death.
Vida Bee
Jun 26 2012: Yes, this is all there is. Yes, this is all you're good for. No, you don't vanish. You decompose (assuming you're not cremated). Now, if you are referring to your conscious self when you say "I", then the answer would be yes. You vanish. All the you-ness that makes you uniquely you disappears. That could be depressing from one angle but it could also be inspiring! You have right now. Every single day to make an impression on your world that will not vanish. An impression that in fact does have a purpose and that goes on for years and years beyond your mortal life. If your life's work is focused around that and you're successful in making that impact, you won't have to lay your head down and guess about what happens to your body. Carpe diem!
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Helen Hupe
Jun 17 2012: @ Daniel....Thank you, sir. It is good to be back. I did previously recount my experience. Perhaps you missed it so I will post it again. When I was about 30 and had two toddlers to care for, I was washing dishes in the kitchen and suddenly became aware of the most beautiful light I had ever seen and with it came a feeling of being loved beyond my capacity to receive it. In a short while the light was gone and a sort of peace settled upon me and I was able to see how wrong I had been about some ideas prevalent at the time of the incident.
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I had a new view that let me "see" where I had been wrong. There are no words to express the beauty and wisdom I experienced. Hope this clarifies my previous post.
Jun 17 2012: Dear Helen,
Thanks for your reply.
I have been reading a bit about this type of experience. May I ask you if you experienced the light as the Christ being...? Feel free to choose not to answer if you feel the question steps over your integrity of what you would or would not like to expose of your personal life. I understand if you don't want to answer.
I have heard stories where people are in grave desperation who have experienced this light. I have come to the understanding that this is a phenomena that will occur more and more in the world. People will be experiencing this incredible light which will appear to them. A light of pure love and wisdom. This is what some esoteric teachers call the "second coming" of the Christ. This is perhaps an apparent contradiction to what many conservative Christians might call the "second coming" but not the I have learned to understand it. Can you please reply to this later part of my comment if you will ?
Helen Hupe
Jun 17 2012: @Daniel.......I did not experience this as a Christ-Light even though born Catholic and a practicing Catholic at the time. I just felt that I was in the presence of "God". I am not a member of any Abrahamic religion now because I cannot abide a God like the one of the Old Testament and I certainly don't think that God had to be mollified by the horrible death Jesus suffered. I believe that Jesus died because we are sinful humans and I hold him as a model for my life so I call myself a progressive Christian
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Jun 17 2012: Thanks Helen,
I find your story exceptionally interesting Helen. Who the light being was / is seemed to have left a lasting impression on you ... and whats more, you can continually find new nourishment from ... yes ... even just from the thought of its presents.
I too was born Catholic. I haven't been in a Catholic church for years though.
In other words, I have found my spiritual nourishment other places. Although such an experience as the one you had, I could only one day hope for.
Otherwise, I have heard some amazing stories about concentration camp prisoners also meeting such a light.
I can share one with you, ... and anyone else reading along.
It was near the end of the war in a concentration camp in Germany. There was a bunker with 25-30 prisoners. A German solder entered the room and began beating a prisoner ruthlessly for almost no reason.. He beat him and beat him until the prisoner was lying almost lifeless on the floor of the bunker. Suddenly a light being appeared for "everyone" to see. Even the German solder himself saw it. The solder immediately stopped beating the prisoner and the whole room fell deeply silent. The solder left the bunker then. The prisoner recovered and lived until the war was over.
Now this story was told to me by a very respectable source and I can find no reason for doubting it. Other stories of this nature have crossed my path up through the years. I can't help thinking also of the light being that is often told of by people who have a NDE
Some call it an angle being. Some call it an energy being.
I'm trying to piece it all together Helen.
Thanks for your reply !!
DanielJun 18 2012: Daniel,
I note you jump to "who" as opposed to what.
Who knows what is behind this profound experience?
The leap to personification, cultural filters, etc is very subjective.
I would not be surprised if this is something some would interpret as God, Jesus, Mary, angels or Vishnu etc depending on cultural programming, but we really don't know what was going on.
It is human to interpret these experiences. I just hope people recognise how subjective the interpretations can be.
We don't know if it is an entity or intelligence etc etc, an alien, some phenomena that overloads our senses, or something just within the brain. Agree is could be, could be an angelic being or spirit guide or enlightened soul etc. It could be something far outside even our imagination. We don't know.
A rare experience like this is very hard to test.
Seems a wonderful and profound experience. Re the German story. Pity this light is rare I guess there are a billion occasions we could do with some help for every time the light appears. Maybe there is only one light and it can only be in one place at a time. Opps I'm starting to speculate on the subjective.
Some people hear these events and fit them into their particular supernatural belief paradigms as a proof. Others accept the experience but are wary of intuitive subjective interpretations.
I thought about whether to jump in or not. Don't mean to minimise or diminish the experience or impact the intuitive hopeful interpretation, but thought my ideas may be an interesting perspective on a public forum like this.Jun 16 2012: I'm not sure whether an answer combining philosophy, astronomy and psychology would work here. But let me try if you folks won't mind.
What happens after we die? If we scrutinize to the meaning of this question we can see cause for this question. Let's ask some other questions to face this question.
What's the need to know the happenings after death ? What makes one to think or worry about an event that's not encountered by himself yet?
A) Fear of death or becoming nothing B) Curiosity C) Love for life
I'm not gonna answer for this :) But the idea is, whatever the answer you choose would be the answer you want subconsciously. So explore it :)
And in a broad way, we all die. Nothing happens to an individual after death. It's just all quarks and neutrons. Thus the existence gonna be there. But again, when i say we'd end up as molecules it's not molecules of us. It's molecules of matter which constitute the universe the whole existence. So every particle as what we end up as would not have an intuition of 'I' or 'Me'. It becomes a particle of existence which in turn would be recycled to take another form of anything. And this recycling is not reincarnation. If I'm putting it right, the recycled form would not have any of this present 'I" in it. It's gonna be an entirely new form. We can console ourselves to save from fear of death by saying that we gonna be in the universe in other forms after death. But logically, that other form's not gonna have any residue of this present 'Me'.
And this question is the question of human race since it's evolution. The reason can be noted mainly because that we're not accepting the nothingness or the eventuality. That's the conflict between conscious and subconscious and that's the conflict between the reason and the cause. We tended to find solutions for it in a way that those solutions would suit our purposes of being. That has formed the various belief systems on death..
Jun 16 2012: Dear Rajasangeethan John,
I think it is great to include philosophy, astronomy and psychology because I believe the topic, "what happens after we die" to include everything that is, was and will be for all of us.
I have encountered death, and I do not worry about it. So, love of life is my answer to the question why would I want to explore death. I believe that how we live our life is the important piece at this time, because we are here, now. It is always fun to ponder and speculate:>)
I agree that what happens when we die is that we become molecules of matter ( or energy) which constitute the whole universe...and beyond. I agree that the recycled form does not have any of this present "I" in it. None of the human characteristics at least. I believe we retain and have access to all information regarding the "I" in human physical form, as well as other forms. When I had the NDE/OBE, there was a sense of all knowing.
I agree that the various belief systems regarding death have developed based on our need to explain death, and often people form their beliefs based on what they are taught in human form, because humans like to think they/we "know" the answers. So, we sometimes make the answers fit a certain established belief system.
Reincarnation was not at all part of my belief system prior to the NDE. However, while in the spirit/energy state, I knew that if I did not come back at this time, in this body, I would come back in another body. So, now I do believe in reincarnation. I agree that the next form, has none of the characteristics of the form I am in now. The only thing I may be aware of and have access to is information learned in other forms.
Jun 16 2012: Hi Colleen,
I commented the previously considering all of us. I didn't mean you and your experiences alone. I apologize if that comment meant anything in that way.
The life or the essence of existence is, you know, is that it just exist. Considering the vastness of the existence, our lives are unaccountable. If we look in broader spectrum, human is a combination of energy that takes a form for a period of time after which it dismantles back to energy state. During the period in which these energy constitute body and brain, the brain with its unlimited and complex trafficking of neurons create some transactions which our sense with use of language and evolutionary ideas, conceive as thoughts, emotions, ideas etc. But all these ideas or thoughts have got nothing to do with the whole existence of the universe or multiverse or matter. It should be seen as a flow of energy in course of which it takes various forms which dismantles to form basic molecules which again in course might take any form like a human, a rock or whatever. Again that's not necessarily be the same form and the probability of such a consecutive occurrence needs infinite occurrences to occur in the same way with same combination.
If i put it another way, may be in an abstract way, clouds form shape in the sky not wanting to form a shape. They get shape in course of their direction or air or the other entities then they again become formless. And that cloud might have a lot of transaction by itself which we might not be aware of. We don't even care if there's any. For us, they form, they disappear. That's what human life is. All the conceptions and ideas that we generate aren't a matter of concern for the existence. For the existence, in it's point of view (if it's got one) we're just a formation of energy in its course. Because it knows that nothing works as our conceptual thinking conceives.
We form for no reason, we die for no reason. We live to find reason. And that reason got no reason :)
Jun 16 2012: R.J.
... Rather anemic perspective on life ... I would say...Jun 17 2012: Rajasangeethan John,
I also commented considering all of us, and I share part of my personal experience, while agreeing with, and adding to your comment. Would you feel more comfortable if I do not respond to you on this open forum?
I do not agree that our lives are "unaccountable". That may be your personal perception, which I respect, and I feel very accountable for my life, the direction of my life, and the choices I make within the life experience.
I do look at the broader spectrum, and agree that the human is a combination of energy that takes a form for a period of time.
I do not agree that all these ideas or thoughts have nothing to do with the whole existence of the universe or multiverse. I believe that everything is connected with energy....a flow of energy, as you insightfully recognize:>)
I do agree that we are partly a formation of energy, and do not agree that all the conceptions and ideas that we generate aren't a matter of concern for the existence. You may be right...it's a point of view. I like to think and feel that my life has reason, meaning, and is indeed a matter of concern....at least to me:>) If I thought for a moment that I was here on this earth school for no reason...that I live and die for no reason...the human experience would feel dull to me.Jun 18 2012: Daniel,
1) just because you might judge there being no absolute reason or objective meaning for life as anaemic doesn't mean it isn't correct.
2) if there is no simple objective meaning, that doesn't mean we can not have rich and fulfilling lives.
Strange how many can live happily with what may be a delusion in terms of this god or that goddess but can not imagine having a fulfilling life without some god given purpose. Not implying you do or don't think that. Just an observation from experience.
The creator of the universe taking a personal interest in each of us seems somewhat self indulgent to me. She could. Who knows. Interventionist gods seem most unlikely.
Look around, painful childbirth, sickness, injury, disease, aging.
The breakdown of our bodies after death.
Animals living by eating other living things.
99% of species extinct.
Earthquakes, storms, floods, and the lifeless expanse of space.
Not much warm fuzzy objective meaning in reality.
Some think this is created.
Yet we have evolved to think, to feel, to hope, to love to dream. Somehow in the survival of the fittest we were born and we can find our own meaning with or without mythical gods and unproven afterlife.
Colleen, you could be right about reincarnation. I suggest a NDE experience does not quite meet the burden of proof. Its not the same as a conscious experience after brain death or your body and brain completely breaking down. While NDE is about as close as we can get, and gives many peace, actual life after death would appear to be unverifiable.
Even if we could copy or reboot our consciousness and memories into computer or artificial body/brain we still wouldn't know.
I wonder if other animals have NDE?
I tend to agree with RJ based on current information.
We agree on focusing on life before death in a positive sense.Jun 18 2012: Obey,
I am not offering my experience as "proof" of anything, nor am I trying to be "right". I am simply addressing the topic question (what happens after we die) with my story and my beliefs based on my experience.
You say an NDE is "not the same as a conscious experience after brain death or your body and brain completely breaking down".
Obey, the body and brain WERE completely breaking down after the accident and emergency craniotomy, and the body was kept alive with life support systems. I have medical records to prove that. Although I was unconscious according to the medical model and medical records, I experienced other levels of consciousness. The part of the brain that allows me to speak and connect on a human level was disabled, and other consciousness was available to me.
I'm really not trying to prove anything, and I don't care what others believe, as long as those beliefs do not manifest into practices that adversely impact others. I am simply shareing my story in regards to the topic question.
Yes, we seem to agree that how we live our life is the important piece:>)Jun 19 2012: Hi Colleen,
I understand you are not trying to prove anything. You are just sharing a profound experience. I'm not arguing with you or trying to convince you of anything either. Just exploring.
A NDE as you describe is about as close we can get to being permanently dead.
To clarify we have no evidence of consciousness without some sort of brain structure. Being unconscious, not breathing etc, brain damaged or even no measurable brain activity is not the same consciousness after the brain has decomposed.
Maybe even without oxygen something is still going on that relys on brain structure. Maybe some forms of consciousness do not need measurable brain activity. Maybe consciousness doesn't even need a brain structure for a short time or for ever. More questions here than answers.
I can imagine some form of consciousness persisting for some time in the brain even if damaged, starved of oxygen etc but not completely obliterated. But I'm just speculating.
Do we have any idea how a consciousness would actually see surroundings without eyes or hear or feel. Most likely a hallucination like a dream, but who knows.
In my own mind, NDE is not proof of reincarnation or even life after death. I know you are not proposing your experience as proof. You weren't actually reincarnated.
Maybe we could come up with some ways of pointing towards reincarnation being real if memories of the past life were accessible. Otherwise, very hard to verify reincarnation. Just like life after death would be difficult to confirm even if it were real.
Even if someone was dead and decomposed and their body/brain was somehow repaired and brought back to life from a DNA samplewould their perceived memories or conscious experience of the dead time be proof? Maybe, if we could correlate their memories with events on earth while they were dead. But not if they experienced being in some other place. Life after death may be unverifiable.
How do we separate what happens in our head from realityJun 21 2012: Obey,
You stated..."Colleen, you could be right about reincarnation. I suggest a NDE experience does not quite meet the burden of proof."
To clarify...again...I am not suggesting that I am right, nor am I trying to "meet the burden of proof". I am simply sharing a story about an experience I had.
I understand that there is no evidence regarding consciousness/unconsciousness, what it is or how it works. I'm offering some ideas, based on an experience. I too offer information with the intent of further exploration.
You ask..."Do we have any idea how a consciousness would actually see surroundings without eyes or hear or feel?"
Yes, I believe I do have an idea. In my perception and experience, consciousness is carried by energy. The closest I can come to a description of what I experienced is ESP...a sense of all knowing without the human senses.
You write..."Maybe we could come up with some ways of pointing towards reincarnation being real if memories of the past life were accessible".
In my perception, many memories of past lives ARE accessible. I agree with you that this information is not verifiable.
I do not believe that the body/brain can be repaired and brought back to life after being decomposed. In my perception and experience, once the body/brain dies, the energy that fuels the body transfers to another form.
You ask..."How do we separate what happens in our head from reality".
In my perception, what happens in our head is part of reality. Just because we cannot see it, does not mean it is not real. In my perception, our thoughts, feelings, ideas, opinions are very real, and they all manifest as part of the reality of the life experience.Jun 12 2012: What happens to the characters from your dream when you awaken?
Jun 13 2012: Good question Erik!
I believe the characters of our dreams are produced with the same energy that powers the body...the same energy that is many levels of consciousness, sub-conscious, collective conscious or unconscious, universal conscious, instinct, intuition, etc. etc...whatever we choose to call it.
When we awaken from a dream, the characters, as part of the "flow" of energy, go back to the collective "pool" of consciousness, which we always have access to. When the body dies, it is no longer a carrier of the energy, which goes back into the collective "pool" of energy.
What do you think/feel about that?
This is what I witnessed with an out of body/near death experience. I'm sure the science minded among us will accept that as "proof"....LOL:>)
Jun 13 2012: I'm not ready to agree or disagree with the particulars, but I think it is something in that direction. We are only barely at the beginning of understanding what "reality" means or how our minds process it. Our empirico-rational model will be the flat earth theory of the future.Jun 13 2012: On one point, though, I would differ, because the storage or characters in our memory is not quite the same as dissipating back into the pool of energy.
Jun 13 2012: Erik,
I agree...the storage or characters in our memory may not be quite the same as dissipating back into the pool of energy.
Once the body/brain is dead, however, there is no more "storage" in the brain...the brain has no more memory...correct?
So, the energy that is the carrier of information might move to another form?
I believe science has already recognized energy in our body/mind, and I think science also recognizes that energy does not simply disappear...it changes form...yes?Jun 13 2012: Just some thoughts on that matter.
The character is created over time and developes further but like trees growing from the ground they need a constant flow from that ground to live on. As the tree withers the same water does sprout the seeds that were left to rebuilt the structure of character, the innate form that is conscious within the totality of being. Looking back in the pool we see all forms merge as if all is one. Consciousness isn't something of the body. It is the movement of all being that is self aware through any one filter and focus of any form that was so created.
We have no memory but access to all our being was ever conscious of up till our present form. With a shift of focus we can remember things we weren't aware of at the moment we lived it because we as human beings are aware of just a few percent that what really is recorded. Without the limitation of the body that awareness has no limit either but no focus also.
To put this all in words is like peeling an apple with an ax.Jun 13 2012: Dear Frans,
I LOVE your insightful comments, which always cause me to ponder:>)
I am smiling because I agree...to put this in words is like peeling an apple with an ax...interesting image my friend:>) I think it would be easier to peel an orange with an ax!
But then, we would be talking apples and oranges, and it might take us off-topic...LOL:>)Jun 13 2012: Colleen,
This energy body is what is called in esoteric terminology the "etheric" realm ..
We are all participants in this realm when we are alive. But when we die, the individualized etheric body becomes again one with the etheric body of the earth. This is what is the real carrier of our memories. It "unfolds" itself at the moment of death and is experienced as a tableau where the dying person can see / experience their entire life as if observing it from the outside. This tableau is accessible to people who are clairvoyant and it is called the Akashic records. Trained esoterics have known this up through the ages and have had access to this realm. These are the prophets. People who can see directly into the spirit realm. Even predict future events to some degree.
As Colleen has told usin other discussions on TED, .. when one has experienced this realm, one simply "knows" that it is a reality. Although words are poverish to describe the true nature of it. It is described as a realm of light. Pure loving light. Also so intense that earthly words cannot describe the beauty of it. This is the light that not only gives us life here on earth, but also the light that is the carrier of our memories and sense impressions here on earth.
This will remain as the eternal "book" that all things are written in.
Jun 13 2012: like dreams feel real
like delusions feel real
like drug induced visions feel real
I don't deny profound experiences, but I question the certainty of the interpretations of what these experience actually are and what they mean.
Our senses are imperfect especially when under duress.Jun 13 2012: Hi Daniel and Obey:>)
Daniel, I'm aware of the terms and interpretations you mention above. You say the unfolding of information happens at death. You also write that clairvoyants, trained esoterics, prophets have access to this information.
I suggest that we are all capable of accessing this information, and we do it on a regular basis. Instinct and intuition, in my perception, are part of the information you refer to. It is by opening the heart and mind further, that we get more information. This can be done with meditation, mindfulness, awareness, and various other practices. We all have the ability to be an observer of our own life experience right here and now:>)
Yes...I agree Obey...anything and everything we experience may feel real to us, including and not limited to, dreams, delusions, drug induced visions, etc. and each of us may interpret the experience in many different ways.Jun 14 2012: Thank you, Colleen for your kind reply.
How would we descibe the color of an orange to a blind?
Words relate to the world of our eyes but a blind can see as well as any soul, dead, alive or dreaming.
Jun 14 2012: I totally agree Frans!
My friends who are "blind" often "see" much more than I do, because many other senses are put into use. When we see only with our eyes, we deprive ourselves of information. When we learn to "see" with more than our eyes, we are capable of more insight.
That is what I experienced with the NDE/OBE. Although unconscious on a human level, there was an intensity of everything that is, because all channels were open to recieve information:>) We have that opportunity and ability HERE and NOW. We don't need to wait until we die to experience it! I know you know this Frans:>)
daniel hehir
Jun 13 2012: Erik,
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Interesting question.... They continue to live on in us... don't they..? They are "gone" for the moment when we awake, but they are still there in our minds.. in our memory.... I can recall a character from a dream that I had years ago. I can see his face perfectly in my mind. Who is he? How can even a dream still live on in my consciousness? Maybe there is something about my consciousness that is eternal. How can "I" even relate to a dream at all? After all, my daily awaken consciousness was not at all present.
Jun 14 2012: I think that's the right direction indeed. I feel like Christmas is coming as I imagine us gradually unfolding and understanding more layers of the process in the years ahead.
Jun 14 2012: Daniel and Erik,
My mom always used to say that Christmas was not simply a time of the year, it is a feeling we can carry in our heart always...all ways. The feeling can be HERE and NOW in each and every moment. We often try to pack a lot of love, sharing, giving, joy and contentment into that one day or week of the year.
With the recognition that we can carry the feeling with us in each moment, we may experience the unfolding and understanding of more layers of the process. That is how we transcend some human limitations and experience the so called "heaven on earth":>)Jun 23 2012: If the god of the bible is real....
If the hell he created is real.....
A place of eternal torment where those who do not follow the ordained path....
Then we should simply stop having children.
If you really believe in god, in hell, then by having children, with no guarantee they will be saved, you are complicit in risking a human soul to eternal damnation and suffering.
It is not worth the risk of giving birth to a human soul if they may suffer eternal torment.
This seems to me to be a logical conclusion to the dilemma of hell.
You may be able to save your self, but we many do not believe, do not become Christians, many will go to hell.
If you are pregnant it is better to abort then give birth assuming God does not send the innocents directly to hell for original sin.
I'm serious. Think about it. Hell is eternal suffering, unending torment. Forever.
I don't know how many times I've heard Christians state Pascals wager. They suggest if there is even a small chance the Christian god is real and eternal damnation is real, then it is better to be a Christian even if not completely sure. Eternal damnation is an infinite punishment. So no matter how unlikely, they believe you should logically choose Christianity.
Then the same logic should apply to believers. The joy of having children, the benefits for you and the soul you bring into this mortal coil are far outweighed by the risk they may rebel or simply not believe and end up suffering for an eternity in the hell God created.
daniel hehir
Jun 23 2012: Obey,
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You seem to be tumbling deeper and deeper into some kind of self constructed (il)-logical labyrinth.
You seem to let yourself follow down the road of such ideas as eternal hell, eternal damnation and suffering. You can choose to reconstruct those concepts. Fill them with new meaning.. a more realistic meaning. Another meaning than the one you have gotten from the conservative Christian corner. By always polarizing your arguments in this way, you only strengthen your own antipathy, ... and not towards finding your own truth.
If "their" concept of hell is misconstrued ... why then do you continually go into an attack position on a so misconstrued concept of hell..??
There is no such thing as an eternal hell Obey. The conservative Christian idea of it is misconstrued.
Are you really out here just to set them all on the right path...? There are a lot of conservative Christians and Muslims out here for just the same purpose.... to proselytize There is always the danger of falling into the opposite pole... As Richard Dawkins is always proselytizing to "save" the world from the "believers"
Jun 24 2012: Hi Daniel, I'm just exploring what hell and eternal damnation means if it were true.
Firstly that it is better not to exist than go to hell. Better not to have children if there is a risk they will suffer infinite eternal punishment.
Secondly, what this means about their God. This is simply divine terrorism. Evil.
If it is simply a human construct it is still using fear as a religious tool.
What is wrong with exploring their belief from inside the bubble? I doubt this will even create a small chink in the armour of religious programming and making things fit. However, if a few people read this and realise that a deity that has committed global genocide once (Flood), and has created a reality so that billions will suffer for eternity, is cruel to say the least, they might question the rest of it.
For the Christian who don't take the bible literally, but still give it credence undo.
I'm not trying to convert anyone. Just testing ideas. So what if I was, if just through conversation not through child programming or force.
I support freedom for people to have religious beliefs. I do have a problem when faith based beliefs impact others. I also have no issue challenging faith based beliefs in principle given faith is not a very good method for discerning fact from fiction and impacts many lives.
I haven't seen any compelling evidence for hell, or any god for that matter. But live in a world where others do.
There was a time when I was a born again and anguished that family and friends were going to hell if this was true. So the idea does much harm if it is not true. But that's a different argument.
What does it mean if it is true. Seems a valid question to me. Christian ask me all the time what if you are wrong. I'm just exploring what if they are right.
It does not impact other beliefs, just those where a creator created hell and humans knowing they will go there.
Jun 24 2012: Obey,
... sounds like a phobia to me ....Jun 25 2012: Is that your professional opinion based on a discussion about what happens after we die.
Sounds like you have a phobia about my perceived phobia.
Which bit is illogical?
1. Some Christians assert a doctrine of eternal suffering in hell if you reject their beliefs. If they are right then it might be better to avoid procreating because of the risk of our children rejecting the teachings and burning in hell forever.
2. A deity that creates conscious beings in a scenario it knows will result in billions suffering for eternity is evil.
I don't know of any compelling evidence supporting the doctrine of hell as being correct. But I can point out some obvious conclusions to those who believe it is true. Why do my comments concern you so much if you don't believe in hell either?Jun 23 2012: Obey and Daniel,
I agree with both of you.
Obey, your comment reminds me of when I had babies. I was young (20 at the time of the first birth and 23 the second time), and had 19 years of catholic dogma behind me. Even though I felt certain of my beliefs (or lack of), as did my husband, we had the kids baptized. Why? Because it was expected by our families, and it was easier to go through the process than argue with family members.
On another level, I believe there was the information that had been programmed since I was a child...if the child dies and is not baptized, s/he does not go to heaven. S/he goes to some other ungodly place for eternity. Even though I did not believe in the dogma on many levels, there was still the programming.
I wanted to be a good mother. What if...something happened to my child and s/he died? So, I wanted to hedge my bet and they were both baptized. There! Bases covered...good mom!!! Thankfully, they are both alive and well:>) That was the only religious practice I ever did with my kids. They sometimes went to various church services with relatives or friends when/if they wanted to.
Daniel, you make a good point too. We can indeed reconstruct those concepts and reprogram ourselves. What we focus on expands. I agree with you Daniel... if a certain concept is misconstrued, why continue to argue against it? I agree with you Daniel...there is no such thing as hell. To threaten eternity in hell if a child is not baptized is a way to control, dominate and abuse people. To spend time arguing about it simply gives the concept fuel to exist.
Jun 25 2012: Hi Colleen, I agree the doctrine of hell can have a profound impact on people.
As a Christian I also worried about others.
As an atheist I have been politely threatened by Christians and the odd Muslim with eternal damnation.
I'm glad there is no evidence for it, but the hell doctrine points to some significant issues.
I take your point on reinforcing it. Probably enough said for now, but reserve the right to contribute later. Others can make up their minds about the value of the conversation so far and points raised.
Jun 25 2012: Hi again Obey:>)
The concept of hell does indeed have a profound impact on people, how they live their lives and fear death. Fear almost always has a profound impact, and as I'm sure you realize, fear is often consistantly influencing the way some people act and react in our world.
As you know, I do not label myself, and at this time, with the information and experiences I have, I do not believe there is a god, hell, or judgment at the end of this life. My experience with the NDE, and the review of my lives, is that I was very aware of the usefullness (or not) of my life experiences.
I have many friends and family members who embrace various religious and philosophical practices and beliefs, and we've had indepth conversations on the topic many times. They live their lives with integrity, and never seem to have the need to try to convert me, because they apparently observe that I live my life with integrity as well.
Other than the catholic indoctrination in schools for 12 years, TED conversations is the first experience where I've been threatened and warned about eternal damnation. I have never before had the experience of addressing this topic with fundamentalists/extremists, and I find it very educational as far as realizing more about what is happening in our world.Jun 25 2012: Hi Colleen, in the West the hellfire and brimstone message seems to have reduced significantly on average compared to the middle ages say. Not so much talk about the power of the devil or god punishing us with this earthquake or that flood either (still happens sometimes).
In West Europe the power of the Catholic church has reduced and societies values have moved more toward human rights. Christianity is still powerful more or less depending on the country but a lot of the nasty elements have nearly burnt themselves out over the centuries as society, science and secular reasoning have developed. Not too many witches murdered these days but plenty in the past. Freedom of religion also applies to witches or wiccans these days.
The US constitution is an amazing document. Credit to the founding fathers that they recognised the value of prohibiting the establishment of a state religion. Even if the driver was around the dangers of different Christian sects competing, it has allowed reasonable freedom of religion and from religion to be protected.
There are still various literalists, fundamentalists, and evangelicals, but the enlightenment values have been absorbed even by believers and it is rather uncouth these days to assert someone is going to hell, or blaming the victims in a natural disaster because their god is punishing them for support homosexual rights etc.
Some major denominations have moved away from the hell doctrine but it persists with others. Some of these in discussions have asked me what if I'm wrong about there not being god and do face judgement and hell. As part of this discussion I've turned it around and asked what if they are right and god created a hell where many of his creations will suffer for eternity.
I'm glad in general it doesn't come up that often these days. And the less it is indoctrinated in children the better. But it is still there lurking along with afterlife concepts that are used as part of the motivation for terrible acts.Jun 25 2012: Reflecting on yours and Roy's comments, in the past the hell doctrine was a powerful motivator and positive for church objectives.
It doesn't hold as much power as we are aware of so many religions that our cultural religion is just one of thousands and science explains much that was previously the domain of gods. Religions seem to most powerful amongst the ignorant, poor, and least human rights and democratic.
These days for many it is a big negative because we have developed enlightenment values and recognise any being that makes conscious beings suffer for eternity for finite trespasses is simply evil with the power and the will to do worse than the most evil human.
Roy Bourque
Jun 24 2012: Obey,
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There is a term in psychology known as negative reinforcement or avoidance behavior; if you make the penalty of a crime so severe, it acts as a deterrent against committing the crime. It was capitalized by the Catholic Church to curb unrighteous living. The idea of eternal torment is based on the fact that certain activities will ALWAYS result in negative consequences. The idea that a soul will suffer for all eternity was a teaching promoted to secure the authority of the church. The former it true, the latter is not.
You have ample reason to question everything that the church teaches because much of it is rooted in false notions that never got rooted out. I feel your disdain for religion. I detest Pascals wager. Jesus said that many would do the things that he did. My rebuttal to a Christian is simple; show me the miracles and I will hear what you have to say. If you can't, then go do your homework and don't come back until you can. I haven't been condemned yet.
Jun 25 2012: Thanks Roy. Agree coming back to evidence is a key part of the best we can do to assess these kind of claims.
I have a rule of thumb test, would I do this if it became known to others. A divine big brother, or even the spirits of the departed keeping watch is almost an extension of this.
Eben Rose
Jun 15 2012: My theory is that, from the perspective of the dying person, the last coherent thought that the neocortex processes is the lasting thought that one carries to eternity. If that thought is of heaven, and the afterlife, then this is where that person shall reside. If it is of anger and resentment, then this is the purgatory to last forever. It is best, then, to live without regrets and to cultivate happiness that is our last and lasting heaven.
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Jun 15 2012: Eben,
....Too simple Eben..... I could kill a man the day before I died. I could even have enjoyed doing it.
But my own last thought could be about how much I love hamburgers....Jun 15 2012: Eben,
I totally agree...live without regrets and cultivate happiness.
Simple is GOOD sometimes:>) What we focus on expends, and my belief is that we live as we die, and die as we live, which may include our focus on the last thought in the neocortex...or not. Regardless of what you did the day before, you can still be focusing on something else...can you not?
An example from my experience:
When the body was near death, after a near fatal injury and craniotomy, I'm told that I was smiling and giving visitors a thumbs up while unconscious in ICU. The day before, I was riding a horse, had an accident, which put me in the state I was in with a severe injury. If your theory is correct, it seems that I would have been thinking about the accident, rather than giving my friends/relatives smiles and thumbs up?
You both could be "right"...:>)
Jun 16 2012: Albert Einstein " everything should be made as simple as possible but not any simpler" simple is what we hope for all the time
Jun 16 2012: I LOVE simple:>)Jun 17 2012: Stewart,
I like your profile picture..
Is it a galaxy in the outer cosmos ..?
... Or is it a neuron in the inner cosmos...?Jun 16 2012: Hi Colleen and Eben,
The point I am trying to make here is that your action from the day before... year before... life before will come back to you.
In the very moment in which you die does not determine you condition / situation in the spiritual world after death. My comment about killing a man the day before one dies was alluding to this.
The moment of death may be a positive and even joyful one, but for all of us, the consequences of what we have done throughout our lives will bring forth the experience of our "eternity" if I may use the word.
As we die, or can I say "excarnate" from the physical world, we experience the so called "tableau" or "life in review" as many people who have NDE's can tell about. This "spreading out" of the "spacial" experience to a "time" experience is common among people having NDE's They see their life "in review" This gives us a juxtaposition to our own lives that we never have had before. This gives us also the possibility to "judge" objectively both "our actions" as well as "others in their response to our actions" ... Thus, we experience in the spiritual world exactly what we have done to others in the physical world. If you slap your wife, both the "physical pain" involved will arise in your own "spirit being" as well as the "emotional pain" involved. And then "on top of this" there comes a burning desire to correct / do better the pain and injury that you have caused.
This is call "karma" ... but one can easily see the Christian element here also...
...Do onto others ...
Jun 16 2012: I understand the point you are trying to make Daniel. I am aware of the life reviews. The point I am trying to make is that there is no "time" limitation in the spirit/energy state. Everything is simultaneous....in my humble experience. There is a sense of all knowing
You are trying to explain what happens using terms that are a human construct...like "time" and "spacial".
I just read another comment of yours Daniel, on another thread, in which you accuse Obey of "rambling"...that is so funny...the pot calling the kettle black....LOL:>) I love you guys...just having a little fun:>)Jun 17 2012: My photo is a brain neuron DanielJun 16 2012: Colleen,
I think I get your point on the time / space "earth bound"realities. As someone said earlier, there are simply no words for the experience ... it is beyond words.
.. As for Obey's rambling on ... Yes, he himself noted that about his previous comment so I was simply agreeing with his own statement. I think that by agreeing on some points ... things might be easier to discuss ... although Obey and I see things in quite a different light.
I'm not saying that I'm not guilty of "rambling on" though ;-)
Jun 17 2012: Daniel,
Frans Kellner provided the perfect words...Explaining this stuff feels like trying to peel an apple with an ax! I just love that image...makes me laugh every time I think about it! Thanks Frans!!!
I noticed that Obey said that about himself....hope I didn't offend either of you with my playfullness:>) I'm not convinced that you and Obey see things in a much different light. In my perception, you express yourselves differently, and it seems like you come together on some points:>)
Helen Hupe
Jun 16 2012: Hi Colleen.....I have been gone awhile but I have been reading all along. It seems that the subject of an afterlife just will not die. (Pun intended) But seriously, Scientists don't have any explanation for consciousness, yet they insist that there is no afterlife. I don't agree with that.. I have had an extra ordinary experience, as you have. At about age 30 I seem to have tapped into the force that keeps the cosmos going and the result was an immense amount of wisdom. It freed me from learned "wisdom" to make new decisions about what was right and good. An epiphany !
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I believe that dying is a process of being born into another dimension. Our consciousness lives beyond our earthly life. What the mechanics and result of this are, I don't know, but we live on in a very different way. I have great respect for Neil Degrasse Tyson, but I watched a video where he trashed "intelligent design" and he was so glib and sarcastic about how he would not make such stupid mistakes in evolution as "God" did, that it was incredibly funny how he compared his ideas to what actually is. But, I digress. We hear that the NDEs are caused by lack of oxygen. Well and good. If that is what causes consciousness to depart, it is still a mechanism and we dare not draw unwarranted conclusions about whether that conciousness is temporary or not. What law would prevent consciousness from being eternal ?
Jun 16 2012: What law you ask? Potentially the law for conservation of energy, all energy eventually ends up in the form of heat and heat gets spread out and will eventually cause the heat death of the universe where what's known as free energy will cease to exist. Scientists have a lot of explanations for consciousness, Dan Dennet even has a book on I think, though not all ideas agree and there's still a lot of work to be done if working it out. Though as I've said previously scientists have good reason to assume there is no afterlife. We have narrowed down consciousness to a small section of our spinal cord which leads into the parts of the brain associated with consciousness. We have systemically shown in mice or in humans who have suffered brain trauma, that damage to these cells or this specific spot of the spinal chord will remove your consciousness and you enter a vegetative state of brain death.
We've also shown that slicing a few extra cells in the spinal chord causes loss of limb function i.e Stephen Hawking. So we've narrowed down consciousness, body control, and sub consciousness down to all their individual parts of the brain and spinal chord. For example their have been tests with brain trauma patients that certain parts of their brain were damaged and couldn't remember things such as names or phone numbers so we're narrowing down apparent consciousness.
Why do we say no afterlife? Because when the brain dies, all the cells die and stop functioning, we have shown that the conscious mind is created by the brain and also the sub conscious. So when faced with the possibility of all these functions dying and then postulating the idea that somehow after death all these faculties magically reassemble out of the body with nothing to generate them, that's why science says no afterlife.


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