   a religion of my own.
  A Religion of my own.HomogeneousYou are matter. You breath in matter. Thusly, you breath in what could have once been another person. What separates your matter from someone else's? One could say that you posses something called a soul. However, when you ask someone what is a soul, the details get fuzzy. There is no difference in you, the air you breath, and the water you drink we are all one and the same.The Old OneGod, by definition is omnipotent. It is impossible to know everything. Thusly, god is beyond our comprehension. Why then, if god is beyond our comprehension is heaven and hell within our grasp? Everything has a means. It has a beginning and a end. It has a creator and destroyer. God, is the event or person to have begun time.TerminusWhen we die, our brains stop sending signals between it's parts, halting our consciousness. We can not comprehend death, to truly know something one must experience it first hand. Then, why do we fear death? It is a natural reaction, those who do not die, live longer to procreate. When we die our bodies return to how they were when we were born. They return to the ground, the air and the water to nurture more life. Life feeds on life.Final TerminusTime conquers all. Even if you were to live forever, you would eventually be faced with the end of the universe. After the age of stars, the age we currently live in, the universe will be consumed by quantum singularities. These singularities will then slowly evaporate into energy. The energy would then circle around the universe for eternity, perhaps one day converging, all on a central spot. What happens then is beyond comprehension.ReasonIf we must die, then why would god doom us? God, by definition is omnipotent, but a omnipotent being, can never appreciate anything. Perhaps, god created us to love and appreciate him and his work.VirtueGo forth, and appreciate god's work. And give others a chance to appreciate his work. For in appreciation there is understanding.   
  I like it. Can I have one too? :)   ;Quote:Original post by CibressusThusly, you breath in what could have once been another person.Indeed, it is almost a certainty that at least one of the oxygen molecules you just breathed in was once a part of another person's body.   ;Quote:HomogeneousYou are matter. You breath in matter. Thusly, you breath in what could have once been another person. What separates your matter from someone else's? One could say that you posses something called a soul. However, when you ask someone what is a soul, the details get fuzzy. There is no difference in you, the air you breath, and the water you drink we are all one and the same.The details also get fuzzy when talking about the "mind." Show me your mind and I'll show you my soul.Quote:TerminusWhen we die, our brains stop sending signals between it's parts, halting our consciousness. We can not comprehend death, to truly know something one must experience it first hand. Then, why do we fear death? It is a natural reaction, those who do not die, live longer to procreate. When we die our bodies return to how they were when we were born. They return to the ground, the air and the water to nurture more life. Life feeds on life.I don't think people are afraid of death. It's much more likely that they're afraid of what comes after (the "great unknown," if you will).Quote:Final Terminus Time conquers all. Even if you were to live forever, you would eventually be faced with the end of the universe. After the age of stars, the age we currently live in, the universe will be consumed by quantum singularities. These singularities will then slowly evaporate into energy. The energy would then circle around the universe for eternity, perhaps one day converging, all on a central spot. What happens then is beyond comprehension.Or commonly known as the "Big Crunch." AFAIK, this is just one of many theories describing the way in which our current universe will "end." There are many more esoteric theories than that. Also, if the universe collapsed into a single point, where would this "energy" circle? After all, the universe is not in space, it is space.You have an interesting take on things.   ;  Oluseyi is gonna keeeeeel yoo!   ;Quote:Time conquers all. Even if you were to live forever, you would eventually be faced with the end of the universe. After the age of stars, the age we currently live in, the universe will be consumed by quantum singularities. These singularities will then slowly evaporate into energy. The energy would then circle around the universe for eternity, perhaps one day converging, all on a central spot. What happens then is beyond comprehension.There is no beginning or end, the Tao has lasted forever, but is still an infant...Ending and beginning are the same thing...   ;  I live by this;Quote: God, is the event or person to have begun timewhen I read that, it made me think... When did time begin?   ;Quote:Original post by RipTornwhen I read that, it made me think... When did time begin?When I read that, it made me think... What is time?shmoove   ;Quote:Original post by RipTornwhen I read that, it made me think... When did time begin?It began, approximately, infinite seconds ago. For if there's nothing, there's no trigger that can start time either, since that trigger itself is something, and needs time to do it's triggering job, otherwise it can't do anything.   