I love life way too much. Mabey if more people were like me and they loved the infinite possibility of life they would be happy and there would be less war. Its like every day is a new life, and we reincarnate into a bigger better self the next day when we sleep. Ever since i took lsd i feel this way even more every day. I used to be annoyed by all people, but now I enjoy them. Its like the happier you are, the happier you make other people, and it's a chain reaction and makes you happier in return. Everything is determined by your mood, and creativity. The fact that life ends, that is my hell, i want to exist more than anything, existing is everything. However, it does help convince you that every minute is a gift, and you have to do as crazy stuff as you can possibly handle, because its everything or nothing.
Amen man. I dig that. It's when there's a pure lust for life that my life reflects something truly worth it, and it's clear it's the same way for others. The others that I aspire to, anyways.
Yeah its simple, you just have to know what matters to you, and if nothing matters, than come up with something that is good enough for you so you can also show off to the world
I agree full on man, life is amazing and people like you are what make life great! But I was recently thinking about the end of life (well MY life at least) and it was always a thought that made me uneasy just like it looks like it makes you a little uneasy. But then I remembered Newton's (at least I'm 80-90% sure it's Newton) law that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. That means that the stuff I'm made of has been around for millions of years, and that it was passed on to me, and I get the privilege to pass it on to somebody or something else! That thought just made me all warm and fuzzy inside, it really put me at ease that even though I'm so small in the grand scheme, I contribute in some way! Anyways, just thought I'd put my .02 in! Hope everyone here, and around the world for that matter, is having a magnificent (maybe psychedelic? lol) holliday!!! :xmastree:
I am a sayer of Nay, as my profile states. I agree in trying to make the most out of life, oh confidence can be an issue for some, and perhaps mostly introspective people. The fact that the fact that you will die and not exist is your hell is a bad approach in my opinion. That's almost like a lack of respect for life, your soul is to be released. I feel the pain of not wanting to die out sometimes, as I develop envy of those of us that are by nature outgoing with a developed personality, being a part of many more things than I. This is not a path to contentment. By backwards law we find contentment brings grace or grace brings contentment and by the magic of the fabric in which we are located we find a natural niche in the worthy whole of your destiny. Just offering a non Christian perspective. haha. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth That's from Love Guru, which is an incredibly terrible movie that no one should watch, especially if on acid. Ouccchhhhhhh.....
There is no homework, projects, pain, suffering or anything but eternal rest and peace to the point you're not even aware of it in the afterlife. Literally nothing to fear there. In fact, one of the only things that makes me "sad" about death, is that I'll have younger cousins and shit who will have to see me go. Though I'm sure I'm equally prone to freaking out going "holy fuck I'm really about to finish life" when the time comes.
Who says life ends? Making any statements about what happens when we "die" is completely ignorant. Past and future are just concepts bro. The only time is NOW, there is no point in getting caught up on "whats going to happen" because you have NO IDEA whats going to happen.
Just because your body dies does not mean your spirit does not live on longer. Who is to say what really happens after you die. We are in the NOW, we can't change the past, but we can only try to make the future brighter.
I wouldn't say commenting on what may happen after death is "ignorant". From a conventional perspective, kokujin's opinion is actually the most sensible. There isn't really anything to suggest that "we" somehow exist in some form after the body dies, yet there is evidence that when the body dies, the lights go out and no one is home.
theres actually alot of things that would suggest we dont simply go out like a light. if things like dmt or NDE research isnt convincing enough, the work of Ian Stevenson and those like him make for a convincing enough argument for life after death imo.
Yeah, all of that stuff is basically anecdotal and doesn't seem particularly compelling to be honest. People who are clinically dead, yet are revived and report back things that occurred while they were dead ARE a phenomenon, a rare one at that, but to take that as evidence that there must be life after death is to make a fairly large logical leap.
obviously proof isnt somthing we're capable of aquiring in regards to what happens after death...all im saying is that its inaccurate to say that there is nothing to suggest that conciousness does not persist after death. there are many things that would suggest that it does.
I wouldn't be surprised if consciousness exists for a few...very eternal..moments after the death of the body. But we do indeed die, and this is definitely a death of the self as we know it. Maybe there is life after death, but I seriously doubt it's anything of the linear mind in which you just spoke from.
Also It is in my opinion that those of you that support so dearly the idea of life after death are just in their mind of self interest. It is not of the moment to hold consideration of the self you probably think continues after the death of the body. The self in which you think, even in your right mind below ego, is here most momentarily. It is an unimportant belief of mine that the soul continues on. Whatever that soul may be, just simply the light of creation in which you rise. Second law of thermodynamics. Also, that soul is part of a whole, I do not think of it as an individual thing. So to even say the soul continues onward is a pretty obvious thing, life and where it comes from continues onward.
*in response to pr0ne* uhh, it's nice you used my post to spawn off in some hippy direction, but sorry I wasn't talking about that. It's even less likely that there's "a spirit," or 'life goes on' etc. It's a lot more likely your organism dies and so does 'you.' (your brain and whatever consciousness you associate with it). To get MAD at me for talking about death in the conventional sense (I can understand if I said something out of left field and claimed it as fact) is VERY FUCKING STUPID. And like neo said, I'm not claiming to know what happens -- was only sharing my attitude towards death in the conventional sense.