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I myself do not really believe in any form of life after death. My point being however, is that once part of you is gone, be it mind, body or spirit (For those who do believe) it is death. To me the spirit I was talking about is the mind. i used spirit to make a point to those who do believe and therefore think there to be some kind of afterlife. It seems to make no sense for those to be the people who push the idea of keeping the body alive, when it really should not be the body that matters. If your mind dies, does it matter what happens to your body? Why would anyone need to keep it alive just for the sake of saying it is alive?
If you believe in an afterlife, then when you allow death you are allowing a release. If you do not believe in an afterlife, then death is also a release. In either set of beliefs it does not make sense to try and keep the body alive
posted by
kooka_lives
on May 24, 2004 at 3:57 PM
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Life&death on a bibilical scale
actually bibilicals don't have scales -- only over their eyes.
hey! we just coined a new term: bibilical
Death is alright as long as it happens to someone else.
That's sort of the story of the Old Testament. The heroes are those who can enact more death on the enemy than the enemy can on "us."
Particularly from Moses on, this is the case. We're talking about a "warrior" society here, with God as the commanding general. So as far as God's people are concerned, they're alright with God's destructiveness.
Of course, the later prophets are alright with God's destructiveness on "His people", because it's punishment for sins and that's alright.
If we talk about God as Nature, then we see this as a neutral, with no favor shown -- people die as a matter of course, just like all the other animals. Disasters, disease, war, all are part of the natural course of events.
And it's this latter that we should recognize and accept. Nobody is favored over anybody else. There really is no Divine Retribution. There is simply life and death.
posted by
Xeno-x
on May 24, 2004 at 5:38 AM
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You have interesting ideas here but not for me . . .
I'm one of those who believes that the body is all we have (well, the body and the mind as two, almost separate entities). Snuff out the body and its lights out for all eternity.
posted by
HarveyG
on May 23, 2004 at 8:25 PM
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