by Hanover Fist » Mon Sep 27, 10 8:31 am
I went through the exact shit Danny described. The thought of a nothingness after life is truly the ultimate terror to me. But no one really knows what happens after we die, and there's a reason for that.
I think religions, today, are nothing more than similar ideologies of spirituality that are illustrated differently in each culture. They say there is nothing to positively prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what happens after death, if there are ghosts, if your spirit lives on or if it never was. However, there is also nothing to prove it doesn't exist.
As stupid and hateful religions portray themselves today, they all share the original goal to say that there is some form of a God and that His presence can only best be imagined using metaphors and stories such as the Bible, Kuran, Shimbalah, etc.
The reason why death does not keep me awake at night like it used to is because now I choose to believe that there is a higher power and a spiritual presence in this world that we will never fully understand but are a part of nonetheless. I believe, like Hinduism, that we all make up a part of God and that the reason we cannot perceive Him as a singular entity is because He is too great, and is made up by every living and non living organism, cell, and atom in this universe.
When we die, that portion of God within us is released as the matter that made uyo our bodies is dispersed once again into the world. In that dispersion of our spirits , let's say, that portion of God is reunited with the greater whole that is the Earth, or space, or simply the smallest bits of matter that are so minuscule they can be argued to hardly exist at all.
Perhaps when those tinier than tiny bits of matter come together and have enough denisity to retain memory... then perhaps that is what a ghost is.
Don't know if that comforted you any... but that's what I choose to believe. I've seen some shit to that every religion is right, but inaccurate in its delivery of what the predecessors of that religion claim is the exact way it is. We just put names to it... Heaven and Hell and angels... reincarnation, purgatory whatever you want to call it. I know that the world we live in is a lot more mystical than people know.
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