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As we have experienced everything in our life from out own point of view, it is somewhat difficult to envision the nonexistence of our point of view. Fact is, we won't exist any more after death than we did before conception. Believe me, I would very much like for there to be an afterlife where everything is great and magical and wonderful for all eternity, but the fact is, there isn't one. We just stop existing.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7 "and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
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Ecclesiastes 12:7 "and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
The idea of emptyness doesn't make sense to me. I refuse to think we're here for nothing, life would loose purpose.
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“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
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“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
Ok, that doesn't answer much but I like the quote ;)
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I believe in a Creator. I believe He knew us before we were born. I believe if we seek Him, then when we die we will have eternal life.
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I believe in a Creator. I believe He knew us before we were born. I believe if we seek Him, then when we die we will have eternal life.
Thus what once was merely a beam of light can now have the opportunity, if aimed in the right direction, to shine through a crystal into a rainbow of colour.
Our brains are too meek to fathom the idea of both "nothing" and "eternity", let alone the idea of a Creator, so faith is the only thing we can go by, faith in believing that this crystal will indeed turn us from black and white to colour.
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Jeremiah 1:5
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Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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I love to think about what life was like before I was born. I like to ask parents/grandparents about what life was like, not just in reference to their lives, but to the decade and the culture.
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I love to think about what life was like before I was born. I like to ask parents/grandparents about what life was like, not just in reference to their lives, but to the decade and the culture.
I don't like to think about 'nothingness' too much because I can't really wrap my brain around it, as dumb as that sounds. I like to try and imagine what an afterlife would be like. Sometimes I am convinced that we're all silly for sticking around on this planet when we could be missing out on something so much bigger and better after 'death'.
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We can only describe what we have or do experience. We are somewhat limited in this, because we have the ability to conceptualize things far beyond the confines of our possible experience.
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We can only describe what we have or do experience. We are somewhat limited in this, because we have the ability to conceptualize things far beyond the confines of our possible experience.
One may try to argue... "I've never able to fly, but I could describe it" But we aren't describing flying, were are describing sensations and experiences we do have that we think would be similar (Wind rushing at us while riding on a motorcycle, the weightlessness we feel when riding a roller-coaster, resistance on our legs and arms while swimming, etc.)
Nothingness is not something we have not experienced (or at least have no recollection of), and it is not very similar to what we have experienced (perhaps dreamless sleep is the closest?). It's similar to how we can conceptualize a universe with 2 physical dimensions, or 4 physical dimensions, but we cannot really describe the sensations of being in it.
As for the value of nothingness over "eternal life"... I don't know how one would weigh unknowns against each-other. Beforelife and afterlife are equally mysterious and more concepts based on the fact that we experience time in a linear fashion than on experiences we have (or least I haven't experienced any of those things, nor anyone I've had the chance to talk to)
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I imagine exactly nothingness when think about the time before I was born. I thought of it is kind of peaceful. I used to look out the window in the evening when I was a kid and close my eyes and sit there for while trying to imagine what it was like before. It felt peaceful and you didn't know anything what was going on around you or who you even were. It's hard for me to describe. I think the afterlife is similar except that you still have a little bit of consciousnesses...and worry, fear, and all these human emotions do not exist. Just peace.
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I believe that we have spirits. I also believe that our spirits are older than our physical bodies.
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I believe that we have spirits. I also believe that our spirits are older than our physical bodies.
I believe that we lived with our Heavenly Father before this life. We were in His Presence, and we were happy. He wanted us to be able to learn and live, so He sent us here.
I believe that there can be a 'nothingness', an 'empty space'. But I do not believe that that is where we come from.
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