[GypsyGoth]

The story would have been better if it had robots.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

The story would have been better if it had robots.

i feel the same about the pianist

[GypsyGoth]

[Z]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

The story would have been better if it had robots.

But the protagonist of the story will be arista eventually so actually it does!

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Zee

I once read a really cool story online about death/reincarnation, I remember speaking about it on here before and linking it to Karl... I'll put it in spoilers.

I really liked that and is food for thought,

[Munchkins]

I really want reincarnation to be real..
I remember learning that you're supposed to be reunited with all your family still in your next life, just in different roles.. so you could end up being the mother to your siblings and things it was quite an interesting view
I am terrified of death absolutely terrified, i'm not religious at all, but just comprehending, thats it nothing, blackness, just nothing for ETERNITY, really upsets me

[GypsyGoth]

There are a few major plot-holes when it comes to reincarnation.

It doesn't answer where souls originally come from or where they go to eventually, or if they continually reincarnate, then who set that in motion.

Since there are more people born than die, that means that there has to be a continued new supply of souls. So why no use fresh souls for all the bodies.

Also what's the point to reincarnation, like so what if we become more enlightened as spiritual beings, if there is a godlike-being responsible for our journeys through multiple lives, then wouldn't that same godlike-being be able to make us as enlightened beings from the start rather than as these blank slate souls. It would save the god-like being a lot of effort.



I believe the idea of nothingness is terrifying to most people, that's what leads to this magical thinking. It could even explain the popularity of religions.

Originally Posted by Zee

But the protagonist of the story will be arista eventually so actually it does!

[user104658]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

I believe the idea of nothingness is terrifying to most people, that's what leads to this magical thinking. It could even explain the popularity of religions.

I agree; fear of death, fear of grief and fear simply of the unknown are the main reasons that people are inclined to "want to believe".

Personally I find the idea of eternity horrifying, and oblivion quite comforting. In other words - I simply cannot be arsed existing forever! No thanks! One day, I'd like to just be gone.

That said I do think it's a bit on the short side, this "life" business. I'd like maybe 200 - 300 years, ideally.

[Rob!]

Not gonna lie, I'm scared of death - scared of dying and the feeling of knowing your life is slipping away from you and there's nothing you can do about it. Nobody knows if you can really have a painless death because nobody alive has ever experienced it. Sometimes I will just lie in bed and night have that familiar realisation that one day I WILL die and there's nothing I can do about it. I'd like to think that there's something after death, that you have some sort of knowledge and go onto another place, with an understanding of what life itself is, but who knows? I find it almost exciting and terrifying at the same time. I think a lot of stories have been made to make humanity feel better about death and because a lot of it has been wrapped in the cotton wool of religion, it makes it all more believable. One of the many theories out there is right - but which one? I hope one day I'll find out (although if it's Hell, then nah I'll just become a speck of dust in space thanks. :P )

[lostalex]

Almost all of the kinds of life after death scare the hell out of me. The God from the bible sounds like like an asshole, so i don't wanna be in heaven with him and his followers, and reincarnation scares the crap out of me cause what are the chances i'd be reincarnated back in America? I'd probably end up in some 3rd world country.

The only way i would like life after death is if i get to be a ghost and just hang around the world for eternity watching life like a fly on the wall, i think that would be fun.

But i'm pretty sure you just don't exist, like you said it's just like before you were born.

[Z]

Being a ghost would be great, just think of all the places you could sneak into that you'd never be able to see in life!

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zee

Being a ghost would be great, just think of all the places you could sneak into that you'd never be able to see in life!

Wrong Ghosts
Un Happy and Evil

[the truth]

if u want to know where we go , try and work out where we came from....may I suggest studying regression, a fascinating subject area that will become an enormous area that will interest scientists in future years

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by the truth

if u want to know where we go , try and work out where we came from....may I suggest studying regression, a fascinating subject area that will become an enormous area that will interest scientists in future years

Would love to be regressed.

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Would love to be regressed.

I've been to Shropshire - the whole county has been regressed by about 150 years.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If you bother to understand the amazing coincidence and random organised chaos that produced life on this very rock its not too hard to work out that life is what we have now and that after the brain dies and the heart stops there is nothing but decay and oblivion.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

I've been to Shropshire - the whole county has been regressed by about 150 years.

It's very green and pleasant though Jesus ,just a few cow pats along the way,bet I was a cow there in a former life

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

It's very green and pleasant though Jesus ,just a few cow pats along the way,bet I was a cow there in a former life

If you are constantly finding yourself alone with the local vet and he has his arm up your anus to the elbow as you gently mooo to him...

could be

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

If you are constantly finding yourself alone with the local vet and he has his arm up your anus to the elbow as you gently mooo to him...

could be

Really LT,I never moo

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Really LT,I never moo

Oh, it must have been the udder girl

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Oh, it must have been the udder girl

not that strumpet Kizzy the cow again

[InOne]

It's not something I really think about much. I don't believe there is and don't really mind either way.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

It's very green and pleasant though Jesus ,just a few cow pats along the way,bet I was a cow there in a former life

Pppfffffft you're a cow in this life!

Kidding

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Zee

Pppfffffft you're a cow in this life!

Kidding

Once a cow,always a cow ZeeI'll be a bigger cow in the next one,you better not be walking in my field

Originally Posted by Munchkins

I really want reincarnation to be real..
I remember learning that you're supposed to be reunited with all your family still in your next life, just in different roles.. so you could end up being the mother to your siblings and things it was quite an interesting view
I am terrified of death absolutely terrified, i'm not religious at all, but just comprehending, thats it nothing, blackness, just nothing for ETERNITY, really upsets me

Reincarnation is just basically Norfolk.