Let me tell
you something more about immortality, since I had referenced at it in my last
post about Lucy.
Some of
what I’m going to say was posted here earlier too (look at my referring to the NOW) But very much of it comes from
philosophical and religious (Catholic)
conversation I’ve had with someone much more educated and experienced than me
in this area, but I like to say it here because it has very much to do with
quantum sciences and it refers to my doubt that it’s possible that the use of
quantum sciences and the afterlife are simply a new method to take away the
natural fear of death that we all have since birth, in order to make people (parents, spouses,
lovers and friends )
rationalize that for those who die – in one of the (too) many wars we keep fighting around the world, or that death isn’t the
end of it all, it’s just a translation into another form of existence (some say into another
parallel (?) universe)
So here we go, point by point:
1) The
notion that scientists are just coming up with a way to help people deal with
the fear of death is plain silly! It ignores nearly 200 years of abundant and
consistent afterlife evidence, and it ignores the fact that scientists
generally are not the biggest fans of the notion of an afterlife!
2) Why do
we stay here if the afterlife is so great? Because we petitioned to come here,
we won one of the rare available bodies, and we committed to live the life here
that we ourselves designed. Once we successfully complete these lives, we
will be able to rise in the afterlife, and the higher you go the more fun you
can have. On the other hand, if you simply chuck your commitment now and go
home, you will lower your afterlife level. There is no regret like the
post-death regret of someone who has taken the pipe and bugged out early.
3) We can
now prove that SOMEONE walked on earth 2,000
years ago who knew things about God, reality, death, the afterlife, and the
meaning and purpose of human life that those who died, in the 20th century this
has all been abundantly confirmed to be
true. It doesn't matter who this hypothetical person was. We can now prove that
he existed because otherwise we wouldn't have all these 2000-year-old
validations.
4) In
general, it seems that most of those who go badly off-track at death are not
really aware of having died. They often think that something weird is going on,
but since they retain the illusion of being in bodies and since time is so
different once you are outside the material state, you aren't really aware of
time passing: you could feel as minutes what to people still living would feel
like a century. And I should add that some of those who believe that death is the end are capable of being happily surprised. The
key to whether they put themselves into a weird state or not, is whether they
have a strong conviction about there being no afterlife. A conviction tends to
create that reality. (This is VERY important in my broken mind).
2) Following
Hawking’s latest statement regarding the way our universe began, we shouldn’t (as I did) say that God is gravity (or that gravity is God). The cosmological constants are
continuously adjusting, for the universe that we perceive to be entirely random
would require not just one throw of the dice that randomly comes up right, but
consistent throws that came up right within vanishingly tiny tolerances from
every instant of time since the universe began. How likely is that?
3) God is all that actually exists (us included, as stated here earlier), and just
as fish are unable to grasp the concept of water when they know nothing else,
so we have no basis on which even to try to understand God. To be frank, it
isn't necessary for us to be able to perceive God at all.
I believe
to have anticipated the subject of my next post here, or time that – once again
– is part of the Lucy movie that really introduced ideas and concepts that are
very complex and deep to both think
about and fully understand.
- https://infidels.org/library/modern/keith_augustine/immortality.html
- http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/arguments-for-atheism/problems-with-immortality/
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/mar/20/philosophy-religion-hume
- http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/death/is-the-soul-immortal.php#.WVlBR4TysdV
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