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Mar 15, 2014, 10:32 AM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
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Originally Posted by DrSkipper
I don't have any faith, which makes death all the scarier, so I think death is just a black, dreamless state which is horrifying to me because I love living and I don't want to die. I honestly wish I believed in heaven or even reincarnation. I wouldn't be so afraid of death if I knew what happened when we die.  |
here are my personal beliefs, which are a mix of all sorts of stuff..
As an aside, I'm scared to post this because I'm afraid of what people will think/say since it's outside the mainstream.
I'm a biologist by training. The universe does not waste things. Plus energy continues on in different forms. As someone else pointed out, our physical bodies are made of stardust to some extent. So, I beleive we continue on in some form after out physical bodies die.
OK, here is where we start to enter the area I'm afraid to talk about.
I believe there are other realities than the one we currently live in. I believe when we die in this reality, we can come to exist in another reality. I believe it is possible to cross from this reality to other realities. I also believe that we can return to this reality (be reincarnated.) I believe in reincarnation because I can "remember" events from previous lives. I have been able to verify some of those things by doing some research. I was able to verify some things I shouldn't have been able to know about unless I was there.
Having said all that, I'm also a skeptic. I could well be that this is all a fantasy I created in my mind in order to placate myself. Bottom line is that none of us has any proof of what happens after we die. We have to go on belief and faith. By "faith" I don't necessarily mean religious "faith". I'm talking about it in terms of something we just accept as the way things are.
Dr. Skipper, I hope you find some sort of belief that brings you peace.
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