This assumes that the soul exists in the same plane of existence as the bomb only, or that the bomb was so powerful that it would obliterate multiple dimensions of matter. 

Theoretically, our awareness is a sign of inner divinity; a part of God, if you will.  I would be surprised if any weapon could extinguish this.

If one wishes for oblivion, if ones mind is set on it, I'm sure there may be a way to achieve it.  But there is so much to live for/explore.

Matthew

If we are only matter, than we are only our bodies, and there is no afterlife.  If our conscious awareness is independent of physical reality, than no explosive on this plane can injure us.  "Spirit is something that no one destroys."  At least I heard that in a song by Traffic from the past.


M

the other dimentions cannot be destroyed they exist independently of this one.if someone desires personal extiction then, i believe they will recieve it, you reap what you sow

No Brendan, our souls cannot be destroyed. Where do you come up with all these questions, theories?  Or maybe the question should be WHY do you come up with these questions/theories?

prove what you all say, its nothing but conjecture

kinda of subject, i apoligze B-man but in a way it isn't...

If we reincarnate and through many lives of different personalities (??) we gain loads of experience which unconciously i believe affects our present but oviously its hidden from us and kept on the other side so we can grow in our limited selfs here, which is what here is about i believe...

But i can't see how we change when we go back over there...for me I am me now, the way i think, me, my essence is me and always will be. I don't see how we can change when we are over there (apart from growing over there), because if we do go over there and remember them all and act from them as a whole from them which makes us....surely we are different...how can we just change just like that to encompass everything we have learnt because then really we aren't who we really are here, and i wan't to be who I am here over there.

Maybe all we our are personalities and when we go back we join to a higher soul which is all of us and we still exsist but as one and not who we really are here, i don't understand how this works though??

but then if we are all one and one day we all join up and have learnt everything then what is next? What is the purpose of this overall higher energy/soul except for sitting around for nothing?

Just something I'm thinking about at the moment that seems kinda relevant in the way that what is the purpose in the end?

Ryan

Good points, Ryan.  If we are more than we think we are, then perhaps there are different levels to our understanding of "ourselves" in the afterlife, just as there are here.

In a way, you can look ahead 40 years and see that you will be a different person and yet somehow there will still remain the essence of who you are now. When I was 19 I found myself wondering who I would be many years later, and how I would see myself, and I wrote a poem for myself to read later, so that I could feel the "essence" of myself at that later time.  Kind of like a time capsule.  I wrote a lot of poems, and they are like time capsules into the past.

Perhaps our hearts and minds are time capsules here on earth, and all of our existence is captured and saved in some incredible "computer" which can be accessed by our "higher" self.  We can then revisit our much loved "selves" and experience any aspect of our lives. 

Ryan, I would encourage you and anyone else to write down your deepest feelings and thoughts in some creative form.  Put them away and look at them much later, 20-30 years later.  It will be of immense value to you.

Just as I would like to believe that all of us, and each of our experiences, are of immense value in the afterlife.

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