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Evolution, the greatest hurdle?. (Read 27409 times)
Spitfire
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Re: Evolution, the greatest hurdle?.
Reply #30 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 2:10pm
 
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You throw the baby out with the bathwater.  This is not a geometrical proof: i.e. the bible has contradictions, therefore the christian God does not exist.  The bible has many contributors, and is written by man, to teach and learn about God and religion.  The old testament and new are very different.  However, the christian notion of God does not not hinge on consistencies or flaws or contradictions, unless you are talking with a neanderthal bible thumper who believes every letter is factual and true without having to be interpreted and understood.

We are supposed to look at the gestalt.  The overall picture of Jesus' teachings.  Do unto others.  Love thy neighbor, mercy, kindness, humbleness in the new testament.  Somehow, these simple notions have touched billions of people and those who have made contact with spirits seem to suggest that everything is not literal by the bible, but these loving concepts are true (as true can be)...

So, personally, I don't think that inconsistencies in the written word of man either disproves or proves the existence of God.

Matthew



The christian god is omnipotent. All knowing/All seeing/All loving/All powerful etc etc. Thus he should have directed the writers to put down the words he wanted? Otherwise why send 10 commandments to people who cant record it accurately?.

Bible bashers come to my door, quoting story's from the bible, but they dont quote the ones which does'nt fit in with modern ways of thinking, slavery, rape, murder in gods name.

Imagine a lawyer, he believes in the law, yet he's willing to defend a guilty client pleading innocent? he does'nt care because he's being paid. do you like that type of character?

Someone who believes in the christian god, can accept 100% words of man - when the man speaks something good, yet does'nt listen when the same man saying something bad?

I dont get how you seperate. Whats gods words, and what are mans?...every single person has there own parts they like and parts they dont.

But, at the end of the day people have lived by the bible, they have enslaved,raped, and commited murder through it's name, and a modern day christian should believe what the original author believes if they truely believe any of whats in the bible because all they have is man's word who were originally there.

Since you cannot verify infomation in the bible... you either accept it as fact (which a true christian should), or you should'nt. Anyone who only takes peices aint a christian and should'nt believe in a christian god.

I did'nt even want to go down the root of god, because it does'nt matter what i say - i wont open anyone's eyes.

I just wanted to know how evolution fitted in, with re-incarnation, our spirits - and the increasing of our knowledge
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About the population increase problem...
Reply #31 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:08pm
 
Spitfire, you bring up yet another salient point
with the "population increase problem."
After all, for 90%+ of human history, there were
only a few million people on earth at any given
time. Now, there's as many living people on earth
as the total number who had existed during the previous 30K years or so.
O.K. ---
Bear in mind that early in humanity's existence (think
back 100K years or so) that we had a world with (tops) 4 million people or so... about the same number as you'd find with any other large mammal at the time.
Where all those "spirits/souls" come from?
Special creation by "Jehovah", the Jewish god?
Somehow I doubt that.
If those people (every bit as intelligent as we are today) had souls/spirits at all, they had to come from somewhere? Well, we can assume they probably pre-existed as various types of higher ANIMALS...
Unless you want to assume the existance of a "Grand Poo-Bah in the Sky" sort of big-c "Creator". Out the window with logic... which I know isn't exactly what you're looking for, Spit.
So, on to the population increase objection to reincarnation.
Perhaps we are seeing an unprecedented number of "promotions" as it were, from the animal world. (That might explain the explosion of stupidity and willful ignorance which has accompanied the explosion in population, perhaps? Are we being inundated with "young", animalistic spirits? Watch the news sometime..!)
Why this unprecedented number of "promotions"? Perhaps these "promotions" occur with spirits from other world/dimensions as well as our own... seeing as how our modern world has an unprecedented capacity to support more humans (due to modern technology) more "spirits" are  currently "taking the opportunity" to incarnate as humans, thus filling the earth's ecological "human-carrying capacity" (just as mankind has always done, even 100K years ago when the "carrying capacity" was 2-4 million or so!)
"Opportunity has knocked", so to speak, for the opportunity to live a life as an intelligent being - and being as how intelligent life is most likely RARE in our universe (google "Rare Earth Hypothesis" to see what I'm talking about here) Earth is currently the "place to be."
Do I make sense here, Spit?
Of course, the humanist/athiest/materialist argument would dispose of all such specualtion rather neatly. BUT...
If NOT, then the scenario I mentioned above provides one answer to the fideists and their "Jehovah did it" mantra, and loathsome "heaven or hell, turn or burn" theology.
Hope that was useful,

B-man
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Reply #32 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:25pm
 
Ive come to the conclusion, i do not get people on this board. at all.

You know, after reading many many oobe's/nde's....paranormal experiences, im coming to the conclusion, it's all the mind playing tricks. Because every single obe/nde/miracle is different....no one ever experience's the same thing.

Constantley producing conflicting infomation. Ive read numerous books....they all have conflicting infomation - we are reincanrated....yet theres children in the afterlife.....familys dont stick together in the afterlife...they do stick together. We are here to learn about love.....we are here mearly to experience things. We have a life review...we dont have a life review...

a recent tv program, took 2000 psychics and tested them, and got it down to 6 in the end.
These 6 crackpots....could'nt tell  which 2 woman out of 10 were pregnant....They then took 5 married couples and asked them to match them.....once again the so called psychic's did worse then if someone guessed.

But back to the point, obe's/nde's....sound like dreams. Nothing more. Coming up with stuff like atlantis existed...were all doomed in the year 1999....the earth will be destroyed in 2020......time is moving faster.....ufo's have peformed surgery on me....

The only common theme running through them, is that they evolve with the culture of the time.

People who get beamed up by ufo's, are usually beamed up by the little grey's....which hit our tv screens not long back.

People who read the bible see a white tunnel....people who dont - dont see anything.

People who are hippy's turn every single situation into love, a loving light....a loving figure....a loving place...

christians say.....jesus was there waiting for me....

Muslims say....allah and the profit muhammed was there.

Some people almost 10% of all nde's go to a form of hell...

Bruce said he performed experiments with people from across the world, were they wrote exactly the same things down on a pad after they woke up from there oobe's. Yet i have seen no one else do this...i hav'nt even seen the results...bruce claims he had.

It seems to me, that all this hemi sync and meditation mearly allows your immagination to take over, thus leading to fantasy scenario's. Which is the only way everyone's experience could be so unique.

This is not evidence for the afterlife. It's just you messing with your mind - and your mind showing you what it/you want.

You cant prove didley squat exists...unless you can verify your experience with another.

I just wish, there was someone with some grit about them, that are willing to find out the truth once and for all, instead of hiding behind there comfort zone of there self dellusion.

/End of Rant.
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Re: About the population increase problem...
Reply #33 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:39pm
 
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Spitfire, you bring up yet another salient point
with the "population increase problem."
After all, for 90%+ of human history, there were
only a few million people on earth at any given
time. Now, there's as many living people on earth
as the total number who had existed during the previous 30K years or so.
O.K. ---
Bear in mind that early in humanity's existence (think
back 100K years or so) that we had a world with (tops) 4 million people or so... about the same number as you'd find with any other large mammal at the time.
Where all those "spirits/souls" come from?
Special creation by "Jehovah", the Jewish god?
Somehow I doubt that.
If those people (every bit as intelligent as we are today) had souls/spirits at all, they had to come from somewhere? Well, we can assume they probably pre-existed as various types of higher ANIMALS...
Unless you want to assume the existance of a "Grand Poo-Bah in the Sky" sort of big-c "Creator". Out the window with logic... which I know isn't exactly what you're looking for, Spit.
So, on to the population increase objection to reincarnation.
Perhaps we are seeing an unprecedented number of "promotions" as it were, from the animal world. (That might explain the explosion of stupidity and willful ignorance which has accompanied the explosion in population, perhaps? Are we being inundated with "young", animalistic spirits? Watch the news sometime..!)
Why this unprecedented number of "promotions"? Perhaps these "promotions" occur with spirits from other world/dimensions as well as our own... seeing as how our modern world has an unprecedented capacity to support more humans (due to modern technology) more "spirits" are  currently "taking the opportunity" to incarnate as humans, thus filling the earth's ecological "human-carrying capacity" (just as mankind has always done, even 100K years ago when the "carrying capacity" was 2-4 million or so!)
"Opportunity has knocked", so to speak, for the opportunity to live a life as an intelligent being - and being as how intelligent life is most likely RARE in our universe (google "Rare Earth Hypothesis" to see what I'm talking about here) Earth is currently the "place to be."
Do I make sense here, Spit?
Of course, the humanist/athiest/materialist argument would dispose of all such specualtion rather neatly. BUT...
If NOT, then the scenario I mentioned above provides one answer to the fideists and their "Jehovah did it" mantra, and loathsome "heaven or hell, turn or burn" theology.
Hope that was useful,

B-man


Well chum...your certaintly a breath of fresh air. logical deduction.....such a rare thing here.

Yea, i can accept that if re-incarnation is proved, but then also comes in, what is the point? you know people who have oobe's says love is all you need yada yada....how much love is there between ants?.

Is there an afterlife for an ant? who judges....who gets which slot? i said in a previous post, do we draw straws? do we get brownie points for certain acts, thus allowing us a higher form of existance?

Does an ant go through a live review? everyone's oobe/nde experiences are always based on personal beliefs of what will happen...

The 10 commandments aint gonna mean much to an ant....and as such an ant can be expected to carry out them to advance, thus they and similar sets of rules cannot apply the way everyone claims they do.
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A little paraphrase for ya, Doc...
Reply #34 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:43pm
 
"*XIPE TOTEC* (the flayed god) does not exist"

Spitfire,  I am not *AN AZTEC*, yet I think in your searches, you are looking for evidence.  Why make a conclusion when some of your afterlife/spiritual searches have just begun?

I have found, the more grounded you are in your belief systems, especially in the physical plane, the less open you are to spiritual proof. 

Don could show you that *HUMAN-SACRIFICING AZTEC FAITH* is not as many think it to be.  I believe this is true of *AZTEC RELIGION* as well.  *XIPE TOTEC* was said to create us in his own image.  If we each are a small part of *XIPE TOTEC*, inside us, exploring, understanding, then no you will not see the *FLAYED MAN WITH THE FACE OF A SKULL.  The concept of the "all that is," is deeper than that.  The concept of you being part of a divinity or seeking it within yourself is deeper than that. 

You may disprove the child like idea of *XIPE TOTEC AS A SKINLESS MAN STANDING ON A TEMPLE OF BLEACHED HUMAN BONES* - but *AZTEC* and *LATE-PERIOD TOLTEC* concepts of a much bigger tougher to define divinity are more the rule than the exception.

Best to ya,

Matthew
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By what you've claimed, Matt... I'm sure that my
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message NO LESS TRUE. Am I right?

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Re: Evolution, the greatest hurdle?.
Reply #35 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:44pm
 
Spitfire,

You have some interesting things to say, but now you are blowing it with generalizations.  You have to try meditation, and other methods for not weeks, but months or years.

Look at Bruce's work on this site.  Partnered exploration where two people visit the same focus level of consciousness, then make independent notes when they are done, and compare the experiences.  Surprising powers and correlations have been found exploring the afterlife this way, with contact and personal information that could not have been known in any other way.   

You seek for logic and objectivity in a subjective realm called consciousness.  How dull it would be if we all saw a white tunnel, all had the same thing as a NDE, all talked with Jesus.  I believe, as many know here, we become what we take with us; there is so much diversity of thought, of course the afterlife will reflect this. 

As different as the accounts you site are, there are several constant universal themes which recur; the golden rule of do unto others, the cultivation and expression of love; the need to help others; the need to explore. 

The great thing about the Monroe institute, and Bruce's work is when you have hundreds or thousands of people focusing their consciousness, and then, giving separate experiences, but verifying some common themes between one and other.

I do not believe that letting go of preconceptions and strict belief in Western science, and being open to the mystical experiences is just using my imagination; I do, however believe that you will not experience the mystical or divine if you want everything to be proved in the material world.

Matthew
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Re: About the population increase problem...
Reply #36 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 8:56pm
 
Well chum...your certaintly a breath of fresh air. logical deduction.....such a rare thing here.

Yea, i can accept that if re-incarnation is proved, but then also comes in, what is the point?
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What is the point of ANYTHING, Spit? I'm sure
you'll agree that there just as easily could be
Nothing, as Something.
So perhaps we're all just like ants, in a pointless
universe/multiverse where reincarnation just "is", much as
the plasma state of a gas, produces a flame in
nature. The whole "PUL" business may simply
be the result of humans doing what they do best...
ANTHROPOMORPHIZING a basically "neutral"
phenomenon (i.e., the continuity of consciousness.)
Makes it a lot less scary for a lot of folks...
Why does "Reality" (whatever it is) need
to have a point at all?

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Reply #37 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 9:19pm
 
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Spitfire,

You have some interesting things to say, but now you are blowing it with generalizations.  You have to try meditation, and other methods for not weeks, but months or years.

Look at Bruce's work on this site.  Partnered exploration where two people visit the same focus level of consciousness, then make independent notes when they are done, and compare the experiences.  Surprising powers and correlations have been found exploring the afterlife this way, with contact and personal information that could not have been known in any other way.  

You seek for logic and objectivity in a subjective realm called consciousness.  How dull it would be if we all saw a white tunnel, all had the same thing as a NDE, all talked with Jesus.  I believe, as many know here, we become what we take with us; there is so much diversity of thought, of course the afterlife will reflect this.  

As different as the accounts you site are, there are several constant universal themes which recur; the golden rule of do unto others, the cultivation and expression of love; the need to help others; the need to explore.  

The great thing about the Monroe institute, and Bruce's work is when you have hundreds or thousands of people focusing their consciousness, and then, giving separate experiences, but verifying some common themes between one and other.

I do not believe that letting go of preconceptions and strict belief in Western science, and being open to the mystical experiences is just using my imagination; I do, however believe that you will not experience the mystical or divine if you want everything to be proved in the material world.

Matthew
Matthew


I just want to be plugged into a machine - zapped -and visit the afterlife.

Im making generalisations, because people who claim to visit the afterlife, cannot give the most basic reponse's to questions, nor can i find evidence based upon quantifiable data. Thus leading me down the path of.

1.) they dont want to tell you.
2.) they cant tell you.

Either way, they are rubbing me the wrong way.

I want to see the data which has been passed....i wanna see bruce stuck under a camera and another person stuck under a camera and a message passed between them....and i want them to be paid a large sum of money for it. It's the ultimate proof that something paranormal exists. Yet not 1 out of the thousands of people who claim to have obe's would dare try.

Thus leading me down the path of.

1.) They cant do it.
2.) They wont do it.

Either way, they are aggroing me.

I want everyone to follow the same path. Everyone see's a tunnel, but everyone visits a different destination.

If we are reincarnated....love/morals....dont matter to ants. Yet...90% of people who have obe's claim we are re-incarnated....but were did we come from before the human race began....questions to which they supposedley have access to the answer, but aint bothered to get it/or they dont know it. But they can tell you exactley how they have mystical experiences...and how times slowing down....but why is there never ever ever.....proof. It aint much to ask for.

The common themes between people....are not common enough for me, you think of the sun, we can get a list together of things we think of, chances are alot of them will be matched. Oobe's go totally loco. i was an elephant retriving people from the asain tsunami.....i was on a different planet, it was inhabited by umpa lumpa's. I went to hell....i went for a life review.

99.9% of mystical experience's turn out to be the brain making something out of nothing....a full town in the usa thought they saw an alien space craft, turned out the military was dropping flares.

Show me something paranormal. I will listen, tell me something only i could know, i would be shocked. If i saw a ghost, belief you and me, i would soon look into ways of prooving it was real. but since ive never had anything remotely paranormal/spiritual occur to me. All i have is the evidence to which i collect, but the source's are often like mutes locked into a cycle - or no proof is needed.

Btw, sorry for ranting. Im just cranky, no answers...no one who is willing/can answer. And the fact - so many people are happy living there life without proving anything.

And you put matt, twice matt ^+  Smiley
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Reply #38 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 9:21pm
 
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Well chum...your certaintly a breath of fresh air. logical deduction.....such a rare thing here.

Yea, i can accept that if re-incarnation is proved, but then also comes in, what is the point?
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What is the point of ANYTHING, Spit? I'm sure
you'll agree that there just as easily could be
Nothing, as Something.
So perhaps we're all just like ants, in a pointless
universe/multiverse where reincarnation just "is", much as
the plasma state of a gas, produces a flame in
nature. The whole "PUL" business may simply
be the result of humans doing what they do best...
ANTHROPOMORPHIZING a basically "neutral"
phenomenon (i.e., the continuity of consciousness.)
Makes it a lot less scary for a lot of folks...
Why does "Reality" (whatever it is) need
to have a point at all?

B-man


Good point.

Then again.
If the afterlife is there. All well and good, if it aint i wont be around to care about it.
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Here ya go, Spit...
Reply #39 - Jan 16th, 2006 at 9:55pm
 
[quote author=Spitfire link=board=afterlife_knowledge;num=1137375117;start=30#37 date=01/16/06 at 20:19:22]

I just want to be plugged into a machine - zapped -and visit the afterlife.
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Got $590.00 to burn?
Here's your "machine" (tinfoil-lined baseball cap not
included.)

http://www.futurehorizons.net/time2.htm

At the top of the page, there's some links... go to
the "time travel" link, and check out some of their other stuff (a good pic of the "hyperdimensional resonator" is shown, along with price and ordering info, at the bottom of the linked page.)
Would it work? Who knows. (But then, I just LOVE "cranky science." How 'bout you?)

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Reply #40 - Jan 17th, 2006 at 4:13am
 
Spit, You imply that because chumley agrees with your point about population increase he brings fresh air by being logical. I agree with your point that the population increase is a mystery but trying to think ideas that are not based on the pure science of what we know today does not make them illogical.

You look for hard facts, black or white yet even todays science doesnt work like that. Medical research and discovery relies heavily on statistical graphs and charts to deduce the affect of medicine on patients. I admit I dont know a great deal about this area but I was listening to a audio recording of a debate on telepathy with Rupert Sheldrake. At one point he produced a stat graph showing the results of one of he's experiments. He made the point that the stat deviation from normal chance for Aspirin on the heart is less than the graph he was showing!. That is pretty crazy.

If other areas of science are getting results from statistical analysis surely we should look at this method of gathering and showing data in the less accepted science areas?

I can give you a link to the debate if you like.

Im not trying to attack you even if i do make a dig from time to time. But in some areas you are not even listening to what i am saying. NDE's have consistant recurring themes in them which are obvious if you read many of them.

I am still learning and reading myself. But dont approach things the way you do as many discoveries are made not using the yes/no theory which you wish to evaluate paranormal activity on.

If you make this into a your right and im wrong game of tennis neither of us win. Im trying to learn and I think you are too.
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Reply #41 - Jan 17th, 2006 at 7:10am
 
Spit not every OOBE or NDE features a tunnel or Jesus or allah.  You really need to stop generalizing and look at every single aspect of the subject before you cast judgement.

One of the most famous NDEs of all time involved a woman called Pam Reynolds, who had a very serious brain operation and was clinicly dead on the operating table + no blood was in her brain as it was all drained from her head as part of the procedure.  If all NDEs are products of a dying brain then how do you explain that this woman was able to give detialed descriptions of the operations procedures without any prior knowledge of the operation's intricate procedures.  She was even able to describe what was happening on the hospital's wards precisely and pointed out that there was an old trainer in the stock room, she gave it's precise colours and its appearence.  There are many noteable NDE experiences that have been recorded even group NDEs.  Not every NDE involves a tunnel or Jesus.  And Pam Reynolds said that she was an athiest before the NDe that she had

Spit do you honestly believe that all the knowledge that has been found on this area is available???  Probably not as this info has been surpressed since time immorial, just use your brain to find out why this info is surpressed.

Link to Pam Reynolds NDE
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence01.html
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Reply #42 - Jan 17th, 2006 at 8:33am
 
What if evolution is powered by wishes and imagination?What if a lizard wants fruit high in a tree and wishes so hard for it that when he dies the wishes and imagining that fruit are still stuck with him, so he comes back alittle taller, then again it happens (in lizard time not such long life spans) and his legs are longer, and N to the nth power later of lives, he's back as a bird? And not just any bird but a bird with a memory/ instinct that tells him that  intense wishes/imaginings/prayers do come true?
What if Einstein didn't prove his theories but imagined them into being?  Then the engineers came in and imagined what technology could be based upon the truths that Eistein imaged into being?
What if being human is just a general term and many stages of evolution exist within that one (or any one) species? What if what is being imagined here by everyone is helping evolve the human species ?!
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Reply #43 - Jan 17th, 2006 at 1:26pm
 
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What if evolution is powered by wishes and imagination?What if a lizard wants fruit high in a tree and wishes so hard for it that when he dies the wishes and imagining that fruit are still stuck with him, so he comes back alittle taller, then again it happens (in lizard time not such long life spans) and his legs are longer, and N to the nth power later of lives, he's back as a bird? And not just any bird but a bird with a memory/ instinct that tells him that  intense wishes/imaginings/prayers do come true?
What if Einstein didn't prove his theories but imagined them into being?  Then the engineers came in and imagined what technology could be based upon the truths that Eistein imaged into being?
What if being human is just a general term and many stages of evolution exist within that one (or any one) species? What if what is being imagined here by everyone is helping evolve the human species ?!


I mostly agree with this statement by bets, though I wouldn't use the same words.  There was a time our consciousness was happy with the entertainment of being a one cell organism.  It involved dimensions we weren't accustomed to and allowed us to experience new things we couldn't get to as spiritual beings.  Obviously, after a few rounds as an ameoba we got sorta bored, and thought of new ways to use physical dimensions to get more out of them.  Eventually we were staring at the fruit up in the tree thinking it would be a great advantage if we could get to it. 

I think we have evolution because we had no idea where we were going with physical form when we first decided to go there.  Hence it has evolved, as, no doubt, our spiritual existance and consciousness have evolved and become better for our experiment. 

As for matching up souls, spirits, and human bodies in terms of numbers.  It makes for interesting discussion, but is probably over-complicating something that will seem silly when we find out the truth of it.  That's not an explanation, because I really have no theory I'm satisfied with on that one.  Generally, I find things to be far simpler than I first conceive of them when I'm missing a lot of information.

Regarding a trip to the afterlife and back.  This is like climbing a mountain.  Everest may have first been climbed in 1923, but Mallory and Irvine didn't live to make the return trip.  Just like the afterlife right now.  You  can go, but you can't come back and tell anyone about it.  Then in 1953 Hillary and Norgay actually made it there and back, and told everyone about it.  Subsequently, only a thousand people have made it there and back, and over a hundred died trying.  I'm not too surprised that no one has made it back from the afterlife to tell us about it.  We only just did it on Everest ( a comparitively easy 3 D earthly realm) a mere 50 years ago.  I wouldn't be surprised if it took us another 500 years to get good information about the afterlife on a regular basis - and even then it will be only about certain parts of it and some will probably die trying.  I think it will be that difficult to obtain, and like mountain climbing, not many will think it's worth the risk.  Even those who make it there and back will have a lot of trouble explaining it to others - just like mountain climbing.  I take pictures, tell stories, and try to capture the feeling of climbing big mountains, but people generally don't get it.  Partly it's due to my complete lack of the tools to explain it, and partly because people just can't relate to experiences that get farther from the normal human experience.
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Reply #44 - Jan 17th, 2006 at 5:51pm
 
To borrow Chumley's method of replacing Christian figures with others, and to borrow Bud S's method of giving a well thought out report, I'll attempt this:
Hey Spitfire,
I know you dislike anthropomorphizing God and I respect your suspicions of the sentimentalized meaning of the word Love, even if divinely inspired, so try this one from astrophysics 001:
You are a speck of stardust, as we all are. We are not inert consciousless specks, however, as we have been magnetized by a great Force. Even ant-sized specks have been magnetized in an ant-sized way.
We and all matters around us have been magnetized and are returning to our Source, the great Force.
The great Force gave us consciousness of our journey by sharing Its limitless Intelligence. The closest we can describe this great intelligence is by calling it Imagining. That gave us things to see along the way.
We become more like the Force and are drawn to it more rapidly when we imagine too, when we imagine fearlessly about any mysteries that come our way.
When we imagine fearlessly,we increase our likeness to the great Force. This increases our magnetism, thus moving us more quickly through the heavens back to the Force. This helps PUL/pull others along with us.  This process is known as 'brotherly lo— ehr, brotherly magnetism. We all move together in giant spirals heading to the NNE.
Individual specks can get caught in down-drafts and cross-currents.  That makes the journey interesting.
But eventually they'll get caught up in the Force again--it's as wide as the universe and unescapable.
Going the wrong way is a terrible sensation. In some language it has been called 'fear.' Some stardust really takes a tumble in these down-drafts of fear-sensation and tries to take others with them.( I'll call such a speck near me Rev. T.) They set up a field of fear so strong that those near them cannot feel the divine PUL of the Force. Someday they'll break free or come up against counter-forces that will put them back on track.
lo'm', bets
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