An eternity without change, that would frighten me. Where there is no movement in any kind of direction. It would seem however that this is not the case at all from what I have read, and talked about with various people.

I would be more bothered by the idea of there being nothingness. Somehow that would affront my sense of what is right. It would seem a collosal waste, and the universe from how I am coming to understand it doesnt work that way.

I have a lot of the fears that you do, and like yourself am working through them with the board here. Thanks for sharing your worries, as in a sense it makes me feel a lot better about what I am going through as well.

Dave

Its scary to consider both sides of the coin....both living and dying......However.....I am sure it never gets mundane ......when we "die" we dont sit on a cloud and play our harp for the rest of eternity....that would be a terrifying thought!......When you die you are actually born again and the possibilities are endlesss.......when you are ready to come back to earth....you will most likely not even consciously remeber the afterlife and you will have the same  fears (possibly) but you get to live out another story......its like a recycling of experiences over and over again.....there is free will in both life and death (which i'd prefer to call a transition). So you can stay up their if you like and experiece a multitude of things that you never had the chance to experience on the earth plane.....How could that get tiring?!

" Once you are not afraid to die.......You are not afraid to live".........The tao

Hi Dave  Im sorry i somehow thought that you were about 18 but 38 is young anyway ,ive had it said to me on here that im younger than i really am ,its a compliment really i suppose ,even though i got your age wrong Dave i hope i got rid of some of your fears about the afterlife.Welcome to the board Dave anyway love and god bless you juditha

Hi Dave i myself have always beleived that we have all lived many lives before ,i remember this medium saying at the spiritualist church i go to that we are all old souls in a way, having lived many times before, and he also said the reason for that is that our spirit is forever learning and progressing in each life ,but he also did say that we do have the choice to reincarnate,so some souls are older than others .love and god bless you juditha

Hey Sven_Und_Jen, with regards to your post:

"Anyways, I was contemplating the possibility of "living" (in the spiritual sense) for eternity.. it seems currently that this is the nature of things. This seems to scare me, I mean, forever! On the other hand, NOT living forever, dying and simplying knowing nothing else beyond that frightens me as well."

I use to feel this way... with respect to being overwhelmed by thoughts of living forever; thoughts of ceasing to exist forever.  However, when looking at all of life as constantly evolving/changing, it tends to diminish this overwhelming conundrum. For instance, we know that a change occurs once we leave this body and enter seemlessly into the afterlife... like a caterpillar growing wings and flying away. This concept keeps our minds at ease when considering the thoughts you ponder with regards to our physical reality. I take this concept one step further and say that this change... this "sprouting of the wings" continues, ad infintum. So, there is no "bore factor" to it, or idealistic "foreverness" to it, for it is always changing/evolving/becoming more and more exciting with child-like excitement/magic. That's just my view anyway.

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

It's no-time without end.

Isn`t that a contradiction in itself?

If there is no-time how can it be without end? For there to be an end there must be a start, so, therefore, we are back to time existing.

end (noun) :- The point in time at which something ends


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