February 1, 2008
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SOMEONE (like you all don’t know WHO) has been posting about the ten commandments lately and it got me thinking…
Scary isn’t it.
What would happen if we died and there was nothing, we became nothing, we just cease to exist. Would that be so bad?
Because there are days when nothing sounds good to me. Life is hard. I am not saying that I don’t enjoy living it, I DO! So much, and I hope mine and that of those I love continues for a very long time.
It’s just…
WHY does there have to be more? Why isn’t what we have enough?
Comments (36)
I know what you mean. sleeping for eternity doesn’t sound so bad–it’s not like we didn’t have a life before it. It’s enough for me–apparently it’s not for a lot of people who have to believe in an afterlife, because if there is nothig after this life, they don’t feel as if living this one is worth it (that this life is nothing compared to eternity whether in some heaven or hell).
have a great weekend
Sounds like you need a hug and a rest!
Heres the {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}.
Now go rest!
Love!
I think the need to believe there is more after this is just fear of the unknown. It also adds a little bit of incentive to act within certain boundaries just in case.
RYC: D1 went panty naked until she was about 6. I had to make her wear clothing whenever she was not inside the house. The result was one outfit per week that lived in a pile by the front door which she would don as we were walking out the door and doff the second we returned. I’m happy to report that, at 15, she has overcome her disdain for clothing.
You must always go for the gusto and achieve more…….
Have a great day.
I am sorry my other site always makes you hungry.
@oh_mother_may_I - OH Don’t be! Its a good thing.
Hmmm… I don’t think I have a NEED to believe; I just do. It’s part of my faith, part of my fundamental beliefs, part of what I have chosen. Plus, although I am most assuredly not a member of the Religious Right; I am religious, and I do believe that God sent His son; and He’s the one who said there was an afterlife!
Because life is so complicated, that is why I can’t imagine there isn’t something after death. I often think of a suffering child with cancer cut off so short. I would like to know that God has carried this child to a place where he can now play, fully restored. Well, Christ promised life eternal and I will continue to believe it. Pascal’s wager all over again, isn’t it??
Thats a good question. My own feeling is that death sits like this unpredictable and devastating entity and is always close enough to move and disrupt my life (when I lose people to it) or to end what I know in an instant ,and as time goes by ,I discover that if death is restrained its just because its patient.There is nothing like life changes to reinforce the idea that now is not forever. and will end which still scares the heck out of me every once in awhile..I am an agnostic and as such ,and because I was raised un-churched and by an atheist and an agnostic I never absorbed the idea of a heaven and life after death in an alternative state of bliss. Oddly enough though I have developed a sense that life goes on , and I have come up with a scenario the offers me some comfort.i tell my self that we are most likely subjected to reincarnation until we reach a certain level of understanding and then we are allowed to exist where who we are can impact others in a more profound way then we do in our present formatting (as if we were computer files lol).I am not so naive as to think that a fear of the unknown is not at work when I think this way about life after death , but my thinking is also based on what feel like memories that I can not explain which are of an ordinary life,well actually two , from the recent past.In one I am hiding under a house and there is a battle taking place in a field near by.It had to be within the last few hundred years or so and I know the place is in Europe.I am a fellow.a soldier, and scared , absolutely petrified…. and then the other is of an apartment in New York City…its dank ,and dark with large rooms in a shotgun arrangement and the kitchen seems full of yellow light since the curtains are yellow in that room…and I know I am an elderly woman and I feel confused as I move from one room to another.I swear I would know the place like the back of my hand if it still existed..The first time I bumped into these “memories” i tried to reason them away .I imagine too with movies and books they may well be a compilation of images but what sets them apart is the certainty of recognition i feel when they pop into my head.. Getting back to your question (sorry for the length of my answer) I don’t think greed , or even a simple love of life motivates me to want to maintain my life I feel richly blessed and could not want more or better , as much as fear of the unknown ,and of being lost to the people I love.,and losing them forever.II think if I can work through that I will say now is enough….
I’m pretty sure there is no afterlife and I’m fine with that. I don’t mourn for the eternity that was BEFORE my existence and it’s the same to me to mourne the eternity after. I think that’s all the more reason to enjoy every day of our short times to live and to be excellent to each other.
*yawn* can we have nap time now? generally, that’s all i really want.
i’m not sure about the whole afterlife thing either and i’m cool with it.
i think ten is enuff
have a great day sugar!!!!!!
I’d feel kind of ripped off if i got to the end and discovered “This was IT?” I think there is eternity, and one evidence I’d point to is how everyone wants to produce something lasting. Cave paintings from millenia ago, elaborate burial routines. I think it is hard wired into us.
by in large – i think the human species is too egotistical to imagine a world where they don’t exist.
I think we deserve to go to a beautiful place, have an eternal vacation from the hard lives we have to live down here on earth and have serinity all around me.
I very much look forward to that day… not that I want it to come anytime soon… I very much want to be here to see my three son’s get married and to spoil lots of grandchildren someday… but when the time is right… I’ll be ready!
Have a good day!
Descartes said,”I think therefore I am,” to prove existence, I would add, “I believe, therefore I continue to exist.” My faith in Jesus who paid for my life is all that I need to know that there is life after death. Because He said that He went to prepare a place for His believers, because it is His grand design and because I know with my knower. The truth is spiritually discerned. Although there is ugliness, much of life is so beautiful it is hard to imagine letting go, but there is a better place, because He said so. “For me to live is Christ and for me to die is gain.” Yes, take a nap knowing that you are loved and that life goes on. RYC: Thanks, nice hearing from you.
i completely agree with you this life is more than enough for me
perhaps because deep down we know we are immortal beings playing around in a mortal body. the problem is many of us live as if we are mortal…and what a boring life that is! there is just so much more…
@k8tthelate - WOW Kate! I think that is the bestanswer I have ever heard as to why we always want more. I had never considered that.
I discussed that with a therapist once, and he assurred me being dead didn’t hurt. That helped.
RYC: Thanks, Angi
I have my settings for no e-mail so I won’t get any–I prefer doing everything here, rather than constantly cleaning through e-mails. I have a Feedback “Log,” which doesn’t show these “reply@’s, but the main things I check daily are such things as messages, subscriptions and invites. I’ve been with Xanga a couple of years and know the system pretty well and think I’ve covered the bases. I’m assuming they must want me to open up to e-mails, and I just won’t do it. They give me that option.
@JustMeAndy - andy! I hate getting the emails too… but unless you have deliberatly gone in and shut it off…since they updated the page and since you didn’t know what it was, I wasn’t sure you knew you were getting them. Are you using the brand new universal feed back page they just started a weeke or so ago?
Ang are you o.k.? I’m going to ditto k8t, because shes so smart and I like being like her! I also agree with shirlann, because it’s the basis of our faith. However, I lost my oldest son to cancer five years ago, and if I didn’t believe there was more I don’t think I could bear it, and I don’t mean to come off as weird or anything but I really do feel his presence and if there weren’t anything else what is that?….have a great weekend dear……
<—— look angi…..a new stache……hot, yes?
@TheGreenPanther - HA! You rock! lol
RYC: Thanks! Ok, yes, I found the page, but it’s a Beta (test) program and I stay away from them and didn’t sign up for it. I put an edit on my blog explaining more. Thanks for your help!
I think the Greatest reward would be to see the Lord, and also those who have passed away before us. To be able to see them all, it is what keeps me going!!
What we have IS enough. We just have to realize it before we’re nothing.
(I will always long for more, however, because I know this life I have isn’t the best I could have)
For where some folks are heading, nothingness would be a good thing. I’m not sure what Heaven is, but I’m sure with Hell, the music of the Bee Gees will be incorporated into it.
nothing? doesn’t sound so bad to me,.. unless there is something better than this awaiting.
dan
RYC: I’ve been to Cedar Point dozens and dozens of times!!!
The whole “if we die, nothing happens” thing, I don’t believe.
Some people believe in God and go to church on a “Pascal’s Wager” type basis:
(i.e. If you believe in God and die, and there is no God, you lose nothing. If you don’t believe there is a God, and there is, you’re f***d.)
Try not to do such things.
Although it sounds reasonable.
Meh, do what you want.
i really think that you do come back as another entity, i.e. a dove or a fish or a martian etc.
I pick the commandments I like and stick to breaking them
WOW! There is going to be a rude awaking for a lot of people!
@boydcreek - What do you mean Joe?