@Patti1120 I really hope you're wring and I haven't wasted my life as a christian 🤣🤣 @CinnamonGirlE
@Patti1120
I think there is something. But just not sure what that is. I don't necessarily believe in what I have been taught as a southern Baptist. Hey, to each their own. But I am leaning more toward reincarnation myself these days for personal reasons.
@CinnamonGirlE I was always weary don’t get me wrong. But the only reason I believe nothing afterwards is because I know my mom, she would have definitely tried to contact me after she passed cause she loved loved loved her kids. Some would say obsessively (lol) And nothing after 2.5 yrs. So that kinda reassured me there was nothing.
But there are people who hold out hope and I don’t want to take from them either ya know. Everyone. I guess needs something to believe in…
@Patti1120
I understand. We each have our criteria for which we make the decision. In my case, it's more that "religion" destroyed my spirituality, eventually causing me to abandon all of it. I feel like I am back to searching for whatever it is, no concrete anything, just hope. And love, which I believe is the way.
@CinnamonGirlE Regardless of the percentages, we're all 100% *people* (hares are people too, @NiveusLepus ❤️) and that's all that matters.
@stueytheround @NiveusLepus
Agreed with that. And again, to each their own. Just kind of curious the pulse here. As I am kind of searching myself.
@CinnamonGirlE I think it is option a, I dearly wish it was option c.
@CrypticMirror
We will find out at some point. 😉
@CinnamonGirlE Not me. I'm with Rimmer on this one.
@CrypticMirror
Not today !
@CinnamonGirlE
I like to think our energy is converted into some other form, like an alternate universe kind of thing. But the reality is probably #1.
@Smccune55
I wonder if it isn't this as well.
Energy can only change forms.
@CinnamonGirlE I honestly don't know. This universe is so full of incredible things, and it moves in a way we could ever completely categorize. I usually phrase it this way:
I believe in something bigger than us, but in no way am I self assured or arrogant enough to tell others what that is, nor how they should seek it. We are born from the atoms of things that existed eons before us, and when we die, we become part of the next work our atoms create, whether we are aware if it or not.
@Halcyon
You have put in beautifully into words. This is basically how I feel. Maybe there is more? Like you said, how could I be arrogant enough to tell anyone what that is?
https://youtu.be/tli9Wy5UhSQ
@CinnamonGirlE I don't mind a little friendly argument. : )
@CinnamonGirlE One of the things that really strikes me about beliefs in an afterlife, is how angry and insecure people will be when someone else thinks something different.
I don't stop reincarnating just because someone believes in heaven or someone else believes there's nothing.
@AskTheDevil
It is going to be whatever it is. I'm not changing that. And I am accepting of whatever. I mean after all, what other choice is there?
@CinnamonGirlE I'm not aware of any that exist at the moment.
@CinnamonGirlE everyone has an individual destiny to my faith and view. Some will come round again and others will go on. We are finite souls on an infinite journey. I don’t think any one of us could know the full truth in totality because it’s bigger than us. In the span of infinity all probabilities are.
@NiveusLepus
Why do you think we are finite souls? (Not trying to argue in any way, just interested in perspectives)
I don't think any one of us can know either. I believe we are all on our own individual journeys and the best we can do is to love and help and at least not hurt. We progress like that.
@CinnamonGirlE Finite is where we are now. I think another word would be mortal. Where we each are now we are not able to fully comprehend the infinite. I think its possible that some will eventually grow to understand infinity, but who am I to say.
To quote the Apostle Paul of all people, we see through a mirror darkly. (For the moment)
The one thing I am certain of is that the journey never ends. I do not think life stops in any way at death, it just changes.
A zen master taught me there is a finite number of beings. We move in and out of lifetimes until we no longer do.
@LnzyHou @NiveusLepus
Hmm. And what determines when we no longer do?
@LnzyHou @NiveusLepus
From what I have seen, I suspect we all are. No joke.
@NiveusLepus I so love and agree with all you say. Yes, finite in that sense. (Reincarnation however, another discussion) "We see through a mirror darkly" is actually a fav. Perhaps we progress dependent on how we ascend in this and /or past lives.
@CinnamonGirlE It's a fascinating thing to speculate on. ^_^
@NiveusLepus
Endlessly so.
@CinnamonGirlE Onward, toward the far horizon.
The greatest blessing I think we have is the promise of an infinite opportunity to discover.
@CinnamonGirlE I love having the conversations on Coso. Thank you for putting this out here!
@NiveusLepus
Good conversation/thread. May we have more to come.
#CoSoLove
Only one way to find out for sure, and I'm in no rush. 🙂
@Tarnagh
Me either. 😉
@CinnamonGirlE increasingly I’m tempted to say I believe we’re living in a damn simulation. Also married into Hinduism so yeah. Reincarnate, regenerate….potato potahto.
@CinnamonGirlE Very interesting that 7/16ths of those who voted think that death isn't "the end". That's a lot more than I expected, to be honest.
@stueytheround
It kind of is.
@CinnamonGirlE what do you think? I’m just curious. I choose one. When we’re dead we’re dead. lol