Please explain why this is your hope, NO answer is incorrect.

I expect total cease of any existence of awareness. I have no doubts that there is no such thing as a soul or spirit. Our atoms join the information that is matter and energy.

Thanks joypulv

Opinion much appreciated, I hope others share as well.

Why not share your belief also ?

Yes, what are your thoughts?

I don't know. My late husband believed that nothing follows "this life."

I expect total cease of any existence of awareness. I have no doubts that there is no such thing as a soul or spirit. Our atoms join the information that is matter and energy.

Hi Joy,

This is better know as the physicalist position.

At worst it is an each way bet.

Tut

I have studied christianity, and if we could all live in a 'heaven'; none of us in a 'hell,' I would hope for it... this of course in disagreement with the actual christian faith...

This seems too impractical, and so I've ventured in my studies. The hope I now have is your body shuts down, then eventually decomposes; somewhere in between this process, I hope your soul separates from the body... then based off your life lived, you reincarnate accordingly to your soul...

I know there has got to be other views out there... where are they?

The atoms that make up our bodies were once part of stars , comets, clouds of gas , everything that makes up the universe has contributed to the making of our bodies.
Yet where does the awareness come from ? What is it that makes us "awake" and aware of ourselves and the things around us?
We know that electro-chemical signals are made and transmitted in the nervous and brain tissues and that is how the cellular communication network that is our nervous system transfers the information around the body , but how billions of bits of matter communicating with each other cause awareness and life to exist is beyond our ability to grasp.

We may become some of the bits that actually cause this awareness to take place on a galactic scale by the bits of us that contain what makes us aware , linking up after we die and the fusing of our awareness springs forth on a scale of galactic proportions and we become a super consciousness . And the reason for life here is to implant or program the information on those bits that will eventually form the collective consciousness of us all yet the whole will contain parts of us all , aware of self , but functioning as one separate of all the parts but dependent on each other for the collective "super conciousness" that may be our next step. Making the whole bigger than the sum of its parts.

But we are not capable of understanding the mind of God as a monkey is looking at a computer.
It sees the action and figures on the monitor, but to grasp that tiny particles of differently charged matter can carry energy that affects other tiny parts ina way that make up pictures and sounds is beyond the monkeys capabilities to understand.
And since the universe was created by God , which I believe it was, we are as incapable of grasping what is going on as the monkey in front of a computer.
This is part of the never ending process of creation and expanding knowledge that is the current phase of this progression of the universe.

Aware of self at the same time being aware of we are another greater awareness.

To look at the wonders of the universe and say it is all an accident is the muttering of egos and id unwilling to admit there exists that which is greater than their ability to understand.

I predict this is going to turn into an argument about religion.

I'm not sure anyone wants to go there - again.

No, just free shared opinions... unfortunately there is nothing to argue, as none of us (as we're still living) have any proof or knowledge of the after life (if it exists) so no one's answer is more credible than the next.

Everyone can share/say whatever they would like about their own hopes/beliefs/disbelief's.

I was raised to believe that you either go to heaven or hell, but I don't think I believe in that. (In which case I'd be doomed since I was born out of wedlock) I think you just cease to exist as you are now, and that when you die... you die. There is nothing that comes after. It would be pretty cool if a part of you always lived on, though.

There is no HOPE.
There is the truth only.

And the truth is: after the death of brain cells, the energy of mind got released (from brain cells) and went into the University. There IT will be bound by another matter (atoms) and becoming totally different energy. It could be bound by the rock, water, plants, animals, another brain cells.. yet in quite different nature (depending on the nature of the matter it was acquired by).

That's it.

Please explain why this is your hope, NO answer is incorrect.


Apparently some answers ARE incorrect because I just got a "dislike."

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The issue is that only Religion has the answer to creation.
Science can not tell us where things come from ( as some have a issue with) the matter for the big bang had to be there, the energy and motion had to be there.
Mass and energy do not create theirself.

In religion, God does not require nor could God even be created, God is always there, was always there and will always be there. God does not have to be mass or energy or anything in our idea of substance. In fact according to the bible, he merely had to speak for things to be created as we know it.

As you see yourself in dreams, this is how you will be...

Honestly, I hope to shed the life struggles I faced, and just find clear acceptance. I hope to see loved ones again, and just celebrate a simple and everlasting peace. I hope there is a heaven where there are beautiful lakes and wildlife surrounding them. I hope to be filled with love, and as happy as a sunny day. Serenity!

That has nothing to do with religion or science. I believe society has become far too scientific and thus ignorant of beautiful, simple pleasures. I hope to be free from analytic and scientific interpretations and just be! However, that's something I'm working on in this life, too! If you think I'm ridiculous, soak up a sunny day, go on a hike, go fishing and throw 'em back, then you'll understand what I mean. (: