Post by {danny} on May 17, 2012 19:18:49 GMT -5
i just want to point out here that i do not wish to offend anyone who believes in certain religions i may mention so yeah...
first off, *energy cannot be created or destroyed. so, we obviously don't just disappear, meaning our eyes don't just see black, our 'souls' don't shut off, we might still have our memory, but we can still see. for example, not to be gross, but we come from our biological father and we just change form, it's not like i am becoming any greater or smaller in energy form, i am just physically getting larger. the idea that some religions have of becoming something of nature (ie. a cardnial, something my mom likes to believe her dad is) is very unrealistic because even with pandas, there are more than one-thousand and the idea of being able to find that one panda is unrealistic. i once read a book full tilt by neal shusterman and it's basically about this carnival. once you're in it, a lot of people just get sucked up in the ride (aka life) and then they don't think to breathe breathe and just calm down and try to enjoy it and be smart, they just get killed on the rides. anyways, they become part of the scenery, so i suppose that's unrealistic too. but i just like how that book had kids who got caught up in the ride and didn't slow down.
i also read the book looking for alaska, written by john green (he is such a good writer. they talk about this labyrinth, and how will you get out of it. for a while they don't know what the labyrinth is, but they eventually conclude that it's suffering. that life is the labyrinth and you can't get out and you just have to suffer. the girl claimed that the best way out of the labyrinth was "straight & fast". she was killed or committed suicide in a car crash in which she was reported going straight and fast. and to get out of the labyrinth is to also get out of life, because life is suffering, nothing will ever be perfect. in that book, they also talk about how everything that is built will eventually be destroyed. so as your organs and whatever is being built will eventually break down, whether it be because of old age or sickness or illness, you will eventually just fall apart, like as they mentioned in the book, a chair will, because it was built. but just because we fall apart, it doesn't mean that we will lose energy. so what happens after the labyrinth? do we just get stuck in a bigger one? what if we don't have a heaven or a hell or a reincarnation or anything like that? we if we just are in this place where all we see is black and we never age or never get sick? we will be upset.
in a book elsewhere by gabrielle zevin, the idea is that after we die, we age backwards and then we're born again. this is highly unrealistic, although genius, because then what happens if - not to be offensive or rude - the baby is aborted or dies in the womb? what happens if it occurs seven-million times? then you're stuck in the afterlife for a really long time. i don't know, it's just there are so many possibilities and we'll never know but i guess that's the point, for it to be a mystery because if we knew we might not be so scared and we wouldn't have all these theories and i wouldn't be typing this right now. the theory of my own, which i find very dumb but i feel like i should share it, is that we die when we find out the meaning of life. i figured that's why a lot more people die older, because they have time to think about it. but i forgot to realize that a baby in the womb cannot realize the meaning of life, and if there even is one. and if there is even a point of finding out and why we would be killed because of it.
in looking for alaska, someone mentions that the only reason that we have theories like this like heaven or hell is because we want something. we can't just be done after this. and then that brings me to another one of john green's novels, the fault in our stars. the main character, hazel grace, has a friend die and she is talking about how everyone wants to leave a mark on this world but that the death of her friend will only matter to friends and family and no one even knows who he is really except for those people and it upsets her because everyone wants to make a mark on the world but not everyone will. there is also like a banner in her friend's house that says something like "to know love you must know pain" and she says something about how like if you never tasted like ie. brusselsprouts or something, chocolate would still taste really good to you.
my sister recently had a friend pass, and i met him once or twice. i guess because of him i am really curious as to where we wend up when we're gone. i want to know where he is. i know his body is in the casket, down in that cemetery right down the street from the high school and the bank and the church and the post office and the library, but where is his presence? where is his soul and where is his mind because i surely hope that everything we do here is not just a big giant waste. i don't believe in religion, but i sure do hope that we have some type of afterlife. i don't believe He (god) would put people in hell. He is so famous for accepting everyone and forgiveness, so why would He put anyone in hell?
i'm done, but i just wanna say i don't want to die and i am not scared of dying, just how i'm gonna die. and i just wanna say that i'm glad to be alive and when my time comes, i'll find out what happens to us.
*first learned about that in looking for alaska so all credit to john green.
credits:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
any mentions of full tilt belong to neal shusterman's novel
any mentions of looking for alaska belong to john green's novel
any mentions of elsewhere belong to gabrielle zevin's novel
any mentions of the fault in our stars belongs to john green's novel
first off, *energy cannot be created or destroyed. so, we obviously don't just disappear, meaning our eyes don't just see black, our 'souls' don't shut off, we might still have our memory, but we can still see. for example, not to be gross, but we come from our biological father and we just change form, it's not like i am becoming any greater or smaller in energy form, i am just physically getting larger. the idea that some religions have of becoming something of nature (ie. a cardnial, something my mom likes to believe her dad is) is very unrealistic because even with pandas, there are more than one-thousand and the idea of being able to find that one panda is unrealistic. i once read a book full tilt by neal shusterman and it's basically about this carnival. once you're in it, a lot of people just get sucked up in the ride (aka life) and then they don't think to breathe breathe and just calm down and try to enjoy it and be smart, they just get killed on the rides. anyways, they become part of the scenery, so i suppose that's unrealistic too. but i just like how that book had kids who got caught up in the ride and didn't slow down.
i also read the book looking for alaska, written by john green (he is such a good writer. they talk about this labyrinth, and how will you get out of it. for a while they don't know what the labyrinth is, but they eventually conclude that it's suffering. that life is the labyrinth and you can't get out and you just have to suffer. the girl claimed that the best way out of the labyrinth was "straight & fast". she was killed or committed suicide in a car crash in which she was reported going straight and fast. and to get out of the labyrinth is to also get out of life, because life is suffering, nothing will ever be perfect. in that book, they also talk about how everything that is built will eventually be destroyed. so as your organs and whatever is being built will eventually break down, whether it be because of old age or sickness or illness, you will eventually just fall apart, like as they mentioned in the book, a chair will, because it was built. but just because we fall apart, it doesn't mean that we will lose energy. so what happens after the labyrinth? do we just get stuck in a bigger one? what if we don't have a heaven or a hell or a reincarnation or anything like that? we if we just are in this place where all we see is black and we never age or never get sick? we will be upset.
in a book elsewhere by gabrielle zevin, the idea is that after we die, we age backwards and then we're born again. this is highly unrealistic, although genius, because then what happens if - not to be offensive or rude - the baby is aborted or dies in the womb? what happens if it occurs seven-million times? then you're stuck in the afterlife for a really long time. i don't know, it's just there are so many possibilities and we'll never know but i guess that's the point, for it to be a mystery because if we knew we might not be so scared and we wouldn't have all these theories and i wouldn't be typing this right now. the theory of my own, which i find very dumb but i feel like i should share it, is that we die when we find out the meaning of life. i figured that's why a lot more people die older, because they have time to think about it. but i forgot to realize that a baby in the womb cannot realize the meaning of life, and if there even is one. and if there is even a point of finding out and why we would be killed because of it.
in looking for alaska, someone mentions that the only reason that we have theories like this like heaven or hell is because we want something. we can't just be done after this. and then that brings me to another one of john green's novels, the fault in our stars. the main character, hazel grace, has a friend die and she is talking about how everyone wants to leave a mark on this world but that the death of her friend will only matter to friends and family and no one even knows who he is really except for those people and it upsets her because everyone wants to make a mark on the world but not everyone will. there is also like a banner in her friend's house that says something like "to know love you must know pain" and she says something about how like if you never tasted like ie. brusselsprouts or something, chocolate would still taste really good to you.
my sister recently had a friend pass, and i met him once or twice. i guess because of him i am really curious as to where we wend up when we're gone. i want to know where he is. i know his body is in the casket, down in that cemetery right down the street from the high school and the bank and the church and the post office and the library, but where is his presence? where is his soul and where is his mind because i surely hope that everything we do here is not just a big giant waste. i don't believe in religion, but i sure do hope that we have some type of afterlife. i don't believe He (god) would put people in hell. He is so famous for accepting everyone and forgiveness, so why would He put anyone in hell?
i'm done, but i just wanna say i don't want to die and i am not scared of dying, just how i'm gonna die. and i just wanna say that i'm glad to be alive and when my time comes, i'll find out what happens to us.
*first learned about that in looking for alaska so all credit to john green.
credits:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
any mentions of full tilt belong to neal shusterman's novel
any mentions of looking for alaska belong to john green's novel
any mentions of elsewhere belong to gabrielle zevin's novel
any mentions of the fault in our stars belongs to john green's novel
