One reason perhaps why some people believe in a after life?
Ok this is my thread, and you moved me to start some off-topic musings:
I don't belive in an afterlife per se, I do sort of have an idea that maybe we all return to the universe as some sort of "life energy". But I have no proof, nor do I expect any, it's just a personal belife
heheh
anyway... thats neither here nor there.
Isn't it spectacular that a non-sentient, inanimete universe, over the cource of millions of years, essentialy spawned an eye to look back on itself thrugh us?
I mean seriously, in a sense, we are the consiousness of the universe. This gigantic inky bubble of dust and nothing is staring back at itself and wondering "what the heck am I anyway"
This thought blows my mind every time it crosses it.
At the risk of sounding like some sort of new age hippy... it is this same sort of thing that causes me to think, "perhapse our own thoughts, imaginings, arbitrary ideas, are just as real as this phisical realm?"
After all, if the universe is just an arbitrary existing "thing" then certainly all arbitrary existing things have just as much potential to house such unimaginable complexity. Once, a long time ago, I imagined, what if the universe was a dream of god?
It was only later that I learned that hindus have a similar belife, and even more revelatory is the belife of australian aborigionees.
They describe the world as the dreams of animals. The great snake went to sleep and dreamd of mountains, etc.
Sleeping gods aside
I seriously wonder how far these fancifull imaginings are away from actuall reality?
heheh...
Ok thats that.
And no, I don't do drugs
This message has been edited by Yaro, 07-21-2004 10:54 PM