Writer's Block: What Next?

[uberreiniger]

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Clicking on the "view other answers" link will give you a good, healthy dose of cynicism. We're all afraid that when we die we'll just cease to exist. I've seen ghosts and other signs of a life beyond and I still fear it. I imagine some people think that by resigning themselves to it, it won't be that scary. I can't do that though, not even if I wanted to. Even if I wanted to, the aforementioned signs of the beyond wouldn't let me.

If you look at the Bible carefully, it strongly implies that we don't reach Heaven until the world ends. The Jews believe that we sleep until then. The Greeks believed the dead could hope for a desolate, half-existence at best. The Egyptians' afterlife was a little better... assuming you could avoid total annihilation on your journey to get there. I think they all were at least partly right, based on what I've seen. Wherever we go, good or bad, I don't think we're in a coma or suffering from amnesia. And once we leave here we're certainly not "gone."

Comments

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

I always wondered about the people who were so adamant that we just cease to exist in any form after death. Correct me if I'm wrong, but humans have quite a bit of energy in their beings. In this universe, energy doesn't just dissappear or cease to exist when something changes forms. Energy might change, transfer, ect, but it doesn't seem to just cease to be. So I would think that something HAS to go on at least with our energy after we pass on. Which always made me wonder what the particularly proud, stubborn, "scientifically minded" naysayers really did during some of their science classes... but maybe I'm the art student who has energy theories down half-assed. Hmmm...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Well, in physical decay our cellular energy is released in the nitrogen cycle so the accumulated physical energy in our body is accounted for. If we can prove the existence of psychic energy, however, then we might be playing a different ballgame.

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

Reading you answer scares me :(

I totally believe in ghosts, though I haven't seen any thankfully ( I think I would have a heart attack and die)

You've seen one? Tell me! (so I can be scared and never sleep again v_v)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I've only "seen" one. The other one was physical/auditory but not visible. And I also had something I would term as communicative happen at a funeral once. I used to tell the stories to anyone who'd listen but I feel more private about them as I get older. I might make a locked post about it.

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

I would like that.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I'm a firm believer in reincarnation.

Which presents me with a conundrum: With the way the world is going I'm not sure I want to come back again. Maybe we get reincarnated on other planets.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Maybe even other dimensions?

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I never thought about reincarnation into alternative dimensions. That's something to meditate upon.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I just hope I get to spend the time between my death and Judgment Day someplace other than Kansas. I'd prefer Bimini.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Go to my memories section, and then scroll down to "ghosts"-- then, for more recent stuff, hit the "paranormal" tag. My whole life I've been dealing with outside-the-physical-paradigm stuff.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I've actually been reading your alien abduction stories with great interest.

For a long time I knew a lot of people who'd had extraordinary things happen to them and I seemed to act as a nullifying agent. I'm not particularly skeptical or anything like that, but nothing supernatural could happen to me even if I were the main character in a M. Night Shyamalan movie. But throughout my life there have been a few big "spikes." Big enough to make a believer out of me.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

"but nothing supernatural could happen to me even if I were the main character in a M. Night Shyamalan movie"

ROFL!! *slaps knee*

in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

RE: imagining characters I make up myself

Wow! You HAVE been perusing my journal!

*feels flattered, then a tiny bit paranoid-- then flattered again*

Actually, I'm not particularly ashamed of myself and my weird experiences or habits or mental attributes. I don't know why, maybe it's that Type 4 "Look at MEEE! I'm a FREEEEEAK!" thing. Because, really, freaks are far more interesting than the much-vaunted "normal" person could ever be-- and who gives a shit ~really~ about the ?

Sooooo.... If I HAVE to live the life of a freak who overuses quotation marks at every conceivable opportunity, may as well be open about it and enjoy the ride. *shrugs*

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[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Perusal wasn't intentional. I just saw a tag that looked interesting and followed it and one thing led to another. Granted, German children wind up in ovens that way, but if history has taught us anything it's that history teaches us nothing.

And overuse of quotation marks doesn't bother me in the slightest. One of my hobbies is reading conspiracy theory website and I've noticed they greatly over-use hypen-ation.

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[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

"Perusal wasn't intentional. I just saw a tag that looked interesting and followed it and one thing led to another. Granted, German children wind up in ovens that way..

ROFL!!

THAT was excellent!
*recovers from long bout of chuckling*

I must confess-- that I, too, am a "hyphenator." A hyphenator over-quoter. I'm hopeless. It's official!

Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Well let me know if you get the hang of the semi-colon; I can never figure that thing out!

Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Ha ha!

It works in theory like a double hypen pause in a sentance; a second sentance entire unto itself except not.

Or... perhaps you were being rhetorical? *wink*

Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That's how I try to use it. I just have a hard time telling when a comma will suffice.