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.