Originally Posted by JAPOV
Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Originally Posted by JAPOV
If there is no God, there's nothing to look foreword to. "The one who dies with the most toys wins" is a sad way to live...



There is another way to view that....

Imagine a repository somewhere in the universe where you could communicate with non-existent souls.

Imagine having the power to say to them...If you desire, you can be granted existence out of non existence. You will be a living and breathing human being on the planet earth for a duration of between 0 and 100 years. At the end of that life, you will die and once again cease to exist altogether. So the value of this offer is a life span of 0 to 100 years with no other guarantees regarding happiness or wealth or anything else. Do I have any takers?

There would be one hundred percent takers. And if you want to declare the imaginary proposition that someone could communicate with non-existent souls as preposterous...and therefore the entire premise is preposterous. Well, my answer to that...

Your earthbound intelligence does not enable you to be able to understand the plan. It is beyond your mortal grasp. Just take it from me. wink


Lol... NOW we're thinking outside the box! smile


No one is thinking outside the box. This is Stoicism 101, page1, paragraph 1. Goes back to the Roman Empire. Made most famous by a Roman Emperor ,Marcus Aurelias. (The guy in Gladiator)

And no...I am not a Stoic.
And no...Stoicism is not holding your hand over a flame without grimacing.

But yes...the scenario is very much on the list of possibilities for what happens when you die. In fact, from an empirical viewpoint...it may be the #1 possibility.

Some flowers in your garden simply die
You beloved pet will simply die
As for you and I, we also may simply die.

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