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27 Nov 2006, 7:50 pm

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Heres an assumption. Has anybody here ever wondered what it was like before they were born? And after you die. You HAVE to be somewhere if you know what I mean. You can't just not exist, you have to be something.

The Buddha suggested that perhaps the soul was an illusion, that in fact "you" do not exist. "You" may appear to your mind to exist but be nothing more than a mental construct.

Bear in mind that I'm am not trying to change your beliefs. I'm just trying to offer a plausable explaination to address the issue you raise.

The answer to your question is "yes." Gaotama (sp?) wondered what it was like before he was born. Many others have too.

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27 Nov 2006, 7:54 pm

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Heres an assumption. Has anybody here ever wondered what it was like before they were born?

I didn't exist at the time, though.

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And after you die.

How? I'll be dead. Whole body rotted, done, finished.

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You HAVE to be somewhere if you know what I mean. You can't just not exist, you have to be something.

Yes, you'll be rotting meat. Or ashes, in my case. Fortunately, neither has the capacity for being particularly unhappy. Once you kill the equipment, the hologram goes with it.

To put it more nicely. Once the neurons in your brain stop going off you can no longer be. It's no worse then taking a long dreamless, nap. Just happens this nap never ends. Not a horrid way to spend an eternity if you ask me.

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28 Nov 2006, 12:16 am

Chew on this: I was not born until I willed myself into existence. When it is time for me to die, I will refuse to exist anymore.

Just kidding. I'm going to die with far less dignity than that.

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28 Nov 2006, 7:01 pm

What, naked, screaming and covered in blood? That's how I came into this world, from what I'm told.

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28 Nov 2006, 11:20 pm

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What, naked, screaming and covered in blood? That's how I came into this world, from what I'm told.

Is that how you're going out, too?

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28 Nov 2006, 11:28 pm

Well, if I play my cards right, yeah!

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29 Nov 2006, 2:02 am

Griff wrote:

.........Once you kill the equipment, the hologram goes with it.

NICE!!

If this was intensity, I'd give you a +1 for that!!

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29 Nov 2006, 5:00 pm

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I don't need to wonder what life was like before I was born. Science. Womb. 'Nuff said.

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01 Dec 2006, 10:44 am

If I, a mere newbie, may post here...

I'm an athiest. I don't care if some guy wants to beleive God made the world (or Allah or Buddha), I just know that I believe in science.

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01 Dec 2006, 11:32 am

Pyth wrote:

If I, a mere newbie, may post here...

I'm an athiest. I don't care if some guy wants to beleive God made the world (or Allah or Buddha), I just know that I believe in science.

Why I hate science:
Science attempted to control my heartburn with Nexium and Pepcid A/C medications

Meditation rid of heartburn and I haven't suffered with it since after suffering for 3 years.

Buddha was not a god

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01 Dec 2006, 11:35 am

Corvus wrote:

Pyth wrote:

If I, a mere newbie, may post here...

I'm an athiest. I don't care if some guy wants to beleive God made the world (or Allah or Buddha), I just know that I believe in science.

Religion doesn't nesscessarily believe in god.

But you see, that's not science. That's ignorant doctors. IGNORANT.

You cannot hate science without being a hypocrite-- computers are science, after all.

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03 Dec 2006, 2:34 pm

Corvus wrote:

Isn't heartburn a reaction to stress? By meditating, you reduced your stress and reduced your heartburn.

Science at work.

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