--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I figure that the guys in the Vedic tradition were doing the
> > > best they could to explain human consciousness, and I don't
> > > discount their contribution. I just feel that we have learned
> > > a bit since then and that should be brought into the
discussion.
> > > I believe that consciousness is an emergent quality of the
> > > activity of my brain. If my brain dies, there is no more me
> > > at all. I'm cool with that.
> >
> > Actually, we don't know any more about what happens
> > to "me" when the brain dies than the guys in the Vedic
> > tradition did.
> >
>
>
> "Ain't no heaven, ain't no burn'n hell,
> were we go when we die, can't nobody tell."
>
> John Lee Hooker
>
Nothing happens. The great cosmic joke is that life continues,
exactly as before. Death is a myth. 'Wherever you go, there you
are'. There is no dying and no going somewhere else. Its all a big
joke. We experience as much change going to the mall as we do
during 'death'.
