Lee, do you believe that you are this body and nothing separate from it , because if you don't then you haven't accepted death.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > You see RP sometimes I think you make perfect sense but mostly your > insistance on generalising winds me up no end. Of course this does not > explain Athiests, or my own stance on death, or for that matter lots of > people. We are of course all differant with differant subjective ways of > seeing things and viewing life. Myself being a Theist I'm still unsure as > to the existance of a Soul, I mean I really don't know yet if I belive such > a thing exists. My own reasons for beliving in creative diety are many and > complex. Belife simply cannot be stripped down to pithey sounding short > sentances that apply to all humans, because clearly they do not apply to all > humans. > > On another subject I have just posted that I have no fear of death and have > accepted that it may come at any time. Perhaps then you do not realise how > insulting it is to be called a liar. Or perhaps i'm too involved with > semantics and concentrate more on your choice of words than the message, > ahhh but how else is one to treat written communication? I must trust that > the words you use, you have choosen to portay your meaning. So when you say > 'Yet we do not accept it...' I must belive that this is exactly what you > mean to say, in effect you reduce me, and all other individuals to a mass > of humainity that follw the same rules. > > > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:05:19 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> There is death all around us and so we cannot fail to see it , yet we >> do not accept it and so we have developed an idea of souls. Our belief >> in after-life or re-births is our insistence on immortality as we find >> it hard to accept that we will go into a permanent oblivion , never to >> return.The instinct for survival makes us readily accept these notions >> of immortality as our intelligence is also coloured by our instincts. >> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Heh where do you find these little sayings of yours RP. Nope I don't >> > agree >> > this is true . >> > >> > Personaly I have spent some years questioning the attitude to life and >> > death >> > that we have. It seems that for most life in and of itself is kinda >> > sacred, >> > or at least we act like it is. I'm not sure on this though. Dawin >> > shows us >> > that outside of our species death is a part of life and comes all too >> > easily. So I must say that life in and of itself is nothing special. >> > Then >> > you must mean life as we humans percive it. However, I am now fully >> > resigend to my own death and it will come when it does, and this no >> > longer >> > holds any fear for me. >> > >> > My own desires to live to be at least 400 years old though is by now >> > widely >> > reported here, and in other places. This is not for the reasons you >> > highlight above but sheer couriosity. We are I feel at the cusp of >> > enourmous change, over the next few hundred years we as a species are >> > about >> > to change in so many ways, and I want to see it. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:28:21 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> >> >> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and the >> >> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an off-shoot >> >> of the >> >> instinct for survival. >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > > > -- > > > --
