jesus wasn't on about life after death, neither was gautama for that matter (i don't know about mohammed). jesus was on about life eternal. big difference. gautama was on about escaping the cycle of birth and death, which is similar but seems to have been interpreted in a mostly negative fashion (ie eventually never being reborn, rather than eventually never dying).
after death? read near death experiences, they are mostly positive and have many consistent factors. or for a first hand experience you could try DMT or ayahuasca (i tried DMT and it was, well erm......fucking amazing...there is nothing to fear). life and death, like every other pair of poles, are dynamically related - ie a cycle. life-death-life-death-life-death. this is the way with all polarity (why do people have trouble with this?). the central assertion of jesus and others is that once you recognise the game and that you are the player and the umpire and everything else you don't have to keep playing according to the old (socially derived) rules. the point of being human is to evolve into godhood. david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter said: Buddhism, like Christianity and Islam, promises life after death; realising the lie in that is one of the biggest steps to freedom you can take. dmb says: I know for a fact that there is life after death. Or at least there has been plenty in the past. I don't mean to say that dead people come back to life. That's never happened, but life in general just keeps going. Despite all the many deaths every day, there are enough births and hatches to keep up. That should be enough re-incarnaton for anyone. Maybe life after death also means life after the ego or little self is seen as such. I mean, literal interpretations of life after death doctrines can't be taken seriously, of course, but try looking at the idea in more abstract terms and then its not so silly. It seems the literal versions are just very bad interpretations of good ideas. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ --------------------------------- Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
