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Life after Death?
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Scyther
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Oh. That's an easy one. Though my answer, I am sure, will in no way suffice you.
You see, the Bible, in no way, denies this. Since evolution is just change in a species over time, there is no reason we shouldn't have changed.
The Bible just says that God created the original species. There is, actually, no denying things have changed since then. Anyone who tries to deny this, well, is ignorant, no way around it.
I only think that the Christians don't like to believe that we all evolved from a speck in the oceon.
Did I just reenstane things over and overr again? Meh. Anyway, I hope that cleared some things up.
No, I am pretty sure the guys that wrote the bible meant it to be taken seriously. And so did the Christian church until recently when realized that believing every word of it made them sound pretty crazy. So they've toned it down a little, and you see churches do the whole "well it's actually just lots and lots of symbolic things that kind of mimic things that actually happened."
And thus, most Christians today are just kind-of Christians. Back in the day, though, when Christianity was in its defining stages, you were a Christian if you took the Holy Bible as fact. You weren't a Christian if you just thought the stories were a good-sounding collection of symbolic stories. Just like you weren't a Jew if you just thought the Torah was just some good-sounding symbolism and you weren't a Muslim if you just thought the Qur'an was just some good-sounding symbolism.
Are you talking about the same Bible I'm talking about? What happened to the Creation story? Adam and Eve and all that?
I don't really have much to say to this, other than, yeah. Yeah they are.
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1:21 - "So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good."
Excuse me for making an assumption, but this seems to imply that everything that is in this Earth's oceans and skies was there at creation. Also, it is implying that birds existed at the time of the creation of the earth and before creatures lived on land. No matter how you twist that, it makes no sense based on what we know thanks to the fossil record. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course, but ... yeah.
edit: also, if you're an "ex-Christian", why are you being so bitter and trying to argue? :/
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There's also the point that humans are animals, just more complicated than most. I know I didn't really make that point in my earlier post but :V.
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Life after death... is mysterious. Mainly because there is absolutely no way to know about it.
There's not really an explanation, due to what I said above. If you die and stop existing, then everyone would forget about you because you don't exist in your minds either. However, Cryptica and I dream of dead people all the time (especially her :'<). So there has to be some existence somewhere. As in, a different dimension?
And even if you did die, as what I said first, and dream walking isn't an option, how would you contact the mortals that still exist? That is my main thought on why we don't know about this stuff.
When people say things "don't exist," they do. There's no way a particular thing, whether it's an idea or a [previously] living organism, cannot exist because it is in your mind. So countless alternate dimensions must be true; after all, there can't just be this universe, I don't think.
This relates to the topic because life after death does exist, but who knows where you go after you die? It could be anything from being doomed to dream-walk and nothing else (since someone has to know about you o_O) to being reincarnated as something else that was like you in your previous life. There's really endless possibilities; possibilities that are unlimited, possibilities that compare to the numerous ideas of humans themselves.
Or maybe there just is no life. Is it a simulation? A dream that we wake from into a completely different realm, or life? Is death a fall into an endless dream that keeps our pleasures in life close?
There's not really an explanation, due to what I said above. If you die and stop existing, then everyone would forget about you because you don't exist in your minds either. However, Cryptica and I dream of dead people all the time (especially her :'<). So there has to be some existence somewhere. As in, a different dimension?
And even if you did die, as what I said first, and dream walking isn't an option, how would you contact the mortals that still exist? That is my main thought on why we don't know about this stuff.
When people say things "don't exist," they do. There's no way a particular thing, whether it's an idea or a [previously] living organism, cannot exist because it is in your mind. So countless alternate dimensions must be true; after all, there can't just be this universe, I don't think.
This relates to the topic because life after death does exist, but who knows where you go after you die? It could be anything from being doomed to dream-walk and nothing else (since someone has to know about you o_O) to being reincarnated as something else that was like you in your previous life. There's really endless possibilities; possibilities that are unlimited, possibilities that compare to the numerous ideas of humans themselves.
Or maybe there just is no life. Is it a simulation? A dream that we wake from into a completely different realm, or life? Is death a fall into an endless dream that keeps our pleasures in life close?
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Yeah except that you can replace the batteries in a robot and robots don't feel pain. By your logic I can go outside, get a cat and slice it into bits and get off scot-free.