| Re: What happens after you die?
To the question "what happens after you die?", I would love to know the answer. But I hate to disappoint you, I don't.
As I see it there are two perspectives: there is some kind of a materialistic perspective, which says we don't have a spirit, and we only have a brain; so when we die, we are kind of condamned to earth.
Then, there is also another perspective, which says we have some kind of a soul or spirit.
Some idea which I consider to be more a materialistic perspective myself, is for example, a person which always behaved very rational gets a stroke; the rational part of his brain is very damaged; but he's lucky, he survives and the emotional part of the brain takes over. Now he's a very emotional person; so his behaviour has changed; he's a different person.
Also even love (for example between partners) has a chemical which can explain it...
Then there is of course also the idea that we are just a product of evolution.
On the other hand, some people claim they even saw or heard or felt some kind of apparation(s) of kind of spirits or souls...
Personally, I never really experienced that, but do you have to believe in it, before you can see it?
If we have a soul, then which properties does it have?
There is a very negative thing in life, namely we die.
But there is also a very positive thing in life, namely we get born.
When a zygote is formed after fertilization, what happens next is incredibly astonishing.
It's like it's just all programmed.
So I do wonder, do we just have a brain (is it all chemicals?), or do we have a soul? or do we have both of them?
I really can't answer that (not that I wouldn't love to).
I have no clue.
I do know about someone who I think might have had a clue, but answered it in his own way: "There are only two ways to live your life: to pretend nothing is a miracle, and to pretend everything is a miracle. If believe in the last way." (A. Einstein).  |