Reflections
It has been awhile :) I still think it's cool how we all started here on LJ in 9th grade and still come back here to post and read updates, even though not all of us are really close friends anymore?
So lately I've been obsessing with the notions of religion and life and death. Two separate concepts. It's very suspicious to me that in ancient civilizations, they have religions such as Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism that seem to envelope characteristics across common and popular religions now such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc. What does that mean exactly? Well it implies that religion is subjective to popularity contests in relation to current issues (much like politics) and makes it difficult to believe that any one religion is "correct."
This leads in to the question of life and death. Is life after death something created by humans for consolation that we are not living for nothing or is there really something after for us after we die? It would be nice to believe that our souls or the energy of our life don't just dissipate after our bodies can no longer sustain themselves. But who knows, right?
Thinking of what it feels like to be dead, though - nothingness - is really scary. To feel nothing, to not even have that choice is frightening to me. Makes me want to work harder to become something before it's all over. We are on a ride - and it is going to end.
It's weird how we are all growing up... 21 people?!?! Never imagined I would end up being a 4th year looking back at the freshmen. Now we're in our 20s we'd best live it up.... before we get old and haggy =o Can't wait for people to get married =X heheh
On another note I found a cool way to make money through ebay - however OBEY Giant screwed me over majorly with their ebay policy. Bye-bye $200 :(
So lately I've been obsessing with the notions of religion and life and death. Two separate concepts. It's very suspicious to me that in ancient civilizations, they have religions such as Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism that seem to envelope characteristics across common and popular religions now such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc. What does that mean exactly? Well it implies that religion is subjective to popularity contests in relation to current issues (much like politics) and makes it difficult to believe that any one religion is "correct."
This leads in to the question of life and death. Is life after death something created by humans for consolation that we are not living for nothing or is there really something after for us after we die? It would be nice to believe that our souls or the energy of our life don't just dissipate after our bodies can no longer sustain themselves. But who knows, right?
Thinking of what it feels like to be dead, though - nothingness - is really scary. To feel nothing, to not even have that choice is frightening to me. Makes me want to work harder to become something before it's all over. We are on a ride - and it is going to end.
It's weird how we are all growing up... 21 people?!?! Never imagined I would end up being a 4th year looking back at the freshmen. Now we're in our 20s we'd best live it up.... before we get old and haggy =o Can't wait for people to get married =X heheh
On another note I found a cool way to make money through ebay - however OBEY Giant screwed me over majorly with their ebay policy. Bye-bye $200 :(