"When as you close your eyes for the big sleep, I hope you think of me."
I wish the conversation me and my brother had today could be recorded.
We tried to commit to hard evidence that God existed. WHich we failed misserbly at. Since no one can prove God exists, he dosen't. If I say that I found a particle that can travel faster than the speed of light but have no evidence to back it up, it dosen't happen. All we have is some unintelligible babble of men who thought ailments were curses and died at the ripe old age of 25. Not to mention that fact that a lot of the scripture was omitted because it didn't portray God the way "they" wanted. Also, who is to say that someone found proof He didn't exist, whould you want to be the one who came to the public with that news? Hell, even in our time, in America, we would stone him to death. Probably at the half time show of the Super Bowl.
Anyways. What we decided is that their is no "soul," in the sense that some "spirit" manifest itself in your body and when you die, it gets released and goes where ever souls go to kick it for all eternity, or back on Earth if reincarnation is your flavor. Our sentience, rather, comes from the unique atomic framework of everyones brain. Everyones brain is built with different atoms with varying wavefunctions. If you don't know what a wavefunction is, Wiki it. And since every wave function is unique, even if someone was comprised of the exact same, exact amount of atoms, they would be an entirely different person. Sentience wise. Ergo, you could clone yourself, but they would be an ENTIRELY different human being and have different thoughts, dreams, and desires. They would have a sense of self, but would not be you, and may infact, be an exact opposite of you. Since there is no "soul" and no God, there can be no Heaven or Hell. So what happens? Well, good question. Following this logic, once the structure of your brain as no more chances to "experince" reality, it no longer feels and ceases to interperet the world around it. Then what? You guessed it, nothing. Nothing happens. You work your whole life establishing who you are to have death take it all away from you. Not just for a big darkness. Nothingness, you cease to exist completely. Don't worry though. If you believe that the universe will someday shrink back down into another Big Bang scenario, all the atoms in the universe will come together as one. Meaning every possible combination will exist at one time, meaning a higher form of life and existence will take place.
Ok, I'll stop that for now.
But while we were debating this, I realised something. My brother is afraid of dying. I however, am not. I know a lot of people say that, but seriously. There is no point. I could be rich and successful, I can have someone I love, I can grow old in some alley way covered in my own piss. But in the end, none of it matters. I won't exist anymore. There will be no more thoughts, feelings, nobody, nothing. Your life is spent fulling selfish urges to an end where nothing exists. A spiritual black hole, if you will. Where you existence is nothing. Not even an "Awe crap, I stuck in blackness for an eternity!" Nothing. Your life is not defined by an outcome. There is none.
What's the point?
We tried to commit to hard evidence that God existed. WHich we failed misserbly at. Since no one can prove God exists, he dosen't. If I say that I found a particle that can travel faster than the speed of light but have no evidence to back it up, it dosen't happen. All we have is some unintelligible babble of men who thought ailments were curses and died at the ripe old age of 25. Not to mention that fact that a lot of the scripture was omitted because it didn't portray God the way "they" wanted. Also, who is to say that someone found proof He didn't exist, whould you want to be the one who came to the public with that news? Hell, even in our time, in America, we would stone him to death. Probably at the half time show of the Super Bowl.
Anyways. What we decided is that their is no "soul," in the sense that some "spirit" manifest itself in your body and when you die, it gets released and goes where ever souls go to kick it for all eternity, or back on Earth if reincarnation is your flavor. Our sentience, rather, comes from the unique atomic framework of everyones brain. Everyones brain is built with different atoms with varying wavefunctions. If you don't know what a wavefunction is, Wiki it. And since every wave function is unique, even if someone was comprised of the exact same, exact amount of atoms, they would be an entirely different person. Sentience wise. Ergo, you could clone yourself, but they would be an ENTIRELY different human being and have different thoughts, dreams, and desires. They would have a sense of self, but would not be you, and may infact, be an exact opposite of you. Since there is no "soul" and no God, there can be no Heaven or Hell. So what happens? Well, good question. Following this logic, once the structure of your brain as no more chances to "experince" reality, it no longer feels and ceases to interperet the world around it. Then what? You guessed it, nothing. Nothing happens. You work your whole life establishing who you are to have death take it all away from you. Not just for a big darkness. Nothingness, you cease to exist completely. Don't worry though. If you believe that the universe will someday shrink back down into another Big Bang scenario, all the atoms in the universe will come together as one. Meaning every possible combination will exist at one time, meaning a higher form of life and existence will take place.
Ok, I'll stop that for now.
But while we were debating this, I realised something. My brother is afraid of dying. I however, am not. I know a lot of people say that, but seriously. There is no point. I could be rich and successful, I can have someone I love, I can grow old in some alley way covered in my own piss. But in the end, none of it matters. I won't exist anymore. There will be no more thoughts, feelings, nobody, nothing. Your life is spent fulling selfish urges to an end where nothing exists. A spiritual black hole, if you will. Where you existence is nothing. Not even an "Awe crap, I stuck in blackness for an eternity!" Nothing. Your life is not defined by an outcome. There is none.
What's the point?