Who here thinks about death and imagines a constant black, unthinking void? I think about that sometimes and it seriously, deeply freaks me out. Anyone else get that? I'm not interested in people telling me about god and Jesus. If I wanted that, I would go to a church. I just wanted to know if anyone else thinks about that sometimes.
2006-12-13 23:34:47 · 8 answers · asked by Jack S 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think about that too. I've done the church thing, that's not for me either. I had surgery once and I remember blacking out and remember nothing until I woke up and I got thinking what if death is like that, what if there is nothing.
But I know there must be something, I've expierenced ghosts several times.
Part of me thinks that we go through life believing whatever we chose to then die and whatever we believe happens, happens...then after a bit of time somebody whacks us on the back of the head and says...how could you be so stupid as to believe ...such and such. Then we find out the real answer as to why we are here. I know within the core of my being that christian have it wrong wrong wrong. They for the most part do more harm than good for the human race.
I ofetn say to myself that I can put off trying to figure this out until later....but for me it's a question of peace of mind. What I have on my list for right now is that:
we are not suppose to know, as we can see trying to find out causes a heck of a lot of suffering.
if one sits still and quiets oneself you can feel at peace even if just for a moment
so people wiil say that because they believe that this life is all we get to go out and live a wild one. I say go out and live and love life but not the life that our society has built for us ...the one that is here that we keep forgetting. this planet. the key is there somewhere. People will say that plants and animals have no souls...I know they are wrong. So what does that mean. I don't know. It' seems the more you delve into trying to find an answer to this the more complex it becomes.
Relgion helps people make sense of this question but the problem with it is once they think they have the answer they stop thinking. They are threatened by the fact that other people have not stopped thinking and will do everything and anything they can to scare you or make you feel guilty for not believing as they do(it's called a mob mentality which is what religion is)
I can watch new life come from anything that dies. The physical bodies that are left feed the earth and make like anew so what of the spirit?
I don't kow if I helped you at all, but this is where I am at in this process. I know what is not right but have yet to discover the answers I am looking for. I walk for about two to three hours a day. Where I live is majestic and beautiful so I spend alot of time wrapped up in such thoughts.
Love and Peace
K
2006-12-13 23:53:45 · answer #1 · answered by kardea 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop thinking about it. Or change your point of view. Are you thinking about death being a constant black void? Yes, that is freaky. The unthinking part really freaks me out. And since there is no purpose in thinking about it, I think I will stop now. Death does not freak me out. I just don't want it to hurt when the time comes. Death is part of life. It's going to happen.
2006-12-13 23:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by Debra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't go to church? Good for you because that is where one is exposed to religious lies. The Bible at Eccl. 9:5 describes the condition of the dead by saying: "The dead are conscious of nothing at all." Ps. 146:4: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish. At John 11:11, Jesus likened death to sleep.
So at death, a person is aware of nothing--not even of a black void.
2006-12-13 23:38:30 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How sad!!! I pray you find the Truth - Jesus Christ - before it is too late. The end is not a "black void" but Heaven or Hell - you choose.
2006-12-13 23:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have thought of that a few times...
but
if it is just a hole
as long as I have the memories of this life, I know I shall be happy
2006-12-13 23:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by White Lightning 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully that is all there will be..no one really knows that is alive.Brain activity ceases to function once deceased ,so i would think that is all there is.
2006-12-13 23:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not me I have been enlightened. Seek to prove these things in yourself and you will know what awaits for you.
2006-12-13 23:38:54 · answer #7 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God and Jesus......ha ha!
2006-12-13 23:37:23 · answer #8 · answered by jedi1josh 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋