2006-12-18 02:06:07 · 9 answers · asked by Amir 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Eric, my question has a background of the lust for worldly things around us. Kindly answer it from this perspective.
2006-12-18 02:40:54 · update #1
the human consciousness creates illusions of form and permanance. why? that's an amazing question. nothing is permanent. and people fear that. so they create a small circle around themselves which creates a womblike feeling of safety. what comes after, who knows? how can you say that after your demise nothing will feel solid. you aren't there yet.
2006-12-18 02:11:00 · answer #1 · answered by zzzalex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should try to use proper grammar while posting in the Philosophy section.
To answer your query, you must first explain your beleifs on a soul.
If you beleive in a soul, the soul cannot feel or remember that which happens in one vessel (body) when it reaches the next. Which is easy to understand so I will go no further.
If you don't beleive in a soul, than when your brain ceases to operate you can no longer feel... Also easy to answer... Which brings me to wonder why you are asking this, is this a question you found somewhere or are you just looking for attention?
RE: KINDLY ANSWER FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE:::
If you take that perspective, a person's view on things that are solid must be explained before one can answer that question.
What is solid? Certainly the things around us cannot be proven to be solid, our brains are capable of trickery. Everything within our thought process including feelings can be produced without actual touch. Someone in a coma can beleive that everything is reality, when in all actuality he is dreaming, I have experienced this. Reality could really just be within our head, and for some, it actually is.
Their reality might just be our reality too, life could be just a dream.
The only real solid thing that one can prove is that thoughts exist.
2006-12-18 10:19:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you heard people say "I'm having (or I've had) a spiritual experience"?
They actually have the concept backwards.
We are eternal spiritual beings temporarily having a physical experience.
We go from one dimension to another, and our memory of our previous life is erased, so that we're left with no certain knowledge about our future.
Do you remember being a baby?
I don't.
Does anyone?
Christianity, as do other religions, teaches that there is a life beyond this one.
At the moment of death, we resume the spiritual existence of our previous life, although in time to come, the physical body will be resurrected and reunited with the spirit.
Yes, there is a purpose behind all that, but it takes some thought.
Also, I think science and religion complement each other, rather than exhibit contradictions, for truth is truth, regardless of the source.
2006-12-18 10:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by John Robert Mallernee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You assume we feel nothing before we're born or after we die, then ask why. What is your assumption based on? If nothing, why make the assumptions? Isn't it more honest simply to say, "I don't know"?
Not everyone is overwhelmed with lust for worldly things. When you have enough worldly things that you have trouble storing them and keeping track of them, you pretty much get over the lust.
2006-12-18 11:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by Philo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is solid, not now, while we are alive and not after we die. Our bodies are not solid and neither is anything else around us. We have been taught to look at things from a certain prospective, and we have formed our little world based upon these beliefs that we have made. Everything that we see are just movements of our imagination, including our bodies. The chairs the windows and everything else are just not as solid as we wish them to be. Quantum physics has been very clear about this. Please check out a video
2006-12-18 10:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put, one must exist, in the sense that one is alive in order to feel anything.
In the sense of before you are born, you aren't existing, meaning you aren't around to feel these things. So, even if you were aware of this time (which you would not be) you would not feel anything because you wouldn't have the necessary sensory apparatus.
2006-12-18 10:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by constantstatic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because "feeling solid" is done through sensory organs and nerves. These do not exist before we are born or after they die and rot away, until resurection.
2006-12-18 10:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
but other people who are alive before we are born feel solid, and those who out live us will also feel solid.
2006-12-18 10:18:36 · answer #8 · answered by wilrycar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really understand your quiry, but I will answer it as I understand it.
It's because it simply doesn't exist to us at that place or time, and thus it is nothing.
2006-12-18 10:09:15 · answer #9 · answered by hannah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋