Is life just foreplay to a funeral? Should we save the best 'til last?
2007-03-28 11:15:28 · 18 answers · asked by altered ego 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No way, we won't be around for our funerals, we should live life. Carpe diem!
2007-03-28 11:27:09 · answer #1 · answered by scattycat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physical death is inevitable, but there is NO TRUE death. Physical death is merely an illusion of death.
No one can provide proof for this answer. The best way to get this answered is through understanding what you really are. You will understand through experience.
If you don't understand what you are and why you are here, alive then any attempt to get an answer or understanding life and in deed death will be futile.
You already have the tools for getting the answer you want. You have a mind, a consciousness and will power. The mind will dictate to you, the consciousness communicates to you via how you feel as the result of the actions you take as dictated by the mind. Your will power give you the ability to make decisions to act or not to act (including thinking), only you can decide to something or not. By the way doing nothing also invloves an action, the action to remain inert, useless etc,,.
Understand what you are, what you have within you and ability to change things. Life gives you an opportunity to explore and exercise your will power, tame the mind and follow your conscience, through experience you learn and understand how these 3 things work. That is the purpose of life.
You may well find out that life and death are just as necessary to existence as inpiration and expiration is to breathing. Or that your question simply disolves away into irrelevance once you experience your true nature.
Most of us will waste this opportunity and remain slave to the mind until our physical death. The tendencies that remain will then take a new life form since consciousness, mind and will power never dies but are in constant transition from one form to another just like energy.
I hope this help
2007-03-28 12:01:43 · answer #2 · answered by moona 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, death is the inevitable consequence of sin.
Life, by definition can have no end, sin brings death, which is a cessation not of life but of communication.
Phsical death is the cessation of communication with the physical living.
Spritual death is the cessation of communion with God.
Man being born in sin, has no communion with God.
If you have no communion with God then you can thereby know that you are spiritually dead.
Only God creates life. Only God can restore communion.
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
2007-03-28 14:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by James the less 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life in the now if a forerunner to life in eternity. Technically we are already in eternity because death is simply a point in this time. Funerals are simply the celebration of the passing from this life to the next, if you know where you are going. If not, they can be a very sad occasion.
I Cr 13;8a
2007-03-28 11:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know pa...is it? Will we reach a point where we can avoid death...cure death...prolong life indefinitely. Is it possible???
Don't save the best for last...believe me, I am only in my 50s and I am already too worn out to enjoy the best...I am not even sure what it is, lololol.
The Skeptical Christian, JPO
Grace and Peace
Peg
2007-03-28 11:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The very moment we are born, we are in contract with death. That's what life is like and every moment of our life, day and night we face death... most of us don't realise this until its too late.
What have you/we done today to make the best use out of our lives?
2007-03-28 19:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is the only thing in life that we can be certain of. We know from our human history that nobody can live forever'
Common sense suggests that we should make the best life that we can for ourselves and others and not waste time .
2007-03-28 11:30:54 · answer #7 · answered by oldtimer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
death is just an inevitable cosequence of life and thats all it is.have you ever met anyone yet who has come back from the other side and said their is a heaven.their is no proof and never will be.its just people living in hope because they fear death.
2007-03-29 00:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by earl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
death is the way to another phase...we can be frightened by something that we don't know,can we?-and because most of the people are frightened by it,that means we already know what is going to happend to us,even ifs is unconsciously.anyway we should just live this life doing what we feel is best for us and people around us....
2007-03-28 23:05:09 · answer #9 · answered by sauvage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would be the belief of a true Atheist. For those that believe in something beyond death, we must practice proper morals and help our fellow citizens on Earth. Basically, we're earning "brownie points" for later.
2007-03-28 11:21:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋