If so, would you mind sharing why you believe so? Thank you so much :)
2007-09-21 10:18:18 · 11 answers · asked by /\v/\TARD 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's kinda personal, carniverouscat. I am NOT asking to ridicule or bash.
2007-09-21 10:30:32 · update #1
Wow I was going to write something compelling and VC already wrote it. Too strange.
I think there is a connectedness with in all of us. What people call "God's work" I see as something different.
When I call a friend out of the blue and she says "I was just thinking about you" that's the stuff I am talking about.
When I have a shitty day and I jump in the car and the perfect song is on the radio...that's the energy too.
There are people on here that I immediately feel connected too.
I do think in some ways it is eternal. I'm not sure how but strangely I have been able to experience things that are indeed unexplainable. I wont get into them here.
I also believe our very own actions are eternal. I can recall actions that have occurred that have changed the entire course of my life...my life changes others change and so on. Kinda like the whole every action has an equal and opposite reaction type of thing. I kinda call it the domino effect, yet the dominoes never run out.
Its this energy, this connectedness that I see that I so wish others would see as well. When people talk about what God can do its great and dandy for them but then it leaves me sad cause I think "Why can't you see what WE can do"
Hmm anyway I can go on about this for some time...long story short I do think there is an eternal element within all of us.
2007-09-21 17:32:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am none of those my friend.... you know who I am :)
but I have something to say....
I was where you are. I found it impossilble at one time to believe there was something more.
Let's just for the sake of this question address our little bubble here.... Now there you are, and here I am.... we have never met. We have never seen eye to physical eye, we don't know what each other looks like and we have no idea what each other's personal existance is like. Why then, is there a connection? Where does it come from and where will it go? Every one of us asks the question "who am I and what is my purpose?". Although I believe what I believe now - I am a very practical person who looks for tangible answers to unanswerable questions, and I can't answer that. There is no practical or reasonable explaination for any sort of connection that we have - where it will go or what becomes of it.
I suppose that's all I have to say about that... :)
((((((IWF)))))))
2007-09-21 15:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm effectively Buddhist, more generally "a contemplatve." I am not attracted to terming spiritual practice as a matter of believing, and I'm not sure I'd use the word "eternal" for it.
But in the heart of contemplative experience -- intensive meditative experience -- I have known moments that were "naked" of any deliberative cognitive evaluation. They were before words, to put it simply. Very, very fundamental ... and inherently beautiful.
And they carried a timeless quality. Very palpable, vivid, lucid. Very "ontological" -- a quality of "sheer being" or utter facticity that is eminently veridical.
Such experience makes all the more sense to me why some would speak of them in terms of a unitive, eternal truth.
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2007-09-21 10:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes:)
Personally, I have a hard time associating myself with some sort of physical body. It just doesn't seem like I'm merely a watery sack of bones and organs with no real thoughts, feelings, significance, etc. Also, the fact that I was in a sense, 'dead', before being born, and then came to life at the time of birth leads me to believe I might live on in some form after I die again.
But thats just what I think:)
2007-09-21 10:28:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have the idea that at some level (perhaps the level that quantum physics is exploring, perhaps deeper still) there is a communal energy - the kind of energy that keeps electrons in motion. There is some interconnectedness in that we share matter - and there is that inexplicable energy. I'm coming to believe that it doesn't have to be a universal consciousness (the crumbs from my life as a deist) - but there is still the idea of energy, shared energy.
2007-09-21 16:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist, I find it impossible to believe that ANYTHING is eternal. Not even the life span of our sun is eternal - so I seriously dooubt any part of us is eternal...
Thats just my two cents.
2007-09-21 10:28:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure, in a way. When I had children, not only was my DNA passed down, but also what I teach my children, and how I raise them. They will then pass that down to their children, etc. I see things in my daughter that remind me of my grandmother. (Some in her looks, some small personality traits, etc.)
2007-09-21 10:49:08 · answer #7 · answered by Jess H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm with So-crates. Nothing is eternal.
2007-09-21 12:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would you share why do yo ask?
2007-09-21 10:28:02 · answer #9 · answered by carnivorouscat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called LIFE.
2007-09-21 10:30:14 · answer #10 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋