I don’t frequent this forum of totse and when I read your replies in
this thread you piqued my curiosity. Your beliefs truly do interest me and I ask you to explain your beliefs, and the experiences that helped mold them. I am an atheist. I will not use my beliefs as an excuse to not learn about other people religions. I’m reading The Holy Bible [King James Edition] and when I finish that, hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a Quran. Lost, I find the brief explanations of your beliefs much more complete than any run of the mill Christian, and that is what more or less piqued my curiosity.
For convenience I have copied and pasted these quotes so other totseans may participate and include their questions or insights. Yes, I have edited out items that do not pertain to this thread, and most noticeable have edited out her signature.
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I believe we go where we believe we're going to go at a core level. If you truly believe you're going to go out like a candel, that's what will happen to you. If you truly believe you're going to heaven or hell you'll create your own heaven or hell. If you were to kill yourself you would know where you were supposed to go when you get there, on account of you'd go exactly where you know you belong.
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If you truly believe that, then I suppose you would. But, once you're dead you get a completely different perspective on your life and the things you've done. Once you're dead you might realize what a mistake it had been to do that, and you may be guilty and realize that there is no heaven with 72 virgins for you.
And no, I'm not religious. This is just what I believe based on my own experiences.
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I believe in spirit and that we all have spirits, which I believe transcend the mental and conciousness and that's what creates our own heaven and hells.
It's loosely based off the Judaic beliefs of the afterlife that once you die you evaluate your entire life from this permanently outside perspective. You see everything you've done as if it were someone else almost and whatever lessons you were supposed to learn but didn't you repeat over and over again for eternity or until you learn them.
I don't know about this specifically. This seems too structured for what I believe the afterlife is like.
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But, if you'd like to know where I developed this belief... After developing The Time Method Theory (which, if you've never heard of I'll explain later) I came with the idea that if this is the fourth dimension, it could be entirely possible for humans to transcend any preceeding dimensions. However, not always in physical form, in the sense you're thinking of.
If all things are made of light energy, though, what is it that charges us? Scientifically speaking it's magnetic ions that feed upon several different things: the magnetic field of the planet, the sun, water, food, etc... But, what is it exactly that happens to this energy when we die? Because no energy is ever lost it must go somewhere? Into the ether? It could be entirely possible that after death, without our bodies to ground us, our spirit - lacking in physicality might be sucked into a sort of "black hole" where we become a part of a greater whole, without any conciousness of our own.
This is a very common theory of the afterlife. That upon the moment of death, all positively charged energy is sucked from our bodies by the negatively charged energy around us and the magnetism of the earth, and that this energy goes back into the ether where it's recycled. It's still "spirit" in a sense, but it's not exactly holy or divine or concious.
However, after dying and being revived three times I decided that there was a more detailed process that occurs during death. Shock, confusion, acceptance. I believe if our spirit is powerfull enough you can keep from being sucked back into the ether, and that actually going back into the ether is a choice. Instead you may evaluate your previous life and meditate on this in whatever way you will feel is positive to you and considering that once you die there are no longer any earthly/mortal endeavors to adhere to it's very easy for you to decide what you did wrong and right.
In this way you create your own heaven and hell.
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[This message has been edited by Cooking with Zyklon B (edited 09-24-2006).]
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