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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-01-26 07:15 pm

[ SECRET POST #2945 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2945 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Not a Harem Heaven, It's a Yandere Hell]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[In the Flesh]


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[Hudson Leick as Callisto in Xena, Warrior Princess]


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[Plebcomics]


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07.
[Great British Bake Off]


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08.
[Captain America: The First Avenger]


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09.
[Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!]


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[Queen]













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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

OK, here goes.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-27 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
I spent a lot of time when I was younger thinking about the idea of a personal afterlife and the nature of the soul. I eventually decided that there probably isn't a continuous "you" that survives, and if there were, it would be difficult-to-impossible-to-useless to try to differentiate it from a duplicate. So what does a resurrection in Heaven even mean?

BUT! The mass, energy, and spirit (whatever that means, and however much there is) that makes you up will still exist after you die, just in different forms. This is what we call conservation of mass & energy, and--as some Hindus who don't believe in the reincarnation of individual souls believe--it may well be true of "spirit" as well.

So while the form of "you"--as a particular organization of matter and energy and mind--won't exist; the substance will still be there and get to make new lives. And this is true, at least in the physical dimension, even if there is a Heaven.

So I decided to stop worrying about the personal afterlife, which probably doesn't exist and is unproven, in favor of thinking of the future of the world as the known after-my-life. New births will happen. Make sure they have a decent world.

Re: OK, here goes.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-27 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
This is more or less my thought process when it comes to death, too. I don't really believe in an afterlife as usually described by most religion - as a place or a static state of being - but I also don't believe that everything about us just winks out of existence, because that isn't actually how the world works. Things change shape, change nature and purpose, but nothing just ceases to be without a trace. Even when a star dies, its light continues to travel. While my awareness might vanish or change so drastically that it can no longer be qualified as "me", no matter what, something of me will always be here in some form or another. That comforts me.

Re: OK, here goes.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-27 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
The problem that I have with this, as presented here, is that it is difficult for me to believe in the existence of any kind of self-being or thing which is separable from the physical form that I have. That is to say, as far as I can see, everything that I am is attached in some sense to my body.

ayrt

(Anonymous) 2015-01-27 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
But your body is part of a larger ecosystem.

Legos don't disappear just because you dismantle the form you built with them.