Anyways, I think once people have 'passed on', it's just an eternal peace. Like, PURE peace. You aren't even aware at that point, you are just no more.
No she won't!!!She's gonna divorce her husband and marry me!
I suppose you could say it's fairly solid....People don't come back.I would guess they can't come back. Maybe they don't want to, but I would think some would and would have attempted that by now whatever the cost. Or they don't come back in a way we're aware of.Or after death people aren't the same as they were before, as in losing memories of themselves.I'd lean toward there being some kind of natural laws for everything. And something would prevent the reverse situation, coming back. Which would mean an individual isn't capable of doing that (or we're not aware of it). Even groups... millions, billions, trillions, etc. I would imagine people would have teamed up too if possible and tried something.Although that's also assuming people have contact with others after death. Maybe there's nothing. Or maybe it's total isolation. Who knows....
...she'll become a bigamist.Anyway, to return swiftly to the topic - if in "the afterlife" a composer cannot manage to come up with anything better than the anæmic, insipid, techniqueless and thoroughly boring excrescences that the late Rosemary Brown sought to attribute to "Liszt" et al, then "the afterlife" sure ain't for me!Or, as someone else once said when asked the same question as posed in the thread topic, "I'm not enjoying it much"...Best,Alistair
Because we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before, how we live our life gives honor to them. Our parents, grand parents, etc., live on in us. In that way they have eternal life. We keep them alive by following their best precepts and making a better life for ourselves. It goes without saying that I extend my sincerest sympathy to those who have experienced recent losses.
One possible view of an afterlife is that it is independent of time. And that our essential being is what is there (a synonym for soul? Perhaps), and that all of our potentials are available to us.
Three books well worth reading on this are "An Experiment with Time" by J.W. Dunne, "Over the Long High Wall" by J.B. Priestley and "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter. Littletune, your mirror analogy is remarkably close to the kernel idea in Hofstadter's book. Read it if you get a chance, you would get a lot out of it. Dunne argues that the existence of precognitive data in dreams implies the immortality of the soul, or subjective consciousness. Priestley embraces Dunne's conjecture and adds a few perceptive touches of his own. Whatever you actually believe, or think you ought to believe, all three books are insightful and provocative without requiring academic or philosophical background.
It doesn't too realistic, but then it's the afterlife. I think it would get old after awhile to have everything your way all the time.
"The largest known structure in the universe has just been discovered, and is so large that it completely violates a number of widely-accepted theories. It’s a large quasar group (LQG), that’s so enormous that it would take someone traveling at the speed of light at least four billion years to completely pass through it.For a better understanding of the scale of this thing; “our galaxy, the Milky Way, is separated from its nearest neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, by about 0.75 Megaparsecs (Mpc) or 2.5 million light-years."
Topic: What do you think about the afterlife 