Let's face it, having your organs fail to transport oxygen to your brain sucks. From what we are able to determine when you die, your neurons stop sending information between them. It is like you freeze as a person. You have every single thought and memory locked up in the neurons, but without a way for the neurons to transfer information to each other they are worthless and soon die. So your brain dies, and it starts to rot. And that is it.
And this is happening.....right...now. People die so fast on this planet that it is barely noticeable as the amount of dead pile up and start to catch up with the increased birthrate/lifespan. Every single person on the planet goes through this between 0-100 orbits of the planet Earth around the star Sun. They gather a vast amount of experiences, thoughts, dreams, loves, only to have them turn into compost. A person dies every 6 seconds on this planet. Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom. Dead dead dead dead.
There is no Scientific Evidence for ANY type of afterlife, soul/spirit, continuance of life after death. You stop thinking. You never have another thought ever again. In fact any thought that you ever had is gone completely.
Your favorite song, you lose any memory of that song. In fact you lose any memory of ever having heard music, or even what hearing is. It is all just completely wiped out. If you had a love, your memory of your love is gone as if it never even existed. Any memory of the emotion of love is gone as if it never even existed.
Honestly if this is the way death is and I were to know without a shadow of a doubt that when you died this is what happens I think I would just check out A.S.A.P. and off myself.
Really the only thing that keeps me going is evolution. The hypothesis that there is other intelligent life in the Universe and that they evolved to our level of technology billions of years ago. The hypothesis that other life forms are so technologically advanced that they have developed a way to create an artificial afterlife because they realized how much it sucks to die and rot into nothing.
All I know is when faced with the prospect of never having had existed at all it can topple the mightiest of humans. That is why religion is so successful and popular. There are only two choices. You die and it is like you never even existed, or magical happy heaven afterlife with ponies and all your family and relatives and you drink wine with jeebus and eat biscuits. Yeah lol. No WONDER the majority of American Citizens believe in this shit. They have no other choice. They have no other option.
Shit I do not think that there is a religion alive that does not make the continuance of your spirit/soul a MAJOR factor in the religion. It is the, how do you say, selling point?
I wish the rest of the world shared the hard, cold, truth of death. I am sure we could put aside these religious differences, these skin tone differences, these eye shape differences, these sex differences, these sexuality differences, these age differences, these language differences, these tribal differences, these petty differences.
We ALL get fucked in the ass by Death. Imagine how much headway we could make into lifespan extension and survival if we all put forth our most extreme intense efforts (EXTREME! lol) into fighting death and disease and safety and biotechnology.
As it is now having 95% of the worlds population follow a god/religion ensures that this life, this planet is considered nothing but a test for the faithful and a doormat on their way to their respective afterlife's.
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Turkey Burger,
ReplyDeleteDon't delete this, please, not until you it read it.
I was amused by your occupation description of "fap". Or maybe that was your place of employment. That's what is in your Blogger profile ;)
You wrote terrible things to the man who was assaulted by the French MacDonald's employees. Remember, his vision aid doodad is bolted into his skull. When they started yanking on it, they could have killed him. Even if he were in the U.S.A., instead of France, and had a Sig Saur handgun on his person, I doubt he could have done much to improve the situation. And without a handgun, well, you saw him. He has a Ph.D., but he is severely sight impaired. It is likely that those fools would have bludgeoned him to death if he had tried to fight all of them on his own. Also, he was in a foreign country, and the 3 idiots had torn up his papers. It could have become a scenario where he would be detained in some odious Parisian prison cell, with French police claiming that he caused the disturbance... a Kafka-esque (Sartre-esque? whatever) nightmare.
Seriously, have a little compassion. At first, I saw that photo of him, with the glasses, no shirt, hair sticking up, and rolled my eyes. Then I read the rest, and changed my cynical mind. I *am* perplexed as to why the Canadian consulate did not help him, nor McDonald's in North America.
Moving on to the topic of your post. Judaism offers no promise of an afterlife. There is not even any mention of the possibility, certainly no guidelines on how one goes to heaven, or even to hell. It is extremely depressing. And as you said, WHAT is the selling point, if that is the case? I really don't know. When my (non-Jewish) husband died at age 45, I learned that as a Jewish woman mourning the loss of her spouse, I should wear a small piece of black cloth pinned on my blouse for two weeks, light a candle on the anniversary of his death, and start dating again after a pause of a max of one year of mourning (if I were to want to, of course). Every rabbi, reform or conservative, told me life is for the living. It wasn't so much about getting married again, but about not dwelling on death. There was almost zilch religious material to comfort me. The standard line is that when Jews die, they live on in the memories of those who loved them. NOT very consoling. I wish I could believe in a happy heaven of clouds and old, dead relatives reunited, young and happy together, forever. Nothing even close to that is offered by Judaism, sadly.
On the other hand (and I realize that you meant it as a metaphor), I still must troll back, ever so slightly: You said "We ALL get fucked in the ass by Death". Very poor metaphor. Some of us LIKE getting "fucked in the ass", though not by Death, admittedly. (Nearly) any afterlife is better than none at all. Being certain that there was an afterlife that involved regular sex, anal and otherwise, would be a source of incredible comfort and solace during life's sorrows and tribulations. If only...