Show me your soul. I have searched for mine. It cannot be found. I have peeled away the layers of myself, as one can do with an onion. What do you find at the center? Absolutely nothing. This is why I do not “believe” in the existence of a soul.
Why do we get sad? See my post below. I hope it helps. I probably won’t.
What IS the mind? Is it your brain? Or your thoughts? What are thoughts? Do they exist on their own, or are they nothing more than the by-products of chemical reactions in the brain? Who the fuck knows? Religion says one thing, science another. No one knows.
What is happiness? A lack of sadness? What is sadness? A lack of happiness?
But truthfully, pulling the trigger won’t make you happy. It’ll only make you dead. There’s no happiness in death. Sure, you can believe in an afterlife (even though it’s never been proven scientifically or logically) if you want to. But if you do believe in an afterlife, who’s to say it will be better than your present one? I could be worse.
OK, my opinion. Since everyone experiences reality differently, I can only relate to you from MY point of view. This idea may work for you. Or not.
Since I don’t “believe” in an afterlife, an immortal soul, or a god, this is how I see things… from a scientific point of view. Take the 1st Law of Thermodynamics: Energy is never created or destroyed, it just changes shape.
With this idea in mind (damn, there’s THAT word again), I feel that each individual is just that; an individual. Think of us as individual rain drops. As a rain drop falls to earth, it is an individual. But when it lands in a large body of water (steam, lake, ocean, etc), it ceases to be an individual and becomes one with the larger body of water.
THAT is how I view life and death. While we are alive, we are an individual. But at the moment of our death, we will cease to be an individual. The energy that animated out flesh will return to the source from which it came. This is not a soul, it’s not some conscious afterlife. Where does the electricity go when you shut off the power button? Who the fuck knows! It’s just gone.
It must go somewhere, per the 1st Law of Thermodynamics. But where? None can say.
Henry David Thoreau said that existence is nothing more than a brief spark of consciousness separating two vast eternities. Think about that.
I personally don’t recall any thoughts or experiences before being born, so I doubt that any will exist after my death. OBLIVION. Total annihilation of Self. Pure and simple, eternal nothingness.
Why? Because the energy that animated you… that made your heart to beat, your brain to think, and your fingers to type this, will have left you. YOU will cease to be YOU.
Of course that’s just my opinion and I could be wrong. You must decide for yourself. And then act upon your decision.
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Okay sure, what’s your favourite first person shooter game?
Oh good. I like it.
My therapist once told me that “you can make your own happiness, Kat! Mind over matter!”
And I replied with: “‘Mind over matter doesn’t work when the matter IS your MIND!”
Well then sadness must be in the mind too.
Sadness is in the soul
Show me your soul. I have searched for mine. It cannot be found. I have peeled away the layers of myself, as one can do with an onion. What do you find at the center? Absolutely nothing. This is why I do not “believe” in the existence of a soul.
Why do we get sad? See my post below. I hope it helps. I probably won’t.
What IS the mind? Is it your brain? Or your thoughts? What are thoughts? Do they exist on their own, or are they nothing more than the by-products of chemical reactions in the brain? Who the fuck knows? Religion says one thing, science another. No one knows.
What is happiness? A lack of sadness? What is sadness? A lack of happiness?
But truthfully, pulling the trigger won’t make you happy. It’ll only make you dead. There’s no happiness in death. Sure, you can believe in an afterlife (even though it’s never been proven scientifically or logically) if you want to. But if you do believe in an afterlife, who’s to say it will be better than your present one? I could be worse.
OK, my opinion. Since everyone experiences reality differently, I can only relate to you from MY point of view. This idea may work for you. Or not.
Since I don’t “believe” in an afterlife, an immortal soul, or a god, this is how I see things… from a scientific point of view. Take the 1st Law of Thermodynamics: Energy is never created or destroyed, it just changes shape.
With this idea in mind (damn, there’s THAT word again), I feel that each individual is just that; an individual. Think of us as individual rain drops. As a rain drop falls to earth, it is an individual. But when it lands in a large body of water (steam, lake, ocean, etc), it ceases to be an individual and becomes one with the larger body of water.
THAT is how I view life and death. While we are alive, we are an individual. But at the moment of our death, we will cease to be an individual. The energy that animated out flesh will return to the source from which it came. This is not a soul, it’s not some conscious afterlife. Where does the electricity go when you shut off the power button? Who the fuck knows! It’s just gone.
It must go somewhere, per the 1st Law of Thermodynamics. But where? None can say.
Henry David Thoreau said that existence is nothing more than a brief spark of consciousness separating two vast eternities. Think about that.
I personally don’t recall any thoughts or experiences before being born, so I doubt that any will exist after my death. OBLIVION. Total annihilation of Self. Pure and simple, eternal nothingness.
Why? Because the energy that animated you… that made your heart to beat, your brain to think, and your fingers to type this, will have left you. YOU will cease to be YOU.
Of course that’s just my opinion and I could be wrong. You must decide for yourself. And then act upon your decision.
Cheers,
Jack
Or you can just listen to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3E-70u4g0
It’s not a bullet in the head, but it helps.
It helps me anyway.