Different in degree or kind; language (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, December 31, 2014, 15:20 (3615 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: Another small difference. I don't believe in an 'afterlife' in the traditional sense, i.e. that when you die something departs from your physical form and continues to live on in a conscious state. I do believe that when we die, the energy that we live by is returned to god, but not in a conscious form. There are some really vague areas in this for me though. I often wonder if the energy that is returned back to him contains all of our 'information'. If energy and information are equivalent, then it is essentially a snap shot of who we are. That snap shot could then be used during the Resurrection process, and could also explain, at least in part, how someone could be transformed from a material being into a spirit being. Like copying a CD to a hard drive. The medium is different but the data is the same.
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>David: Very interesting concept. I've based my thoughts on the NDE and death bed descriptions: souls that are recognized by an appearance that is similar to one's earthly form, communication by telepathy, so I have assumed consciousness. I agree that we are souls encased in a material form.-The difference being that you believe in some form of eternally conscious soul, where as I don't. If a hard drive crashes and dies, it is still possible to recover the information off of the hard drive, but that in and of itself does not make the data active again. It simply means that the information is conserved.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.