The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by BBella , Friday, October 29, 2010, 07:06 (4921 days ago) @ dhw

BBELLA: Me = I/energy + body/matter. When I, as energy, leaves me, the body, the body dies, and I, as energy, continue on. Whether as a conscious aware energy or just abstract energy, regardless, I, as energy, continue.
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> The same problem. If that energy is not conscious, then it makes no difference to us whether it continues or not. To be "I" without awareness of being "I" is no better than being dead matter. But that is what we used to call the $64,000 question, and nobody knows the answer... and I think your post takes us as far as we can go. As you said earlier, "whatever it IS, I will know after I pass from here to there. Or not." -I'm not sure if it's really as far as we can go. We can look around and look for evidence of an afterlife in our own lives, the lives of people we know, or other credible witnesses or studies. We don't have to believe the evidence, even if it's something we ourselves experience. But that there is anything in our surroundings that even remotely suggest there might be an afterlife, should give us a step toward the possibility. -Of course, as we've said before, there is a possibility our minds are making us think these things are so, but it's just as true that my mind could be making me think I am writing this post to someone called dhw as well. My mind is open to both being true.