NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, is there. simple enough question, not quite such a simple answer.

Well, is there. simple enough question, not quite such a simple answer.
Wha...grammar...please.

Actually, its easy to answer from my opinion: Yes!

By definition, no.

Yes, and No.

I really actually have no idea, some days i think 'yes!' other days i think 'no'. Today's a yes day! So, my answer is yes.

define "life"

Well, is there. simple enough question, not quite such a simple answer.

if there is, i hope it's an improvement. but i don't - very sadly - believe a word of it.

There's life after a blue screen of death, why not after regular death?

Only time will tell ;)

define "life"

not being dead.

No but I'm not dead so I'm hardly a reliable source.

Yep. Even in the most abstract of senses, the life I led will remain as an entity on this world after the sense of consciousness I currently experience is diminished. We're not truely devoid of life as long as there are those who remember us and live under our influence.

There is no god, no afterlife, and the only "hell" is that town in Norway. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway)

There is no god, no afterlife, and the only "hell" is that town in Norway. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway)
I've been there. Cute place; but then, most towns in Norway are. Plus, they have a neat supermarket with a great big red HELL sign. Postcards of the timetable at Hell Station go down well with the relatives. ^_^

ive heard that our minds exceed the informational capacity of our brains, so there might be an afterlife from that perspective, its a whole area of research the godolean 8 manifold theory deals with the mind blah.

I believe in a never-ending cycle of reincarnation because I don't see how you would be able to be dead because you would have to experience it. Even when you are asleep or unconscious you can still feel things.

yes, there is life after death... when you die, life goes on.

id be skeptical about an afterlife, in deep sleep your brain is fairly inactive so your not as alive or aware than if your awake or doing say an exam where brain activity is higher.when your dead there is no brain activity, so your not alive or aware of anything, yourself included to the extent that you no longer exist or can exist again. but thats one point of view on the matter, its not resolved yet. it probably never will be in the conceivable future. it would be cool if there were proton packs.

The only thing I know is that there's death after life. However, I'd really like to haunt the internet after dying.

cyberdemon!

According to divine philosophy, there are two important and universal conditions in the world of material phenomena; one which concerns life, the other concerning death; one relative to existence, the other non-existence; one manifest in composition, the other in decomposition. Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation. This is a mistaken idea, for total annihilation is an impossibility. At most, composition is ever subject to decomposition or disintegration; that is to say, existence implies the grouping of material elements in a form or body, and non-existence is simply the de-composing of these groupings. This is the law of creation in its endless forms and infinite variety of expression. Certain elements have formed the composite creature man. This composite association of the elements in the form of a human body is therefore subject to disintegration which we call death, but after disintegration the elements themselves persist unchanged. Therefore total annihilation is an impossibility, and existence can never become non-existence. This would be equivalent to saying that light can become darkness, which is manifestly untrue and impossible. As existence can never become non-existence, there is no death for man; nay, rather, man is everlasting and everliving. The rational proof of this is that the atoms of the material elements are transferable from one form of existence to another, from one degree and kingdom to another, lower or higher. For example, an atom of the soil or dust of earth may traverse the kingdoms from mineral to man by successive incorporations into the bodies of the organisms of those kingdoms. At one time it enters into the formation of the mineral or rock; it is then absorbed by the vegetable kingdom and becomes a constituent of the body and fibre of a tree; again it is appropriated by the animal, and at a still later period is found in the body of man. Throughout these degrees of its traversing the kingdoms from one form of phenomenal being to another, it retains its atomic existence and is never annihilated nor relegated to non-existence.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 263)

The only thing I know is that there's death after life. However, I'd really like to haunt the internet after dying.
that is the sign of a real NS Addict. won't let a little thing like Death Stop them! :D

According to divine philosophy, there are two important and universal conditions in the world of material phenomena; one which concerns life, the other concerning death; one relative to existence, the other non-existence; one manifest in composition, the other in decomposition. Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation. This is a mistaken idea, for total annihilation is an impossibility. At most, composition is ever subject to decomposition or disintegration; that is to say, existence implies the grouping of material elements in a form or body, and non-existence is simply the de-composing of these groupings. This is the law of creation in its endless forms and infinite variety of expression. Certain elements have formed the composite creature man. This composite association of the elements in the form of a human body is therefore subject to disintegration which we call death, but after disintegration the elements themselves persist unchanged. Therefore total annihilation is an impossibility, and existence can never become non-existence. This would be equivalent to saying that light can become darkness, which is manifestly untrue and impossible. As existence can never become non-existence, there is no death for man; nay, rather, man is everlasting and everliving. The rational proof of this is that the atoms of the material elements are transferable from one form of existence to another, from one degree and kingdom to another, lower or higher. For example, an atom of the soil or dust of earth may traverse the kingdoms from mineral to man by successive incorporations into the bodies of the organisms of those kingdoms. At one time it enters into the formation of the mineral or rock; it is then absorbed by the vegetable kingdom and becomes a constituent of the body and fibre of a tree; again it is appropriated by the animal, and at a still later period is found in the body of man. Throughout these degrees of its traversing the kingdoms from one form of phenomenal being to another, it retains its atomic existence and is never annihilated nor relegated to non-existence.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 263)


there's always someone who overthinks things :p

According to divine philosophy, there are two important and universal conditions in the world of material phenomena; one which concerns life, the other concerning death; one relative to existence, the other non-existence; one manifest in composition, the other in decomposition. Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation. This is a mistaken idea, for total annihilation is an impossibility. At most, composition is ever subject to decomposition or disintegration; that is to say, existence implies the grouping of material elements in a form or body, and non-existence is simply the de-composing of these groupings. This is the law of creation in its endless forms and infinite variety of expression. Certain elements have formed the composite creature man. This composite association of the elements in the form of a human body is therefore subject to disintegration which we call death, but after disintegration the elements themselves persist unchanged. Therefore total annihilation is an impossibility, and existence can never become non-existence. This would be equivalent to saying that light can become darkness, which is manifestly untrue and impossible. As existence can never become non-existence, there is no death for man; nay, rather, man is everlasting and everliving. The rational proof of this is that the atoms of the material elements are transferable from one form of existence to another, from one degree and kingdom to another, lower or higher. For example, an atom of the soil or dust of earth may traverse the kingdoms from mineral to man by successive incorporations into the bodies of the organisms of those kingdoms. At one time it enters into the formation of the mineral or rock; it is then absorbed by the vegetable kingdom and becomes a constituent of the body and fibre of a tree; again it is appropriated by the animal, and at a still later period is found in the body of man. Throughout these degrees of its traversing the kingdoms from one form of phenomenal being to another, it retains its atomic existence and is never annihilated nor relegated to non-existence.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 263)
Love it. Self evident truths. As poignant as ever, Thoughts. ^__^