In this project I have decided to interview my mother on her opinion on death. She is a christian, and she said that she believes that our mortal form dies, but our spirit/soul lives on. I am alos shristian so I also believe that. But back in egypt where there were pharoahs, pyrimads, and slaves, they had believed in reicarnation. That is when somebody dies and there soul goes into another body that has yet to be born. I am actually a little confused though and scared to die. I don;t know what to expect and how to approach death. But my will come and we'll see what happens. The first time I actually thought about death, I got scared and I really can't live in the now becuase I keep on worrying about what happens to me when my time is up.
I did some research on other religions and what they think on what happens when you die, and alos a couple a athiest. Athiest believe "
-You, will cease to exist. It is impossible for anyone to grasp this concept entirely because the 'experience' itself is an entire lack of experience. The concept of nonexistence can be compared to the lack of existence of a human before being conceived or brought into the world - The universe was here before you were born and will continue when you are gone-. Basically this means that there is no afterlife, once you are gone, you are no longer in the worlds existence. Everytime I think about this, I just freek out. Because it is really hard to imagine when you die, you don't dream or nothing, you just lay there. It is really hard to imagine.
In Hinduism, the believe "
-The most common afterlife belief among Hindus is transmigration. In the Hindu context, "reincarnation" refers to taking rebirth as another human being. Hindus generally accept "transmigration," the belief that the living entity or soul (jiva or jivatman) takes on limitless births in any of the various locally available lifeforms, some material some not-. Basically Hundu's believe in reincarnation. once you die, you take on the knew form of a new born baby and live your life over. I sometimes think it is kind of cool but I know it won't happen.
After finding this information I told my mom about it, but she already knew what other religions and athiest believe in what they think happens when you die. NOthing will change my mind about it. I don't care how much scinece they try to bring up that says there is no God who created the earth. And since there is no god there is no afterlife. But I believe there is a God, and there is a afterlife.
Willie,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you decide to interview your mom and write about how your religion influences your thoughts on death and what happens to you after you die. I think that our families views have an affect on what we believe. As you mentioned you share the same religion as your mom and thoughts on death. I also found it interesting how did research on other religions and the way they look at death and the after life to get a better understanding for yourself and what you believe.