My view of life after death stems from various, and often seen as opposing sources. Science tells is that all energy cannot be destroyed, it must go somewhere. So then by this law, the energy within us must be used elsewhere when we cease to be able to utilize it. In the 19th century a scientist tried seeing if one could measure the weight of a soul. His expirement had a man on in death bed, all on a huge and extremly precise scale. At the moment of death, the scientist watched the scale's needle drawing without any physical disturbance or change to the man or the bed. He then concluded this to be fact that souls so exist and have weight. Although, we hold this expirement as absolute fact but it is interesting to think about potentially having evidence of our sould transcending our physical bodies and going somewhere elese.
With this kind of concept in mind, I also tie my beliefs in with the idea of reincarnation. If our energy cannot cease to exist like our physical bodies it must go somewhere, and that somewhere I believe is another living creature that comes to life at the moment of my physical death. I personally indentify myself as an old soul and feel with my whole being that I have had expirences that my physical body has not gone through. It's the kind of certainty that I don't need absolute fact to tell me if it is right, because I know that "souls" carry human expirence in them. This is how I feel we live on after death. In the memories of the ones who loved us, and in the next living creatures that end up with a piece of me.
This was my favorite blog post I have read yet. That experiment was really cool and interesting. I really like the idea that people have souls and they move from creature to creature after death. Your theory makes the most sense to me and I'm glad you shared it.
ReplyDeleteEmma, I think that your concept of reincarnation is interesting. This is a theory that I have never fully understood before and this post was informative. I wonder, if a soul has matter, how it is transferred from person to person. Nontheless, I appreciate how you stated that you don't need absolute fact to believe what you believe, as this -- in my opinion -- is an absolute characteristic of faith.
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