You make some deep observations, Kain :). They're not too far off from what I believe either. I believe that life is all connected. Not literally, like our souls or anything but kind of like water that flows to and from an ocean. But not just humans. We're nothing special. Plants, bugs, parasites, animals... anything that's been given the spark of life. I think we agree on this point more or less. Life comes and goes, flows back and forth. I'm studying Plato right now and Socrates makes a very compelling argument for life after death. Not in a heaven sort of a way but more our soul. I don't particularly believe in the soul either but let's just use that word as a replacement for "mind, identity, intellect etc." Socrates says that opposites are closely related with each other in the sense that when something increases, it's opposite decreases. So for example: when you're in pain, the opposite of pain (comfort) decreases as pain increases and vice versa. When you're asleep, you've done an instantaneous decrease of being awake and vice versa. He says that if this rule applies to everything in life, why can it not apply to life itself? So the process of going from being alive to dying is the opposite (and therfore the same process) of being dead to being alive. Meaning, something comes before life to give life. We aren't just conceived and given this spark of life just to die and have it instantly waste away.
Personally, I do not believe that our identities are carried with us when we leave but more that the juice that gave us life is carried away. Meaning I don't believe that people are given rotten souls. Life is breathed into every thing that can support it and it just happens to be this time, this place. I don't think that there is a god who points out people who sin or who don't worship him.This also means that I don't believe particularly in any religion but I think we've established that I'm no atheist. That's not to say that I don't pray to god when I get really scared or upset. I think it's necessary for people to believe that there is a higher power, a greater good that is watching over them. I just don't like it when people blow each other up over whose god is real or not.
I haven't dismissed myself to reincarnation. Perhaps the human life form is different than other creatures and it is recycled within other human bodies. Lately, I've been hearing a lot of "meaning of life" type questions and "are we real? is this real?". I want to address this now, even if it's only for myself... Why isn't there nothing?...But not even nothing. For there to be nothing, there would have to be a thing that just isn't present. I mean, why is there just not complete void, but not even void, because void is empty space meaning that something had to occupy the space previously for it to be empty. And not even darkness because that is the absence of light meaning light would exist. There is no word for what I'm describing and although I said it wasn't the right word earlier, there is no other word I can choose except for "nothing". So why isn't there nothing? We have senses. We have "we". We were actually permitted time in a reality. We were permitted to exist. And above that, we have organized ourselves in this glorious chaos and formed communication so I may type this on a computer screen and write things like "communication" and have you all know what it means. And above even THAT, we were granted the incredible gift as individuals who are better off than others. We are all here, surfing the internet and watching cartoons on newgrounds.com. We can't be suffering that much. It's not fair. We should do what we can for the people who just aren't this well off. But we all know that...We all get that or at least we should...We should just be so fucking grateful for whatever the hell it is we're doing. Because we're doing it. And I don't care if it isn't real or if I'm in a dream or even in the fucking matrix because I am just so grateful. I am so grateful to have been created.
So thank you, Kain. I know I strayed a little from your original topic and I kind of wrote something different altogether but you got my juices flowing and like you, I said something that's been in my head that needed to be said. :)
