Death and Religion

Rum, beer, movies, nice websites, gaming, etc., without interrupting the flow of martial threads.

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Ron Panunto on Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:32 am

This leads to the Big Question: why is all this stuff here?


The problem with this question, is that it presupposes a reason. There is no reason, it's just there. Chances are we will never find out what preceded and caused the big bang.
Ron Panunto
Wuji
 
Posts: 1310
Joined: Tue May 13, 2008 6:33 am
Location: Langhorne, PA, USA

Re: Death and Religion

Postby middleway on Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:57 am

The problem with this question, is that it presupposes a reason. There is no reason, it's just there. Chances are we will never find out what preceded and caused the big bang.


Indeed.

Well, time is an inherent part of 'space' they are a continuum. With no universe or space, time may not have even existed until the big bang. A concept entirely alien to a human. Ahhh the fun of mind bending hypothesis.
"I am not servant to the method, the method is servant to me"
Me

My Blog: http://www.martialbody.com/Blog-Research
middleway
Wuji
 
Posts: 4674
Joined: Wed May 28, 2008 2:25 am
Location: United Kingdom

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Dmitri on Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:56 pm

(to continue to derail this even further...) I bet it's infinite (in time and space), i.e. Big Bang wasn't "the beginning" of everything. If anything (pun intended :)), it was a beginning of a cyclical expansion of the part of the universe that we happen to be capable of observing. When I was in my teens, a friend and I had visualized this model of infinite collection of "bubbles" (each bubble being what we deem "observable universe"), pulsing between the BB state and the state of having expanded to the point where various forces would start pulling it all back together, until it reached the BB-level super-dense "dot". Back and forth, forever.

Another idea would be that it all will just continue to "expand" (as we're currently interpreting our puny measurements), as it always has been, forever, with "new" matter being continuously "created" from sub-levels so "thin" that we can't possibly register them (the "quantum field" and then continually "zooming in" further and further, again to infinity).

All speculation of course, but just seems to make a hell of a lot more (common) sense than the "nothing existed before the BB, and then at some set point in time everything started". To me anyway. :P Smells too much like the first few verses from Genesis, with some super-orthodox folks still denying validity of methods like carbon dating and believing that the universe is less than 6000 years old. Same idea, just different scale. IMO there is no "time limit" to it.
Last edited by Dmitri on Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Dmitri
Great Old One
 
Posts: 9736
Joined: Fri May 02, 2008 1:04 pm
Location: Atlanta, GA (USA)

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Dmitri on Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:07 pm

Image
User avatar
Dmitri
Great Old One
 
Posts: 9736
Joined: Fri May 02, 2008 1:04 pm
Location: Atlanta, GA (USA)

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Steve James on Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:37 pm

"A man is rich when he has time and freewill. How he chooses to invest both will determine the return on his investment."
User avatar
Steve James
Great Old One
 
Posts: 21137
Joined: Tue May 13, 2008 8:20 am

Re: Death and Religion

Postby middleway on Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:55 am

Spirit in the sky ... yes

Image
"I am not servant to the method, the method is servant to me"
Me

My Blog: http://www.martialbody.com/Blog-Research
middleway
Wuji
 
Posts: 4674
Joined: Wed May 28, 2008 2:25 am
Location: United Kingdom

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Trick on Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:42 am

Dmitri wrote:(to continue to derail this even further...) I bet it's infinite (in time and space), i.e. Big Bang wasn't "the beginning" of everything. If anything (pun intended :)), it was a beginning of a cyclical expansion of the part of the universe that we happen to be capable of observing. When I was in my teens, a friend and I had visualized this model of infinite collection of "bubbles" (each bubble being what we deem "observable universe"), pulsing between the BB state and the state of having expanded to the point where various forces would start pulling it all back together, until it reached the BB-level super-dense "dot". Back and forth, forever.

Cool, i used to (still do) muse over something similar, instead of bubbles I visualized kind of an hourglass where the thin middle part of the glass is that dot as a kind of black hole, it big bang's it all out into one of the halves of the glass then pulls it back in just to bang it out to the other half. And the process follows the (almost)exact same pattern each and every time, the two halves of the glass are each other's mirror images kind of. We go on live our lives over and over but we have the ability to make small changes as we get the opportunity to better ourself each time, something as in Bill Murray's Groundhog Day movie :)
Trick

 

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Steve James on Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:18 am

There's probably no theory that we'll think of that wasn't thought by someone 50K years ago. The only things that change are our (attempted) concrete explanations for the mechanism.

Ya'll were discussing western religions. I'm surprised that no one has brought up the Druids or Celts, or any pre-Roman European beliefs. The Druid idea of the Otherworld could be considered similar to a multiverse. Otoh, it reminds me of stranger things.
"A man is rich when he has time and freewill. How he chooses to invest both will determine the return on his investment."
User avatar
Steve James
Great Old One
 
Posts: 21137
Joined: Tue May 13, 2008 8:20 am

Re: Death and Religion

Postby Trick on Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:34 pm

Know next to nothing about Druids. As I understand there is very little(almost nothing)written down about them and there practice, but I guess they followed the nature and saw deeper into it than the everage man and drew "divine" conclusions from their observations. As we understand ancient man lived more with the nature than we do today and probably therefore put more focus on how the land/nature around them sprung to life flourished, decayed and "died" to just repeat the cycle again and again. Even the great God in the sky where born grew strong got weaker and "died" on a daily and yearly basis. They must have pondered if this could be so with us humans to, being reborn. They saw dead bodies decay till only the bones remained and could that be it? From there they probably came up with the concept of having a soul that went on to live, either for feeling comfort or an actual belief and why wouldn't they believe in a soul since we continue to see and experience things even when we are at sleep, and Druids/Shamans could see even more by performing certain rituals.......So maybe today's "religious" people that fully live in a modern society with all its comfort might be more anxious about death, although they have the same nature just around the corner but they don't observe it as the ancient people did
Trick

 

Re: Death and Religion

Postby wiesiek on Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:23 am

"...I'm surprised that no one has brought up the Druids or Celts, or any pre-Roman European beliefs. ..."

we don`t have any writing or carved documents from this period of our history, Steve, :)
so
all what you can read about it - is just guessing from artifacts, or interpolation from >contemporary< tribes ,
then better let`s do our own,
then,
me thinkin`, that RSF holly pages are as close as possible to the real thing,
`cause are brains distillate of the members diggin` in the ancient art...,
well, - ok,
not all of them :D O:)
Joyful Fruits of the Live
wiesiek
Wuji
 
Posts: 4480
Joined: Thu May 15, 2008 12:38 am
Location: krakow

Re: Death and Religion

Postby yeniseri on Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:25 am

With Islam, death is used to destroy innocent people while in other religions it takes on views based on time, location and behavioural tendencies of specific populations.

There are elemets of "death" (points of view) where we know of no one who is getting out of this world alive ;D while within some traditions (ancient, modern and syncretic tradition) where, if we see the true value of death, we begin to take life more seriously, ernestly and show more respect for it. That includes nature.

Using death as an antidote
Let death....and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes,... and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
Epictetus

There is a Tibetan tradition of taking death as a master as above, where, because it is feared, we learn to accept it as part of something as opposed to aversion, which creates mental chaos and naturally affects how we think about life.
Last edited by yeniseri on Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
When fascism comes to US America, It will be wrapped in the US flag and waving a cross. An astute patriot
yeniseri
Wuji
 
Posts: 3797
Joined: Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:49 pm
Location: USA

Re: Death and Religion

Postby jimmy on Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:38 pm


Image
Image
User avatar
jimmy
Wuji
 
Posts: 1338
Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:24 pm

Previous

Return to Off the Topic

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 27 guests