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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 10, 2018 9:06:09 GMT
Your time on Earth is finite whether you believe in life after death or not. So why wouldn't you want to experience and enjoy it a bit longer? You might as well ask, "If you believe that your life is going to continue into next week, why wouldn't you leave Disney World after you go on just one ride?" It's finite within the body you encompass, but that's not to dismiss the cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth. In that sense, it makes it infinite. But then again, the cycle can also be broken. It's called transcendence. Buddha and Christ realized this. Yeah, if you believe in reincarnation/a return to Earth it would be different, maybe, although there the issue would be that once a particular life is over, your memory is apparently wiped, so that for a particular conscious manifestation, it's as if there's no afterlife after all. That would only not be the case for folks who believe that their personal identity continues from life to life with some degree of conscious awareness and/or memory retention. |
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