Post by goz on Mar 16, 2018 1:06:16 GMT
Mar 14, 2018 20:49:52 GMT goz said:
Aaron Freeman.“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your broken-hearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles who’s paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all your energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell him that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know they can measure, that scientists have measure precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen." – Aaron Freeman
I particularly love the last bit, though I am often pretty disorderly now!
You refuse to face the utter dread and objective horror of your beliefs. If you want to believe that religious people are delusional for comforting themselves with the afterlife, go ahead. But then making up this total complete cringeworthy BS about how you can comfort grieving people with atoms and electrons is grade A bullshit, I mean it really doesn't get worse. No one actually gives the slightest shit about "energy." When you have lost someone close to you, you miss their personality, their character, their mannerisms, their beliefs, their dreams, their likes and dislikes, everything that made them human. No one with an once of honesty in their body is comforted by losing all of that forever with no hope of ever seeing them again, and knowing that their "energy and atoms" are still floating out there in the air. You don't fall in love with rocks, which if you break them apart their particles are still there, you fall in love with human beings, and death takes away everything that you loved and made them human.
If you want to accept "reality," then accept that without hope in the beyond, death has the final word. Death wins.