The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > General Discussion > Is this it and where to now?

Is this it and where to now?

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. Page 6
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. ...
  12. 13
  13. 14
  14. 15
  15. All
"as long as I get to know where the hell I end up after the long jump!"

Ah thats easy, so I don't know why you wonder. The worms will
chew you up and spit you out. You'll get recycled, like everything
else.
Posted by Yabby, Thursday, 12 July 2007 7:32:17 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
It would appear Yabby lives with imagined superior intelligence and with experience outside of the human reality, and believes such knowledge is above being mere mortals. 'I can explain how you behave; "The male equivelant of oxytocin is vasopressin."

The physical reality is expressed in the natural chemistry, however love is more than brain chemistry. Ask any loved person. In reality it is the spiritual reality that blesses and enhances others lives.

That Yabby prefers to live without such symplistic behaviours is Yabby's choice and the cynicism demonstrates the attitudes Yabby holds toward others who love with a pure heart. That Yabby understands biochemistry does not place Yabby beyond being human like the rest of us mortals.

Unless we love with purity of motive we have fallen short of the glory of God. We have fallen short of who we were created to be and have fallen short in our relationships with each other. Much of what is called love is not more than hidden deception and personal agenda. Which the opposite is demonstrated in my example of rescuing a vile criminal from drowning.

What will survive us as eternal is the values of the divine. There is no reincarnation of the same person or group of DNA chemistry.
Posted by Philo, Thursday, 12 July 2007 8:17:04 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
"however love is more than brain chemistry."

Oh yeah? In that case my dog must be quite spiritual
lol, as she clearly loves her puppies.

At the end of the day, the mind is what the brain does!

Philo, you and others are free to follow the magical,
mystical and mythical, to amuse yourselves. I'll stick to
the factual thank you.

Hormones, ligands, peptides, they all affect human behaviour,
we can show that. You might not be aware of it, but brains
are busy little chemical factories.

We also have learned alot about how various parts of the
brain affect behaviour. People who had bits of their
brains destroyed in warfare etc and who survived to tell the
tale, yet changed personality in a big way, are a great
source of information.

But you clearly don't want these facts to interfere with
your good story.

Your heart pumps blood Philo, nothing more. We have proven
that too
Posted by Yabby, Thursday, 12 July 2007 2:47:07 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Yabby,
except in one case I read about, one old guy requested to be buried with a crate of whiskey, his favourite kind of course, to take with him to his place of imagination, as this is all it is, a place of imagination, what the world has made us believe in and conjour up.
My place of imagination and a place where I would like to be, is a place where animals and humans live together with nature and if this isn't sappy enough, there is no fighting, racism, crime and to top it all off, no death or destruction, just peace, something this world has been alienated from.
Posted by SPANKY, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:30:38 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Spanky

There's an old Buddhist saying for the afterlife:

If you believe in hell, you will see hell. If you believe in heaven, you will see only heaven.

So one should imagine the afterlife as "Nirvana." A place of wisdom and compassion.

Of course, my Nirvana would need to include my beloved and devoted animal friends as well.

Oops .....there goes my oxytocin again - or is it vasopressin!?
Posted by dickie, Saturday, 14 July 2007 11:57:41 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Hi Dickie,
My Nirvana will have no oxytocin nor vasopressin, as if the old saying goes, that the "afterlife is what we believe", then I believe these two words will be written out of my Nirvana! I am not a sceptic as far as the afterlife is concerned, there are too many instances where people have indeed had contact with those who have passed over,(or so they say) one has to only turn on the tv and tune in to the likes of John Edwards (I don't know whether you guys get this channel over there?)
Is it all fictitious stuff or is there some truth to his show? There are others who have jumped on his band wagon and started other shows, basically also claiming they some contact with the after life and acting as communicator for the living from the other side.
Posted by SPANKY, Saturday, 14 July 2007 4:56:16 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. Page 6
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. ...
  12. 13
  13. 14
  14. 15
  15. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy