RE: Why the universe is most likely not infinite – Part 5: Popular argument against infinity
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Well, you presuppose that our own life is finite.
My dad died. My mom died. A friend of mine died. My grandparents died. And so on and so forth. Objective reality, in the same way I age and am a woman.
Now, if my parents are leading some other form of existence or they were being born again, I cannot say with certainty. I need not. It shall satisfy me to have faith.
If we ask ourselves: What was I before this life?
It is language or synonyms for "life after death" ( a contradiction, actually:). I once asked myself all these questions and I have left them behind me; sort of ;)
neither birth as the beginning, nor death as the end. Everything that has a beginning, I think, has an end. But that which is uninitiated, properly eternal, has no end.
Agreed.
It's a matter of cultural expression, though. We have the need to find a common one. Christianity is not he worst, if those are the roots of your parents and grandparents, for example. I tried Buddhism for quite a while and recognized that it does not work for me.
If you get too mixed up in various religions, you might lose more than you win.
Do you think that people simply cease to exist? As if they had disappeared or been disintegrated?
But I think you are right and we have no certainty about this.
Sure, I know that they disappear and are disintegrated. Their bodies sure do and I see them never again.
How they once were is gone, in fact, and they will never again be together alive in this exact body with the exact same people.
I, when I die, will not take my body with me, so there is no similarity in sight which carries what might be left of "me", into another form of existence. I don't have any specific thoughts or imaginations about what there might be after my death. I don't think I need to know. If I happen to live long, I guess I will part from life willingly, since becoming old is not much fun and one day you are happy to receive the end of it.