Just a funny comic for all NHN bloggers.
(Even after the end of the year, they'll be watching over us. Don't worry!)
Credit goes to xkcd.com. Check it out sometime!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
A comic for NHN...
Just a funny comic for all NHN bloggers.
(Even after the end of the year, they'll be watching over us. Don't worry!)
Credit goes to xkcd.com. Check it out sometime!
Immortality as a Curse
Austin asked why people view living forever as a curse rather than a blessing. Well, I believe they say this under the assumption that even though you live forever, your friends and family do not. You would watch everyone you have ever been close to die, yet you would live on. I think most people believe that there comes a time when you have fulfilled your life and that it is a good day to die. If you live forever, that time will never come. You would watch the world change and be constantly floating in change. And what do you live for when you live forever?
I think I will use that as my discussion question: When you can live forever, what do you live for?
I think I will use that as my discussion question: When you can live forever, what do you live for?
My faith.
This is a response to a simple, yet powerful, question posted by Karla. "How strong is your faith?" This can be answered first by describing what faith and spirituality is to me. I am an odd mix of all sorts of spiritual beliefs. Faith, to me, is trusting in these beliefs based on evidence that I can see, even if others cannot. I understand that what I see as evidence may be coincidence to some or mere foolishness to others, but it reinforces my beliefs nonetheless.
My faith has only grown stronger as I discover more and more practices of spirituality that go hand-in-hand with my own. I believe that there is some form of life after death, but that doesn't mean I am ready to face it. I admit I sometimes think, "What if I am wrong? What if I die and that is the end? What if I don't wake up in some other world and I really am nothing anymore?" This is when my faith comes in and comforts me, and I look at the world around me and see all sorts of spiritual things. I feel confident that this is not everything. We have much more to look forward to.
My faith is not as strong as it could be. It started as a lump of clay, to use a metaphor, and I have been shaping it over the years. It still has a bit more of forming to go before it is at its strongest, but I know it will get there in time. I cannot rush it.
Do you believe there is more to life than what we see?
My faith has only grown stronger as I discover more and more practices of spirituality that go hand-in-hand with my own. I believe that there is some form of life after death, but that doesn't mean I am ready to face it. I admit I sometimes think, "What if I am wrong? What if I die and that is the end? What if I don't wake up in some other world and I really am nothing anymore?" This is when my faith comes in and comforts me, and I look at the world around me and see all sorts of spiritual things. I feel confident that this is not everything. We have much more to look forward to.
My faith is not as strong as it could be. It started as a lump of clay, to use a metaphor, and I have been shaping it over the years. It still has a bit more of forming to go before it is at its strongest, but I know it will get there in time. I cannot rush it.
Do you believe there is more to life than what we see?
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