 Originally Posted by BillyRay
I'm no Scientician, but doesn't Basic Physics state that energy is never destroyed - it only changes form?
So whatever Life Energy that's keeping you upright, moving around & doin' stuff; wouldn't that just change into some other form, whatever that might be?
I'm half serious here.
"life energy"? now do you mean the biochemical process of cell growth, division and death or the electrical impulses from the brain, down the nerves to control the frame of muscle and bone around it?
Or is this some chi based thing?
Because no, it doesnt get converted to anything. when you die it kick starts the process like a shutdown. its a you sale and everything must go. its decomposition. the impulses and signals form the brain die off. the body breaks down into rotten matter which can be used for a number of things to feed off and grow on (i know a few people who've chosen a bunch of seeds and nuts to be put in some dirt in cardboard coffins when they died, which is a nice idea) this in turn feeds large creatures and plants and so on and so forth till they live, grow, produce offspring if they can and die themselves. If there's any conversion of energy going on its bacteria or small creatures eating you as you decompose to take in fuel to keep there motors runnin just like you or i do with a cheese burger.
I'm sure a lot of people say "i dont really, but in the back of my mind..." as a form of coping mechanism. Whilst we're still animals we are distinctly alone in the constant awareness of just how small we are in this galaxy alone and we are here for a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. For some people that thought can make them thing why should i get out fo bed in the morning?, whats the point?
Of course the point is propogate the genes of the species, consume, die and you in tern feed others whilst your offspring keep your genes going as you did with your parents.
Trouble is we feel some sort of entitlement as lord of all we survey and feel we need something more, like thats not enough, and have this sort of psychological defense mechanism. in the back of there mind there is that maybe, to tell them they are special, that we will always continue, we won't be another set of bones in a museum in 1000 years.
I dont find this ignorant, backwards or even pitiable mind you. In some fashion i think thats why we have so many religions around the world. some people need something to believe in, thats all. if we were less evolved then probably we wouldn't but when we can lay back at night and let our minds wander a lot of us need a buffer, lest we break under the awe inspiring grandiose of the infinite macrocosm.
I mean i had to cope with the idea i could be dying in my teens. i wasn't thinking about a heaven, or a magic ghost of "energy" living on. i was just scared that the world would carry on, that i would be forgotten- and most importantly, i wouldnt see what was to come in the future.
In the long term we gotta live with that. when your dead, your dead. we rot and feed what we have fed off which in turn feeds future generations. all part of the biospheres cycle and i can look at it in the naked light of day and i'm fine with it. Everyone reading this will die and rot. Thats not a bad thing. thats what we are designed through the millions of years of evolution to do.
I guess the bigger question is, why doe's it matter if we do or don't? we will never see it here to report back, it will never be proven. for us this is all there is and i would much rather live my life than live in a way i thought was giving me a pearly gates eternity that might not be y'know? Guess thats the sad irony of being able to contemplate our own mortality. We assume that deaths the end of chapter one instead of the last page.
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