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dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
It sounds like there would not be any real consequences for mistakes, and any successes are repeated. That's a win-win. Also, there's no pressure to make the right or wrong decision, because everything is on a continuous loop. Those choices were already made. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose which if I understand is very zen.
Wouldn't it just be easy peasier to just accept that what one experiences with one's sense organs as the end all be all of everything that exists and have no beliefs at all?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
You have it all wrong. There’s really only one life to live.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
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I like the mind and what it’s capable of knowing.
So is this thread about what is easier or what you like?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Neither
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
OK. Simple misunderstanding that based on the words "over and over forever".
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
One has to remember that death erases all.
vulcanlogician
Well-Known Member
What do you mean by this? Would you mind describing in detail this belief of yours?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
I believe All of existence rises and falls with the birth and death of one certain man.
vulcanlogician
Well-Known Member
Is that man you or somebody else?
And, if that belief happens to be mistaken, do you think there are harmful consequences for holding such a belief?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Someone else. Harmful? No
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
I take it you think there would be harmful consequences? Think of this though; how would I ever know that I was mistaken?
I think it's easier to not believe in anything. I just deal in terms of what I know versus what I don't know (along with a certain imaginative curiosity about what might be). Life itself - it is what it is. I'm alive. I eat, breathe, work, survive - along with other assorted things. Whether it means anything or whether there is any kind of "chosen one" or God or whatever it might be - I haven't a clue.
I don't see any real pressing need to know either, at least not on a personal level. I'm comfortable with not knowing some things about the vastness of the universe in which we live. I live my life. Whatever happens is whatever happens.
I guess it would be a drag to have to live the same life over and over. That reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone:
The Twilight Zone (1959) S1E28: "A Nice Place to Visit" - TV Tropes
A Nice Place to Visit Air date: April 15, 1960 Henry Francis "Rocky" Valentine (Larry Blyden), currently in the middle of his "job" (robbing a store), stops when he hears a police siren and starts to make a break for it. He runs into an alley and …
tvtropes.org
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
if so, the most that can be asserted is this is for you... from your perspective... based on your beliefs
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Oh yes it is my opinion that death erases all.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Not a drag, as death erases all imo.I think it's easier to not believe in anything. I just deal in terms of what I know versus what I don't know (along with a certain imaginative curiosity about what might be). Life itself - it is what it is. I'm alive. I eat, breathe, work, survive - along with other assorted things. Whether it means anything or whether there is any kind of "chosen one" or God or whatever it might be - I haven't a clue.
I don't see any real pressing need to know either, at least not on a personal level. I'm comfortable with not knowing some things about the vastness of the universe in which we live. I live my life. Whatever happens is whatever happens.
I guess it would be a drag to have to live the same life over and over. That reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone:
The Twilight Zone (1959) S1E28: "A Nice Place to Visit" - TV Tropes
A Nice Place to Visit Air date: April 15, 1960 Henry Francis "Rocky" Valentine (Larry Blyden), currently in the middle of his "job" (robbing a store), stops when he hears a police siren and starts to make a break for it. He runs into an alley and …
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
Erases all just for the one individual, because, the erasure prohibits any knowledge before or after death. The individual is completely oblivious of anything outside of their own lifespan.
Maybe you don't mean all? Maybe you don't mean all for everyone? Are you maybe thinking that God has gifted you with some prophecy about yourself and others?
Just trying to answer the question you asked: "Why is it easy for me to believe that I live the same life over and over forever?"
Maybe it's easy for you because it feels like a prophecy from God?
vulcanlogician
Well-Known Member
No. Not would be but there could be.
One way to know would be to determine that you believed in a contradiction. I'm not saying that you DO have contradictory beliefs. But if you did, identifying those contradictions would point you in the direction of figuring out what's actually up.