What is life to you?

[RestlessSoul]

To me these questions are answerable. What is real is the web of physical energy that constitutes all things in the universe. That is the truth.
Life is the emergent property of physical energy.

That is a statement of your personal beliefs, as much an article of faith as another’s conviction that God is real, and all things emanate from Him.

 

[Trailblazer]

I have the impression your thinking a soul is a conscious being that lives and has memories. You did say it functions mentally and physically.

I believe that the soul is the person, and it is responsible for consciousness while we are living in the physical body, where it works through the brain and mind. After physical death, the soul leaves the body and takes on a spiritual body, and it then continues to live and have consciousness in the spiritual world through that spiritual body.

If that was the case, you would remember things as a soul if it thinks on its own without a body and brain, and it dosent make any sense being something that controls the body and mind where it's 'housed' which it can't be.

I misunderstood what you said previously. When you said "you would have remembered the last time around" I thought you were referring to reincarnation.

Yes, when we go to the spiritual world will remember our life in this physical world, since the soul will be fully conscious, operating through a spiritual body. I believe we will experience a life review, but after that I don't believe we will dwell on our life in this world. I believe we will continue to grow spiritually and leave the past behind.

 

[Trailblazer]

Next world will scatter the molecules of your body all over the place.

In the next world there will be no physical molecules to scatter, since there is nothing physical in the next world.
All of us that was physical remains in this physical world, where it is buried in the ground or cremated.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Next world will scatter the molecules of your body all over the place.

And bang. Like this life had, the lights switch on and the art of being manifests, ready for for another timeless sojourn in the universe.

Those pesky atoms!

 

[Twilight Hue]

I believe that the soul is the person, and it is responsible for consciousness while we are living in the physical body, where it works through the brain and mind. After physical death, the soul leaves the body and takes on a spiritual body, and it then continues to live and have consciousness in the spiritual world through that spiritual body.

I misunderstood what you said previously. When you said "you would have remembered the last time around" I thought you were referring to reincarnation.

Yes, when we go to the spiritual world will remember our life in this physical world, since the soul will be fully conscious, operating through a spiritual body. I believe we will experience a life review, but after that I don't believe we will dwell on our life in this world. I believe we will continue to grow spiritually and leave the past behind.

Mine is an educated guess as I do suspect an eternal component of the universe will always be in a dynamic play.

Atoms worked here, I'd say it will work its 'magic' just as well again once conditions are right. The odds are squarely at 1 in ? That sets the odds permanently as being a yes.

A couple of big bangs later? Maybe sooner. Just a matter of time.

I see the 'lights" as switching on and off forever.

 

[Alien826]

Now? A pile of excrement mostly, with some good memories. I may feel differently tomorrow. Unlikely, but I may.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

To me these questions are answerable. What is real is the web of physical energy that constitutes all things in the universe. That is the truth.
Life is the emergent property of physical energy.

As long as you accept that they are to you, even if you claim you know what the universe is, then okay. But I have my doubts, since it is the truth.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Now? A pile of excrement mostly, with some good memories. I may feel differently tomorrow. Unlikely, but I may.

What makes it a pile of excrement, if I may ask? And would you have done anything differently?

 

[Twilight Hue]

What is real?
What is life?
What is truth?

Paradoxically, it's when we understand that these questions are unanswerable, that our human experience begins to make sense. Or so it seems to me.

I can see that. It's not like we can ever take everything we learn in this life with us into the great void.

Definitely unanswerable for the grand scheme of things.

 

[Alien826]

What makes it a pile of excrement, if I may ask? And would you have done anything differently?

You may ask, but I don't wish to say any more about it. No offense taken!

 

[SalixIncendium]

Life to me is the one and only thing I truly possess… for my entire life.

I possess nothing. I own nothing. Not my house, not my car, not the clothes on my back, not this body, and not this mind. I can't keep any of it when this life expires, so how can I call it mine?

What is life? An experience of embodiment and interaction with transitional reality.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Life to me is the one and only thing I truly possess… for my entire life. It’s important for me to take care of it, hold it at the highest value, and make the most of it. I think self development in all three mind, body, and soul has given my life purpose, and makes me all the more appreciative of life.

Life is a story, a game. It’s an experience full of experiences. The more I get to experience (even things as simple as enjoying a coffee in the morning and watching the birds out my window, going for walks, and watching myself grow for the better: mentally and physically) the more fulfilled I feel.

One thing I know is even though I always want and strive for more, which is only natural as a human, I am also grateful for what I have. And with what I have, the simple things, I live as many moments as I can as if I will reflect on those specific moments at the time of my death. And I’ll ask myself - am I happy with how I lived my life? Did I live the best I can?

First let me set up the ball. There are similar forms in different media, such as waves. There are water waves, sound waves, light waves...and there are all kinds of waves. There are spheres of air, spheres that form naturally from things tumbling along the ground, spheres of electricity, and spheres that form in a vacuum and other spheres such as crystalline spheres.

Life exists in a medium but consists of our experiences. The medium is biological, electrical, time-bound and part of a cycle of reproduction. In that medium is our life, which is like the wave or the sphere in other mediums. The life we have is not the medium but is something which exists in that medium. Our life is symbolic for or is similar to some other form which which might exist in some other medium. For example in our imagination there are life forms. In paintings there are life forms. On another planet there could be lifeforms or in some other medium such as within black holes or outside of galaxies or perhaps formed in computer memories on super computers somewhere out there. Life is not the medium but is something that is in a medium.

Life is part of time, and so you are a tiny piece of time. Your life has no true beginning or ending, because time stands apart and is unchanged. I like to think of it as eternal, and dying as returning to your birth.

 

[RestlessSoul]

I possess nothing. I own nothing. Not my house, not my car, not the clothes on my back, not this body, and not this mind. I can't keep any of it when this life expires, so how can I call it mine?

What is life? An experience of embodiment and interaction with transitional reality.

Happy Birthday bruv

 

[MikeF]

I possess nothing. I own nothing. Not my house, not my car, not the clothes on my back, not this body, and not this mind. I can't keep any of it when this life expires, so how can I call it mine?

What is life? An experience of embodiment and interaction with transitional reality.

Ditto on the birthday wishes. One year closer to the day you have to give back all that stuff you don't own.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I possess nothing. I own nothing. Not my house, not my car, not the clothes on my back, not this body, and not this mind. I can't keep any of it when this life expires, so how can I call it mine?

What is life? An experience of embodiment and interaction with transitional reality.

Happy birthday! (Although I swear I thought it was your bday a week or two ago)

 

[SalixIncendium]

Happy birthday! (Although I swear I thought it was your bday a week or two ago)

Sunday, actually. But the software doesn't want the celebration to end!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Sunday, actually. But the software doesn't want the celebration to end!

Happy perpetually extended birthday!

 

[bobhikes]

Life to me is the one and only thing I truly possess… for my entire life. It’s important for me to take care of it, hold it at the highest value, and make the most of it. I think self development in all three mind, body, and soul has given my life purpose, and makes me all the more appreciative of life.

Life is a story, a game. It’s an experience full of experiences. The more I get to experience (even things as simple as enjoying a coffee in the morning and watching the birds out my window, going for walks, and watching myself grow for the better: mentally and physically) the more fulfilled I feel.

One thing I know is even though I always want and strive for more, which is only natural as a human, I am also grateful for what I have. And with what I have, the simple things, I live as many moments as I can as if I will reflect on those specific moments at the time of my death. And I’ll ask myself - am I happy with how I lived my life? Did I live the best I can?

I like your definition; I see it similarly. To me Life is a series of challenges.

 

[Aupmanyav]

That is a statement of your personal beliefs, as much an article of faith as another’s conviction that God is real, and all things emanate from Him.

Where does God come in in what I have said?

 

[Aupmanyav]

In the next world there will be no physical molecules to scatter, since there is nothing physical in the next world.
All of us that was physical remains in this physical world, where it is buried in the ground or cremated.

If there are no molecules, then there is no next world. Only ghosts, jinn, vaitala are without molecules.