If people believed in life and death as much as you believe in the illusion of death, we would not have so much struggle here. People die on both sides because their religions teach them that life is only an illusion, by telling them that death is the true life. There are no illusions except for the concept of illusion itself. Everything you touch, feel, see and experience in this existence are as real as the breaths you breathe. When you believe in illusions, you create your own. As Suzy has said... she experienced some sort of afterlife/out of body experience in the brief moments that she died... but did she really die? She's still here... ponder that, please. And Suzy... please don't be offended... I'm simply trying to make a well informed and well respected question. Death is Death... is it not?

Also, I'm not saying there is no afterlife... read what I say carefully... I'm speaking about the way in which the religions bring forth life and death... as if it IS just an illusion. That couldn't be any more wrong. Almost as if it doesn't even matter to be here, because there is eternity. I think it's time for the creator, or messengers, to send a new message that is up to date with our modern intellect so that we may... for once.. possibly find peace in living. Finding euphoria in DEATH, brings about a sense of carelessness in LIFE.

"Well... after I die... it will all be healed... just make it through this crappy life thing I have to endure... c'mon David".... is that how I should be programmed to think?

Philosophy lesson about "knowing"

What someone said to me today... "You don't know as much as you think you do!" My response, "Anything I can so freely think about, I must know."

How can one not know as much as one thinks?

To make this all a bit more philosophically clear... knowing is not truth. NOW SEE, if it makes sense to think more than you know... knowing is just knowledge... knowledge is not always true... how can it make sense to think of knowledge you don't have? You can think of knowledge that isn't true... but it's still not more than you know, because you are THINKING of it. So... it's impossible to think about something that you do not know, period. Before you ever say that to someone again... make sure you take the time to understand what it really means... because it doesn't make any sense to beings such as myself. So it appears as if you're just throwing it out there as a saying... and not really a part of your own thought. There's so much more potential in there. *points to the human head*

More correctly, it should be written as. "You only know as much as you think you do."... or "...what you think you know". Again, knowledge is not limited to truth. Knowledge is just knowing. Someone can tell me a lie; that trucks have 6 wheels. Now, let's assume I have never seen a truck before (bare with me)... I have just been seeded with the knowledge that ALL trucks have 6 wheels. Thought and knowldge are somewhat, to an extent, one and the same. Knowledge is NOT only, and not always, truth. Make sense... understand... please HUMANS!

Am I hot and bothered? Aren't we all allowed our 2 seconds of venting that out? :)

If it is the mind/spirit that have the power, then everything is an illusion... be careful how you interpret mind power. Death is not an illusion, it is very real.

Show me the potential and I'm all in... what have we got to lose? Everything... then that means we have everything to save... and everything to gain. Money shmoney... it means nothing without existence.