Life or Beyond?

[Dance the older]

This is a question I often ponder about... I like my life, I was fortunate to be born a Canadian citizen (very few in the world are fortunate like that), I am pretty much 100% Canadian if we judge by the fact I'm half native (from 2 separate tribes) and quarter British, quarter French. That's pretty much as Canadian as can be, judging by major nations involved in the formation of this Country.

It's amazing how lucky all of us on here are. We were not only born in Canada, America, or Europe, or elsewhere, but we have access to this computer on a daily basis in most cases, we all live pretty much good lives I would like to assume. I personally live about as fortunate one as somebody ever could. I was born in my city, I still live there 19 years later, I live with my parents, I was just 1 block from my elementary school (walk), one block from my high school (walk), three blocks from my college (walk), I work as a landscaper on my street, I have had access to computer for years, I played numerous sports as a kid, I grew up like a typical middle-class person in Canada, fortunate enough my parents allowed me live with them this old and will let me live with them until I am ready to move one, I'm not forced out and I don't have to leave the city for anything either, so technically I'm in a great position right now, I often just sit back and wonder what my life would be like if I was born as a Tutsi in Kigali in 1993, or in Bosnia in 1990, or a Jew in Poland in 1938, or an 8 year old boy in Sierra Leone in 1990, or a young boy in 21st century North Korea, or a 20-year old South Ossentian for that matter.

Why am I so lucky I often wonder, being a Christian it is often forbidden in some eyes to wonder about reincarnation. Why was I born in 1989? Where was I before that? Did I die and my spirit moved on to another body? Did I live a good previous life if I did have one and that's why I live such a good and lucky life today? What's next? Am I reborn?

Then I ask myself other questions such as; what happens in heaven? Does everyone just sit around and chill and talk? What happens in hell - Are we forced into manual labor while walking on fiery coals? Like there's so many questions that remain unanswered and I hate the fact that it is virtually impossible for anyone on Earth now to answer them. Personally, I would love to be reborn again, because I loved life this time around. I don't want to move on and just sit and talk too people in heaven. I don't want to just die and stare off into a black abyss for the rest of eternity. Why now was I born and have a good life? I just don't get it all....

Not to say I'm not extremely happy with my life because I am, but I want the answers... :hmmm:

[favre4ever]

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[favre4ever]

seriously though, you will know all the answers the day you die. It will all flash before you and you will either smile (good life) or not (not good). Since you wont know until its too late, you shouldnt spend time wondering.

[Chaigidel]

no doubt cel, we are an extremely lucky lot and live in luxury essentially

but as per your question--- life and beyond are irrelevant to the modern man, what do you care where your spirit goes? --- it goes and it is not you; this flesh is what makes your identity, you are merely awareness without it, and that is constantly moving--- you see all consciousness is like a great ball of yarn, and you and your flesh are wirey loops that come by on a metal screen that rubs bits of thread out of the ball of yarn, you pull off your own loop of the ball but it remains a single piece of thread, simply wound around itself--- as the loop goes out of reach of the yarn, the yarn is simply stronger and merely pulls out of the shell that caught it.

you think on these things and you have been them, but you will never remember and every wire loop is unique and temporary, only the thread is eternal, and you only hold it for awhile, so choose carefully what you give to your piece while you have control of it.

[Dance the older]

Hm, very intellegent response, Chaig. I see your point. I always thought of the spirit carrying the "inner person" with it when it moved. And the body just being, well the body. But as the spirit moves on, your mind is blanked in your new life, but it's you reborn.