How do people deal with their inevitable death?

philtorrens said:
So we are all biological machines without a soul who just some day 'die'? Course not!
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What does our soul do exactly? Personally I consider myself to be largely shaped by my memories and my experiences. It's been demonstrated reasonably well that our memories reside within our brains, which is very physical. You can damage your brain and while still alive, lose much of your memory and indeed it can cause your personality to change.

If I die and my soul goes to heaven, what good does that do me? What good is my soul enjoying eternal bliss to the Lightnix down here on Earth that enjoys replying to forum posts and eating curries because of the biological processes that allow that?

I mean is my soul really me? I know religious types will say it is. I'm not so sure. My belief is that who I am is intrinsically tied to my physical self. If my soul goes to heaven, that to me, my physical self, the physical self that is typing to you right now, is completely useless.

Indeed, if it is true that our actions on Earth affects where our soul can go in the afterlife, and our soul is not necessarily linked to our personality and hence our ability to make decisions, is it fair for your soul to be punished? Just because my physical self does not believe in a God, is it right that my non-physical self which seems scarcely to have any control over my ability to make decisions whatsoever should be punished in the afterlife?

I don't know, maybe all of my cells have souls as well. :p

That was a bit of a thought dump which basically sums up my problems with the idea of a 'soul'.
 
^True, i can't see how some people just can't seem to understand the notion that we're all essentially extremely advanced computers programmed to act like humans.
 
PermaBanned said:
^True, i can't see how some people just can't seem to understand the notion that we're all essentially extremely advanced computers programmed to act like humans.
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And some day you will meet the programmer ;) We all have souls and that's what makes each and every one of us unique.
 
PermaBanned said:
Nature, science and evolution are the programmers. Sexual reproduction is what makes each and every one of us unique :rolleyes:
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We'll agree to disagree. As I said.. We are not just biological machines. Do you not think there is something more powerful than us who created life? Im not a 'bible basher' but you should think about this.
 
philtorrens said:
We'll agree to disagree. As I said.. We are not just biological machines. Do you not think there is something more powerful than us who created life? Im not a 'bible basher' but you should think about this.
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How could there be. You can't answer the question "How did complex life begin?" by saying "It was created by even more complex life." You're just moving the problem around to make yourself feel better, you're not solving anything.
 
When I was younger I never used to be concerned with death at all. But since my faster died a few years ago it has played on my mind a little. I was holding his hand when he died. Being dead isn't a concern but those few minutes beforehand when you realise it's the end may be worrying; the thought that this is finally it, that I will never see my children again, that it really is too late to do anything else.

But there's nothing you can do to avoid it happening eventually and you should enjoy the time you have here, with whatever life throws at you.

EDIT: However it is nice knowing my genes will live on after my death.
 
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