animeshadows wrote on 2012-04-23 03:08
Quote from Episkey;845874:
Ah ... Well in any case, that's intriguing. Is the concept, immortality after death or during one's lifetime?
Or can it be both?
The only things I have to base this essay off of is "Immortality" and the promise that it isn't all about Christianity. While I will briefly touch on immortality
during one's life, I prefer to keep it where philosophers primarily speak of— following one's life.
Chiyuri wrote on 2012-04-23 03:12
Quote from animeshadows;845881:
Ah ... Well in any case, that's intriguing. Is the concept, immortality after death or during one's lifetime?
Or can it be both?
The only things I have to base this essay off of is "Immortality" and the promise that it isn't all about Christianity. While I will briefly touch on immortality during one's life, I prefer to keep it where philosophers primarily speak of— following one's life.
Both.. To have your existance transcend the border of life and to keep on existing after the physical death of the body. I talked about that possibility earlier on the thread.
Rin wrote on 2012-04-23 18:54
Could always talk about reincarnation.
Or, in a scientific breakdown, how your cells decompose into the soil, then plants draw nutrients from that soil. Drawing whatever is left of you into them. Reincarnated as a plant! Then as a herbivore that eats the plant!
... No? Okay.
For me, I don't believe in hell. I believe in a heaven and a purgatory though. Every soul, no matter how tainted through the choices they made through life, can be cleanse.
Painfully, sure. That's what punishment is for. But I don't believe punishment goes on forever. And no matter how long or how intense, everybody in purgatory can be retaught for the better. Paradiso is where I believe we are all headed, regardless of what happens. Purgatorio is just to make sure we don't dirty up the place.
And I believe Paradiso is "instanced"; it can be anything each soul wants it to be. Everybody has their own definition of paradise, after all.