This discussion i had w/ claudia basically sums up my all-too-uncertain beliefs abt eternity. All i know is i've got a soul - the rest sort of is transient.
MagicRoar: kinda the time you wish you were sure abt your religion, huh?
thenonsquirrel: right smack in the middle of the open sore
thenonsquirrel: ow
MagicRoar: huh?
thenonsquirrel: that's kind of one of the big problems
MagicRoar: well, the way i see it, regardless of what your relgion is, tina
had WAY too much personality for it to just disappear
MagicRoar: simply b/c she lacks consciousness doesn't mean that she's not
around
MagicRoar: rolling her eyes and thinking we're ridiculous
MagicRoar: or bitching and moaning b/c the world hasn't ended yet
thenonsquirrel: but why? the whole christian "god's big idiot plan" thing is
nowhere near enough
MagicRoar: why?
MagicRoar: b/c it happened
MagicRoar: why aren't WE the starving children in africa?
MagicRoar: why did we end up at west high?
MagicRoar: why does anything happen?
MagicRoar: accident
MagicRoar: but think in terms of constants
MagicRoar: energy can neither be created nor destroyed
MagicRoar: we are energy
MagicRoar: she can't be gone
MagicRoar: she's just entropy now- which means she can pester all of us at
once
thenonsquirrel: I can't tell if that's what I can believe, or just what I
want to
MagicRoar: well, if you want to enough, eventually you'll forget that you
don't
MagicRoar: but come one
MagicRoar: on
MagicRoar: this is chemistry
MagicRoar: you've never doubted science before, have you?
thenonsquirrel: not really, no
MagicRoar: good
MagicRoar: why start now?
thenonsquirrel: no proof
MagicRoar: what's not proven?
thenonsquirrel: the entire theory
MagicRoar: is the stupid law abt energy true?
thenonsquirrel: probably
MagicRoar: ok
MagicRoar: and what makes us live?
MagicRoar: energy?
thenonsquirrel: in a way, yes
MagicRoar: what pulses through our synapses causing us to think and respond?
thenonsquirrel: electrical impulses
MagicRoar: aka energy
thenonsquirrel: sure
MagicRoar: so that means that tina's energy has to still exist, right?
thenonsquirrel: but it isn't the same form
MagicRoar: i know
MagicRoar: that's obvious
MagicRoar: it has to be a different form
thenonsquirrel: but if it's different...
MagicRoar: how is it that someone as psycho as tina could NOT leave her
imprint on the energy she used?
MagicRoar: it would be permanently tainted w/ tinaness
thenonsquirrel: but then, what happens to you when you die, what is it like
MagicRoar: i don't know
MagicRoar: i all i know
MagicRoar: is that i am completely certain that we don't jsut disappear
MagicRoar: nothing does
MagicRoar: i can't give you my certainty
thenonsquirrel: you've given me somehting
MagicRoar: that's good
thenonsquirrel: thank you
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