Comments on: What happens after we die? http://mikkiec.com/what-happens-after-we-die/ Anything and everything rattling around in my head... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:39:49 -0400 hourly 1 By: mikkie http://mikkiec.com/what-happens-after-we-die/#comment-20 mikkie Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:39:49 +0000 http://mycrazyday.net/mikkie/?p=199#comment-20 Thanks for your thoughtful and insightful comment! I think you may be right that as we get older, we can't deny our own mortality. When I was young, I refused to go to funerals, but now I understand that they serve a purpose. As for the big mysteries you mentioned -- I definitely look forward to learning the answers to some of those questions! Hopefully our continuing spiritual education will reveal them. I saw "Meet Joe Black", but it didn't speak to me nearly on the level that "What Dreams May Come" does. Maybe it's just that my vision of what lies ahead aligns more close with the latter. Thanks for your thoughtful and insightful comment!

I think you may be right that as we get older, we can’t deny our own mortality. When I was young, I refused to go to funerals, but now I understand that they serve a purpose. As for the big mysteries you mentioned — I definitely look forward to learning the answers to some of those questions! Hopefully our continuing spiritual education will reveal them.

I saw “Meet Joe Black”, but it didn’t speak to me nearly on the level that “What Dreams May Come” does. Maybe it’s just that my vision of what lies ahead aligns more close with the latter.

]]> By: Jaliya http://mikkiec.com/what-happens-after-we-die/#comment-21 Jaliya Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:48:33 +0000 http://mycrazyday.net/mikkie/?p=199#comment-21 Hmm ... Somehow, death itself doesn't scare me as much, either ... I think we hit a certain age or we lose enough loved ones, and we can no longer (totally) deny the reality of our eventual end ... Every time I stand at my mother's grave (she's been dead 7.5 years now), I lose all articulation and feel something that I can't describe ... About an afterlife ... Who knows ... I've arrived at a paradoxical place of no-belief ... If someone asks me about my religion, I say, "I'm an agnostic gnostic." ... I could be a gnostic agnostic, too ... ;-) There are what I call Ultimate Invisibles / Mysteries that we'll never figure out ... the big ones like death, God/a Creator, love, transhuman existence ... Mark Twain once wrote that he'd become very comfortable with not knowing ... I've come to feel that way too. It's a relief. :-) My husband and I both love the film *What Dreams May Come* ... I've also read the novel (published I think in 1975). Another film that you might find fascinating is *Meet Joe Black*. I've seen it a dozen times or more ... and it reveals so much (even as it gets us to speculate our minds inside out) ... Hmm … Somehow, death itself doesn’t scare me as much, either … I think we hit a certain age or we lose enough loved ones, and we can no longer (totally) deny the reality of our eventual end … Every time I stand at my mother’s grave (she’s been dead 7.5 years now), I lose all articulation and feel something that I can’t describe …

About an afterlife … Who knows … I’ve arrived at a paradoxical place of no-belief … If someone asks me about my religion, I say, “I’m an agnostic gnostic.” … I could be a gnostic agnostic, too … ;-)

There are what I call Ultimate Invisibles / Mysteries that we’ll never figure out … the big ones like death, God/a Creator, love, transhuman existence … Mark Twain once wrote that he’d become very comfortable with not knowing … I’ve come to feel that way too. It’s a relief. :-)

My husband and I both love the film *What Dreams May Come* … I’ve also read the novel (published I think in 1975). Another film that you might find fascinating is *Meet Joe Black*. I’ve seen it a dozen times or more … and it reveals so much (even as it gets us to speculate our minds inside out) …

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