Death & the Afterlife (soul, Harry Potter, experience, after life, advent)

[Bishka]

"To the well-organized mind, death is just the next great adventure." (Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)


How do you feel about this? Is death the next great adventure? What comes after death to you? Religiously how do you feel about death?

[wizanda]

Here are two articles we wrote on the subjects concerning….
Meaning of life
What is the after life from NDE


This is more the dream, as you have to be matter....Character is energy and it transforms, not vanishes....

[Anti-World]

Socrates made me feel much more comfortable about death and so much so I am actually going to do something I don't generally do. I'm going to quote it for you:

"Let us reflect... and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is good; for one of two things - either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that many man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king will not find many such days or nights, when compared with others..."

He goes on to explain the second that it is also better because he gets to question great minds that had long since passed away.
It's worth noting that Socrates doesn't have any written work, or so I'm told, and that his apprentice Plato actually wrote it down long after it happened. In a sense I'm also quoting Plato.


I haven't told how I feel about death and the afterlife but I can't say it can be put any more eloquently than Socrates/Plato. There's no sense in fearing death because it's never experienced. There's no laying in an empty blackness wishing to be with the ones you love. There is no feeling of perpetual emptiness. Generally speaking, most afterlife ideas or theories aren't something to be afraid of either. I'm not going to hope that death is an afterlife because that hope can drive a person to fear when they doubt that hope. I've learned that, recently.

[eudaimonia]

Originally Posted by beckysoup61

"To the well-organized mind, death is just the next great adventure." (Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

How do you feel about this? Is death the next great adventure? What comes after death to you? Religiously how do you feel about death?

If non-existence is an adventure...

I find the "well-organized mind" comment in the quote condescending. It's as if the author is saying: "If you are wise, you'll agree with me!" Whatever.


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Bishka]

Originally Posted by eudaimonia

If non-existence is an adventure...

I find the "well-organized mind" comment in the quote condescending. It's as if the author is saying: "If you are wise, you'll agree with me!" Whatever.

It's a children's book. If you believe in life after death, then it is surely an adventure.