Do you / Would you view yourself as eternal?
By cannibal
@cannibal (650)
India
August 19, 2009 1:53am CST
I for one, I do believe that I've always existed in some form or the other. Regardless of what religion (some or all, dunno) say I feel there is no point in us being here because someone sitting there 'created' us just for the heck of it. Even when there was no trace of man long back, may be we were a part of something eternal. Neither is the suggestion of the crude rationalist atheists much sensible for me, that we're just born and just die and everything's just over! However I reckon I don't have any much proof to the above, but it makes sense to me!
What say? How about you?
2 responses
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
26 Nov 09
I don't think I am eternal. Since the word "eternal" means having no beginning and no end, I don't think I am like that. I think only God is eternal. But I do think that I am immortal. And by that I mean to say that there was a point in time when I came into existence, and from then on I shall live for everlasting, in one form or the other. I don't think unless one considers oneself to be some kind of God, then considering oneself eternal is not possible. The problem with considering oneself as God is that God then ends up doing all sorts of evil thing as well since you and I continue to do evil, in spite of not willing to do evil.
@cannibal (650)
• India
26 Nov 09
Yeah that's the basic difference between your beliefs and mine. You consider God and yourself as separate entities.
You're right in your observation that unless you consider yourself as some sort of a God you won't consider yourself eternal. Well, I do consider myself as a part of the divine. (Actually I'm using God just a convention, since my notion of God, I know does not fit with those of many others)
I also feel evil is a part and parcel of the same source. Else, if evil is to be dreaded so much, why does it even exist if there's an omnipotent, omniscient God?
@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
22 Aug 09
I see my soul as eternal yes but not my physical being...I am a firm believer in reincarnation etc etc and though I may go through numerous bodies over the centuries or whatever my soul existed BEFORE my first birth and will continue to exist long after my final life if htat makes sense
