Life After Death?
By Greg
@xander6464 (40891)
Wapello, Iowa
January 8, 2019 1:19pm CST
MyLot Exclusive #116
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I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
---Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018)
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This is Steve's first birthday since 1942 that he isn't spending here. So where is he spending it? Few know but nearly everyone has a guess. Steve himself guessed that he is nowhere right now. He said, "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
However, he never bothered to explain how that squares with the Double Slit Experiment results that show that time does not unfold as we perceive it. That there is no future or past. There is only Now and everything that has ever happened as well as everything that will ever happen is all right here, right Now.
If true---And all the math says it is, as well as the observational results---that means that all of us have already died. So how could we be here experiencing this? Alive and dead at the same time.
Of course, light is a particle and a wave at the same time...So, maybe? Perhaps, but it still seems premature to me to say that there is no life after we finally perceive our own deaths. Even if we are truly dead, it still seems like being alive.
That's why I'm assuming that Steve is out there somewhere, celebrating his first birthday outside of this dimension, somewhere...Just as all of us will one day.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
@CarolDM I think it's going to pay off for you. The alternative just doesn't make much sense.
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@FayeHazel (40246)
• United States
9 Jan 19
@xander6464 What's the experiment called? I'm interested....
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@CarolDM (203451)
• Nashville, Tennessee
9 Jan 19
@xander6464 The hope is all that keeps me going.
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@xFiacre (12631)
• Ireland
8 Jan 19
@xander6464 I’ll bet he and today’s other birthday boy Elvis are having a blast.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
I forgot about Elvis...How could that happen?
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@xFiacre (12631)
• Ireland
8 Jan 19
@xander6464 Also my daughter’s birthday but that doesn’t count - she lives in England.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
@xFiacre I think it counts. Tell her Happy Birthday for me.
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@celticeagle (159474)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Jan 19
He's hanging out with some of the greats.
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@celticeagle (159474)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Jan 19
@xander6464 .......I was thinking of that song.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
@celticeagle It is a good one, isn't it?
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
Like the song says, if there's a rock and roll Heaven, you know they have a heck of a band.
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@fransmonlot (411)
• United States
9 Jan 19
Hello!
Happy Birthday in Haven Steve Hawkings! Though I mention Haven none of us truly know if there is such a thing. I believe perhaps when you die perhaps that is all there is no heaven or hell. We create these realities to relieve the fear of the unknown.
@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
A lot of science is pointing to the idea that we do create our own reality. It's a little unsettling in a way, because anything you think could happen.
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@fransmonlot (411)
• United States
10 Jan 19
@xander6464 Yes we become what we think about. The mind is very powerful and can be for us or against us.
@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
11 Jan 19
@fransmonlot That's what the math says...It's hard to understand, though, because things don't often work the way we think they should.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
9 Jan 19
Great names to share your birthday with, I get Mia Farrow.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
9 Jan 19
@xander6464 A week before mine
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
@arthurchappell The big plus for me is that there's only a month to dread having another birthday and then it's over.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
Mine is Feb. 2. If I remember right, I get Farrah Fawcett Majors.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
I do, too...If this is all there is, it seems like a big waste of time.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
@CarolDM I know some people don't agree but I just can't see their point.
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@CarolDM (203451)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Jan 19
@xander6464 I have said that many many times.
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@GreatMartin (23675)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
8 Jan 19
I can't help you because I won't be dying so I will never know--let me know.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Jan 19
Don't worry! You're the first one I'm going to haunt!
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
9 Jan 19
It may be that we all live in separate universes, one per person, and we all are on this earth as a test to see if we pass and when we expire, we start all over again, but each time with a different outcome, kind of like the seasons of each year. If I am right, I will be facing an eternity living on planet earth until an alternate set of events changes things so we get to go into super flight mode the next time around. If that happens, maybe in my next life, perhaps a zillion years from now, I will emerge as a new life form on another planet in an entirely new galaxy or a parallel universe. Stranger things have happened, like the US Postal Service selling the forever stamp that never increases in value but can be used forever.
I enjoyed the movie, The Lathe Of Heaven back in '71, Here is a link to it from Wikipedia.
And a link to a YouTube of the movie below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The Lathe of Heaven Cover of first edition (hardcover)AuthorUrsula K. Le GuinCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreScience fictionPublisherAvon BooksPublication date1971Media typePri
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
You could be right. All things are possible.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
9 Jan 19
@lookatdesktop I really think it doesn't but who knows?
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
9 Jan 19
@xander6464 , Yep, I only hope hell doesn't exist.
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