Mary,
>>Thank you for sharing it with us.
thank you Mary. It came from my heart.
> In terms of the MOQ, what do you think happens to us when we die?
Well, I think death is not simply an "end". Epicurus said that when
death comes, we are no more there, so we must not be afraid. I don't agree
with him: our death has a great function when we're still alive. Every
living being fear their own death. Our self-preservation instinct is exactly
the force that pushes our existence on. The anguish of our own inevitable
death is the main motive that induces us to give value to our existence.
> Do we have a soul? Does the MOQ make provision for that?
This question is really difficult. MOQ explains us individuals are a complex
mix of patterns. In some way it's possible to transmit a lot of our
patterns to other
individuals(for example intPoVs through communication, or bioPovs through
sex, or socPoVs through education...), and let these patterns survive after
our death. But I don't think we can call it soul.
> Do we simply, as Daddy thought, return to the inorganic level for
recycling?
> What about our "pattern"? Does this die with us?
>
"Often I wonder how much time is spent by the last note of a musical
passage to fade away at all. Not just physically, rather than as emotional
vibration. Who can say that?" (Paolo Maurensig, Inverse Canon. - he is an
Italian novelist; sorry for my translation).
As individual he was unique and unrepeatable, just like a live symphony.
His inorganic patterns of course returned there. But his emotional
vibrations have been transmitted to you and all the spectators of that
concert.
This is only a rational point of view. Religion is there to say we must
believe. Rationality is there to say we must have doubts.
tks.
Marco.
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