Why there is belief in an afterlife

Haha.

So you see all risk-taking as gambling on the Lotto?

Fair enough. I won’t even bother mentioning what that says about you.

This sex/gender difference also manifests itself genetically in the fact that males have much more variability of IQ whereas women tend to cluster around the mean IQ. Nature genetically experiments with males in a way it doesn’t with females.

You would do well to avoid vague terms such as “risk-taking” if you want to faciliate successful communication.
There is a difference between a father trading his life in order to save his child (which you can call risk-taking if you will) and a moron who denies reality and sides with a plan that is unlikely to succeed (which you can call risk-taking just as well.)
You and your friend are reality deniers i.e. you belong to the second group of risk-takers.

Let me remind you what your friend said:

Basically, he’s telling you that you should set for yourself unrealistically high goals.
Because otherwise, he believes, you can’t become anything great.
And he calls it risk-taking and compares it to what, say, soldiers do for their people.

Soldiers don’t set unrealistically high goals.
They don’t suffer from self-hatred and megalomania.
They do what is realistic, i.e. safe, in order to achieve their ends – protect their people.
Even if that means trading their lives.

Soldiers must be realistic – they must follow the safe, tried and proven, path – if they want to be successful.
In other words, if they want to attain their goals – protect their people.
Without that, they can never be successful.

Neither you nor your friend have anything close to what soldiers have.
You are average braggarts who brag about imaginary possessions, abilities and success.

You are self-hating, over-compensating, morons.
You can’t stand the reality of your situation.
You have to blindly hope that you will become something way beyond your ability.
And that’s why your friend thinks you can never become anything great without aiming for greatness.
Because it’s true: if he were to accept reality of his situation as it is he would have to accept that he would never become anything great.
The only thing he does not realize is that strong desire and motivation won’t help him either.

Hahaha.

All I can really manage is to laugh at this. It requires much more misanthropy in me to assume you’re being serious, rather than merely trolling.

Ok, a bit of fun, then.

At least the American pragmatists were useful. What do you suppose is the utility of English pragmatism? Ever wonder from where the true motive of “utilitarianism” comes? Even the theory itself is couched in petty, inhuman moralizing.

There is practical action, and then there is practical impracticality. We all know which of those you prefer.

There is nothing more truly pragmatic than taking risks for values, positing High Values as supreme law over mere circumstance, convenience, habit, or laziness. Life itself is nothing less than value-positing, the gradual systematizing of risk taking and all that it impies… and requires.

Absolutely - Hobbes and Locke are the absolute bitches of philosophy. Outspoken “subs”.

American pragmatists lived under a mutable regime guided by letters, reason. Their praxis consisted of working with these letters so as to secure that rule stayed mutable and standards stayed fixed.
In England the opposite - standards mutable so as for regime to stay fixed. This produces the quasi-standards of “polite society” which must stand in for aristocracy, which is always lacking in pragmatic company.

The mistake is made when pragmatism becomes an end. Praxis is of course a means. Protestantism is the worst of those mistakes. It is what killed god, as religion can not be pragmatic for the sake of being pragmatic and still relate to God, the miracle-bringer.

Once again, a German invention. These people just like making life as hard as possible.

You’re a word juggler. You aren’t saying anything at all. When you say “value-positing” what you mean is “goal-setting”. You’re using complicated words in order to appear deep hoping that by doing so you will hide the fact that you’re extremely shallow.
Everything about you is hollow.
There is no meat, no blood, nothing alive in you. Just empty words.
You’re nothing more than empty hype.

When you choose goals that are unrealistic (which is what you mean by “risk taking”) that’s a guarantee that you will fail.
Which you already do. Over and over again.

I one heard a saying that makes some sense.

Small people talk about people
medium people talk about events
great people talk about ideas

for a change, try to keep up. Please. It is exasperating to have to constantly be aware of your petty girly gossipy relationship with your pride. The issue is risk. A goal is a value, yes, you don’t need to pretend that anyone doesn’t known this.

For once in your life take a risk, and directly address the statements that the other guy made.
Which would simply mean admitting that he is right. You may earn some respect - from yourself.

Sexual, lustful energy. lol

:sunglasses:

“the self-valuing logic of being”

We are the pure product of two valuing beings, who value themselves in terms of each other.

That is being changed because of the onset of the micro world, quantum based.

Two self valuing are fast becoming irrelevant , because the way the fabric of time space reconstructs our awareness of our supposed mortality.

In fact, life as a morality play has been overcome way beyond good and evil, in terms of the existential dilemma( to be or not to be that is the question), since quantum effects push the envelope of dualism beyond the irrelevant.

There seems little point to sustain the quantum difference between various measures of duration, since a billion years qualitatively may not differ more then a blink of an eye from a micro second of cosmic time. Or even hazard contemporaniety of all events.

The physical changes of a human may replicate many times in one lifetime, and the psychological makeup reinvented as well.

Therefore, after life may be sustained with these alterations that take place before death, or, before life.

Are you saying people won’t get sexually attracted anymore now that the Universe is Quantizing us?
If that is the case I haven’t noticed it. Not in myself but not in the world either.
Nor is the rate of reproduction declining world-wide.

What makes you think Quanta are anti-sexual?
Rather, the behaviour of electrons around protons indicates obsessive arousal of nature at the quantum level.

Just the opposite, people are sub-aware, and becoming hypersexed on account. They figure, what the he’ll, if we’re animals, might as well act it.

There is a belief in an afterlife, because there is an energy deep within us, which remembers existing before we born into this world. To that energy we return after death. Meditation is one way to connect to that energy while here and now. It’s called Jhana, it feels like joy, bliss, supreme goodness that accepts without any judgement. Some in the west would call it a heavenly state or oneness with god. I speak from experience and I would be stingy if I did not share news of it. Then again, we will all experience it for ourselves whether I shut up about it or not. Happy travels. Those who don’t believe in this, enjoy being dragged into the all encompassing light.

I’m not talking religion here, I’m talking cavemen looking at mysterious stars and sensing something before there was a word for god.

Many doubters are thrown off by the bible. You can believe in god while at the same time dismissing the bible.

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There is a belief in an afterlife, because there is an energy deep within us, which remembers existing before we born into this world. To that energy we return after death. Meditation is one way to connect to that energy while here and now. It’s called Jhana, it feels like joy, bliss, supreme goodness that accepts without any judgement. Some in the west would call it a heavenly state or oneness with god. I speak from experience and I would be stingy if I did not share news of it. Then again, we will all experience it for ourselves whether I shut up about it or not. Happy travels. Those who don’t believe in this, enjoy being dragged into the all encompassing light.

I’m not talking religion here, I’m talking cavemen looking at mysterious stars and sensing something before there was a word for god.

Many doubters are thrown off by the bible. You can believe in god while at the same time dismissing the bible.[/quot

I dunno if there is an energy within us that remembers, but I suspect you’re right. Some may remember something. and that something may be a primordial something veiled in heavy symbolism…

I have the same amnesia as the rest of his. With my brain, there was only black before I was born. But the light I experienced during meditation was a forever kind of thing, which extends prior to what I recall as a starting point. That light, I believe is reachable in every being. Probably even in rocks.

I tend to agree, we often forget that light comes before the darkness, which is nothing else but an absence of light.

It is not a presence.

Ah. Yes.
Who are your literary influences?

And could you elaborate your thesis in the earlier terms again?