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In reply to the discussion: You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)48. Me too! because it suggests that love isn't a fairy-tale, it's a property of the physical world that
I think of as the affinity between "parts" of a functioning whole. It's the joy of a thing in itself, of itself, for itself, it's happiness in doing what it does for the doing of it.
Doesn't need anything else, because it just is and we participate in it in ways that are much more intimate than only what we know/say/understand and, to me, that intimacy is so intrinsic to the thing itself that its deeper than conventional ideas about the individual personhood that are called life-after-death. It's more real than me -ness, or you -ness, although that's our configuration at this point.
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And if that's too speculative for you, how about the fact that the world is a different place from
patrice
Dec 2012
#1
Right on! Very like so much else, these are the products of pushing the phenomenal
patrice
Dec 2012
#6
Me too! because it suggests that love isn't a fairy-tale, it's a property of the physical world that
patrice
Dec 2012
#48
Time is an illusion. Even though I can't wrap my brain around it, I know it's all
gateley
Dec 2012
#53
As my son said for his father's eulogy, "Life and death are words that we made up."
patrice
Dec 2012
#8
I would be interested in the physicist's theory as to what (or who) caused the Big Bang
Nye Bevan
Dec 2012
#9
actually, it doesn't absolve you. It lets you know that if you don't get yours
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#37
Energy may not be destroyed, but it can sure as hell dissipate in the vastness of the universe.
Bake
Dec 2012
#10
and it is beautiful, Whovian. I have a poem that got me through two deaths ten
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#38
I would love to know how that is true. People say things are gone when the lights
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#39
That's what this neurosurgeon thought, too, but he's changed his mind after experiencing
gateley
Dec 2012
#59
A belief in after life, more than a belief in god, is what propels the nastyness in religion
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#60
Yes! to the world & which can be the source of all the passion one could possibly want.
patrice
Dec 2012
#27
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen galaxies 13.9 billion light years distant.
tclambert
Dec 2012
#20
As someone who lost their only sibling a year ago this week, this speaks to me right now. Thanks for
catzies
Dec 2012
#35
Conservation of energy is not verifiable or consistent across space and time.
Fantastic Anarchist
Dec 2012
#43