Writer's Block: Above and beyond

[arthoniel]

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...Most of the time, I don't think it really matters what happens after I die. The way I figure it is... I'm gonna live my life the same way regardless of what happens to us after death, so it shouldn't affect me now. It's not something I have any control over or any way of knowing, so why waste my time with it?

That being said, when I do think about it, I like to believe in reincarnation. Any scientific reason for this? No, absolutely not. As I just said, it doesn't really matter what happens to me after death, so I might as well just pick the theory that comforts me the most. And the idea of reincarnation comforts me the most. Life is just such a wonderful thing... I would hate for this to be it. For this to be the one time we get to experience everything, and that's it. So I believe in reincarnation. It makes me the most comfortable with... everything.

Comments

[engelen.livejournal.com]

I'm going to ask an ignorant question because I've never been exposed to Jewish religion and am a bit too lazy to look it up myself:
According to your religion, what's the "afterlife plan"? Not what YOU believe in, but what your religion says :O
I'm just curious :3

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's not ignorant! Judaisim is really vague about the afterlife, because, as a religion overall, it focuses more on life and how we live it as opposed to the afterlife. Jews believe that God affects our everyday lives, so we should be good so God doesn't actually bring down a giant hand and smite us, not so we don't go to hell. I don't even know if we have a formal "afterlife plan"... the general idea is that our spirits remain... I think we mostly just kinda hang out and chill with God, but there's also some stuff where our spirits can be present at events on Earth, like when God gave Moses the 10 commandments... I think. I'm pretty sure that's the biblical idea, anyway... but as I said, Judaisim is really vague about it all. XD

[engelen.livejournal.com]

I was just curious, because someone in my class once mentioned that Jewish people don't believe in Heaven or Hell, and, well, having been raised in a Catholic environment where it is ALL about being good so you don't go to hell, I was like "... THEN WHAT'S THEIR MOTIVATION TO BE GOOD!?" (again, I was raised in a Catholic environment, it is hard for me to conceive anything that isn't not either denying Catholicism or rooting for it... also, it wasn't just a Catholic environment, it was an ANNOYING Catholic environment, which made me hate almost everything that's religion-oriented... I'm better now, I can appreciate religions now, I just hate extremly devout people who want to force their beliefs on you... like 95% of the population here D: I'm sorry this is a really long comment, I just had to explain myself so you don't think I'm being anti-semitic or an atheist...)

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

Haha, no worries! I mean, I grew up in a part of the world that had a (relatively) huge Jewish population- New York City literally is home to about 2% of the entire world's Jewish population- but I recognize that this isn't true of, well, the rest of the world, so I'm always happy to explain what tenets of Judaisim I know to others who are curious~

[engelen.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing :D

I actually know more about Islam because half of my class in Brussels was composed by kids from Morocco or other Muslim countries :P (and there was also a big Lebanese immigration to Mexico during the 70s or so), but the Jewish population population here is not just scarce, but pretty.. uh... "adapted"(?) to the local customs (which, TBH, would still be weird for an European Catholic, because Mexican Catholicism is a strange amalgam between what the Spaniards forced on us, and the local religions...)
... Again, I'm sorry if I end up sounding ignorant or offensive. I should shut up now.

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

You don't sound ignorant or offensive at all! Not knowing something doesn't make you ignorant. Not knowing something, and doing nothing to learn about it makes you ignorant. And you asked about it- there's no shame in that! It just meant that you didn't know something you would have had absolutely no opportunity to experience. It's totally cool. Really. XD

[engelen.livejournal.com]

let's have cookies now! :D

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

Yay cookies!! Are they chocolate chip??

[engelen.livejournal.com]

is community awesome?