10-24-2008, 12:00 AM
seeitall wrote:
the point is that what I think is me or what I think is you will die. The spirit may eventually return to God,
but it was never you or me, not my friend or enemy. It was something impersonal like light. Should I care then
what happens to spirit or find it comforting ? I do not, I cannot relate to that, not yet.
My point exactly. That is why I said that the issue is the soul, not the spirit. The soul may or may not cease to be. The soul IS you or me.
I intend that mine will go on. You seem to believe that it is inevitable that it will not.
To become one with the One Spirit and retain the awareness that I still exist is to me the goal.
I could be wrong (stranger things have happened) and my opinions might change over time. But that is the way I see it at this point.
the point is that what I think is me or what I think is you will die. The spirit may eventually return to God,
but it was never you or me, not my friend or enemy. It was something impersonal like light. Should I care then
what happens to spirit or find it comforting ? I do not, I cannot relate to that, not yet.
My point exactly. That is why I said that the issue is the soul, not the spirit. The soul may or may not cease to be. The soul IS you or me.
I intend that mine will go on. You seem to believe that it is inevitable that it will not.
To become one with the One Spirit and retain the awareness that I still exist is to me the goal.
I could be wrong (stranger things have happened) and my opinions might change over time. But that is the way I see it at this point.