Hello all (that was a bit egotistical of me as it is only me and a few who read these posts) Been away on holiday to beautiful Macedonia. What a wonderful country, poor but, lovely.
Whilst traveling around in Macedonia and soaking up the culture and history, which is extensive, I got to wondering about man.
Previously my pointed ramblings have been about Nature and our bit in it. Having been drawn to this over the years the outcome of most beliefs/religions is that when you slough off in the end a jolly nice place is waiting for you. In some cases it may not be jolly nice.
My thoughts stray towards Homo Sapiens decomposing and returning to stuff. After a few billion years our wee planet will get blown to dust all over our solar system (which by then would have been 2 years into mating with Andromeda)
Some of that stuff could well get out of our solar system and into the universe where it will be reformed into some other stuff.
So in a way it is similar to most religions who due to their age did not have science to assist their thinking re The End.
I cannot confess to knowing all about Buddhism but seem to recall that one had to travel through 7 major steps (reincarnation is involved) and if you have been enlightened by your journey you reach the ultimate.
The ultimate what, I am not sure. But wait , reincarnation, that is interesting is it not.
If I popped onto your TV today and stated that we would all be reincarnated as mice or dogs or whatever then you would quite right thinking that I was talking to you from a lunatic asylum. Yet somehow all those centuries ago, real thinkers understood our connection to Nature. Ok they tried to put it into context regarding the times and teachings from their century. This however does not make it crap, in fact it is quite breathtakingly insightful.
What could be said is that in those dark days without science and knowledge there were people who could think things through. The “word ology” is different but the end result is somewhat similar. Be it heaven or anywhere that awaits us after death I am looking forward to being returned to Nature where my stuff will mingle and co-join with other stuff to make different yet similar stuff.
Perhaps if I disguised the above in coded religious mumbo, everybody would accept and understand the import of the statement. Do I really care if they do or don’t? No.
In the end we will meet again but we may not recognise each other as we will be stuff, different stuff but still stuff.
Enjoy your day/week/month/year.
Cheers
Brian Corcoran
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