Islam And The American Experiment
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I doubt there was a beginning and that there could be an end. I have always thought the universe was so old that humans could not fathom it. The scientific consensus of XX billion years seems absurdly recent to me, let alone a few thousand years(!)
I strongly doubt the Big Bang. I resonate with Plasma theory and Electric Universe theory. Why should there have been a creation? Matter cannot be created or destroyed. Living in eternal time right now and being in infinite space is such a mindboggling proposition and so mindblowingly expansive I laugh when people say they are sorry for me I don't know their overgrown tribal god from a certain part of our little snippet of existence we call The World.
Interesting, what do you think happens when your physical husk no longer functions?
I doubt we have a soul as in the Abrahamic religions. I think we have a spirit. I have traveled at night when my body was asleep. Once I saw unexpected events that happened several miles away and found out the next day exactly what I saw was what happened in reality. Usually the spirit fades after death. Where it goes I don't know.
I have seen something I think was a ghost. Someone in the same apartment later saw a vivid apparition of a little girl looking at him sleep right in the same room I saw the dark figure. It gives me goosebumps to think about it. They were servants I presume as the apartment was the servants quarters in the 19th century.
How do you define soul and how do you think it differs from spirit? Just curious, people seem to use those terms interchangeably.
The soul in the three religions is eternal and belongs with god in the afterlife. The spirit is associated with life in the world we live in. It follows us around most of the time but it can get loose. It's a high part of the human organism where the full power of the psyche and biology is expressed. Sometimes the psychic component is so strong the spirit can linger whether it is from a traumatic death or an exceptional individual or just...that's what happened for whatever reason.