A religion and reality theory

NachtEngel · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 11:49 PM

So I was sitting around doing some thinking and came up with an interesting thought. People are always arguing about who is right when it comes to religion but what if everyone is right in a way. Perhaps we create out own reality of what happens through thought. I personally believe that human thought is a very powerful thing. I was thinking that when it comes to religion maybe different realities are created by all the energy people put into believing. Perhaps the Christians over time have created a Heaven and hell that their consciousness goes to after death. They may find themselves in a place much like what they believe in because humans created it over time. Maybe the Buddhist find an unborn body to enter after a while and take on another life to work at gaining enlightenment. Perhaps the atheist never move on to anything after death and just remain as a type of energy that does not really do anything. People that are on a search for the truth may find themselves in a reality much like what they believed to be the truth. What if all these realities do exist on some level because of the power of thoughts that are projected? Maybe everyone is right.

El Pirata · 02-11-2008, 11:54 PM

I like that way of thinking, nobody for sure knows whats after death. The only way, as I have said previously, to know whats after death is to be brain dead for a while and then come back to life, but of course that is impossible. Even then, it may be as you say, we create our own sense of afterlife.

NachtEngel · 02-12-2008, 12:13 AM

That could also make sense for people that were near death and claimed to see whats in the afterlife. Maybe they got a look at the reality that awaits them. It could change over time possibly but that would be the reality they could have reached at that point in their life. I actually was thinking about this and since I have taken an interest in Wicca I asked myself "Do I believe the God and Goddess really exist". The I realized, I don't care if they really exist or not because if they do then thats wonderful. If not then they do exist for me and others that share this reality. It is because of this that I have decided to live in whatever reality I feel fits me best. I am just going to go with what feels right for me because I should want to be in a place that feels right for me now and possibly after death. If I'm wrong then thats a risk I am more than willing to take. At least I know I lived my life the way I felt was right for me.

Keena · 02-12-2008, 12:24 AM

i dont know if you've read this or not, but it goes a long a similar (not exact) line of thought: What Dreams May Come....theres also a movie with Robin Williams in it

NachtEngel · 02-12-2008, 12:29 AM

No I haven't but I will look it up.

The Pianist · 02-26-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NachtEngel

So I was sitting around doing some thinking and came up with an interesting thought. People are always arguing about who is right when it comes to religion but what if everyone is right in a way. Perhaps we create out own reality of what happens through thought. I personally believe that human thought is a very powerful thing. I was thinking that when it comes to religion maybe different realities are created by all the energy people put into believing. Perhaps the Christians over time have created a Heaven and hell that their consciousness goes to after death. They may find themselves in a place much like what they believe in because humans created it over time. Maybe the Buddhist find an unborn body to enter after a while and take on another life to work at gaining enlightenment. Perhaps the atheist never move on to anything after death and just remain as a type of energy that does not really do anything. People that are on a search for the truth may find themselves in a reality much like what they believed to be the truth. What if all these realities do exist on some level because of the power of thoughts that are projected? Maybe everyone is right.

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**Ristaron** · 02-27-2008, 12:18 PM

I actually have created a Dungeons and Dragons campaign where there is a plane called Elysium, which is the result of all the good-hearted people who have died, but didn't have a patron deity (unlike real life, the gods exist in my campaign setting). What you've described is pretty much exactly what I came up with, the souls of people with good in their hearts have created a place for themselves out of their own good nature.

Piers Anthony had an interesting approach to God and the Devil in his Incarnations of Immortality series, but what I liked most about the first book, On A Pale Horse, was when Death came to take the soul of an atheist. This man didn't want eternal life and didn't believe in Heaven or Hell. So when Death took his soul from his dying body, the soul crumbled and the atheist was given the oblivion he sought.

I find myself seeking that. I don't want eternal life, because that would devalue what life means. So even if God did exist, I wouldn't want to live forever in Heaven, I would want to live this life and die with my body.

Static · 02-27-2008, 01:09 PM

Howbout if science increased the age capability to say 300, 500, 1,000 years old, would you have a problem with that? I don't think that would decrease the value of human life the same way you're talking about, because I do agree with that statement, and there's an awesome quote from the movie Troy that goes along with it;

"the Gods envy us because our life could be gone at any moment" (or something similiar)

**Ristaron** · 02-27-2008, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Static

Howbout if science increased the age capability to say 300, 500, 1,000 years old, would you have a problem with that? I don't think that would decrease the value of human life the same way you're talking about, because I do agree with that statement, and there's an awesome quote from the movie Troy that goes along with it;

"the Gods envy us because our life could be gone at any moment" (or something similiar)

If we have longer to live, that's longer to accomplish more. Regardless of how long, though, it's not eternity, and therefore does not detract from the value of life.