April 3, 2006

Nope… it is my personal belief that man created God (s) in order to escape our mortality, look though any history book and you will see God (s) of all kinds, forms and flavors coming into existence then being forgotten with time. Knowing there is NO purpose to your life, no destiny and worst off, no reason other then absolute chance that you are where you are now is crazy - but that is what I believe.

Here are my personal top 5 reasons why God cannot exist:

1)we are a fluke: the human race is a byproduct of evolution (take a big gulp) - if the dinosaurs didn’t become extinct, humans never would have come into being… “humans” are only a few hundred thousand year old by the way… a blink in geological time. If there was a God, why bother with dinosaurs or 5 mass extinction periods on this planet - why not just jump to the chase and create us off the bat?

2)we live in a lifeless universe(s): think about it, you are God and you decide to create a universe to house your “people”, why bother creating a universe with up to 9 dimensions, trillions of light years in size, black holes and only use one infinitesimal small spot of it to house them? What is the point of doing all this extra work to simply hold rock, gas and radiation? Why not populate and experiment all over the universe with different forms of life instead of one spec and ignoring the rest?

3)The universe has a beginning and an end: the Big Bang theory shows that the universe we reside within has a definite beginning and thus an end over a timescale that is mind boggling (figure hundreds of billions of years). So if there was God, where where you before and where will you be after our universe ends? More to the point, why create such enormous time scales for a species whose existence will probably last but a fraction of a millisecond in cosmic time?

4)If God is all knowing and the master designer of everything within our lives, from choices we make to our birth order, why bother creating us in the first place? I get annoyed at watching the same movie more then once, it gets boring when you already know the outcomes of everything (past, present and future)… you would think an omni powerful being would quickly bore from watching mundane repeats day in and day out. Face it, most of our lives are quite remedial.

5)If there are no humans on earth, can a God still exist?

Do I believe in an afterlife?

If I don’t believe in God, then I believe any thoughts of an afterlife also quickly fade along with any hint of spirituality. When we die, I believe we simply go into oblivion. Put another way, any memory of our own existence in any shape is gone forever. Do you remember where you where before you where born? That is exactly where you are going back to.

Here are my personal top 5 reasons why an afterlife cannot exist:

1)the difference between us with our thinking brain and an insect is 0, they do not think (at least we don’t think they do) but they are made up of the same stuff that holds us together. So if humans are blessed with an afterlife, so should EVERY living thing on this earth (or universes for that matter) by extension as well, from bacteria that live only a few minutes to trees that stand for thousands of years. If you are a single celled organism, what is the purpose of an afterlife that is beyond your reasoning or comprehension?

2)Ghosts, I pray every night that I am in bed in the dark that a ghost come visit me - I have yet to see one or even a hint of anything. Ghosts stories are scary, but realistically if I was dead I would visit my relatives all the time to tell them about myself so I wouldn’t be forgotten or to help them out. A ghost or apparition of any type would make me a believer 100% and force me into believing in a lot of stuff I don’t (including the possibility of a God)

3)our universe has a beginning and an end, so where would you go after the universe ends, an even deeper question is where the hell where you before your species (or universe) even came into existence?

4)if life is so perfect after we die, what is the point of living? Why would anybody in their right mind ever decide to leave absolute paradise (full of meaning, pleasure, purpose, riches etc) to come to this screwed up planet is beyond me
5)everything we are, characteristics, memories, feelings are all housed within our brain which is basically a lump of fat. When we die, that lump of fat liquefies along with who we once where. An interesting thing my dad told me is that one way around this fact is to believe in a 4th dimension, think of our brain like a computer hooked up to the Internet - data is uploaded and downloaded but our very essence isn’t in our brain but in another dimension.

You have got to seek help, you have got to be depressed!

No, I am not depressed in the slightest. Quite the opposite, I feel an incredible sense of power and freedom knowing essentially anything I do during my life has really no meaning in the grand scheme of things. I believe I only have 1 life to live. Why did I build myfoodcount.com and legendarylife.com among many other systems to help others, because it gives me pleasure. I am trying to live my life without any worries (no I am not wealthy), cultural taboos, perceived emotion or any other binds 99.99% of people in our society live within. Imagine being able to go through life without any pressure other then what comes from within… this is my ultimate goal. Maybe to those too busy going through life instead of living their life may think I am insane - so be it… but I know I am perfectly sane
I read a long time ago that being powerful is not only believing in yourself but being able to let go of yourself. If I do nothing more in my one and only life then to try to make my personal mortal journey a fun and legendary one, I die with a big smile on my face.

Besides, there is nothing I can do about my mortality so I might as well enjoy it while I am capable. Life is an incredible gift, might as well make it legendary!

What do I believe in then?

I believe that everything within the universe, across all their dimensions are really all connected to 1 point, this isn’t as crazy as it seams, consider that before the Big Bang, all the matter and energy within our entire universe(s) where contained within an area smaller then an atom. Theoretical physics, as incredibly interesting as it is, proves to me that we are still living within that one small area, completely interconnected, yes, far larger yet still infinitely small. Consider this, the elements that make up concrete, water and even stars is the exact same elements that make up animals, that includes us. There is NO difference. None! Taken a little further, the energy within a strand of your hair may have once belonged to large tree, or even the comet that lead to the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Remember, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed of form (First Law of Thermodynamics).

I do not remember the name of this theory but it goes like this (please send me the name if you know it). No matter where you go in the universe, there is a (+) and (-) charged ions and they are always in perfect balance, if a positively charged ion becomes negative, immediately another in our universe becomes positive instantaneously. Einstein taught us that the speed of light is the fastest speed anything can move within our universe using our current understanding of the fundamental laws of physics. Here is where it gets interesting.

Lets say there is only two ions in the universe, I give you a positively charged one and I keep the negatively charged one, we both travel at the speed of light for billions of years until we are both at the opposite farthest reaches of our universe. If I change my ion from a negative charge to a positive one, you, being billions upon billions of light years away will see your ion change from negative to positive in an instant. There are only two possible solutions to this, either we are all interconnected or there is something faster then the speed of light (which is impossible).

The Bottom Line

Today, I have no doubt whatsoever that there is an afterlife and that I am part of it and that you are part of it- willing or not. Over the last thirty years, I have read over five hundred serious books written by medical doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, gurus, mediums, etc- of all religions and no religion. I am still reading in this field today and every book still fascinates me. I have proven, at least to myself and beyond any doubt, that we are cut for a lot more than the physical world in which we live. I am totally satisfied in the fact that something beyon description awaits for us in other dimensions and that we will live for ever.

I could easily make a list of ten good reasons and more why I sincerely believe in life after life and Superior Being(s), but I think that the first reason only is proof enough of it. In the last decades, there has been an increase in NDEs (near death experiences). Fifty years ago, when people were dying, they were not coming back and since they could not tell us that they had visited another world, we had to rely on faith only to believe in the afterlife. In the last decade only, millions of people from all over the world and from all walks of life, died for 10, 20 even 30 minutes. However, the medical science is so advanced these days that these people were literally rescuscitated. They came back to tell us of the pleasant experiences they went through while they were being worked on by the medical staff and pronounced dead (some were even sent to the morgue where they surprised the coronor). They tell us that, somehow, their spirit or soul got out of their body and supervised the medical staff in the operating room, they visited the waiting room where their relatives were in distress, and then they rushed through a tunnel at a tremendous speed, they had this feeling of unconditionnal love and profond peace, they met with deseased loved ones (some who they had never met before or had never heard before because they were their great grandparents), they were in the presence of a Being of Light and had their life review, and then they were told that they had to go back to their body because their time had not come yet, they had not accomplished their mission yet. And at this very moment, they were literally thrown back in their body, feeling the pain and discomfort of their accident.

If these NDE were experienced by only a few people, it would be very easy to discard them as mere drug reactions and hallucinations. However, millions of people from all walks of life, from all professions, from all ages, from all races, from all over the world, from all religions (many with no religion and self professed atheists),and so on- cannot be wrong and be hallucinating. They all lived common experiences : they went through a tunnel at the speed of light, they met and talked with their deceased relatives, they visited another world beautiful beyond description in other dimensions, they were in the presence of a Being of Light and had their life review, they experienced peace and love like they never had before. I know all these common experiences that are lived after physical death because I read about them on numerous occasion. However, most of those who had NDE experiences did not read these books or had never heard about these experiences before. So, how could they tell us about them?

Many medical doctors nowadays accept the fact that NDEs are real and that their patients are not imagining things or hallucinating when they tell about the new world they have visited before they were revived. I am convinced now that we are spiritual beings who decided, of our own free will, to come to this world in order to fulfill a mission for our spiritual growth. When our mission will be accomplished, thank God, we will go back where we come from and where we belong- in this magnificient world that is described so often by people having near death experiences! Is it possible that our minuscule brains are too limited to even think of other dimensions above our tridimensionnal world and the fourth dimension which is time? Do not let this be the final virdict on the existence of other possibilities than our own. In order to consider these possibilities, we have to OPEN OUR MIND to OPEN NEW WORDS! For the non believers, I would suggest that you read a few serious books on NDEs if these are the only ones you will read on this topic and then- and only then- after you have sincerely open your mind and tackle some of your doubts, you should be more capable to decide if there is an afterlife. You would then be able to pat yourself on the shoulder and say that, in all truth, I have done my homeworks and I rest my case!