When I’ve got not much to do, I like to meditate about things. How does this world come to the shape it is now; could animals also be religious; why the form of worldwide anarchy wouldn’t work; when will the weather get warmer so that I could go out and play basketball again etcetera.
I slept over the alarm this morning till 9:36. No haste, boss wouldn’t herein bite. That’s what I like about the company, flexible timing and free lunch. The first thing I received when I opened my computer, as always, was the greeting from Katie Showalter who is a good friend of mine I’ve been talking to for years through IM, for which I appreciate very much because she is the only one who greets me whenever I go online and I actually love talking to her.
As the talk went, we were into the discussion of afterlife. She’s a nonbeliever of afterlife, nor am I, I guess. Thing is, as I have also asked her, that why would people still fear when they walk in a cemetery or graveyard? Feeling alone and uneasy at least for that matter. If you are a solid nonbeliever of life after death, why the heck would you still act like you do somewhat believe in it? It appears so to me when people show their anxiety of being ambushed by some sort of souls or ghosts lurking around the tombs especially when the corpses weren’t cremated but buried directly six feet under. Katie came up with the answer that because people watched too many horror movies where bad and weird things always take place in cemeteries. So does that mean people become flip-flopped in their belief before and after the movie? Which, again, means that perhaps they are not quite sure about it?
I myself am very aware that I dare go to the cemetery in the day with a bunch of people around and sunshine if possible. However, I will never go there alone, in the darkness, with no breath of liveness. Any kind of breeze of movement would scare the shit out of me under that situation, even it is the sound of my own. Yet, I still claim myself a disbeliever, an atheist. Why? I dunno.
Maybe I misclassified myself into the atheistic category. Maybe I’m an agnostic. Probably many others are as well. The existence of supernatural phenomena, such as souls and life after death, is unverifiable and therefore unknowable. This also leads to one of my above meditations, the animals, do they have afterlife, too? Are they held responsible for their actions?
Some people form their views based on observation, some formulate theirs based on faith. The notion of afterlife is absurd at first sight, but with more thought into it, particularly if you have some sort of special experience of near death or out-of-body, then you might challenge your own certainty . I haven’t experienced any of it, certainly I hope I never will, I still ridicule the concept of afterlife yet I have doubts nonetheless. Am I making myself paradoxical?
So what’s your take on this?
