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When the road to this life suddenly shows signs of reaching an end, while you
gaze, helplessly, at what is, all too clearly, no longer a most distant of horizons, and the
reality of what is inevitably coming and coming all too soon and can no longer be
ignored, refuted, refused, or denied — as death is about to swallow you whole and suck
your very essence into the cold, cold, ground, because, like it or not, we are each going
there one day, quite possibly, much sooner than we think — we come to realize that our
birth has embarked us upon a road to all too soon that has an assured destination— and
an assured end. Life now takes on a whole new meaning and importance we have never
fully understood — that is, before now ...
Upon reaching the end of that road we choose to call life, but which in reality
always ends in death, what will we find awaiting us there? … Heaven? … Hell? …
Disappointments? … Contentment? … Some manner of After-Life? … Eternal Life? …
Or the oblivion of returning to that state of nonexistence we, each, resided in before that
adventurously wriggling spermatozoa (launched on its mission of conquest by our
fathers) ignited the spark that is a human life within a tiny egg resting comfortably in the
nest-like safe-haven-sanctuary of our mother's womb?
Every Religion, every faith, promotes its own concepts of what awaits us after
death as a means of offering Mankind some sense of peace and solace in the face of the
inevitable. Yet, not a single Religion or faith offers forth an answer as a true-cure-
solution to ending and preventing death, altogether. After all, as the old saying goes,
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go now 1,” as that trip to heaven
requires our very lives culminated in death. It is quite normal (complaining creatures
that we humans truly are) to wish for some type of better or more perfected life, which
concepts of Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana, etc., hold forth. But, no one in their right mind
wishes to experience death in the getting there, if such places really did, or do, exist. In
1 Kenny Chesney: Everybody Goes To Heaven But Nobody Wants To Go Now — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffS0wbxmiM
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Let us now speak of reality. The reality is, our bodies are intelligently designed
machines residing upon a a somewhat average sized planet in our solar system, orbiting
an average sized yellow star in a vast galaxy of myriads of galaxies within a Universe
that is beyond human comprehension of measurement, magnitude, and point of origin.
We, as a planet of human inhabitants, are less than a microscopic speck in comparison of
size and importance in relation to the entirety of the Universe around us and all that
thrives, lives, and dies, within it. We, are even less significant as individual human
beings residing and eking out existences upon our totally insignificant world upon which
we, ourselves, live and die. To top that insignificance is the fact that our bodies, though
intelligently designed, bear a defined and clear similarity to every other creation within
the Universe: Our bodies are designed to wear out, grind to a halt, die, and cease to
exist. We were not designed as perpetual motion, (eternally living and thriving) flesh
and blood, machines.
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Sadly, in our current day and time, we cannot escape talk or thoughts of Religion.
In an age that advocates tolerance, we are facing more intolerance than, perhaps, any
time in the history of the world. Religion matters and matters of Religion are stealing
headlines around the world.
But ... There is a pertinent fact that is daily being ignored by fervently zealous and
religious people: We could easily spend another thousand years or so arguing and
debating, fighting self righteously in waging religiously professed holy — Jihad style —
wars that take the lives of innocents not even involved in our zealously fervent heated
discussion, and never arrive at an ending conclusion that would satisfy either party, nor
prove either party correct this side of death and the grave, for no one (and I do mean no
one) has ever returned from the grave to speak (in simply declared concise language) of
what lies beyond the exhaling of that one final breath — a moment that awaits us all,
regardless of our religious affiliations and beliefs.
Regardless of written accounts, to be found within the pages of the sacred books
of the world's Organized Religions, not a single reported person who was alleged to
have returned from death and the grave has bothered, in the doing so, to educate, inform,
or enlighten, their fellow man of his day and time of what they actually experienced,
personally, in the dying, saw and experienced having died, or witnessed with their own
five senses on the other side of the grave — except for a few vaguely worded mystically
charged statements that add up to nothing in our attempts to view and understand what
awaits us on that other side of life.
When all is said and done, we simply cannot answer these questions from this side
of life and the grave. And once gone, having breathed our last, we shall never return to
tell our stories if, in fact, there is a story to be told and shared. It is an experience we
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Why must we die? Why are we here if death is to be our end? The cold hard,
unadulterated, truth is that we shall never possess answers to these questions in such a
fashion as to satisfactorily comfort us when we come face to face with our own deaths
— short of the leap of Blind Faith scenario that so many religious folks resort to in
asserting, on Blind Faith alone, that they possess concrete answers as to what awaits
them on the other side of this life, when in fact they do not possess any concrete answers
at all, but choose to face death while embracing grandiosely delusional beliefs that they
(because of their professed chosen Religion) do, indeed, possess such answers despite
the reality that such beliefs are based upon precepts, doctrines, and teachings that lack a
single shred of substantiated, credible, provable, verifiable, evidence.
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