Life after death? Your views

[Yorkie]

Huh ? Humans are the only ones with a spirit ? Where do you get that from then? The way I see it, humans are just the most domesticated animal on earth, and if you spend enough time with an animal (that wants you around), you might gain a lot of respect for their spirit and their codes of conduct in this world.

That we still have on earth, humans that are relatively close to ferrel in nature, and pretty similar to 'early man' in their society and actions, we have been able to see some mankind as instinctual . Then of course, missionaries froth at the mouth to convert them and the modern civilisation to clothe and introduce them to medicine etc and mess that all up.

Basically, humans seem like nutcases when they practise tribal rituals and wear weird lip-protruding jewelry, and paint and slice themselves up. Animals can look comparitively sophisticated!

Humans have choice. They can choose to act that way.

Animals act the way animals do because they have their basic instincts. Wolves run in a pack - tigers are solitary etc

Btw NMH have you ever met a missionary to talk to?

A lot of you on NSC have and won't have realised it.

 

[NMH]

The pastor/leader/whatever at my church used to go down to Brazil to educate the newest found tribe of man, who were found living untouched or met by civilised man until only about 15 years ago. He was instilling them with Christianity from the Bible, and claimed he was having some success. So, yes Yorkie, I have met a missionary.

Humans have instinct too, we just suppress and deny it.
Compare us to dolphins and you see that we have adapted the world around us, and made requirements for ourselves (like clothing, shoes, supermarkets) while those mammals have adapted to the environment around them, and have the necessary requirements.
As I understand it, sharks fear dolphin because of their instinctual knowledge of where to butt a shark and rupture a vital organ - resulting in one distressed shark with a few minutes left to live.
Many animals know instinctively at birth, how to survive, even stand and walk within minutes of being born. Human children are helpless for years, require constant nurturing and teaching and usually still have no clue about nature or survival more than how to pay for stuff at the market. Ok so we have built planes, computers and weapons - but we have largely retracted from knowledge of nature. Can we then choose how to 'act naturally' ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not many dead people posting on this thread then...

 

[Drips]

Not true.
Sid Vicious posted on here last night but it looks like the mods have removed it.

 

[Bad Ash]

Can't be bothered to read the thread, but surely there sould be a "None" option and I'm sure this would receive most votes. But maybe thats because I am a narrowminded-non-churchgoer.

 

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