Quotes from El Dorado by R.L. Stevenson are included at the end of the post.
They say (whoever they are) that the only thing you gotta do is pay taxes and die then pay taxes again after your dead. Yes you pay taxes after you die gotta love the USA.
In search for meaning in life there is only one truth and that is that we will all experience death for ourselves up close and personal and so far no one has been able to tell us what happens after that experience. Carl Jung the psychologist did not rule out the possibility of life after death but how can there be life after death if death is the final destination. Perhaps it is not so final.
There is a continuum of things. Matter cannot be created or destroyed which means in some form we remain. Energy is not lost either it changes form. Is the soul matter or is it energy? Since the matter (corpse) is left behind one could conclude that the soul is not matter and that when the day of judgement comes we will not have corpses wandering around.
Could the soul be energy then? Perhaps it is but I am not dying to find out.
"There is only one wish realisable on the earth; only one thing that can be perfectly attained: Death. And from a variety of circumstances we have no one to tell us whether it be worth attaining."
It is never the destination that I cherish as much as the journey. This can be no less true of the journey of life as we will die and perhaps live on but not here and not in our carbon form. If we do "survive" death it will be the beginning of a new journey.
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