This week's prompt is Friday Writings #227: As You Wish
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
Life, death, and life after death have always been the turf of philosophers, thinkers, and religious gurus. Through the ages they have reflected, debated, and put forward their own theories about the beginning of life on this planet and what possibly awaits beyond it.
Scientists, on the other hand, have been peering into outer space and digging out fossils from the earth, trying to uncover clues about the advent of life on our planet. Life and death are also part of our everyday existence. So naturally, we lesser mortals have never been totally immune to developing our own theories and discussing them passionately with anyone willing to lend an ear.
The debate continues endlessly — whether there was indeed a creator behind all earthly life forms, as suggested by the watchmaker analogy, or whether life evolved gradually according to the theory of Charles Darwin. And perhaps the even bigger debate, cutting across both scientific and non-scientific minds, is whether life truly continues beyond death.
It is a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries, yet remains wrapped in mystery despite all our knowledge and progress.
But once in a while, we come across incidents that unsettle our logical ideas and leave us wondering.
Recently, two news reports involving accidental deaths caught my attention, and I thought I should share them here. Were these merely coincidences, happenings dictated purely by chance? Or is there indeed some invisible conductor orchestrating everything that goes on in this world?
Questions like these leave us thoughtful and unsettled, with no practical way of ever finding a definite answer.......
I am left without coherent words to leave a comment that would make any sense. Beyond coincidence.
ReplyDeleteI love this deep dive into existential questions. Despite our brains being like a box that we can't break free from, there are hints and muffled voices of what's beyond.
ReplyDeleteThanks Penelope, for stopping by and I fully agree with your views. There are abundance of such clues in our lives and we only observe a few.
Delete"A Plain Observer" has run off with the words I would have shared! I thank you for resurrecting this write, giving us the opportunity for deep reflection / thought.
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen, for stopping by and leaving your thoughts.
DeleteDeep questions to ponder about but we where we don't have real answers for and there are many things happening we can't explain.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marja for your views. We will find out one day but as of today, I have patience...
DeleteThanks Summa for having it again for our benefit. It is just as relevant now! Wonderful shot, love it!
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Thanks Hank for your thoughts. Back in 2014, there was no AI enabled apps and I used to fiddle around with photoshop trying to create images for my post. It was fun.
DeleteAmong other things, I am a psychic medium, so I do know to my own satisfaction that consciousness continues after death. However, it is not something I can prove scientifically, and it doesn't give me any answers to the weirdly coincidental family deaths you mention. Even when we are granted some insight, there are still many mysteries.
ReplyDeleteI’m intrigued to learn about your psychic abilities. 'Afterlife existence' is a topic that people like me wrestle with internally, with opinions shifting from one extreme to the other frequently.
DeleteThere are great mysteries in this world and I do not have the hubris to claim I know or understand what's behind them all. But I do remain optimistic that there is something worth exploring beyond the veil.
ReplyDeleteI do agree and one day we will find out dead if not while alive
Deleteyour writing goes well with the line you chose.... i love your reasoning even more so that we have a choice to believe what we believe about life and death and it tumbles about as we live each day... only in death's last moments shall we see with no one to tell here on earth.. and that is up to endless debate as well... personally my struggle is over i know that i know that i know...
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and leaving your kind words
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