To Sir Goulum:
Have an early rest. Healthier for you. [img]smile.gif[/img]
To the Hierophant:
I actually don't view life and consciousness as 'special' in any way, either (except in the sense that
absolutely everything is special 
). But just as matter and energy, which are really just aspects of our physical universe, are never destroyed but merely assume different forms, so likewise I reckon life and consciousness can assume different forms while still being fundamentally preserved. Already there are quantum scientists who are seriously prepared to envisage the presence of consciousness and life in all of matter and energy.
Some believe in God as none other than this omnipresent life-force (peace, Yorick
) that ever exercises Its creative energies by bringing forth suns and planets and all kinds of life-forms,
with each of us being none other than a speck of this life-force. Death, then, would be like a water-drop slipping back into this great ocean of living energy... Though it may emerge as a new water-drop. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
[ 11-02-2002, 12:39 AM: Message edited by: K T Ong ]