I get happy when I think of death…because I know I am going to heaven.
Finally! Someone else on this thread besides me who believes in heaven! Thanks for your positive reply 
@Saadiqah are you saying my reply wasn’t positive 
I don’t believe in reincarnation or life after death or anything like that. I just get sad at times when I think that something as complex and beautiful as a human mind should perish or die never to exist again.
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the mind/consciousness/soul does not perish never to exist again. It matters not if an individual believes or doesn’t believe, it happens.
I know my late wife and how she was, and that is exactly how she manifests. She is a fun ghost. One of our favorite shows was X Files. On one program a guy who can influence insects uses fireflies to spell out “I Love You” to his girlfriend.
My wife did something just like that after she died, I saw the fireflies form into the first letter of her name, and no other fireflies were about…just those that all formed together to make the letter. i joked and told her she needed to get more power for such things so she can spell the whole thing.
she’s made things physically appear out of nowhere to me and a friend of ours both. She will occasionally flicker the lights to answer a question i have or confirm something i need to know she approves of or disapproves of. these are all sort of things she did while physically alive. showing her mind still operates the same way…
and the things she has told me in dreams only elaborate on that.
I even shared these events with an atheist friend of mine who admitted that some people have the ability to cross over death and continue to exist. So she even is convincing to an atheist.
@e_lunaseer I was raised in a Christian family so I can identify with some of your views however I have come to put some serious questions on all forms of religion. I am not an atheist though.
I’m a Christian but not in the traditional way…I am not religious, don’t attend church, and like you have serious questions about religion. Spirituality is my mind set, and even Jesus said they that worship God will do so in SPIRIT and in truth…
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I guess I see death as the total absence of self consciousness whereas pain is total self consciousness. I just wonder where the heck I am when I am asleep but not dreaming. No neurons firing, no “me” as far as I can tell so far. Nothing special about the individual atoms in my brain and body… Could swap them out one by one and I probably wouldn’t notice. Change the axe head and then the handle is it still the same axe?
I don’t think I will live to be an average age of 72 or whatever it is for men around here, but I would like to make it to within one standard deviation which is about 58. I am 46 now so I may be realistically only looking at 12 more years unless I can do some major upgrades on my physical health. It’s scary now that I am hearing about classmates from my high school dying relatively young. I have started taking my bucket list much more seriously.
Heaven has no pain.i look far ward to that. I am glad my family won’t suffer.i won’t either