“Is there life after death?” someone wanted to know.
This is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is, “How do I best live my life?”
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“Is there a God?”
This also is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is:
“How do I live my life as though everyone contains a spark of the divine?”
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“Is there a heaven?” someone wanted to know.
This is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is, “How can I make a heaven a reality?”
November 2, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Is there life after death? Yes, above the cemetery!
November 2, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Peace and Love!!!! i thought there was then i wastched some programme which changed my thoughts..still belive tho!
PS: Davey i dunno how to do the direct messages on twitter i tried messaging you but i cant!
Greeting from ireland! 
November 7, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Oh my! A fellow Irish man? What part are you from?
November 2, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Good revisions!
November 2, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Took half of my life to find this out… but I found less or more the same answer to this questions for myself.
November 2, 2009 at 7:01 pm
i love how the appropriate questions are slightly cheesy, but i suppose that just makes them better. the messages are great though, live life to the fullest kind of thing. love the idea, but i kinda dont really follow it most of the time (set back by inner limitations)
November 2, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I don’t believe in God/Gods or in life after death, so this is not a concern to me. For discussion purpose, however, let’s imagine that god exists. In this case I would think that, if he gived me life, the purpose was to live that, nos spent all my life time worried about how I would live the after-life… heheheh
November 2, 2009 at 7:32 pm
yay, thats what i think as well. high five*
November 3, 2009 at 7:49 am
Exactly – well said. I am an atheist, but that’s neither here nor there in my opinion. We have been given this amazing gift called a life. Lets spend our energies on living it, not worrying about something that might never happen.
November 2, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Yes, there is life after death. It does not matter whether you believe in God or not. The fact is He exists. How do I know? Look at nature. There had to be a Master Designer. Just because you can’t see the air doesn’t mean you stop breathing……Just because you can’t see God doesn’t mean you stop believing! Yes, there is life after death! Believe it!
November 2, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Your reasoning is a little specious. If we believe in air without seeing it we must believe in God, though we cannot see him? We can prove, quite conclusively that air exists. We can measure and quantify it. It’s a little more difficult with God. One must feel the presence of God in his or her life to be certain and not everyone feels that. It’s not enough to command people to ‘Believe it!” Not even Christ himself commanded people that way. He never told people that they had to do anything. God gave us the freedom to choose and with that comes the freedom not to choose him if we don’t want to. If people are meant to find God and believe in him they will. And he’s going to love us all despite the fact that some people have not formed a relationship with Him. For each of us, I think we need to keep our eyes on our own path and not on that of others.
November 2, 2009 at 11:24 pm
does beauty in nature really show anything except for the fact that nature is beautiful? How many people can honestly say with a straight face that when they look at a beautiful flower they think to themselves, “This must have been made by the Judeo-Christian god, who in the beginning made two people and a snake, but ironically the snake HE put there compelled the women to eat a piece of magic fruit, which plunged everyone into eternal depravity and separation from God, and the only way out of this is situation is to telepathically accept his human son into my heart, the son that HE had to sacrifice on a stick in order to find it in HIS heart to forgive us.”
November 3, 2009 at 9:00 am
Now how do we get the natives to “believe” this humbug?
Let’s see…let’s give them some firewater, and guns, and shiney beads and makes them promises we will never keep. Then lets steal their kids, cut off their hair (and foreskins while we’re at it) and prevent them from speaking their own language and beat them and rape some and then tell them God loves them. Oh, and of course take away their land.
We are such proud “christians”!
November 3, 2009 at 11:37 am
When you know for certain you are right, you can justify anything. Even flying airplanes into towers., That is what makes religion so dangerous.
November 2, 2009 at 7:16 pm
and…..omg Davey you are loved sooooooo much!
November 2, 2009 at 7:17 pm
He’s jus a lovable guy!
November 2, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I immediately smiled after reading today’s post. I will definitely try to make heaven on Earth, I just love your prospective.
November 2, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Like you david i was raised catholic and went to catholics schools and im also gay, but what im trying to say is how can there not be a God or heaven look at all the love in this world. All of our memories, thoughts, and emotions, we are here for a reason. To love.
I think it’s really cool how u always say peace out and i love you in your vids so im going to share the love. lol I luv ya to.lol
November 2, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Ok david like you im gay and was raised in a catholic school system, but what im trying to say is how can there not be a God, look at all the stuff we experience on a day to day basis, emotions, memories, even love. I know there is a God and i know there is a heaven cuz there is so much love to go around. Oh i think its really cool how u say i luv you guys in some of your youtube vids so im returning the love, i luv ya to lol
November 2, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Brilliant. You contain many imprints, grasshopper.
Have a great day!
November 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm
“The appropriate question is, “How can I make a heaven a reality?”
Reality will never be like heaven. It is simply the reality of the human condition. Nothing will ever be perfect and there will always be good and bad.
Only someone delusional could convince themselves otherwise.
November 2, 2009 at 10:41 pm
“The appropriate question is:
‘How do I live my life as though everyone contains a spark of the divine?’”
Transcendentalist idea. Whitman describes this in the 19th century.
November 2, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Is typing messages and sending them out to the internet to be read by people you will never have a real experience with the best way to live your life?
This is ironic.
November 2, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Are those questions really wrong? Or do they just not fit your philosophy? After all, right and wrong are subjective judgments.
March 2, 2010 at 2:40 am
Agreed. Every question is relatively subjective and a matter of opinion. Questions that fit into one persons philosophy may not fit into another.
November 3, 2009 at 12:58 am
absolutely!!!!
November 3, 2009 at 1:59 am
Students asked a Master when the end of the world would be. He replied that there were two: the Lesser end of the world, when his wife died, and the Greater when he died.
November 3, 2009 at 7:46 am
“Because life is a living, breathing work of art, you are a painting as you go. Be a masterpiece. Drink in life. Laugh too loud. Compliment others constantly.” – Nicole Johnson
November 3, 2009 at 9:33 am
The first one is really wise.
We wonder if there is life after death. This is not what we should think about. We don’t fully live our lives and we think about what happens next. If you live life to the full, you don’t need a second one.
November 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Oh, Dave. There is no “right” or “wrong.”
November 3, 2009 at 5:46 pm
that is good, I have to say.
November 3, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I have to agree that questions about life after death and heaven etc., are meaningless. Aside from myths, no one comes back from the dead. Once dead, always dead.
Yet the connections we make while we live and the changes we make in our world, for better or for worse, do live on after us. So, at least metaphorically, we do live on in and through the influences that we pass along because of the way we live our lives and the lives that we touch.
Gods are simmply the creation of the human mind. We invent them as we invent the myths that embody their stories, Jupiter, Zeus (two different names for one deity), Hera, Isis, Orisis, Thor, Jehovah (YHWH), God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, etc., are all inventions of this amazing thing we have – the human brain/mind. We make them in our image and likeness, not they us in theirs.
We are responsible for the creation of value, of meaning, of love, of justice, of hope, of all that is good and true. The Universe has no purpose, no meaning, and is fundamentally indifferent to our success or failure both as individuals and as a species. When we understand that we really become free agents – free moral agents.
November 3, 2009 at 11:56 pm
It’s interesting that you posted this today. I’ve spent the past few months caring for / worrying about / and convincing my parents to seek treatment for different forms of cancer that they each have. All is ~finally~ good on that front; they’re each seeking appropriate and acceptable treatment for themselves.
I find it interesting that for some the discussion was about the (non)existence of a Higher Power and the further questions it raises. As nobody can prove that there is life after death, nor it’s opposite, then those beliefs are very personal. Those that have reported NDE and / or returning have generally been met with scorn and confusion from the “scientific” community. We must remember that just bc something cannot be conclusively proven, that is doesn’t follow that it has been disproven.
For myself, I do believe in what I see as the “Light”. My life continues to be a journey towards emulating what I ~feel~ that Light would have me do. I try to live to my fullest, treat others with kindness and respect and otherwise foster an environment in which others can discover their own “Light” should and when they choose.
I can’t concern myself with what happens after this life, although I have my own beliefs. All I can do is continue to live as I do and embrace the possibility that “after” will present me with continued challenges and opportunities to grow.
November 12, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Hey Davey,
On the first question, there is no death only change. (in context)
Kenneth Livingston