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We know nothing, but I find illusions comforting. The modern scientific theory of a importent part of the universe, with the most physical proof is quantem physics. And it says the universe dosn't exist when we don't look at it. Isay the if reality is an illusion, then illusions are reallity. I don't care if I live in a world of mist and abstracts, the importen thing is to LIVE. Life is a great adventure, So live it. Help those around you, make a splash, and live life well.  and the afterlife? Well, to quote peter pan "Death will be a great adventure"

Call me a looney bin with cheese on top, but have you ever noticed that the guy falling onto myst island looks like he is from the 8o's? It looks like he is wearing ( to me ) a jean jacket, with a mullet? plus those jeans?
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1018918440-00.jpg
what do you think?

But what are the major religions? 2000 years ago, give or take a few decades, Christianity was nothing more then a small sect of Judaism that thought the long promised messiah was a carpenter who had gotten himself executed. Weird huh? Or Islam, rich merchant who saw things then decides there is only one god, I mean, everyone knows there is more. Crazy.  Or the prince who left home and wealth, loony enough, but then thought that even that even being an ascetic wasn't holy enough for him. Idiot. Who knows what the next great religion will be. It may be some cult some weirdo starts in his back yard, based on old computer games. Ave Chrisi Jonsi sic 

It was just an idea I had, a long time ago. of course, right  now, I don't know what to think, so, take the idea or leave it. I ain't no fanatic.

I have had star trek dreams, as well as a few simpsons dreams, does it mean anything

I personely, when i  thought about that question, was the 'narnia' method that is, god came for them, in form that they would recognise, in the form of that speices. Of course, I am so likely wrong it doesn't bear thinking of.

[Imagine]

There is a poem that always sent shivers up my spine,
It describes the human condition in a way that makes you feel almost like an outsider.
ahem*

Imagine

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Imagine ghosts, gods and devils.

Imagine hells and heavens, cities floating in the sky and cities sunken in the sea.

Unicorns and centaurs. Witches, warlocks, jinns and banshees.

Angels and harpies. Charms and incantations. Elementals, familiars, demons.

Easy to imagine, all of those things: mankind has been imagining them for thousands of years.

Imagine spaceships and the future.

Easy to imagine: the future is really coming and there'll be spaceships in it.

Is there then anything that's hard to imagine?

Of course there is.

Imagine a piece of matter and yourself inside it, yourself aware, thinking and therefore knowing you exist, able to move that piece of matter that you are in, to make it sleep or wake, make love or walk uphill.

Imagine a universe - infinite or not, as you wish to picture it - with a billion, billion, billion suns in it.

Imagine a blob of mud whirling madly around one of those suns.

Imagine yourself standing on that blob of mud, whirling with it, whirling through time and space to an unknown destination.

Imagine!

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That is what we are, and if there is nothing after, well I am sorry, but what we do have and what we know, is infinitely special. unlike 99.999....% percent of matter in the universe, we are ALIVE! And even more special, we are AWARE! We can look at the stars and ask, we can look at the Earth and ask...and we can look at ourselves, AND ASK! Though I would love an afterlife, but if there isn't I hope I go peacefully into the final night.

Reminds me of my early work, similer colours and angles in fact. mine was not nearly as compitent though.

To quote some long dead dude, " 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' "What I find flawed about the 'soul' concept, is that people explain human conciseness, an almost irreducibly complex concept, with something Ã, simpleas a vapor Ã, or a liquid. or ectoplasmic goo. an infinitly branching tree would be more likely.

One of my favourite discworld concepts is the "auditors of reality" The idea of the world working by nice orderly deterministic laws, and WE are the things that don't, just makes me grin, thump my chest, and say "I am ALIVE!" For a brief time, some of the dust the cosmos, coalesced into something that can move and think (whatever THAT is) and love. and after that we crumble back to dust. But for that brief moment the was MORE then matter and energy. Ã, 

I felt "the winter rose" could have used a bit more work at the end. I don't know, something. I just felt it needed a bit more work. But the same complaint can be made about many AGS games, even the good ones.

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3d to me is how you use it. I think Grim used 3d well, but MI4, though rather pretty, didn't use it effectively. This isn't to do with games, but, in general, I dislike cel-shaded 3d. 3d and 2d are completely different arts, one has natural perspective, and the other has to be crafted. I don't think one should try to 'fake' the other

The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it... White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."

I always thought that was the most hair prickling beautiful things I ever read. Ã, And when Ian MacLennin said it, Man, shiver me timbers, it felt almost mystical. And no I wasn't high.
Unless I am naturally high.
Maybe only some people experience an afterlife because only they can withstand the shock of utterly total sensory deprivation. And maybe…who knows, this is all speculation, but hey, THAT is what makes us human.

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Gods! That was funny! I once tried chicken jerky, it looks like human skin

An interesting scientific fact is that, theoretically, you can use next to no energy to create information, but to forget HAS to take energy.(i could be wrong, read that in a hard sci-fi book, as well a book on quibits and information theory) So...who knows, it may mean nothing.

thanks! to both of you thanks!

Faith is a tool, it can build cathedrals, create health care, help the homeless, preserve learning, feed the hungry help orphans and lepers. It can convince a woman to give her entire life to help others, and can convince a prince to give up a kingdom to find truth, it can convince a scientist the world has natural laws to be discovered. Faith is how you use it. Some use it as an excuse to be xenophobic, others use it as a source of strength to reach out and help others.

I've done that a few times, I figured out I was dreaming. ( in the dream, I was dead, and I was going through this office building, with a whole bunch of other people, and I saw a sign, "this way heaven" and another "this way hell" the idea of the choice being so simple, made me realise it was a dream) anyway, being horny little basterd, I went up to the nearest woman I saw, and erm... started doing the dirty deed. then I heard my mom, yell in a high and mighty, pissed off old school marm, voice from the clouds, "shame, SHAME!" and it tossed me out of the lucid state. The dream went on, but I don't remember it much, I woke up some time after. I was smirking.

Thanks for the tips , here hoping.

personaly, the gaia theory scares the dikons out of me, I don't want to be recycled, I want to be me. sure living life as duck would be nice, but I like living, aware and free, and well the idea of joining a Cosmic awarness, is not my idea of paradise

But why does much of humanity FEEL as if there is an afterlife? When they did sign language experiments with apes, Cocoa, when asked what death was, she signed "Sleep" It may not mean much, it begs the question, why did human think this in the first place?