This isn't religious
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Thread Topic: This isn't religious
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But I like it. Quoted from Facebook:
"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.
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I skimmed through it, because it honestly seemed like a tl;dr text, but I still read it. At the end bit, sie's basically saying that no energy is gone? Yeah, that's true then.
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TL;DR when you die your energy is still there and technically you still exist, by the First Law of Thermodynamics.
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I would love for a physicist to do that for me.
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Bump, I really like this and want it to be seen again.
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Just the energy won't be enough for them.They need "him",who he was,not his energy.That might even hurt them more,making them remember him every moment.It makes it harder to move on.
The thought of him being gone,in peace,living happily forever would be much more comforting for them.The thought that they will see him again in another world is even more comforting.
I don't know,but the thought of my lost one's energy be constantly around me while he himself is gone is very...bad to me. -
I would rather someone tell my family that what I was will live on and be able to PROVE it. Than have someone LIE to my greiving family and tell them that I'm in some mystical paradise.
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It just means you're still around, but in a different place and general state, which I would imagine to be just as normal as life itself. Maybe you don't go to a paradise with gold houses and roads, but none of that is going to matter to you in the end.
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No,what you were won't live.It'll be just your energy.You're not just energies now right?
And whatever it is,I believe in another world. -
What is life but energy in organic material? What is identity but the arrangement of particles in a given space?
Maybe saying "I" will still live on was a hasty statement. My identity won't exist. Or at the very least, my identity will no longer be attached to my energy. But the energy will still be there. It will disperse and be absorbed into the world around me. That LIFE will still go on. -
Niecey Newbiekinda off topic but wow people are so emotional around deaths
it might be because i'm a sociopath or a horrible person but at my grandmother's funeral i was surrounded by crying family but i didn't feel anything -
Niecey Newbiedont get offended because i felt bad for not feeling sad
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Maybe you're right.If they get over his death,believing his energy is still there makes you feel better too.
The problem is just me who can't get over it easily. -
Tritanopia NewbieI like the idea that we don't just stop existing. Even if it's not quite the same as spirits.
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