"I always find it greatly amusing when I listen to drunks wax philosophically. What is funny is that they make more sense drunk then they do when they have full acknowledgement of what they say. Drunks are like a child, they are more apt to say what they really mean because they don't have full control. Usually that is a bad thing, but maybe sometimes we all need to get drunk so we can understand existence and clear the air." -Son of Disaster At least that is my usualy musing. Existence is a funny thing. One moment we exist and the next our bodies exist but the soul/essence/being is gone to heaven/hell/or it just ceases to exist. My problem with the heaven and hell and the ceasing to exist answers is that it doesn't work at all. I mean doesn't one of Newton's laws of Thermodynamics say that energy can neither be created nor destroyed? Well, if that is really the case, then why when we die, does our energy, soul, whatever you call it either cease to exist or go to some higher plane? Doesn't that take energy out of our system then? When you ponder that, I at least, start to think that maybe the universe isn't a closed system because if our being escapes or ceases to exist, then we are losing energy yet gaining it. I'm sure religious folks could create a fancy answer for this, but God can only fail so many times, can't it, before it isn't considered perfect? Or maybe this, maybe our being is recycled? I'm not saying reincarnated however. Judaism believe that everything has a soul...at least if I remember correctly. So then when something is destroyed, does the soul of say a rock, go to heaven or is it reused somehow? Oxygen is always here, it goes through a cycling process where it goes back and forth between oxygen and carbon dioxide, so why can't say our souls, be recycled? I guess you'd call that reincarnation, wouldn't you? Or maybe our universe really is an open system and not closed. If the multi-verse theory which seems to be more and more plausible, exists, then it allows for an open system between the various universes. Maybe heaven and hell are all parts of this multi-verse system and we can't comprehend them so we call them, heaven and hell? Who knows. Still, a multi-verse would allow for the cycling of energy throughout whatever the multi-verse exists in, energy would never cease and after the energy has sped up, then the multi-verse would crash and restart itself. The problem would be, we are still breeding, how come we still breed yet still not run out of souls? Well there are thousands on thousands of deaths every year but they still outweigh the populations growth, well maybe in another universe then opposite is true, thus we're getting what that multi-verse shoots out. Or better yet, with our slowly dwindling natural resources and animals, maybe those things being is being used in humans? It's just a thought, but nonetheless and interesting one. But like I said, maybe sometimes we should use an outside substance to understand things better...who knows, maybe some drunk son of a bitch will figure all this out, heh.