No.

But I no longer subscribe to organized religion.

I believe one should have a private relationship with his god, whoever he conceptualizes him/her/it to be.

Tycho: I have come to appreciate the provocative way your mind works, even at those times I find myself disagreeing with you. But on the topic of resurrection, I fear we are missing out on something important, perhaps because of the distraction with the issue of dying.

The obsession that humans have for immortality is one resistance to the illusion we call life on earth. We know, deep within us that we are immortal, that in fact we elected to go into this dream of earthly existence for specific reasons. But the dream has become so powerful that few of us can see beyond it without help.

We have even called amongst us such masters as Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha, Bahaulah, Zoroaster etc to help us awake.

At some point this penchant for immortality became conflated with the longevity, of lack of it, of the human body. The point that our sojourn here is merely a blip on an a massive trip through eternity got completely lost.

As often happens both science and religion have weighed in on the matter, in the process causing lots of confusion and missing the true point completely. One of the sages named above is said to have remarked on this irony, that "the same people who want to live for eternity do not know what to do with themselves on a Sunday afternoon," especially now that the Premier league is off.

How strange.

But which authority is this? God? Your parents? The local Chief?


Sorry if my questions above sound facetious. I could not help it.

But, seriously, you sell yourself very short here. Your life is not owed to a legitimizing authority. You are an infinite, multidimensional entity that happens to be having an experience, one of many, as a human BEING. You are God playing small.

Our Earth walk involves many strange things including: playing at being limited; pretending separation and doing everything we can to create a consensus reality (an unconscious attempt to recreate unity). In this drama many illusions become all encompassing including: that our life is limited to the experience on earth or that we are subject to a legitimizing authority. But none of this is real.

At the risk of sounding tedious I repeat: we are not our bodies; we are not limited to the period our bodies can exist; this experience we are having on earth is important but just one of many; we never die; we are primarily non physical beings having a physical experience, for a time; we are only limited by those barriers that we can build, no more.

Non human societies like those of ants or Chimps have their own legitimators that may differ from human institutions only in degree.

Everything in the universe is limited, even the universe itself is limited. Even God, I have come to realize, is limited. So the proposition that humans are unlimited is not only false, but probably also misguided.

The reasons for my assertion are based on the evidence of laws, and form. In that all things are governed by laws, and all things are energic.

Because of this, all things will transform to other things and not just maintain what we may call immortality, but all things are reversible.

When you, @Wakanyugi says, 'we' you enter into legitimization, albeit, unconsciously. All language, all communication, even at the most basic forms of being like strings or even the most elementary particles exhibit legitimization. Legitimization isn't a crutch. It's the way of nature.

But I can understand why you'd take a negative view of it. One reason could be how oppressive it may be in reality. 'Black lives matter' may be an example.

The good news is that by understanding how legitimization works we can outgrow some of the disadvantages that come with it. We can learn to optimize our abilities and experiences better.

I'd be most inconsiderate not to allow you a break. I think I also need one. But before that, thank you so much for your thought and company.