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If a person has many faces, look at the ugliest one. That way you know it can't get much worse than that.The answer to everything...
In my volitional seclusion one evening, I discovered what the real answer is to the meaning of life, the universe and everything and it isn't 43. Though, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy does explain that we can't know the answer to a question if we don't really understand the question. That being said, I feel I understand the question enough to say that the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything is that we are a simply an improbable fortuity.Europa
I found myself waking in what appeared to be a space station. It would make logical sense, to say the least. Plenty of white technological pieces surrounded me as I sat up from my rather tiny bed. The bed was comfortable despite its size. I couldn't help but think it reminded me of those TempurPedic commercials. After all, they were NASA technology. Getting out of the cramped space where I lay was not the most feasible feat I've done, but I got out of it slowly and headed down the corridor grabbing on to the sides to pull myself as gravity was limited. As I got closer to the cockpit, I took a peak outside the windows. There sat Europa, one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.We enclosed upon the georgeous moon like we were landing on our own moon orbiting Earth. Earth was no where in sight though. A soft landing later and we were touching the surface. There was myself and another man, mid-30s with dark short hair and an average build. He was the commander of the flight and my job was to gather samples from the surface of Europa. We put on our suits and headed towards the bottom of the ship. He was the first one down the ladder, being the first man to step on this distant planet. It wasn't soft, like our own moon, it was hard as ice. The surface was glossy and a whitish-blue color. It's never been touched before and there's no tracks to prove it. The commander carried the American flag across the surface as he glided like he was ice skating. I followed pursuit. We didn't know exactly how we'd walk on the surface, or whether it could even support us. When we moved, it was more like jump-ice-skating than anything else. I found it easiest to do an ice-skating motion. Not more than 20 feet further and we both slammed the flagpole into the ground as if claiming the moon belongs to us, America.
We gazed upon the distance and we see the sun far away. Almost like the brightest star in the night sky on Earth, just a little bigger. It was the first thing I wanted to look for, but of course there was one thing that stood out the most in my vision. The largest planet in our solar system stared right at me not too much further from the right of the sun; Jupiter. They eye of Jupiter was the most captivating sight I've ever seen. I was in heaven; a cold, frozen and distant world staring at the eye of Jupiter. I fell on to my knees at the sight of such beauty. For once, I felt like I was somewhere where I belong. It was a frozen landscape before me, with red-colored canals and Jupiter invading most of the sky with a distant bright star to the left of it. Unfortunately, we were not in the situation to live here yet. Someday though, we will...
NDE - Near Death Experiences
Even thought I have never personally experienced a near-death experience, I have read a lot about them to at least have an opinion of what actually happens. First, I must examine the two points:Point # 1 - Doctors have hypothetical explanations as to what causes all the effects of NDE's. Because your heart stops, your brain is begging for air and therefore you begin to hallucinate different visions. The tunnel of light we see is the circulation being cut off from your eye to your brain that tells you what you're seeing. Basically, it's similar to what we see in REM sleep. We see illusions of things that we remember like our families and friends. At this point your brain is trying to find something comparable to what we see as death.
Point # 2 - Everyone who has experienced a NDE has described it as a visual euphoria. The common viewpoint of what they see is them leaving their body, looking at it and then being a roof-top distance looking at friends and family. Sometimes, they will see people that have passed away during their life floating with them. Eventually, everything will start going dark as they begin to walk through the tunnel of light.
How can we look at this though? There's not enough scientific evidence to prove with a valid or invalid point. Although the scientific explanation is the simplest answer, not all things in life (or death) can have an accurately placed simple answer. Rather, we look at simple answers because they're so easy to explain. I had a dream maybe a decade ago where I honestly thought I was dead. I was at about the same distance as those who've experience NDE's (roof-top distance) and I was looking down at my body. I was with my grandfather, who I barely remembered since he died when I was 4, and we were watching my Mother crying into someone's arms. Could this have been scientifically explanable or was this a similar situation in which my spirit lifted up and I saw a point in my future or past?
In this one, I won't come up with a direct conclusion on which of these two points is true. Instead, I shall leave them open to intrepretation. Is it possible that there is an after-life and during our near-death experiences we are getting a glimpse of the after-life? Or is there an after-life but these experiences are caused by point # 1? Or is there no after-life at all?