What do you think happens after we die?I have two theories about what happens after we die:1. There is no after life. Being dead is a form of resting.2. There is a higher power and an after life. Our souls still live after our bodies die.Existence is incredible and beyond our comprehension so we don't know if a creator created everything and is pulling all the strings. Things like seeing the light in near death experiences can be a sign that there is a higher power and an afterlife.I used to comfort myself by believing in Jesus and that I go to heaven but I am not sure what to believe anymore.
>>41215441https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDPzsCpUQIvidrel. good album, it is a story about a man crossing Acheron (the other river like Styx) to hunt and kill Cerberus. you would probably like a listen.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheronabout your question, what happens later in the myths about "crossing the river" involve some sort of situation where you are presented with two waters to drinkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosynewhere you can choose to remember or forget the memories of this life before going to the "next place", wherever that is. you will also notice that in the subsequent religions, they continued the tradition of a river dividing our world to the next. the term Supreme Pontiff for the Pope, and other lower pontifical offices are where pious, another dervied term from the pont root, will pontificate to the masses. either way, not to worry, since you will have an escort to help you not get lost.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp#Ancient_religionthe term "pomp" is yet another etyonymic derivative of "pont", meaning the holy order of all things. you will recall the phrase "pomp and circumstance" to refer to that, meaning what happens from the will of God and the circumstances in which we find ourselves is something for is to consider when making decisions and seeing the consequences. in any case, Charon is the one I like the most. if you pay him, he will help you cross, if you give him any trouble, he will swat you across the face with the oar and let the creatures of the river devour you.so don't do that when you meet him.
>>41215513also, a pet theory of mine is that while we do translate the spelling of Acheron as such, and the psychopomp Charon as such... looking at the original Greek shows a more obvious link. to be more accurate, we could translate the spelling to Cheron and Acheron, or Charon and Acharon, so long as that vowel is preserved across the two of them. the a- prefix generally denotes a nullification, not an inversion. for example, social and asocial are not the same as social and antisocial. in this respect, Charon is not just "the man of the river" he *is* the river, and a small part of which has manifested as a man, meaning "not the river".in this sense Charon/Acheron would mean the man being an extension of the river, not a distinct entity. when in the myths a person disrespects that river, the flow of which causes the order of all things, they are reprimanded in a similar manner to those who disrespect the seas and oceans. no surprise, being a water myth.
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>>41215553also, last time I will reply to myself to not sound like a nut.in greek, words rooted in the "kuh" sound are generally those related to crossing, traveling, guiding, and steering. kubernetes, for example is the steersman of a boat or ship, while Chiron is a guiding teacher to Achilles, and Charon, with a hard K rather than "shuh-rone", indicates more towards this structure which pervades that ancient language.to more accurately spell the pronunciation, Karon/Akaron would make more sense, as an entity with a K name is related to guiding, escorting, crossing, on a river named with a K. the X symbol, as in "cayenne", is also used just as often in this regard. symbolically, that crossing/intersecting type of character used in written language is typical, while other "smooth" letters are usually those involved in love/warmth/smile etc... K and X (pronounced hard, not sloshy), usually indicate just that, crossing.Greek. half conlang, half art.
>>41215441My worry is our spirits only last a little while after death before it fades away into nothing. Or worse our spirit is a tiny microbe or something in the brain that sits in the dark until it rots away.
