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"Remember thou art dust and unto dust thou shall return..."

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sandyRoe | 12:00 Wed 22nd Feb 2012 | Religion & Spirituality
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Do these dreadful words not at least send a frisson of foreboding through the stoutest of sceptics here in R&S on this, Ash Wednesday?
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No some pagans tend to believe we are part of the cycle born of the earth to return to it in due time to decay and be re used
Er, no. Isn't it precisely what sceptics do believe?
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I took it to mean that the corporeal part of us returns to dust. The important part goes on to face the judgement.
No I'm a happy Heathen, we are born , live die and then we physically rot away whilst perhaps something of us that is left is reborn-I don't buy into the Christian idea of birth, death, heaven and hell at all I'm afraid.
Nope. I'm quite happy to return to dust. I just don't want to be there when it happens (to coin a phrase).
Whats Ash Wednesday got to do with death? So is it a wind up or ignorance?
Dust is fine with me. I enjoy life.
"Excuse my dust" - D. Parker (& me)
Well i liked Dusty Springfield.
When I was younger I stopped an old lady in the street and said excuse me I hope you don't mind me saying but you've got a mark of something on your forehead...
We are quite literally stardust. I for one am happy to thinkmthat the corporeal part of me came from the stars and will enrich this planet.
Dying has the potential to be bad, being dead doesn't matter one jot.
True Waldorf, very true.
Sandy, you will have to explain what relevance ash wednesday has to a 'sceptic'. The words are not 'dreadful', they a statement of fact, albeit somewhat poetic. You seem to have more fear of death than the non-believers and you have a place booked in heaven (allegedly), don't you find that rather strange?
The beauty in being dead is that the means by which one might be conscious of it are no longer functional. On a conscious level we are immortal in that upon death the capacity for knowing no longer exists. Being alive is the scary part in that therein lies an alternative.
Exactly Mibs, what are all these disembodied souls going to do for eternity, glorify god?
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Jomifl, you question deserves a considered answer. I'll get back to it, if I may.
Ash wednesday is a day of repentance and it marks the beginning of Lent.
There is loads more information on google but I know how much you lot
hate cutting and pasting. Good job I don't know how to do links, still!
Take your time Sandy, you have an eternity to think about your reply.
I should repent? for what? I think remorsefulness might fit the bill a bit better

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