Questions from a 5 year old, help!

[Astrocurious]

Hi everyone,
My daughter as of lately has been concerned about death and God. She asked me the other day, "do we really die mom?" I said, "No we continue on and go to heaven with our body underneath, we have a body underneath this one that is able to fly and do anything it wants, it's completely free." Then she asked "are we ever able to see God?" I said "Yes when we die but it's only this body you see that dies, we have another one...kind of like wearing a halloween costume and taking it off is like death, the costume is what dies." As a side note, I do not follow a specific religion, I claim to be a unitarian universalist and take things from different religions into defining what I believe.

Just now she said "Is this all a dream mom?" I said "what right now?" She said "Yeah, everything, are we dreaming?" I said "no we dream when we sleep." What would you have said?

[Arian Maverick]

Wow, this is one precocious five-year-old, asking such deep philosophical questions!

I fear this comment will spark another debate, but she sounds like a Crystal Child :)

Arian Maverick

P.S. I really liked the Halloween costume analogy.

[Liquid Green]

Wow.....very interesting questions your daughter is raising....i have no immediate idea of what i would have said.....I have a 3 year old.... i think how i would have answered if he had of asked, would depend alot on what i was doing at the time.....unfortunately
I have this notion that under 7's know something about there past lives, perhaps so to carry on from that belief.......I think i would probably tell my son that i dont know all the answers, and ask him what he thinks....i could possibly learn something. You sound like you have more answers than me!
I do like the answer to death....(i'll remember that!), but i think i would say that god is everywhere around us.....in the sun each day, the flowers and the birds....that type of thing. But nthing wrong with your answers at all....each person would answer differntly i guess.
Thanks for sharing, now i know i need to get my answers straight!

[Astrocurious]

I like that idea LG, that God is everywhere in the Sun, flowers, trees etc in the physical sense...I'll tell her that tomorrow. Because your right, I really don't have the exact answer...I want her to be able to know my beliefs, introduce her to all of them and tell her they are all different(the religions) because there are different kinds of people, like differing cultures, races, values, opinions, everyone is different so there are going to be differing beliefs...there is nothing that is considered singular, like for example dark/light, night/day cold/hot...etc etc. Make sense?

[starlink]

Astrocurious, hi, Well, I have indeed read that what we are living now, is indeed a dream. The other world where we think we will go to after death is apparently the real world, or so I read. Cant remember anymore where, but it was not so long ago, maybe an article, honestly cannot remember it anymore. But it did make an impression on me. Your little daughter might be very right indeed! But will we ever know?
Cheers, Star.

[tsquare]

Truths such as this are self evident....doesn't mean they arn't "real".
Tough question you recieved there astrocurious.

LG
I think i would probably tell my son that i dont know all the answers, and ask him what he thinks....i could possibly learn something. You sound like you have more answers than me!

I like that.

Personally I can remember getting crushed when I used to ask my parents questions like this.....the'd be like "no!" and I'd be like "whoa!". (laugh)
I can remember asking questions...not so much looking for answers......just seeing what others see for themselves.....while not necisarily looking for agreement......I can remember when I was a kid I would try to spark cognitions in my parents...I'd say "look over there" and they be like "grrrrr" and I 'd say "looK" and they say "it's just a **** tree!" and I'd say "ohh..." look over there!...and they'd look and go "ohh....it's a tree....huh?" and then I 'd run off and let them take a look at the tree that they only saw for themselves the first time.

[Astrocurious]

Thanks ya'll for all the replies! She is now playing with her dolls(barbies) and making them say (one of the things)"I'm going to save the world, I'm going to help everyone!":p Just thought I'd share that:) she's a liba sun.

[Liquid Green]

her rising?

you've got one clever little girl there.........getting those barbies to do something other than driving pink cars, and dressing up is really something!:D

[Astrocurious]

her rising?

you've got one clever little girl there.........getting those barbies to do something other than driving pink cars, and dressing up is really something!:D
Haha, some of the things she says suprises me!:p
Her rising sign is sagittarius, moon in taurus, mercury in libra, venus in scorpio and mars in virgo.

[Psiber_Space]

Those who seek enlightenment say that enlightenment is more awake than awake. What we consider to be the difference between the dream world and being awake is the same difference between being enlightened and awake. I often think about how limited my perceptions and thought processes are while I dream. How limited am I by being unenlightened?

Children are a whole lot wiser and profound than most adults are willing to give them credit for.