Afterlife

I like to know things and not believe stuff that isn't proven. However, using logic, I don't think there's an afterlife. Everything probably already existed long before we were born. The particles we were all made of were put together to create us. When we die, the particles become something new but not as in we are reborn but as in we become nutrients for plants and animals. That way our particles become part of them and when they die they become part of other things. The circle of life. This is very simplified but I hope you understand what I mean.

I think Afterlife is a human construct to either feel better about dying or to evoke fear in people of either going to hell or being reborn into a bad life when they aren't kind. Sadly, this often doesn't work, just look how hateful and bad people are.

 

It's hard to say. I like to take a less conventional view, and believe that my actions today will add to a better humanity in the future. Take a single cell: alone, it doesn't do much, but when combined with millions or billions of others? We went from being hunter gatherers to where we are now in just a few short millennia.

I think its pretty amazing we're having this conversation, actually. I doubt most other species would care to. For them, its just relying on instinct... eat, sleep, crap, mate, die. Its presumptuous to say you *know* what happens, unless you've been there, which we haven't.

 

I like to believe that, when I die, my spirit will travel all the multiverse...endless entertainment.

 

I couldn't have said it any better.

 

In my psychology course, I have to do a really big research project on afterlife. Surprisingly, there actually is evidence to support an afterlife. Many people have done little experiments and such and basically, it's not impossible at all for an afterlife to exist!!
Anyway, I always have believed in an afterlife. I'm not religious exactly, but I think I'd go mad if I didn't believe in one. I need to believe that I'll see some people again...

 

I believe in Heaven and Hell, it's hard for me to believe that this is all there is and that all this is coincidental...

 

Libertino makes an interesting point here. I could never follow a religion like the one he describes where earth seems ultimately secondary to some lofty afterlife in the clouds. That's a big part of why I am a Christian. The Bible is clear that we are not meant to spend eternity separated from the earth we once lived on. The ultimate goal of Christianity is not to end the earth, but rather to save it. The book of Revelation teaches that all of creation will one day be redeemed, and earth and heaven will become one. Those who trust in Christ will spend an eternity ON earth, and it will be an earth devoid of every social ill that plagues it today. So I believe what we do on earth now matters greatly. If God thinks the earth is worth saving, I definitely want to be a part of that.

 

When you die, you're dead. That's it. Your brain stops working, your heart stops beating: you're dead. I don't like the idea of an afterlife. The idea that one day I'll be gone and nothing will matter is the most comforting thing ever.

 

After what happened here on Monday I really hope there is an afterlife.

 

What about the concept of one trip to Earth and that is it? Yet, we existed before coming to Earth and exist after. While we are here, it is our test to see how we deal with being away from the presence of God. So, this is not the reality, but a temporary place in our journey. This is our first time to have a body, but it is something we will get back after a resurrection occurs. Then, there is a lot of creative work to do beyond that. So basically, this is a short trip to "camp" to find ourselves and come back better than when we left. This would mean we are eternal in nature having a mortal experience.

 

I'm the simplistic type that feels once it's over, it's over; the big sleep.

 

I don't believe there's anything after death. You just stop existing.

Therefore, the thought of death itself doesn't really scare me. Eternal unconsciousness isn't scary. It's more the thought of dying before I have lived this life to the fullest, and before I have done everything I want to do, that scares me.

 

Amen. I'm sure the concert goers who were killed felt the same way in their final moments.

 

I think of afterlife in the same manner. Our matter and energy going back into the earth.

 

I've never met anyone else who thinks this, but sometimes I like to think that the afterlife reflects the individual's expectations or hopes for it. I know some people think God is somehow in every religion or changeable according to people's expectations, so it doesn't seem like such a stretch to me. I don't really believe it on a practical level though, I usually see things more pragmatically.

 

When I die I'll cease to exist. So I'll rest when I'm dead. Even if for some weird reason I have to slay Satan and turn his home into a beautiful resort!