the subject of life after death, do you believe in it, can you have life after death without a god, what will it be like, heavan and hell and is there any religion that doesn’t believe in it?
no i dont believe in it. i think not believing it makes me value my life more.
i don’t really know. and i’m not really all that bothered at this point in my life. i probably will be when i get nearer to it, say … 18? counts the weeks (6)
i’m sure opinions on it will change later in life for a lot of us. for some of us not. i know that, believe in it or not, i’m very sceptical about the whole heaven and earth thing. on the other hand, there’re a lot of unexplained things which happen. and also, who knows what we’ll have discovered in another thousand years? (as ‘‘antihero’’ pointed out, we’ll be a little warmer then … another reason to be sceptical).
i don’t believe in the after life, if it is proved beyound all doubt then yes i would, but at the minute i don’t see how a bunch of atoms can be more than that. as for unexplained things, shit happens and not everything is able to be explained.
okay, so i believe in heaven and hell, but not in God.
and i think a lot of people believe in life after death because they want to have something to believe in, not because it actually exists. kind of like a security blanket. death is a very scary thing for some people (i.e. me) and i personally i don’t want to think of it as “boom, that’s it, you’re dead and gone”, and i know other people feel the same way.
i also feel the same way about religion. i don’t think it’s at all true, or particularily believeable. maybe i’m just going through a ‘science says this…let’s all believe science’ stage and maybe i’m not.
and i think church is off-putting because, when you’re five, you want to sleep on sunday morning, or watch cartoons, not sit somewhere really, REALLY cold, while some old guy with a beard talks about something you don’t really understand, or appreciate, for and hour or however long it is. they used to have to bribe me with sweets! yay!
I never understand when people say “i believe in this but i don’t believe in that.” What are you basing this on? Obviously I respect your views and you can believe whatever you like but I’m interested to know why you believe in heaven and hell but not God? The idea of heaven and hell comes primarily from christianity, which obviously claims that God does exist. Why then do you reject God, but not heaven and hell? Just interested to know…
I think it is a Bad Idea ™ to believe in an afterlife or God just because you are shit scared of dying. Yes it’s comforting and its also comforting to take a huge dose of morphine but it just pushes you further away from reality. Personally, I feel more alive because I don’t believe in after-life which means that this is it and I’ve jolly well got to make the most of it.
I’m scared of dying young
i’m not scared of dying youg, i’d rather die young than live to be 90 and die in pain. i’m not scared of death as such, it’s the realisation that nothing is on the otherside is more scarry, even hell is better than nothing becuase you would still exist.
A man that I admire once told me, “All that spiritual sh*t is an excuse. At first it was a form of control and now it is an excuse. People are too afraid of non-existence, it scares them to death. To think that we live for eigthy some odd years and then we aren’t even concious to understand that we did live those years. It sucks!”
I don’t completly agree, but I do think we are afraid of not thinking, not perceiving.
We can only speculate about it. My version is: maybe our souls came from the Universe and took on human body in order to accomplish a mission. After our human body dies our souls regress to > from where they came. How this works techically is questionable. UFO’s too, possess powerful engines, which our scientist are unable to understand. So, it’s feasible that our souls possess the same engine???
The fact that we are free to act positively or negatively indicates that we will be held responsible for our actions here on Earth and dealt with upon our return to the Power of the Universe. (So, behave accordingly!) The Hindus believe that we will reincarnate according to our actions on Earth. Thus, if we misbehaved we might return as a rat or worse… and we were good we will reincarnate as a noble person. Only speculations… jjj
Since we all don’t know what the future holds for us (after we die), why not try to make the best out of our lives now? I cannot see how talking about academic, philosophical theories will eventually improve our quality of life?
I reason our young people need pragmatic, know-how advice on how recognize and develop their inherited needs, how to get rid of their negative pre-dispositions, how to make it to a wonderful partner relationship, how to bring back love to children, why grandparents are vital etc. etc.
I’m afraid, those of us, who don’t care about these issues, will never make it to quality of life. Considering the alternative, it should be fairly easy to decide pro quality of life. jjj
Macca I hope you read this because even though you might not believe in life after death or heaven or hell there is a purpose to the life we all live. I also understand you probably might not believe in God and that what I will say may not make much sense to you. I am an avid reader of the bible and I asked myself that question because frankly it is scary to believe that all that happens after you die is absolutely nothing at all. We don’t go to heaven or hell as many believe. In fact macca its not biblical fact, and no matter how much you scrutinize the bible it will never say that. Different religions preach it but the bible which is the word of God himself never talks about such a place as hell or going to heaven when we die. The bible does talk about a slumber we go into, but thats all it says happens after physical death. You simply go to sleep and your soul, which isn’t active or wandering about somewhere, remains asleep till your awaken. Now its a sleep you can’t wake out of, and the reason its spoken as sleep because when we sleep we aren’t technically dead just unconcious from all life around us. In this case we are physically dead to those around us but not to God. So in essence we are just asleep before the eyes of God, and he will awaken us. Now our little planet floating in space does have a time limit, and one day God will come back to resurrect and give immortality to those that deserve it. See we weren’t designed to be born and then just die out of existence with no hope of any future. We were design to live eternally with God and forever be with him and grow in knowledge of him and his created works. Sin contaminated our planet and forfeited perfection and parted from us our life source which is God. According to the bible Adam and the people before the biblical flood lived in the span of 1000 years, and not 60 or 80. Slowly we have become weaker and weaker and God must come or we will fade out of existence. Even men of science percieve that sooner or later we will destroy ourselves in one way or another. Of course if this world is to be destroyed it will be God and not man, but God isn’t on some mission to kill, but save. Only those that truly seek the truth will know it and I know this might not be much but only God knows how to open a heart. So I hope this isn’t written in vain.
There cant be anything we can even beginning to imagine after death, imaging itself is the whole problem. People tend to look to thamatologies to solve this problem of whats after life, the self, the time-present only to know nothing more then before. It kinds of puts a damperner on life knowing your going to die.
Is the glass always half full? Maybe we have a essense, a soul and can contact it through necromancy, but still, i’ll never know. Maybe its a state of Nirvana, pure nothing, which is what were not in our living thinking world.
Id go with nothing and atheism, for eternity… which is pretty crap to say the least and makes life seem a little pointless and stupid. So while im here i might as well have sex (which when you’ve not had a bit of love for some time, life gets a little more apathic and annoying ) - and laugh at a illogic, pointless but never the funny world.
Is there an afterlife? Well…
I doubt it.
The idea of “life after death” seems like a contradiction of terms to me.
Some things are just faith assumptions.
I’ll tell you what, if there is, and I die first, I’ll come back and tell ya.
Personally, I think it’s a fanciful concept which is of little importance.
I imagine that after you die it’s the same as before you were born
there is no after, you can only be alive to be dead!