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What do you believe happens to you after you die? Does your spirit stay alive? Does your spirit go anywhere after you die? Does practicing a particular religion or being "saved" really make a difference in what happens after you die??
Anyway, where does your spirit go?
| Heaven/Hell type place as described by a religion | 8 | |
| Reincarnation | 4 | |
| Some higher non-religious place | 2 | |
| Nowhere, your existence is over permanently | 14 | |
| Remain on Earth as a spirit | 1 | |
| Other, please comment | 2 |
I wouldn't waste a second of this, your one GUARANTIED life, in hopes that there is anything hereafter.
IMO there isn't and I sincerely hope that I am correct. After this grand adventure, nothing sounds better than eternal sleep. I think the traditional idea of heaven would be more like hell, for me. Sitting around on a pink cloud, strumming a harp for eternity? No sex, no drugs, no rock and roll; hell for sure.
I don't believe in an afterlife, but I have always seen the concept of one differently.
If you are capable of getting bored, that would not be perfect and therefore not heaven. If you can't do the things you love, that is not perfect and therefore, it is not heaven.
Because this would lead to contradiction (a Mormon and a gypsy would not be able to exist in the same heaven because there pleasures would not be ideal for the other), I feel everyone would have their own personal heaven. Perhaps like different dimensions where each person lives out the best life possible over and over again without ever knowing that they are in heaven.
Not that any of that matters. Just a thought experiment.
Why would you sincerely hope that you are correct? Wouldn't you rather transition and be welcomed into an unimaginably better, greater and magnificent existence in some kind of energy / spirit realm and body?
I think your idea of heaven is misinformed. Who says heaven is sitting around on a pink cloud strumming a harp? Of course that would be boring not to mention stupid. What if it's something infinitely greater and better than anything you can possibly imagine?
If there's a God and therefore a heaven don't you think it would be in God's power to arrange something even greater than the best earthly sexual experiences? And better than the best drug and music experiences?
If gawd had any 'power' at all, wouldn't you think he might use it once in a while to protect the innocents of THIS world?
This life is what everyone gets. Dreaming of another is just a waste of what is for what might be. I am not built that way. I wouldn't sacrifice one tiny instant of this life for more money, a different love or some pipe dream of a future after I die.
your view of heaven sucks, I wouldn't want to go there, either. plenty of other religions have sex in heaven, thank God. :P
I don't know if there's life after death but I'm bringing a change of underwear just in case.
I think your spirit lives forever. We are made of energy. Technically we should live forever.
The only question is will our spirit be a conscious state when removed from body(brain?)
I like to think there is an after life. But at the same time I'm not too concerned with death.
I'm a (bad) Christian. But I believe Jesus is lord and will be merciful on most.
But I also don't believe in pushing religious ideals on others. That includes religions of non-religion, Atheists.
Every individual has a right to their own set of beliefs, because there is no proof or disproof of any of it. You will only know for certain when you are dead as will I.
Bean Bag Buccaneers is a two player children's game, the object of which is to pick up your treasure chest on the central island and sail back safely.
Each player has a giant sailing ship as their main game piece. Each ship has a removable sail, two trigger-action side panels, and a huge spring-driven cannon. Players take turns moving forward along a prescribed track and shooting bean bags at their opponent's ship. A hit on one of the side panels will force it to pop off and give the player a free shot at the other side; a hit forcing the sail off becalms the ship for a turn.
To add to the pirate flavor, each player also has an eye patch. Wearing these will slightly affect depth perception and add a marginal bit of sport to the shooting.
This game retailed for the somewhat impressive sum of $16 back in 1962. With its huge plastic ships (close to a foot long), giant vinyl play mat, and the eye patches, it may well stand as one of the more overproduced games of the early 1960s.
I can only hope so. I find it depressing with the thought after all this is over we go into an indefinite state of oblivion. I hope something of me lives on in some way, shape or form.
Maybe you have always existed and will always exist, only not in a way that's understandable to a human mind. Nobody really knows the truth, it is all speculation.
I'm not sure what I stand on the whole heaven and hell thing but I agree with gyspsy that it's pointless to think about. For all we know this IS the only life we are guaranteed. Certainly the only life we have in flesh, which makes it an unique experience that I wouldn't so readily pass up.
Besides if the curtains close and that's it, it wouldn't be so bad.
You remain on earth as a spirit until you choose to reincarnate. If u wre a bad person in life you can't, or you are forced into the body of a sea star or cockroach or something. You can choose to wait as a spirit for your loved ones to live out their lives and watch them, the lower light/energy spectrum that spirits exist in can be molded into whatever they desire. Any room, any building, Any place, any food, any animal, it can become anything you will. Which is why people with near death experiences get confused and think it's heaven, because it becomes their idea of heaven. Ask any genuine psychic medium. They'll tell you something similar.
I'm in between religions, so to speak right now. I'm into Eastern Religions/Philosophy and am looking to practice a mixture of Buddhism with Taoism.
In Buddhism, one on hand - levels of afterlife are talked about yet on the other, according to some sources, Buddhists believe in a continuous, unending cycle of reincarnation.
While I do believe in reincarnation, I don't believe that the cycle is unending.
While there's scholarly debate on what Taoist's views on death are, Taoists generally believe in an eternal life. I do believe that the soul lives on.
fuck spirit and fuck after life ... I'm more concerned with this life .........
as ive said before; the reason i don't believe in the afterlife is because I can't remember a beforelife.
I agree with Gypsy, on his first point. I don't want to waste this life following some restrictive set of rules made up by one religion or another in hopes of upping my chances of, or "guaranteeing", a good afterlife. But as a scientist, I have to ponder the question. I think this life is just a small part of the life of my consciousness. After this life, I'll go off somewhere else - another body, another dimension, another reality, or maybe just a place where people are cool and there's always cold beer on tap.