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    Default What's your "afterlife"?

    Do you believe in Heaven? Hell? Reincarnation? Simply ceasing to exist?

    I still don't know what I believe. I'd like to believe in Heaven because I want to see my kitties again. And I kind of want to believe in Hell because of the "We put the 'mental' in Fundamental" thread, although I really don't want even really cruel, stupid, vindictive people to be hurt--I just want them to learn how wrong they were. (If that lesson hurts, I'm okay with that.) But mostly I just think we stop. Death and then no more awareness.

    I don't know. I'm no expert. What do you think happens?


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    it's bleak and depressing, but i'm far too science minded to believe in anything other than the idea that we cease to exist. i believe we exist due to biological reasons, and when we die we simply are no longer there.

    i'd like to believe in a heaven or some other happy place because it's a far more comforting thought, but my brain just won't allow it.

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    Either reincarnation or being dispersed energy.

    Without sounding too strange, I feel confident there is something after this life. It's being revealed to me gradually...The Grim Reaper is a Striptease artist to me...



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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx View Post
    it's bleak and depressing, but i'm far too science minded to believe in anything other than the idea that we cease to exist. i believe we exist due to biological reasons, and when we die we simply are no longer there.

    i'd like to believe in a heaven or some other happy place because it's a far more comforting thought, but my brain just won't allow it.
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    I cannot believe that I am fundamentally different from, let alone superior to, any other form of life. Except for maybe my endless capactity to overthink and make things up--which is where I think heaven comes from.

    I think we die like flowers or cats or slugs or any other living thing. We go back into the earth and our energy is recycled in a very unmagical way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    Either reincarnation or being dispersed energy.

    Without sounding too strange, I feel confident there is something after this life.
    Ditto.

    Plus being dead doesn't scare or depress me. It seems more like a "moving on." It's not an end. It's a new beginning! (so cliche and corny but it's how I feel -- like the Death card in the tarot.)

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    I would love to believe in life after death, but I think we just cease to exist, or become some sort of higher being or energy.

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    I believe that I cease to exist physically yet psychically (thus spiritually) I am "dispersed energy" as such. The reason I do not believe in a heaven/hell is because time is not linear... it isn't past, present, future.

    All of those exist at the same time thus the idea of "past" lives doesn't "jive" with me. Instead, I see them as parallel lives as we are all connected in some way/form.

    The physicist in me believes this in a way.

    At the same time, for my emotional well-being, I believe in a mythological Summerland. It isn't heaven, it isn't hell, it is just The Summerlands. It is where we all go and we are all "even" in the end... even some of the most "evil" and "good" people in this world go there... why? each soul has its journey, its lessons, and thus we all go there to 'rest' before being 'born' again.

    Yeah, my "afterlife" beliefs aren't simple yet neither is life.

    I find comfort in my beliefs and I do not fear death due to it. I only fear death in that "to stay alive" kind of way if you get me? Tho' whether my actual transition is sudden (out of the blue) or over a period of time... won't matter... I still won't fear it when it happens.

    I'm very atheistic in my "afterlife" beliefs yet also Pagan.


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    I dunno; lately I'm in the belief that when I die, I won't be judged by anybody; I'll simply go somewhere on some other plane of existence where everyone I have loved and lost will be waiting to meet up with me again.

    I really don't understand believing in Heaven or Hell. I don't see the point in being 'God fearing' or obedient in order to get to some otherwordly 'Heaven'. How is one supposed to enjoy life if they're so wrapped up in trying to please some 'being' to get somwhere good when they die? How are you supposed to enjoy life if you are obsessing about death? I just don't get that school of thought I guess.

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    I can't decide, on one hand science is logical and convincing... but after many readings I've had, the information given is almost as equally convincing.

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    I die, decompose, and fail to notice that it's happening.

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    Compost. And not in a dark and depressing way...I think it's pretty rockin' that the molecules I'm lugging around in my body have been and will be part of many other lives.

    My consciousness wont carry on, but everything else in me is pretty much gonna be around forever. I gets an afterlife without religion! In yo' face, godz.


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    I want to say reincarnation/energy. However, it's hard for me to truly believe anything other than compost.

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    Yeah - when u r dead, u r dead... ( haha compost - I like that, just grind me up and put me bits in the corn field)

    I figure our only hope is that in the future, mankind builds a time travel machine. THen each succeeding generation can retrieve their parents and other loved ones. ... So dont piss off your kids and grandkids ...

    Now the universe could be reborn and the same old shit happens again tho I think Stephen Hawkins said that cant happen - he is such a downer.... ha ha

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    i'm with the 'dead and gone' option - I don't believe in an afterlife.

    Yet, there are two ways we can leave something of ourselves.

    a) We can have kids, in which case our genes live on after we are dead and gone.

    b) We can do something that will make us remembered after our deaths. As Sappho wrote 25 centuries ago:

    "The golden muses gave me
    true riches: when dead
    I shall not be forgotten".

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    I'm a nihilist. I believe in nothing. Afterlife and spirit make zero sense to me. Dottie and ColletteC have said it succinctly for me.

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    I'm hardly one for dogmatic religious notions, but I've had a couple experiences that I can only attribute to intervention by a Higher Power of some form.

    I'm comfortably agnostic, and open to the possibility that I lack the ability to comprehend the notion of an afterlife.

    But if I get there before the rest of you, I'll see what I can do about dropping you all a clue.
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    I'll be a wondering soul amongst the world bothering people and such. I'll play on the astral plane and do whatever I want.

    They'll have an orgy on my grave and big huge party where everyone laughs and has a great time. I'll put the fun back in FUNeral.

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    Fertilizer. Any transfer of conscience seems unlikely, to me. But, who knows, eh?


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    Unproven and unprovable. I've had experiences that cause me to think there's something else going on outside of our matter and energy cycle. On the other hand, it could've just been natural phenomena that I don't know about.

    Believe or not believe, I've always liked this philosophy. I don't know if Albert actually said it, but it's nice.






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    I believe in the afterlife. I think some of us still stick around when we die. I've had too many experiences not to believe in ghosts. It's kind of comforting to think that we still hang around and watch over our loved ones. Then again I'm a jealous person at times and it would suck to see my bf porking another girl!

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    I don't know. I'm pretty sure there is no hell, but I have no idea about heaven. I don't think it matters; we don't really need to know until we get there. I just want to live one life at a time, and the current one is the one I need to be concerned with.

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    Heh,

    Logically I am fertilizer.

    However the romantic in me feels, hopes, perhaps believes there is something more.

    Going with that feeling, speculating on it...

    I think there is a structured, coherent energy which represents each of us, and that when we die that energy joins all the other energy that has been released from everyone who has gone before us.

    For those of us who love, share and enjoy the people around us it will be heaven. We will be surrounded by the abundant love, caring, warmth and joy of countless multitudes.

    For those of us who are mean, selfish and prey on others it will be hell, as they are surrounded by the abundant love, caring, warmth and joy of countless multitudes.

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    I have a hard time believeing in the concept of hell. I feel that if there is a God or Higher Power then he or she is a forgiving and loving God not a cruel God. I like to think the evil people just cease to exisit after death.

    As for the ideas of Heaven & Reincarnation. I am hoping for both. Heaven until the time is right and then Reincarnation.

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