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    Search Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    I got the idea to start this threat from the 'are you afraid of dying' thread and a video I just watched on a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley on 'is there an afterlife?'...

    Thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss!

    I'd love to hear everyones views.
    What do you believe happens after you die? Do you or do you not believe in an afterlife? And what experiences and information made you believe what happens after death?


    Here's a link to the debate I watched that helped spark this thread.
    BTW - Hitchens is battling a type 4 oesophageal cancer, which is why he looks fragile.

    http://richarddawkins.net/videos/569...hmuley-boteach

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Nah there's nothing. If there is then I pity the people that commit suicide. Imagine you top yourself because you're fed up with life, with decisions and just getting up in the morning and going through the motions. So you've killed yourself and now you're in the afterlife and you have to continue to 'live'. Meh!

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Quote Originally Posted by kitinboots View Post
    Nah there's nothing. If there is then I pity the people that commit suicide. Imagine you top yourself because you're fed up with life, with decisions and just getting up in the morning and going through the motions. So you've killed yourself and now you're in the afterlife and you have to continue to 'live'. Meh!
    I don't look down upon suicide. But of course I think there should still be help offered for those who are suicidal, and believe that reaching out to show you care and offering help is beneficial.

    While I know it would be hard for the people close to the person, I think it's selfish to ask a person who is so miserable with their life to go on just for your own and other peoples pleasure.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    ^I'm not debating suicide, I was just saying I don't believe in an afterlife.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    My sister took her life last Jan, it hurts to think there is nothing for her now ..so I choose to believe theres some kind of life after death. There has to be.
    Thinking about life ending, and just not existing anymore is a total mindfuck for me.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    have you ever seen that movie what dreams may come? its my fav...it is so beautiful and i like to think of ''heaven'' that way.

    livingdeadgirl-sorry for your loss...im sure she is at peace
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]jules

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    It is possible to bring people back from the dead. Just look at Al Davis.

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    Mind Blowing Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    I think the OP's question is bigger than all of us. Depending on what an individual beleives dictates whether or not they beleive in an afterlife.
    I always belevied the thought of a Heaven and a Hell were scare tactics, instituded into Christanity for the sake of controling a mass populace. Found out later that the Bible was editied by emporer Constitine ( Once Rome adopted Christanity as it religion ) to do that very thing.
    Afterlife to me, like the Rabbai said is all about the works you do in this life. Be it big or small you can have an affect on the future or your afterlife.
    But like i said the question is bigger than all of us, none of us will know till our time comes.
    Now about our soul:
    Ghosts, ( I've expereinced them ) why do those people have that afterlife? Being caught between here and there? Is that Hell? Reliving the same thing over and over? Or being stuck here confused?

    What about the people who are not Ghosts? Does the soul return to where it came? Does it revert back to star stuff that we are all made of? Questions questions! I think i was here before, any show or artifact relating to Egypt feels familar to me. I think this feeling is common amongst people. Like the white kid who is obsessed with Japanese culture. Was he here before as a Japanese man or woman?
    Im getting off track. My head feels like its gonna explode now...

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Its a bit of a mindfuck isn't it.
    But I think there are/have been far too many people in the world, far too many souls for there to be an afterlife. Reincarnation would make more sense to me, but then the earths population is increasing, so where do these new souls come from?

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Nope. Being dead will be exactly like it was before you were born...you simply don't exist anymore.

    Or, if you have ever had surgery and were completely put under - it will be the same complete lack of any concept of time, space or existence.

    All 'near-death' experiences can be duplicated using oxygen deprivation or even the centrifuge type simulator training 'ride' Air Force pilots go through (extreme G-force).

    Porky The Pig probably sums it up best at the end of his cartoons.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Quote Originally Posted by Meager View Post
    I think the OP's question is bigger than all of us. Depending on what an individual beleives dictates whether or not they beleive in an afterlife.
    I always belevied the thought of a Heaven and a Hell were scare tactics, instituded into Christanity for the sake of controling a mass populace. Found out later that the Bible was editied by emporer Constitine ( Once Rome adopted Christanity as it religion ) to do that very thing.
    Afterlife to me, like the Rabbai said is all about the works you do in this life. Be it big or small you can have an affect on the future or your afterlife.
    But like i said the question is bigger than all of us, none of us will know till our time comes.
    Now about our soul:
    Ghosts, ( I've expereinced them ) why do those people have that afterlife? Being caught between here and there? Is that Hell? Reliving the same thing over and over? Or being stuck here confused?

    What about the people who are not Ghosts? Does the soul return to where it came? Does it revert back to star stuff that we are all made of? Questions questions! I think i was here before, any show or artifact relating to Egypt feels familar to me. I think this feeling is common amongst people. Like the white kid who is obsessed with Japanese culture. Was he here before as a Japanese man or woman?
    Im getting off track. My head feels like its gonna explode now...
    What were your experiences with ghosts? Another person posted that they've had quite a few experiences and said that they wouldn't mind sharing them with others if you sent a PM. I haven't gotten a reply...

    I'd like know why they wear clothes in peoples depictions.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Six View Post
    It is possible to bring people back from the dead. Just look at Al Davis.
    Is this meant to be a joke? Sorry, but I just googled Al Davis and it says nothing about a resurrection.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Quote Originally Posted by livingdeadgirl View Post
    My sister took her life last Jan, it hurts to think there is nothing for her now ..so I choose to believe theres some kind of life after death. There has to be.
    Thinking about life ending, and just not existing anymore is a total mindfuck for me.
    Very sorry to hear about your loss. *hug*

    Did her passing change your views on if there's life after death?

    Existence ending is a bit of a mind fuck. But I've thought of other things which fuck with my brain more so but it's hard to write it all down.
    Basically, one idea is that we're just atoms and molecules interacting, seeming like we're in control and having free will. Like an animal such as a bird isn't as evolved so it isn't as conscious as we are. Some refer to it as a soul. So if you're religious you would say that humans have a soul and animals do not. I'm saying, we only appear to be more conscious as we're more evolved than other life forms. It's hard to go into... you'd have to look into different parts of the brain and functions. That idea of deception plays with my mind more than death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xNatashax View Post
    Very sorry to hear about your loss. *hug*

    Did her passing change your views on if there's life after death?
    Thank you, and yes it did.
    Well ..I cant say it 'changed' my views but it deffinately forced me to sit down and think for a bit. Although I admit, Im not completely sure of what I believe..Im still trying to figure some parts out. I believe theres a life after death (Im not sold that its the 'heaven' and 'hell' I was taught about as a kid but I think theres something) Honestly, it just makes me sad to think that one day my life will end and there will be nothing left of me...so I choose to think theres more to it. But like I said...Im still trying to figure out exactly what I do believe. Like this thread, its interesting!

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    I truly believe there is more after this life, and the older I get, the more I believe in re-incarnation...

    I also feel it's pointless to try talking people into seeing the topic in the same way any given person might see it...At the end of every day I'm a Fatalist...Some people are meant to be one way, some others, "it takes all kinds to make up a world."

    I don't follow the faith I was raised in, but I feel most major popular religions try to help people live better while here on this plane, versus selling them a big fantasy about what comes afterwards. (Not that all these religions have succeeded in either aim all the time, but oh well.)

    I've had the incredible privelge (sp?) of traveling far and wide....People of the world may vary greatly but there are some important common threads in the human experience.

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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    I don't have an opinon formed yet... I wouldn't be surprised either way.

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    For those of you who know futurama...


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    Default Re: Do you believe in an Afterlife? What happens after death?

    Quote Originally Posted by livingdeadgirl View Post
    But like I said...Im still trying to figure out exactly what I do believe. Like this thread, its interesting!
    Most people don't even brush the surface, or try to explore to find out the truth behind if there is or isn't a reason why we're here. For me, I don't care about living a comfortable life... as I know what might make me happy and what I'd like to believe isn't always what's true. Guess I could say I'm a realist. I like to research to find out why things really are how they are.

    Just thought I'd also mention the god gene for those who haven't heard of it.
    The god gene is a hypothesis that proposes humans have genes that predisposes people towards spiritual/mystical experiences.

    Here's a Wiki:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene

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