Some people look forward to meeting up with their dead relatives and friends in an afterlife, but they might be unrecognisable and very different to how they were in this life. When this life ends the people we are on earth more likely than not cease to be, in the unlikely event of there being another existence we will be starting anew, imo.
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If an afterlife exists?
- Thread starter JJ50
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Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I have to agree with much of what you say here
If there is something called afterlife, example reincarnation in to a new human body, or even a non physical realm we all meet up in we would not be able to recognize the loved once because they would either have a new body or in non physical world we would not see them as we did in this human life. IMO
Road Less Traveled
Active Member
Would you want to exist in better/different conditions and circumstances, or would you want to cease to exist altogether no matter what?
LiveBetterLife
Active Member
That view of the afterlife seems to be incredibly childish to me.
I don't know any adults besides extremely demented old people who have that conception of the afterlife.
Once this life is over I have no wish to live another one. I am more fortunate than many where my life is concerned, obviously it has had its ups and downs, but we have wonderful children, and are quite comfortable financially.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
The thing about the afterlife is that we just don't know. It may well be impossible for the living to ever know what, if anything, happens to the dead. If the notion of heaven or non-existence gives you comfort then I say go for it, it's probably better than dwelling too long on the possibilities.
We may well all be damned to eternal suffering with no hope of release and no exemptions made for good behaviour. That could be a spiritual afterlife, reincarnation into physical immortality or simply our perception of time at the point of death slowing to the extent that we experience that moment eternally. We could become vicious spirits, incapable of empathy. We could be fully aware of our body rotting in the ground. We just don't know.
So yeah, when people believe in eternal paradise or the absence of suffering afforded by nonexistence, I find it hard to blame them.
We may well all be damned to eternal suffering with no hope of release and no exemptions made for good behaviour. That could be a spiritual afterlife, reincarnation into physical immortality or simply our perception of time at the point of death slowing to the extent that we experience that moment eternally. We could become vicious spirits, incapable of empathy. We could be fully aware of our body rotting in the ground. We just don't know.
So yeah, when people believe in eternal paradise or the absence of suffering afforded by nonexistence, I find it hard to blame them.
usfan
Well-Known Member
..maybe you'll get your wish, and get your preferred belief of the afterlife. We'll all find out..
ecco
Veteran Member
If an afterlife is for eternity, I want no part of it.
Long before anyone has gone through even 1% of eternity, one will have done everything thousands of times over. Looking forward to another 99.999999999999999% of eternity would be enough to drive even the most forgetful entity utterly insane.
Long before anyone has gone through even 1% of eternity, one will have done everything thousands of times over. Looking forward to another 99.999999999999999% of eternity would be enough to drive even the most forgetful entity utterly insane.
ecco
Veteran Member
Hypothetical...
My first love died when we were 25.
She went to Heaven.
I'm 85 and I die.
I go to Heaven.
Do I see her as she looked at age 25 or as she would have looked at age 85?
Do she see me as I looked at age 25, handsome, athletic, intelligent?
Or does she see me as I was when I died, fat, wrinkly, and demented?
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Road Less Traveled
Active Member
One thing we can know by observation is that each have their own wants, needs, and/or beliefs as to what they’d like or have expectations of.
I personally like to think of every possible or potential different scenario that I can.
What would truly suck is that if no one would had a choice, and there were something that just did whatever it pleased with us. If anyone did not want to exist anymore, too bad they have no choice. Or if someone wanted to exist in bliss... too bad. I’ve heard some say they wish to come back as a deadly virus and attack people they didn’t like. I’ve heard some people say they don’t commit suicide because they fear for reincarnation or incarnation. There are many that have the worst lots imaginable yet still want to survive in those lots, like an evolved failsafe switch to try and survive at all costs yet another switch of hope.
The only sensible scenario for me is that each being had their own world/universe and could create whatever they wanted to. Even for the evil compassed beings. It appears that each already has a world in them, most of that world not to their recollection of choice, yet all trying exist on the same Earth, same world and it’s not working too well. Advantages and disadvantages everywhere, all sorts of different lots to varying degrees. Different laws pending on where located. Looks, talent ability, where born, conditions and environment of surroundings, geared with a more vile compass or geared with a more good compass, what kind of parents, how they will die, a lot of things. Yet there are base programs of objective traits/nature/characteristics/genes that are similar in us all to varying degrees.
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Thief
Rogue Theologian
Audie
Veteran Member
A good joke for those who think their lineage started
with Adam and Eve.
It would not stay funny for very long, if afterlife
presented one with a reception line of his ancestors.
After a while, getting back 10, 20, 60, 300 thousand
years, and still the line continues, our hero of the
fundy church will have to face it that he has been
denying the very existence of all these people,
whose struggles heroism, pain and skill made
his own life possible.
So disrespectful!
And after that, maybe he will want to explain to god
how it was ok to be claiming that god is a psycho
monster who actually sent the "flood". More disrespect!
Much to do before settlling in to strum a harp and
sing praises for the rest of eternity!
Audie
Veteran Member
Mark Twain wrote some tremendously interesting
and well thought out ideas about the afterlife.
He addresses that, among other things.
As I recall, he had it that god would let you pick
your age, and be that until you decided you
wanted something else.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Do we have choices?
Road Less Traveled
Active Member
I suppose it is possible that some being(s) chose to be born into a hostile environment, shi* biological parents, have genes that make them attracted to little kids, chose their looks, etc.
Then while here, pending on the person... differing amounts of options and choices available. If someone wanted to cease to exist and had the means of offing themselves, they could. (Some don’t even have these options.) And then what if they think they are ceasing to exist yet are just thrown into another body back on Earth not of their choosing all over again?
I know its deeply deeply love driven narrative . And obviously as i look around we have evolved way way beyond love and that nonsense of having to do with anything at all. We have google!!! I googled it! Now i understand. Oh love, i found a site i love oh baby shes hot. I googled love. Love it.
We are massively evolving right now thank god for google.
A quote Written By a mountaineer hiking in the wilderness. Generally read by people who think the nature channel is a great way to get into nature.
Yes!
An infinite number of wrong ones and a single correct one. Generally the least realized it even exists and is never understood. Nature always wins. It doesnt play fair. Cheater!! Trickster! Hahababahahaba! Jokes on you..
Thats what i understand emperically experiencially.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
you know the guy?