Question for all - what happens after death...

[Viker]

And you get this knowledge from ??

For my answer, I asked God (when I was 12). I got no response so I rationally came to my answer. I didn't get it from a book, a sermon or just take some person's word for it. The greatest answers come from within and from deep dark places. You're free to reject it.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

For my answer, I asked God (when I was 12). I got no response so I rationally came to my answer. I didn't get it from a book, a sermon or just take some person's word for it. The greatest answers come from within and from deep dark places. You're free to reject it.

I've started to adopt this approach too (as I tried to indicate in my previous reply).

 

[YoursTrue]

For my answer, I asked God (when I was 12). I got no response so I rationally came to my answer. I didn't get it from a book, a sermon or just take some person's word for it. The greatest answers come from within and from deep dark places. You're free to reject it.

I rationally came to the conclusion that the only life after death is that God can make a person alive. Life is not death in the actual sense, although some persons are dead but alive.

 

[stevecanuck]

I voted 'yes'.

We both have either worms or ashes for a future. I have chosen ashes. I told my wife I wanted to be cremated, so now I have an appointment for next Tuesday.

 

[stevecanuck]

Quite simply, whether atheist or theist, when your body (which includes your brain, which is where "you" exist) dies, that very "you" will no longer exist. That will be true for theists and atheists. Non-existence is the same for theists that no longer exist as it is for atheists that no longer exist.

I enjoy the irony in that. A theist who expects life after death will never know that no such things exists, whereas those of us who expect oblivion will be gob-smacked as we are shunted into the queue that leads to everlasting fire and torture.

 

[idea]

I answered, "No," because I don't think anything happens to anyone after death, so nobody has a fate after death that they could share with one another. We just won't be around anymore.

Wouldn't that be yes, the same thing happens to everyone?

I voted yes - death is the same thing for everyone and everything, our matter & energy get all mixed together again. Information cannot be destroyed, and relative to some perspectives- time dilation- its all eternal in one way or another.

 

[loverofhumanity]

Do you think that whatever happens after death, that atheists and theists will have the same fate as each other?

I'm also adding a poll.

Although subjects like what happens after death may have been covered before in a more narrow scope, I'm asking more broadly. And I'm asking, whatever your beliefs are, do you think atheists and theists will have the same fate? (Or tend to have the same fate?)

Feel free to expand on your answer beyond a "Yes" or "No" as well, should you have the time.

Really don’t know. Let’s say there is a God and an afterlife. I believe God is just but also forgiving and it will be on a case by case basis. The atheist who lived a ‘godly’ life will be in a better space than the loud mouthed hypocrite I would think.

The rich, the powerful entrusted to protect the innocent from oppression, war and genocide and did not use these gifts properly will be held to account. Innocent victims will be adequately compensated.

But no one really knows so we shouldn’t be hasty to judge others as we too will one day be judged.

 

[Trailblazer]

Do you think that whatever happens after death, that atheists and theists will have the same fate as each other?

No, I don't think anyone will have the same fate because we are all individuals, so I agree with @Sgt. Pepper that we will all have different experiences in the afterlife (spiritual world).

That said, I believe that people who believed in God will have a better fate than those who did not believe in God and those who loved God will have the best fate of all, because I believe that nearness to God is equivalent to heaven. That might be problematic for me since I believe in God but I do not love God.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

I would suggest the answer is no. Yet no one knows the mercy, bounty and forgiveness that is God's to give.

Justice would suggest that not all will enter the next reality with the same level of awareness.

Regards Tony

 

[cataway]

Do you think that whatever happens after death, that atheists and theists will have the same fate as each other?

I'm also adding a poll.

Although subjects like what happens after death may have been covered before in a more narrow scope, I'm asking more broadly. And I'm asking, whatever your beliefs are, do you think atheists and theists will have the same fate? (Or tend to have the same fate?)

Feel free to expand on your an swer beyond a "Yes" or "No" as well, should you have the time.

the lights go out because no ones home

 

[MonkeyFire]

It’s not a problem, but it’s also not alright. Idk

 

[ChristineM]

Yes, we die and decompose to be reused. Earth is the greatest recycler ever

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I voted 'yes'.

We both have either worms or ashes for a future. I have chosen ashes. I told my wife I wanted to be cremated, so now I have an appointment for next Tuesday.

You’re going to get cremated next Tuesday?

 

[danieldemol]

I voted 'yes'.

We both have either worms or ashes for a future. I have chosen ashes. I told my wife I wanted to be cremated, so now I have an appointment for next Tuesday.

Its a bit early to be getting cremated on Tuesday isn't it

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

I enjoy the irony in that. A theist who expects life after death will never know that no such things exists, whereas those of us who expect oblivion will be gob-smacked as we are shunted into the queue that leads to everlasting fire and torture.

That's nothing compared to the irony of those who claim to worship an all-loving deity who monumentally unfairly and cruelly inflicts infinite punishment for the petty "crime" of not believing what isn't obvious. Now that's an irony to be enjoyed!

 

[Mock Turtle]

I voted Yes as to all having the same fate - non-existence except as atoms - and don't envy those who seem to think they will be going to some Heaven (if such exists), given the types who seem to believe this but who are so often in disagreement with those having similar beliefs, and often not having the morality that they seem to think they have. On the other hand, I could see Hell as being a lot more interesting and even fun too - so roll on death. Just as long as the Taliban don't end up there.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Do you think that whatever happens after death, that atheists and theists will have the same fate as each other?

Neither of the selections reflects my understanding of "fate" after death.

What happens after death of the body has little to nothing to do with belief or lack thereof in any gods. It has to do with one's understanding one's own nature and degree of attachment to pragmatic reality.

While everyone may ultimately move on to the same eventuality, not everyone will move to the same experiences after this particular life.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Quite simply, whether atheist or theist, when your body (which includes your brain, which is where "you" exist) dies, that very "you" will no longer exist. That will be true for theists and atheists. Non-existence is the same for theists that no longer exist as it is for atheists that no longer exist.

What part of the brain do "you" exist in?

 

[Secret Chief]

Do you think that whatever happens after death, that atheists and theists will have the same fate as each other?

I'm also adding a poll.

Although subjects like what happens after death may have been covered before in a more narrow scope, I'm asking more broadly. And I'm asking, whatever your beliefs are, do you think atheists and theists will have the same fate? (Or tend to have the same fate?)

Feel free to expand on your answer beyond a "Yes" or "No" as well, should you have the time.

Yes, in the same way that Manchester Utd fans and Manchester City fans have the same fate. (Although the jury is out on Oldham Athletic fans).

 

[SalixIncendium]

I rationally came to the conclusion that the only life after death is that God can make a person alive. Life is not death in the actual sense, although some persons are dead but alive.

Interesting. Where would the person God made alive exist?

Your answer, at least in my mind, conjures your Godas being the puppet master in some twisted zombie apocalypse.