To the religious (life after death)

[Unveiled Artist]

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Common question: IF there is no life after death (no spirits. No consciousness. No heaven. No rebirth. No. Karma.) Nothing that makes you believe you will live on either as a persom, a form, or by your karma.

How would you live?

This is for those whose afterlife views depends on whst they do in this life. If you are comfortable with death or the afterlife does not play in your faith, this question is not for you.

 

[Altfish]

We are so lucky to be alive on this planet, this is the one life we have, make the most of it.

 

[Sundance]

I would just live trying to make the world a little bit better.

 

[allfoak]

If you are not into hypotherical questions or prefer to stick with your worldview, its best not to post in this thread. If you can conversate with Hypo without feeling your beliefs threatened, by all means join.

Common question: IF there is no life after death (no spirits. No consciousness. No heaven. No rebirth. No. Karma.) Nothing that makes you believe you will live on either as a persom, a form, or by your karma.

How would you live?

This is for those whose afterlife views depends on whst they do in this life. If you are comfortable with death or the afterlife does not play in your faith, this question is not for you.

I am compelled to seek within me to know who i am.
My journey brings me the experience i need to accomplish this.

It is not about any of those things.
Knowledge of self is what it says, it is knowledge of self.
It is up to each individual to define what that means.

No individual defines their experience the same way.
I am often misunderstood because i often misunderstand.
It is difficult to really understand the experience of another.

The words that we use to speak to others should be our own words,
honest and clear so a child can understand what we say.

If all of those words were dropped from my vocabulary (some of them are already gone) i would not miss them.

I consider myself made of earth, water, fire and air and animated by the spirit of life.
The spirit of life is what i call that which animates and gives life to all things.

How would i live?
The same way i do now, with a passion for perfection.
One must learn to know who they are in order to pursue that passion.

 

[Terese]

I intend to make this earth a little greener. I still value my life just as much as when i was an atheist. Make the best of it! Your life impacts everyone!

 

[Aupmanyav]

I am comfortable with death. What constitutes me will live in a million things, living and non-living. That is eternal - stardust (or Brahman, whatever one chooses to term it as).

I intend to make this earth a little greener. I still value my life just as much as when i was an atheist. Make the best of it! Your life impacts everyone!

Krishna said: 'ma phaleshu kadachana'. Will the earth be green or brown? That depends on an infinite number of factors. (But do not be pessimistic)

 

[psychoslice]

We are so lucky to be alive on this planet, this is the one life we have, make the most of it.

Yes and nothing more is needed.

 

[Sees]

It is pretty much the way it is done in Ásatrú/Heathenry.

 

[Terese]

I am comfortable with death. What constitutes me will live in a million things, living and non-living. That is eternal - stardust (or Brahman, whatever one chooses to term it as).Krishna said: 'ma phaleshu kadachana'. Will the earth be green or brown? That depends on an infinite number of factors. (But do not be pessimistic)

Both. There will be plants and soil everywhere at my house.

 

[Aupmanyav]

If the atoms that constitute me were radio-tagged, you could know whether I have reached your place or not (or vice-versa).

 

[psychoslice]

Why do so many want to live after they die ?, to me its nothing more than the ego that doesn't want to die, it will make up just about anything to keep it alive. It will make up religions, ideologies, and anything to keep it alive. The truth is that we are going to die, and when this happens we as the mind body organism will be no more, just like the Universe, it arise from the so called big bang, and it will disappear back to where it cane from, our life as a human will be the same, as everything else is.

 

[Muffled]

If you are not into hypotherical questions or prefer to stick with your worldview, its best not to post in this thread. If you can conversate with Hypo without feeling your beliefs threatened, by all means join.

Common question: IF there is no life after death (no spirits. No consciousness. No heaven. No rebirth. No. Karma.) Nothing that makes you believe you will live on either as a persom, a form, or by your karma.

How would you live?

This is for those whose afterlife views depends on whst they do in this life. If you are comfortable with death or the afterlife does not play in your faith, this question is not for you.

I have thought about this and truly believe that the precepts found in the Bible make for a better life whether there is an afterlife or not.

 

[Muffled]

Why do so many want to live after they die ?, to me its nothing more than the ego that doesn't want to die, it will make up just about anything to keep it alive. It will make up religions, ideologies, and anything to keep it alive. The truth is that we are going to die, and when this happens we as the mind body organism will be no more, just like the Universe, it arise from the so called big bang, and it will disappear back to where it cane from, our life as a human will be the same, as everything else is.

I believe there is no need to make anything up because it is what it is.

Before I believed in an afterlife I never thought about an afterlife. I did think about extinction as a solution to all my problems. Perhaps a lack of belief in an afterlife stems from the ego wishing the problems would go away.

 

[psychoslice]

I believe there is no need to make anything up because it is what it is.

Before I believed in an afterlife I never thought about an afterlife. I did think about extinction as a solution to all my problems. Perhaps a lack of belief in an afterlife stems from the ego wishing the problems would go away.

I see it the other way around, the ego wants to believe there is an afterlife, it doesn't want to die. Life and death is all natural, everything arises from the Source and everything goes back to the Source, and that's life.

 

[Muffled]

I see it the other way around, the ego wants to believe there is an afterlife, it doesn't want to die. Life and death is all natural, everything arises from the Source and everything goes back to the Source, and that's life.

I believe I want to eat breakfast. Just because I desire it does not mean that I conjured breakfast up because it really does exist.

On the other hand I would like to win the lottery but despite the fact that the lottery exists a win has not taken place. I believe I have been in the afterlife before this life.

 

[psychoslice]

I believe I want to eat breakfast. Just because I desire it does not mean that I conjured breakfast up because it really does exist.

On the other hand I would like to win the lottery but despite the fact that the lottery exists a win has not taken place. I believe I have been in the afterlife before this life.

Who is this you, that was in the after life ?.

 

[Satyamavejayanti]

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Namaste,

Will give my perspective.

Common question: IF there is no life after death (No rebirth) Nothing that makes you believe you will live on either as a persom, a form.
How would you live?

I hope you don't Mind, but I have changed your question to be more relevant to my tradition, otherwise to me the question does not make sense and is unanswerable.
Reason: I have removed Karma from your question, because for me if there was no Karma, then that means that there is no cause for any effect therefore we will not have the ability to be in motion or to do anything, if there is no Karm then we cant breath then the question of a afterlife would be irrelevant. its like asking how would you live without doing the act (Karm) of breathing?.

So the Question that I can Answer is more like "How would you live if there was no re-incarnation or rebirth of the Atman?

My reply would be, I would live the same, as i know that my actions (Karma) have consequences (KarmPhala) Now, in this life at every moment in time, so i would still try my best to practice and Live a Dharmic (responsible, ethical, righteous,sustainable) life.

Hope this makes sense,

Dhanyavad

 

[Tiapan]

It amazes me how many fail to be aware we exist as sentient beings within our own current privileged Heaven and Hell and actually continue to think there is something after we turn to cold hard dirt, distributed amoungsts various bacteria and fungi ; asleep for 13.8 billion years , awake for a blink, then gone forever unless you brought up your kids well. Remember half your chromosomes are in each child.
Cheers
Close to Death sees the truth

 

[Muffled]

Who is this you, that was in the after life ?.

I believe my spirit was there after my previous living person died in Russia.

 

[Muffled]

It amazes me how many fail to be aware we exist as sentient beings within our own current privileged Heaven and Hell and actually continue to think there is something after we turn to cold hard dirt, distributed amoungsts various bacteria and fungi ; asleep for 13.8 billion years , awake for a blink, then gone forever unless you brought up your kids well. Remember half your chromosomes are in each child.
Cheers
Close to Death sees the truth

That is because I don't believe in fairy tales.