What's Your Afterlife?

[Viker]

A well earned and deserved peace.

 

[1137]

I chose 'other'. If I had to pick another it would probably be Nirvana, but I do not believe enlightenment relative to our current state of consciousness is the end. From there we will have to reach higher consciousness. Then again, again, again, ad infinitum

 

[Straw Dog]

What's Your Afterlife(s)?

I believe that after life is death and then after death is new life. Life doesn't begin at birth nor does it end at death. It began over a billion years ago and it just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You would need to do some time travelling to get your answer.

jewscout:
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Time travel wouldn't be necessary to ask Jewscout, but traveling to Israel might be.

Considering that the only difference between a living organism and a dead living organism is that the brain stopped working due to the heart stop pumping due to various amounts of reasons, and also considering the fact that your body is nonetheless just a lifeless object when it's dead, your body right now is a lifeless object, just some chemical reactions and movement of neurons being controlled by the pumping of the heart is the only difference.

That is an interesting way of looking at it. I would have used the brain instead of the heart, but nevertheless all we are is a sack of meat and bone encased in a dermis that is powered by countless neurons that relay chemicals and electrical impulses to eachother.

 

[9Westy9]

Unknown. Seems most logical to me

 

[jarofthoughts]

I chose unknown because...well, I don't know.

Given the data we currently have though, I'm pretty sure that the person that is me will cease to exist. The process that we call mind appears to stop functioning once we're dead, and since I see no reason to believe in any non-physical version of me (i.e. a soul or spirit), it seems likely that I will stop existing as well.

Which, by the way, I am fine with.

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

I put "unknown" because science has no answer what makes people think religion has the answer when religion has so often gotten so many other things wrong?

 

[URAVIP2ME]

What's Your Afterlife(s)?

Resurrection.

Resurrection from death's sleep to either life in heaven,
or an earthly physical resurrection that will take place during Jesus 1000-year reign over earth.

 

[Quintessence]

Huh. Never responded to this thread, even though I marked "other" in the poll. Quin's answer is: there is no afterlife, because existence is understood to be a continuity. There is no birth, there is no death, there is only transformation and change.

 

[cottage]

I've put 'Nothing/non-existence' rather than 'Unknown' because the latter term implies the possibility of life after death and I cannot see how even that can be justified. One thing is for sure: we are meant to die, and the continuity of the world as we know it depends upon the cycle of death and destruction, rebirth and regeneration. But I can discover no reason to continue expect to live in any form after my death, other than as the constituent particles of which all things are composed. What possible value do I have that elevates me (or you) above all the other objects that go to make up our worldy existence? It seems to me that a life after death is the absolute pinnacle of human vanity, where individuals cannot bear to think of themselves as being just a tiny thread in the tapestry of life.

We come, we do our bit to the best of our ability and then we go. Our egos die with us.

 

[Atxmusician]

The choice of being with your loved ones in heaven, or being reincarnated into another body

 

[URAVIP2ME]

The choice of being with your loved ones in heaven, or being reincarnated into another body

Do you think there is any chance of being resurrected in a perfectly sound healthy body right here on earth to be with loved ones that will have a physical earthly resurrection ?

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

I do think if there is nothing there is nothing to be afraid of because pain is a part of life and not death. And I certainly do not fear "not existing" because I did not exist for 14.7 billion years before I was born and it did not bother me for a second.