What's Your Afterlife?

[ΩRôghênΩ]

What's Your Afterlife(s)?

 

[Green Gaia]

I do not believe we can know what is after this life until we are there, so I chose "Unknown"

Also, I changed the title of your thread to reflect the question asked.

 

[jewscout]

i chose other

the Olam Haba, the World to Come...what that will be like exactly...i'll know when i get there.

some think it's studying Torah w/ Hashem for all eternity.

 

[Engyo]

Lord Roghen -

I appreciate that you listed nirvana on your poll. However, nirvana is not an afterlife, or even a particular state. It is a condition which one can obtain or achieve. It is the condition where one's karmic tendency is not reborn into the Saha world (world of suffering). From a Mahayana perspective, it is the achievement of the release of all attachment to outcomes which in turn gives the release from suffering. It really has nothing to do directly with life or death.

But I do thank you for thinking of us.

 

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings!

The Baha'i Faith, which is Abrahamic, teaches that all go on to the Next Life!

The Baha'i scriptures say that whether or not we've gained spiritual attributes in this life determines our circumstances then, so that those who've grown spiritually will experience nearness to God (aka Heaven), while those who haven't will be spiritually remote from God (the definition of hell). Thus, each of us very much determine's his or her own fate, and has no one else to blame!

But because God is All-loving and All-merciful, He will assist everyone then to continue to grow spiritually, even those who are initially remote from Him. So eventually, even they will draw near to God.

Further, as they are spiritual conditions of nearness to/remoteness from God, Heaven and hell exist here and now as well as after death, and every one of us is in one or the other at each instant as a function of where our heads are at!

Best,

Bruce

 

[evearael]

I believe that God wants us to focus our times and energies being good people in this life, not fussing about what happens after we die. As Lazarus Long said, "Soon enough you will know..." I also don't believe that what comes after should be a motivating factor in your everyday life.

 

[michel]

I believe that God wants us to focus our times and energies being good people in this life, not fussing about what happens after we die. As Lazarus Long said, "Soon enough you will know..." I also don't believe that what comes after should be a motivating factor in your everyday life.

While I agree it is fruitless to 'work out' what we think the after life is all about, it's part of human nature (curiosity) to want to try to 'know'...............but I agree with the rest of your post.

I couldn't go for "Heaven only, Christianity style" even though I believe that is the ultimate after life, because I believe in Reincarnation, which somewhat messes it up..but at the end of the whole lot, yes, the Christian heaven with no hell.

 

[Revasser]

Hey! You listed a Kemetic view of the afterlife. That's got to be a first.

I feel all special now

Obviously, that's the one I checked. The Kemetic idea of the afterlife is, of course, not only limited to the Hall of Double Ma'at. There's the entirety of the Duat after that, provided of course your heart isn't Ammit-food.

 

[ChrisP]

Well, not really knowing what to call it, you'll have to put up with:

A different state of energy, in constant transformation and flow.

 

[Super Universe]

It's like eating a box of chocolates. Once I've tried the one with the sprinkles next I want to try the one with the funny gold band...

 

[retrorich]

What's Your Afterlife?

Decomposition and entry into the food chain.

 

[Buttons*]

I dont know, so i picked unknown.

What my head knows, and what my heart believes are two different things... but i decided that it's not worth it to focus on the afterlife, because then you're living only to die, and it becomes your world.

I've got too much life to live to focus on an after life

 

[Revasser]

I dont know, so i picked unknown.

What my head knows, and what my heart believes are two different things... but i decided that it's not worth it to focus on the afterlife, because then you're living only to die, and it becomes your world.

I've got too much life to live to focus on an after life

I agree with you there. Too much focus on the afterlife can have an adverse on effect on your life.

Death can take care of itself. I think we've got more important things to do than worry about it and what comes after too much.

 

[Buttercup]

I agree with you there. Too much focus on the afterlife can have an adverse on effect on your life.

Death can take care of itself. I think we've got more important things to do than worry about it and what comes after too much.

Revasser! How often do you see a category just for you? As soon as I saw Hall of Judgement for Kemetic Tradition....I thought of you and figured, "how nice to include Revasser." And then you go and pick Unknown. I am disappointed Vasser, truly I am.

I am picking Heaven.....but i would prefer the category just said, "With God". I just personally like the sound of that better.

As many of the others have said....I don't worry about the afterlife. I prefer to focus on this life, here and now.

 

[Buttercup]

Ooops, never mind my stupid post above. I didn't read the first page of posts. Not enough caffeine has hit the brain cells yet...sowy Vasser!

 

[Revasser]

Ooops, never mind my stupid post above. I didn't read the first page of posts. Not enough caffeine has hit the brain cells yet...sowy Vasser!

That's okay, silly buns

I was agreeing with the latter part of the esteemed Ashley's post, as you've astutely realised. I know how hard mornings are when the caffine molecules are slow with bonding to those receptors.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I believe in Summerland, but then again, no one will ever know for sure until there thier.

 

[Atheist_Dave]

I like to think of it like this....

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Edvard Munch



(I ticked other, but only becuase I missed the None one *blushes*, nevermind)

 

[Lux et Umbra]

Voted "Unknown".
I believe in reincarnation, but where one eventually settles in is not something I'm sure about.

 

[Mathematician]

Although it's impossible to know for certain, I chose "none" merely because (to me) it's the most logical choice.

However, a dish of sex and heaven sound nice.