This topic sparked in my ehad while I was perusing the Evolutionism Vs Creationism topic.
Do believe in an after life? If so, what do you feel is in store for you? For others?
Me, I don't know and I highly doubt any spoken or written word is going to convince me. One thing that is guaranteed is it will all keep me thinking; which is healthy.
If I die and there is nothing, then that's all gravy 'cause I won't be able to think about it and be disappointed.
If I die and see St. Peter at the pearly gate with a giant book, then I'll be letting out more than a few expletives for having second guessed the Christianity I was raised to believe in.
I really need to think on this one. But I will propose a theory that I wish were true. I really like the idea of reincarnation. I feel that we have a mind/soul. What if our non-physical selves had an instinctive nature to find another physical body after the previous body expires?
I'd probably end up a pile of dust. If bacteria and older ancestors don't have an afterlife or heaven, then why should I? Complex machinery is still metal, but shaped into gears and levers.
Scince i'm morman, i have to wait three days, then go to the spririt world, then after that have jesus look you in the eye and see all the bad things you have done and decide which world you get sent into, and there is 4, and my aim is to get to the top.
Topics like this make the agnostic in me reach for the button labeled "Apathy".
In all seriousness I have considered many different possibilities.
Should, when I die, I simply cease to exist, I won't be around to care. Simple.
If there is a Heaven/Hell scenario I'll either be delighted to go to Heaven or, more likely (that is, if Heaven and Hell exists according to Christianity), I'll be damned forever to Hell. The latter would certainly make me a little POed.
The theory of a single afterlife intrigues me. Sort of a Heaven (or Hell, I guess it could go either way) for all deal.
I like the idea of reincarnation too. I suppose I've always been sightly partial to ideas concerning the mind/body connection.
I really don't know, although I hope there is. And that's what it all comes down to, hope and faith. But read this, live your life well, because here, you won't be forever. Just in case...
I will not die, I will suffice so bassicly I must awnser no... Hehe no but really I do beliefe in Reborn... I think maybe Deja Vu has something to do with it ^^ Sorry I don't know much about that topic, but I defenatly think there is Reborn.
I (and others) think consciousness is just a by-product of the complex neurochemical processes in the brain. Once those processes cease their operation, that's pretty much it.
If reincarnation is what happens, it'd be way cooler to actually be able to remember stuff from the past lives. And at the same time, who keep letting all the murder/rapist/thieves/ect keep being reincarnated?
I've heard about the heaven where a whole bunch of virgins are waiting for the worthy men, but what about the women of said religion?
There are many cultures where women are reviled. They would go back from whence they came: the vomit and excrement of demons. And here I thought they were made of sugar and spice or something like that... I think it is only thanks to intelligent and aggressive "roto-feminists" that we are even able to get out of that old paradigm.
Personally, I am looking forward to getting cremated and stored on someones mantle to creep them out. That is all I really care about. The odd factor. "That is a very nice vase." "Yeah, thanks. Crazy Uncle Devoidless lives there." "Um....ok."
Oooh! Or I could get stuffed and mounted in an awesome position. Like me fighting a grizzly and a cougar. By my self. With only a a bastard sword. Then put in the hallway of my relatives house. That sounds better.
But so far as the being dead part...meh. Big ol' pile of nothing. Thus the cremation! Even if I am dead, I do not want worms and ants eating my eyes and brains. Ewww.
i believe that we are ascended into heaven or damned to hell. but i think it would be cool if we were reincarnated and came back an animal or something. could we come back as food? 0.o
