Do you believe in an afterlife? If so what is your beliefs as to what happens when you die?

SifuPhil said:
Oh, I know - I like to switch sides suddenly. :p

No, seriously - I'm just pointing out the foibles of my own response - that even with yes/no answers, people are going to want to elaborate.

Ahh..ok :)

Well, I've had a lot of petit morts, but I doubt my reports would be allowed on this forum. :eek:
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well..you know comedians die onstage all the time..but they return to the scene of the crime. people are such optimists sometimes and I love humanity for continuing to try despite knowing in the grand scheme of things our footprints just wash away...or do they......

* Rod Serling steps out of the shadows..."it was just a response to a thread on a Forum....but that thread lead to a place not mentioned...even in Wiki....because it's offline...way offline..in an uncharted corner know as..The Twilight Zone"

:eek:mg1::eewwk::eek:mg1::darth:
 

Karen99 said:
well..you know comedians die onstage all the time..but they return to the scene of the crime. people are such optimists sometimes and I love humanity for continuing to try despite knowing in the grand scheme of things our footprints just wash away...or do they......

* Rod Serling steps out of the shadows..."it was just a response to a thread on a Forum....but that thread lead to a place not mentioned...even in Wiki....because it's offline...way offline..in an uncharted corner know as..The Twilight Zone"

:eek:mg1::eewwk::eek:mg1::darth:
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I love it, Karen. I could hear Rod Serling speaking the words. :applause2: Very good.
 
Babsinbloom65 said:
Cookie, no I am not one of those people. But I am a person that is very curious about things that interest me and love to ask questions on those subjects. And I know I did not tell anyone how they have to feel about this subject or any other. But I do have a question for you...if you have no thoughts or beliefs on the afterlife, why did you even bother to come and post here.
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Your topic question was 'Do you believe in an afterlife?'. It doesn't say the topic is only for those who do believe in an afterlife.
 

Babsinbloom65 said:
Even with all that has happened with so many of you I just can't imagine that you don't have a thought of what might happen to you after you die or even seem to care about it...even if it just that as some have said they believe when you die you are just dead and that is it I would like to know that.
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I think about death very frequently because so very many of my family members and friends have died before me and I'm not that old. So I do wonder about it all. But what can be done about death? It happens to all. No one has ever come back to tell us anything about an afterlife. If any of my friends or relatives had come back after death, I might think more about what happens after we die. But since they haven't thinking about it too much takes time away from the here and now and the pleasures and people in this life, in this world. I still think when the hippocampus goes, there is no more memory or consciousness..:rolleyes:
 
chic said:
I think about death very frequently because so very many of my family members and friends have died before me and I'm not that old. So I do wonder about it all. But what can be done about death? It happens to all. No one has ever come back to tell us anything about an afterlife. If any of my friends or relatives had come back after death, I might think more about what happens after we die. But since they haven't thinking about it too much takes time away from the here and now and the pleasures and people in this life, in this world. I still think when the hippocampus goes, there is no more memory or consciousness..:rolleyes:
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I think you have it exactly right. So many people spending so much of the short time we have here trying to ensure their place in an unlikely afterlife about which we know nothing.
 
Think outside the box. When I think outside of this small blue ball we call earth, I see no 'religion'. Only the continuous movement of existence. I see no heaven or hell. The ashes of everything become something else, and therefore continue on. I do not think my existence is any greater than the trees, animals, or the stars, but no less either. It is a journey.
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Ina said:
Think outside the box. When I think outside of this small blue ball we call earth, I see no 'religion'. Only the continuous movement of existence. I see no heaven or hell. The ashes of everything become something else, and therefore continue on. I do not think my existence is any greater than the trees, animals, or the stars, but no less either. It is a journey.
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:applause2:No need to hide behind the sofa, Ina. Great post. My view exactly. "We are all star stuff". When I go, my ashes will be mixed with my wife's and we will be returned together to the universe. We are all one.
 
My physical body will end up as part of nature, but the part of it that thinks, has emotions, makes decisions good and bad is my soul. A mysterious part of me given by God(I AM in the Holy Bible) that will leave my body at its death and return to my God of the Bible.
 
Elsie said:
My physical body will end up as part of nature, but the part of it that thinks, has emotions, makes decisions good and bad is my soul. A mysterious part of me given by God(I AM in the Holy Bible) that will leave my body at its death and return to my God of the Bible.
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REALLY?? :shrug:
 
My physical body will end up as part of nature, but the part of it that thinks, has emotions, makes decisions good and bad is my soul.
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No, Elsie, it is your mind. Your mind functions as long as your brain is alive. The "soul" was made up by theologians centuries ago, to keep people in line. As others have said in several different threads here, there
is no evidence that any part of our consciousness survives after we are dead. The fact that a fairy tale was written centuries, or millennia ago, and included in a book that we were told was "holy," does not make
that fairy tale true.
 
Sunny said:
No, Elsie, it is your mind. Your mind functions as long as your brain is alive. The "soul" was made up by theologians centuries ago, to keep people in line. As others have said in several different threads here, there
is no evidence that any part of our consciousness survives after we are dead.
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...and there is no evidence that your belief is true. You are going on faith just as Elsie is...and I.
 
One's mind during life is no more at one's body death. But all humans have a Soul given by God, as His children, that returns to Him at that death. Read honest open-minded research articles on reasons why there is God of the Bible with your own mind open, putting aside belief you have of all of it being "Fairy Tales", while you do your research. Believe as you will.
 
Oh no, Lara, I am not going by "faith." Faith implies believing something just because someone has told you to believe it, and because emotionally you are tuned to believing them. No proof is needed in faith,
just the feeling that someone is telling you the truth. People can (and do) have faith in utter nonsense.

Science does not work like that. It is constantly subject to investigation, and nothing is "believed" in the absence of proof.
 
I wouldn't try to change Elsie's mind if I were you, Sunny, because you are definitely going by faith as well. You have "absence of proof" and yet believe

that which has not been proven by science, such as no afterlife.


And, faith isn't "believing something just because someone told us to believe it". Faith is a choice based on historical, scientific, and biblical study, as well as

prayer, personal experience's, and common sense. You don't have to be told to look around you to realize it's takes your 5 senses and common sense to

have faith in an intelligent designer.


Science will never put all the pieces together. Why would Elsie waste her time waiting for them when she can enjoy all of the blessings and joy God has for

her now?

Why would she choose to miss out on the greatest love and relationship with the all powerful and mighty Creator?
 
Sunny said:
Oh no, Lara, I am not going by "faith." Faith implies believing something just because someone has told you to believe it, and because emotionally you are tuned to believing them. No proof is needed in faith,
just the feeling that someone is telling you the truth. People can (and do) have faith in utter nonsense.

Science does not work like that. It is constantly subject to investigation, and nothing is "believed" in the absence of proof.
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I agree completely...this is why I equate religion with cult-following.

Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc......following them is IMHO no different than following religious teachings / the bible.
 
rgp said:
I agree completely...this is why I equate religion with cult-following.

Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc......following them is IMHO no different than following religious teachings / the bible.
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That's easy. No thinking involved. Hurts the brain otherwise, right?
 
Olivia said:
That's easy. No thinking involved. Hurts the brain otherwise, right?
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Exactly, it requires little from them...just follow what [that man up there] tells them to do & all will be OK....and I get to go to heaven ..........what ever that is?
 
rgp said:
Exactly, it requires little from them...just follow what [that man up there] tells them to do & all will be OK....and I get to go to heaven ..........what ever that is?
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LOL! If ignorance was a major in college, you'd already have a PhD. :)
 
Olivia said:
Oh, it's okay for you though, huh? Read your posts.
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In your ignorance you fail to realize that, that is not a personal attack. It is my opinion on religion~V~cults.

Perhaps brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
 

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