What do you think happens when you die

ohioboy said:
If I murder 100 people and never get caught by the police and die, if I am wrong about an afterlife, I lose. If there is no afterlife and murder 100 people, I win?

Belief in a final punishment is what most people fear, or there would be thousands of murders/rapes a day, you think? If I base my life believing in God and have an eternal soul, and am wrong, I lose nothing, but that's a pair of dice I do not wish to roll.

Not commenting on any final judgment's of anyone, but rapists and murders do not worry about an eternal soul, Hitler didn't.
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What do you win? That you lived your life as a scumbag murderer?

There already are thousands of murders/rapes a day

Rapists & murderers are not the only people doing "evil" deeds to their fellow humans. You don't have to look far for examples.
 

Pepper said:
What do you win? That you lived your life as a scumbag murderer?

There already are thousands of murders/rapes a day

Rapists & murderers are not the only people doing "evil" deeds to their fellow humans. You don't have to look far for examples.
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The meaning of "I win" is how a serial murderer conceives it. No arrest by police, therefore he escaped Earthly punishment, and since there is no afterlife as he believes, he won. It's the old "Catch me if you can."
 
Serenity4321 said:
Same here..amazing how Catholocism loses so many of us..I call myself a nonpracticing Catholic because it is my understanding the church continues to claim us once we are baptized... unless we are excommunicated..


Me too re: readings!




I am excited too and have lost all fear of dying..
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Thank you for all of your interesting comments Serenity...it appears we have some things in common 🌺🌺
 

ohioboy said:
Did you ever hear the "Our Father/Lord's prayer" sung by Sister Janet Meade, beautiful voice.
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What are you doing up at this hour? Don't tell me, you put your clock back instead of forward. I've not heard Sister Meade's rendition of The Lord's Prayer. I shall have to look it up.
 
I began doubting that there was an afterlife at about 8 years old. By the time I was 13, I was an atheist. If you're an atheist, you give up the comforting notion that there is a golden, forever life. This is it. And that really drives home what it means to kill someone. Little angels don't carry the victim to a fun filled heaven. It's a very sobering notion.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I began doubting that there was an afterlife at about 8 years old. By the time I was 13, I was an atheist. If you're an atheist, you give up the comforting notion that there is a golden, forever life. This is it. And that really drives home what it means to kill someone. Little angels don't carry the victim to a fun filled heaven. It's a very sobering notion.
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It took me a lot longer than you: I thought I was a believer and kept trying to be a believer for close to 50 years--from about the age of 6--before I became an atheist/agnostic. (I put both because on good days, I'm an atheist; on bad days an agnostic because I think, "You know maybe there is a god and he/she/it hates us; it would explain a lot." :LOL: )
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I began doubting that there was an afterlife at about 8 years old. By the time I was 13, I was an atheist. If you're an atheist, you give up the comforting notion that there is a golden, forever life. This is it. And that really drives home what it means to kill someone. Little angels don't carry the victim to a fun filled heaven. It's a very sobering notion.
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TY fuzzybuddy...I only started having doubts in my late teen years..after years of going to church and being raised in the Catholic church..and 3 years of Catholic school. When I started seriously questioning and even not believing in God, I took a course in comparative religions. Then for the next 50+ years, off and on, I studied various philosophies....I continue my hobby and just ordered 'Dying to Be Me' I am a true believer and find it hard to understand why anyone would not believe, but I respect all POVs. I do not follow any religion but believe there are many paths to God.

I do not see believing as a comforting notion..it's hard work to get past the challenges we all have. I also do not believe in the idea there is a heaven and hell we go to then that is it...
 
Serenity4321 said:
TY fuzzybuddy...I only started having doubts in my late teen years..after years of going to church and being raised in the Catholic church..and 3 years of Catholic school. When I started seriously questioning and even not believing in God, I took a course in comparative religions. Then for the next 50+ years, off and on, I studied various philosophies....I continue my hobby and just ordered 'Dying to Be Me' I am a true believer and find it hard to understand why anyone would not believe, but I respect all POVs. I do not follow any religion but believe there are many paths to God.

I do not see believing as a comforting notion..it's hard work to get past the challenges we all have. I also do not believe in the idea there is a heaven and hell we go to then that is it...
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I'm pretty much in the same place.
 
mellowyellow said:
I'm determined to go through that tunnel and see my mum and dad there smiling, so don't burst my bubble with science. :)
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out of the billions that are supposed to go somewhere after death how would you find the family group that you belong to? By family group that would included every member back to the beginning of time that is related to you.
 

What do you think happens when you die​


If your family hold a wake with you lying there in an open coffin, make sure your kinfolk have plugged your ears, otherwise, you will have to listen to people you hated and avoided, telling everyone what a great person you were and how you were always great pals, then the ba****ds will drink all your booze. :)
 
Knight said:
out of the billions that are supposed to go somewhere after death how would you find the family group that you belong to? By family group that would included every member back to the beginning of time that is related to you.
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I think the Good Lord has that figured out and we will know when that time comes. It will be one Great Reunion in heaven. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
 
I try really hard to believe God is a lot of bunk. But just when I'm ready to make a clean break, something happens and I'm back to knowing Dad's there giving me a hard time again.
 
I don't want to sound disrespectful, but there is no proof of an afterlife, nor is there no proof it doesn't exist, so, it's whatever floats your boat. One thing is bothering me, and that's urns of ashes. You might love to have a loved one on your mantle, but say, in 2256, do you want your wife's ex husband's cousin's wife's ashes? What do you do with them?
 
When our Dad died, he had made arrangements to be cremated. My brother and I dug his grave by hand, next to mom, in a family plot. That is preferable to me to keeping the ashes around.
 
When the electro-chemical reactions of a nervous system die down , eventually the other organic systems follow.
I see little evidence to allow me to answer; if there is an after life except; the multiverse theory of reality; which says in effect that there are/may be many parallel, largely separate, realities.

As far as ash storage; my sister wants to be spread in the ocean, and I want to be spread around one of my favorite camping spots (it will help fertilize the woods!).

Enjoy!
 

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