Life after death
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- Horp0
I had another dream a year back where I was imprisoned ina compaound with other people. It was a hard life in this compund that had really high walls all around it. The compund and walls were hexagonal shaped. It was dirty and poor in this compound but there was supposed to be a way out.
In the centre of the compound was a giant mechanically articulated stack of wheels, like a stack of pancakes sort fo thing. Huge though. The wheel nearest the ground turned slowly and people often sat on that one. The next wheel up turned a bit faster though, but people still sat on it in large numbers. Next wheel up, a bit faster, not so many people, next wheel up, faster still, less people, next wheel up spinning faster, next one, faster, up and up, each wheel getting faster and faster.
After a while is was spinning blisteringly fast and it was difficult to hang on to. The theory was that if you were brave enough to keep getting onto the next wheel (each wheel is only incrementally faster than the last so its easy to get from one to the next, its the overall speed that is alarming the higher you get) you would eventually get to the top of the stock of wheels and would be flung clear over the walls of the compound by the sheer rotational force.
The question was though, nobody knew if you would survive, or if there was anything on the other side of the compound walls... or whether liberation was merely in the form of a breif sense of freedom and overview, followed by death.
I got right to the top and was barely able to hang on. I could feel myself being foced further and further to the edge of the wheel I was on, and I had another one to go. I didn't feel I would make it so I turned back.
- boobs0
I don't really believe in death. I don't think it really happens. I think those people I've been told are dead are just hiding.
- Juddly0
I have a crackpot theory... that when you die, in your last second of consciousness you slip into a dream, and in the dream the second stretches to infinity.. because dream-time isn't relative. So you dream forever.
- Anders0
Try watching this movie, Samsara
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196…The idea of reincarnation doesn't devalue life, but puts another perspective on how you'd want to live it.
Beauty = Truth
the only thing you need to know.
- bliznutty0
lets say you were in a coma for 15 years before you eventually died... first you were alive but dead, then you actually died, and then you were dead but alive..
- utopian0
Ask the GOP what they think about life after death?
- ********0
it's not life after death. it's life after life after life...
- Pupsipu0
I have this idea about life after death. It's pretty much the correct answer.
Life is nothing special, most life on earth isn't aware that it's not a rock cuz it just has a mechanism for survival and replication. Might as well be a rock if you're that clueless. Humans got lots of neurons though, so they experience this phenomenon called consciousness, that's when a lot of neurons fire signals to each other. They don't wonder whether there is life after death, but if there is consciousness after death, obviously the answer is no, because your neurons can't function.
- BuddhaHat0
No.
You die, and rot in the ground (or are cremated, or whatever).
All the neurons and brain cells that make you the person you are die, and you cease to exist on this plane of existence, or any other.
Kind Regards,
an atheist
- MrOneHundred0
While I do not want to marginalise the opinions/beliefs of anyone on here, I find it, personally, unsatisfactory to lock into any one belief system in regard to something that no-one can ever know. It’s like making a life-long bet on something of which the result is never revealed. I prefer to spend my time researching and pondering all of the possibilities and gleaning from that a way in which to live the life that we know does exist. For me the idea of doing unto others as you would have done to yourself stands way above an other idea, and what happens after is somewhat less relevant than that.
- practicality and compassion - two excellent guides_salisae_
- benfal990
sad but i think that humans are like plants or any other living things... when we die, its over. We want to believe because we are afraid.
- Scotch_Roman0
monospaced, why exactly is it sad that I believe in life after death? Could it be that there are some knowable things outside the realm of your experience? Or did you create all of this?
I don't believe in the afterlife because I "find it reassuring to think that there is a special place we all go after we die". I believe in it because it's in God's word, which you will only laugh at of course, but also because he has proven to me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he is good; that his love endures forever; and that since we are made in his image, our souls (i.e. minds) are eternal. He has proven it by too many events in my life to list here, and through the lives of others. Most importantly, he has proven it in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, which was witnessed by thousands of people.
It's foolish to assume that something is impossible simply because it doesn't make sense to you personally. Could it be that there is a God whom you and I can barely comprehend?
- Scotch_Roman0
I believe that eternity is the most important thing there is, rather than the other way around. Why? Well, if it is eternity, that's an unfathomably long period of time (or meta-time), far longer than our limited minds can comprehend. If we are eternal, then this life is but a blip on the screen.
- MakeBelieve0
Would it not be better to believe and discover that God doesn't exist, rather than be the one who didn't believe and find Hell or whatever worse waiting for him?
Believing may not make a difference in life, but not believing could make hell of lot of difference, no?
- <Scotch_Roman
- but not believing could make hell of lot of difference - after death I mean.MakeBelieve
- The problem with Pascal's wager is which god to believe in, especially as they are mutually exclusive.unit7
- ah the fear of hellephix
- living in fear is for fucking pussies who can't cope with reality and need someone to scare them into being goodmonospaced
- ********0
we all get to live the same lives. the universe is an amusement park. it's like a giant firework.
- How's the air up there?Scotch_Roman
- Bit thin, eh?Scotch_Roman
- groovy********
- MrOneHundred0
This does not have to be a religious argument/debate. I think there is enough room in science and spirituality for “life after death” to be a completely valid theoretical path to follow without bringing “God” into it. That, for me, is a entirely more interesting possibility. Again, not that the notion of God is not interesting as well.
- Life after death is proposed by God, so therefore its a natural starting point.MakeBelieve
- The prospect of the infinite has existed in science infinitely.MrOneHundred
- I don’t discount any of what you have said, I just believe the possibilities are far broader.MrOneHundred
- kgvs720
IDK
- ukit0
^ "not believing could make hell of lot of difference"
I can see the ad now;)
"Accept Jesus Into Your Life
It Could Make A *Hell* of A Difference"
- ukit0
I agree with Mr100 BTW - existence of afterlife doesn't necessarily rest on whether you buy into the idea of God/ religion...
- ********0
we're already in heaven and hell. the people who on the planet who are suffering are in hell. the people who are magnificent, brave, and sexy like me are in heaven. it is the job of those in heaven to pull the poor souls out of hell, after which time satan will be defeated.