Do you believe in an afterlife.?

Mutant z · 21-06-2017 10:09PM #1

How many of you out there believe in an afterlife, i would be of the opinion that life ceases permentantly at death but im open to differing opinions on the matter, what's your opinion on the matter, is death final, or do you believe we all live on in some way, i would like your contributions please.

Richard Hillman · 21-06-2017 10:10PM

Maybe this is the afterlife? Maybe this is the pre-life?

mzungu · 21-06-2017 10:12PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Maybe this is the afterlife? Maybe this is the pre-life?

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 10:13PM

No. I didn't exist. I exist. I'll cease to exist.

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 10:14PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Maybe this is the afterlife? Maybe this is the pre-life?

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide...

Fart · 21-06-2017 10:14PM

Birneybau wrote: »

No. I didn't exist. I exist. I'll cease to exist.

Sheeeeeeeeeit!

Jesus Wept · 21-06-2017 10:16PM

Depends on how deep the simulation goes.

Ipso · 21-06-2017 10:17PM

I believe in the half life. Witness!

murpho999 · 21-06-2017 10:17PM

Yes, I believe in an afterlife.

It's called death.

drunkmonkey · 21-06-2017 10:27PM

To quote Jim..

I don't know how many you people believe in astrology
Yeah, that's right, that's right, baby, I, I am a Sagittarius
The most philosophical of all the signs
But anyway, I don't believe in it

I think it's a bunch of bull****, myself
But I tell you this, man, I tell you this
I don't know what's gonna happen, man, but I wanna have
My kicks before the whole **** house goes up in flames alright

LadyMacBeth_ · 21-06-2017 10:36PM

I don't believe in an afterlife, I think I'll die and there will be nothing. It would be more comforting to believe in an afterlife but I guess I won't care when I'm dead.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 21-06-2017 10:46PM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I don't believe in an afterlife, I think I'll die and there will be nothing. It would be more comforting to believe in an afterlife but I guess I won't care when I'm dead.

But when your dead and there is just nothing won't you be wishing there was something because nothing is terribly dull and boring.

21-06-2017 10:51PM

Mutant z wrote: »

Do you believe in an afterlife.?

I like the idea of it. Alas, probably the best book I've ever read on any topic is still Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death. It's brilliant, inspired, insightful on this topic.

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 10:53PM

mzungu wrote: »

Hey Cuties!

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 10:55PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

But when your dead and there is just nothing won't you be wishing there was something because nothing is terribly dull and boring.

Will be like a switch going off. Don't think my telly thinks of what wonderful things it could be showing when I unplug if for the night.

Mountainsandh · 21-06-2017 11:02PM

Final. Nothing after.
It's really hard to conceive, but I kinda find it comforting in a way.
I mean comforting in the sense that you wouldn't be stuck in a hellish place, or in a state/life you possibly don't like.

Juan More Time · 21-06-2017 11:04PM

As an atheist I don't believe in God or any religious nonsense So I don't think there is a bearded man in the heavens regulating the universe... But I've seen several ghosts over the years, So It's possible that the life force of a living being leaves the body upon death... The pagans believed the veil between this life and the afterlife is incredibly thin, and can break at times allowing the living to catch a a fleeting glimpse of something the defies rational explanation...

Academic · 21-06-2017 11:04PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

But when your dead and there is just nothing won't you be wishing there was something because nothing is terribly dull and boring.

He's saying he won't be "wishing" anything, or finding anything "dull and boring." He's saying he won't exist.

AllForIt · 21-06-2017 11:05PM

I believe in after parties. Does that count ?

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 11:13PM

AllForIt wrote: »

I believe in after parties. Does that count ?

After the show is the after party. And after the party is the hotel lobby. Was R Kelly using that as a metaphor for limbo?

Fr_Dougal · 21-06-2017 11:15PM

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 11:15PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Ye big eejit.

Junkyard Tom · 21-06-2017 11:16PM

An afterlife? I dunno, probably not. The notion of eternal life horrifies me though.

Ally Dick · 21-06-2017 11:17PM

I would describe myself as a theist. I believe in God, but I don't think we are that high on the priorities. It's like a big chicken laying an egg. We're a germ on the egg. Regarding an afterlife, it depends on the intricacies of the universe that we do not understand yet. I can't see there being an afterlife for good behaviour

storker · 21-06-2017 11:17PM

I don't believe there is, but I'm not happy about it, because I don't like the idea of not existing, and not knowing what happens after I go. Nevertheless, I believe that if you want to know what life after death is like, think back to what it was like before you were born.

NIMAN · 21-06-2017 11:20PM

Juan More Time wrote: »

As an atheist I don't believe in God or any religious nonsense So I don't think there is a bearded man in the heavens regulating the universe... But I've seen several ghosts over the years, So It's possible that the life force of a living being leaves the body upon death... The pagans believed the veil between this life and the afterlife is incredibly thin, and can break at times allowing the living to catch a a fleeting glimpse of something the defies rational explanation...

I find it strange that you are atheist and don't believe in God but believe in ghosts.

storker · 21-06-2017 11:23PM

NIMAN wrote: »

I find it strange that you are atheist and don't believe in God but believe in ghosts.

I don't find that strange at all. Ghosts involve much less of an imaginational stretch than a God who can create an entire universe and watch everyone individually all the time, and who has a plan that can be discerned from the chaos and cruelty we see all around us.

Lady is a tramp · 21-06-2017 11:26PM

storker wrote: »

I don't find that strange at all. Ghosts involve much less of an imaginational stretch than a God who can create an entire universe and watch everyone individually all the time, and who has a plan that can be discerned from the chaos and cruelty we see all around us.

Yeah but doesn't atheist mean non-believer ... you're not an atheist if you believe in ghosts, afterlife, etc.

Birneybau · 21-06-2017 11:26PM

storker wrote: »

I don't find that strange at all. Ghosts involve much less of an imaginational stretch than a God who can create an entire universe and watch everyone individually all the time, and who has a plan that can be discerned from the chaos and cruelty we see all around us.

They're both bonkers imo

Academic · 21-06-2017 11:38PM

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

Yeah but doesn't atheist mean non-believer ... you're not an atheist if you believe in ghosts, afterlife, etc.

Not true. An atheist is simply someone who denies the existence of god: a-theist.

It doesn't by itself entail the denial of the supernatural.

RobertKK · 21-06-2017 11:43PM

We are in the matrix, maybe we only escape it through death and enter the after life, life after the matrix.

Do you believe in an afterlife.?

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