Poll: Do you believe in the afterlife?
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No, I don't believe in any sort of afterlife. Not intending to belittle anyone's beliefs or anything, but it just seems to me that any sort of mythology involving an afterlife would originate out of our fear of our own mortality. When you don't fear death you really don't have any need to believe in such things.
I don't feel any need to "comfort" myself and sugarcoat the inevitable fact that one day we're all gonna fucking die.
Honestly I don't really understand people who feel the need to comfort themselves with fairy tales and make-believe. I do sort of understand the emotional aspects, the fear of the unknown and all that - but frankly, it's not fucking personal. There's no bearded man in the sky who invented death to fuck with you.
We won't know before we die, but my money is on us just dying and that's essentially it.
Honestly I don't really understand people who feel the need to comfort themselves with fairy tales and make-believe. I do sort of understand the emotional aspects, the fear of the unknown and all that - but frankly, it's not fucking personal. There's no bearded man in the sky who invented death to fuck with you.
We won't know before we die, but my money is on us just dying and that's essentially it.
I don't believe there is any form of afterlife. But that idea holds the most plausibility in my eyes.everythingbeeps said:
Something that makes no sense to anything that isn't already there and a part of it...
[sub]That made more sense in my head...[/sub]
I believe in Heaven. Im not quite sure what it will be like though, the Bible is vauge on it. Id like to think its a sort of unending state of euphoria.
Whatever our last thoughts are is what we'll be spending the rest of eternity thinking. That is my personal belief.
I find myself hoping there isn't one. The idea of 'eternal life' after dying horrifies me. I don't care how ideal the afterlife is, an eternity of it would get ever so tedious, and it's be inescapable. It's the good old immortality story again. No, living this one life for the rest of time would not be nice.
Reincarnation would be much preferable, si, but I just find that one a tad unlikely.
Reincarnation would be much preferable, si, but I just find that one a tad unlikely.
i believe when you die you decompose and become other life...its a bit jedi but its pretty much what happens and my fear of death is reduced greatly by this philosophy or whatever it is...
Well, the general idea of a perfect afterlife is that you'd never really be bored with it. Only good emotions and such.Mestraal said:
Or at least, that's what my version of Heaven used to be.
The problem I find with that idea is that it seems to be almost brainwashing, allowing only positive emotions to be felt. Perfection doesn't come that easy, y'know? Even being elated all the time would wear thin in the normal run of things.JoesshittyOs said:
Well, only one way to find out. Regrettably, I don't intend on doing so anytime soon, I kinda like being alive.
In memory of the recently deceased Christopher Hitchens, I find his opining on the matter to be a more or less perfect reflection of my feelings about the 'Afterlife'.
to die but to live on after death knowing the feeling of death whether that be on the battlefeild or on the couch(and anything in between) and still going on knowing that you have already expired once leaving a happy and fufilled life behind(hopefully)behind in your wake....yes I do beleive that there are things the human mind just can comprehend
So far, none of my dead relatives has come back haunt me, like I asked them to. FOR SCIENCE!
So I can rule that out.
Honestly, I see no reason into thinking there is a after life.
It brings so many questions like, where is it then? How does a soul get there? What is a soul, etc
That decomposition and just death seem so much more likely.
So I can rule that out.
Honestly, I see no reason into thinking there is a after life.
It brings so many questions like, where is it then? How does a soul get there? What is a soul, etc
That decomposition and just death seem so much more likely.
I honestly don't care, if there is great if there isn't i wont actually know it, ergo theres not much reason to bother thinking about it. I dont believe there is any real reason for us to know, bar curiosity. besides if it does exist i doubt it will be all fuzzy bunnies and flowers unless were going the religious route, and in that case well you know how thats going to turn out.
This is something I've thought about in the past, and have come to no conclusion yet. I'm not religious, but I'm not ruling out anything that could possibly exist after death. I think the only way any of us will truly find out, is indeed, once we die.