Category: philosophy/religion topics
do you think there is life after death?
Yes, but in Heaven with the lord, but if you are talking about on earth, no.
Troy
Daniel, this is a tough one for me. The answwer is a definite yes. I don't believe it is as simpleas we are lead to believe in the Bible, because of some things that happend to me. My father and I didn't get along for the last ten years of my life, but he taught me more in his death and things that happened after. I could easily fill two posts, so if you're really interested, send me an e-mail and I'll fill you in.
Lou
I believe in reincarnation to its fullest, meaning I think I had a life before this life I'm living now and I'll have a life after this one ends. I don't think if you commit suicide that there is life after death because it's like wasting this life so they don't give you a chance for a new one because the universe thinks you'll waste it again by taking your life again.
Nachtmusik how can you be so judgemental as to decide on the criteria for reincarnation, rarely have I heard such crap.
tricky one. I don't actually believe in heaven/hell because that's too black and white. The idea of there being a heaven and a hell would be that those who followed the lord went to heaven and sang with the angels and worshiped the lord for all eternity, and those who didn't burned in the eternal fire of hell. sorry but I really don't believe a word of that because that would imply that you would go to hell even if you'd lived a good life but hadn't been a follower of god. And to believe in heaven and hell you have to believe in god and I'm not sure that I do. I do think we all have a spirit though, what happens to it when you die - I don't know.
well, there must be something.
i agree with who ever said that if you take your own life you don't get another chance
ah but thing is, we'll never really know will we? no-one has ever come back from the dead to tell us what it's like out there, so how do we really know that there is life after death.
yes but you believe in religion and there is no validity in that.
when some one takes there life it's because they can't take it any more, so if there is a higher being why don't they help, life goes on eather way death is death and life will always go on
Well, I'm not going to comment on the suicide thing because, although I have an opinion on it, I've never experienced it personally to think about it. Well my mom sometimes has, but I think praying about it and thinking about her loved ones is what helps her keep from carrying it out. (I don't know that for sure, but I'm just guessing that.) As for life after death I was taught that it does exist (no matter how the person died), although I wonder what will happen to me personally when I die. I think maybe it's a way for living people to I guess not miss their dead loved ones as much? because they are still with them in some way, even if it's not physically. As I had mentioned on the Angels discussion, I think it's just a feeling someone has that someone else is there with them. It's weird though because I really don't remember ever crying or feeling that sad when I heard that someone died, even when I know that person. I think how different it is without them, but I don't really get tearful or depressed about it. So I guess for me, it's knowing that although things will be different, their souls are still somewhere around and I like to believe that when a person does sense someone with them (when there's physically noone there), that that is God or a dead person's spirit with them. I know that this probably can't be proven, but that's what I feel on this. *smile*
Zentar your right its all bullshit and the silence proves it.
The soul was something priests invented to keep the simple under their control. Not even the Bible teaches that there is such a thing as a soul, a self apart from the body. The Biblical view is that the body and the breath make up a living soul. And God breathed in the man's nostrils, and the man became a living soul. A soul is a living person, not something separate inside our body that transmigrates space and time when we cease breathing.
This subject has always been fascinating to me, although I can't make up my mind whether I believe in life after death. But I am fascinated by TV shows such as Touched by an Angel, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, and others.
I believe that the extent of life after death is the contribution you made to humanity while you were alive.
I've heard that there are people who believe that the afterlife is much more important than, what shall we call it, the physical life or the earthly life. So much so that they look forward to death because they expect they will get their reward. No, I'm not just talking about suicide bombers and the like, but some Christian folk seem to believe this as well. what do ya think?
I deffinitly believe in life after death, but personally, I don't think God will grant it to you if you commit suicide.
On the subject of life after death, I think there really is something! When one of my uncles died, and just after he was berried, I sat beside his grave! I asked him,"Why did you have to die?" I heard a noise! For a moment, I thought it was my uncle George answering my question!
I don't know what else to say about life after death! Everything I put there already explains it all in the simplest way!
I do beieve that people go onto another life after they leave this one and I agree with one of the other people who posted on here about that I don't really get upset about it for long because I say they've gone to see their family and friends who went before them.
I am a firm believer in rationality, proof and science, when possible.
I am also a romantic when there is no evidence to base a proof on.
Life after death fits into the latter category. There are many claims to knowledge about life after death, but most of them seem to require a lot of "belief" on my part.
I guess my own feelings about this subject are summed up in the words of a rock song I heard a long time ago.
"I know there ain't no heaven, and I pray there ain't no hell."
When people I love die, I hope there is some sort of after life where I can talk with them again. But, I know this is a hope and a belief, not a certainty.
As far as suicides go, why not give them as much benefit as anyone else. Was it a selfish act? Was it vengeful? etc. etc.
Just my rambling thoughts.
Good topic, thanks for posting it.
Bob
I can tell you many near-death experiences where people went to heaven or hell. So, as a christian, of course I do believe in heaven and hell. With God all is black and white, which might sound hard but it's true.
Yeah, I believe the same as all Christians do, but if anyone who doesn't believe in that, that's totally fine. You don't need too.