Do you believe in Life after Death.

I think the life after death thing is wishful thinking so that we may comfort ourselves. A sort of psychological cushion if you like. In regards to Castiels straneg persoanl expereinces where a woman appears I think that is probably some sort of advanced psycholigical defence mechanism to bear our suffering better.

That is what I used to think but now I am more of a beliver in a higher power and so believe in life after death, but that we must not care for it and enjoy our short time here on earth.
 
In regards to Castiels straneg persoanl expereinces where a woman appears I think that is probably some sort of advanced psycholigical defence mechanism to bear our suffering better.
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Yes but his mind creates the exact same woman each time? A stranger as well, albeit a well-meaning stranger. If it was his mind then logically wouldnt it be someone he was close to? Someone he knew?

Occams Razor applies whenever we examine supposed explanations for things. Does it make more sense to have the mind conjure up X hallucination for Y purpose ad infinitum? Ergo if someones experience sounds weird or doesnt fit the norm heyy it cant be real it must be the "mind" again...making stuff up. doesnt make sense to me to apply this ad nauseum..to all experiences that dont fit standard models of inquiry. Primarily because we are exploiting our lack of knowledge of how the Mind acts in these type of experiences to "reason away" the validity of the experience....

The problem is some stuff is conjured by the mind (dreaming, lucid dreams etc) So how can we tell the difference between what is a real defining experience that has a Reality beyond my mind and an experience that is merely a sense impression totally conjured by my mind for X ubiqituous purposes.

Obviously the answer here is to have a list of Reality defining points and then just tick em off :D
 
Gustov said:
I have heard it said, that the sting of death is sin and the soul itself is sinning and surely dies. What would be the point of going to heaven if i haven't lived life to the max on earth?. If we're heaven bound what was the point of designing the earth in the first place?, what a waste. EDIT: Wall of text removed.
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kedge said:
Grass-roots science education by the sounds of things. From what i gather, evolutionists generally control higher education, science journals, and the media, but there are people out there that say the scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports creation and a global flood.
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Thanks for starting with that. It made it clear that you're just repeating lies, so I didn't have to waste any time reading the rest of your badly formatted screed.
 
In the end NOBODY knows until you die. Quoting passages from books is a pointless, selective exercise. You only believe because you WANT to believe. There is zero evidence for the basis of any life after death theories. Just those idiotic '7 doors of heaven' and likewise inane babble.

No idea how a thread grew to 6 pages over something that's impossible to know. Only thing it could be is the usual wild theories and meaningless beliefs being flung around. You don't know. You hope.
 
Cr0fty said:
Fox try opening your mind a little. I don't think you actually want to understand this topic... As it really isn't hard and yet you seem to be making such a fuss. Perhaps you are just devoid of soul :p

To answer the OP, I have no religion but I believe in something after death. When tripping recently I came to the conclusion "energies" on the topic of reincarnation/rebirth. I can say no more than that as I don't know. I'm happy though.
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Open his mind to the 'something' you believe in after death? I'm sure of someone's mind to be open the word 'something' needs to be expanded on.

Open your mind on the Eastern Bunny a little. There's 'something' in it since everyone knows him.
 
zipp0r said:
unanswerable ? if you think its unanswerable you're too stupid to know which to believe, something blatently obvious and simple or something out of a fairytale.
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I can only assume from your forthright assertion that you have definitive proof in terms of what happens after death*? If you don't then it's an unanswerable question due to a lack of evidence - you may have a belief or faith in what happens and there's nothing wrong with that but it's not necessarily the same as being factually correct.

*nb to attempt to measure it with current tools is probably missing the point, a soul for instance might be entirely incorporeal and how do you search for that?
 
To quote Rodney Trotter;

"I've got this horrible feeling that if there is such a thing as reincarnation, knowing my luck I'll come back as me!"
 
regulus said:
In the end NOBODY knows until you die. Quoting passages from books is a pointless, selective exercise. You only believe because you WANT to believe. There is zero evidence for the basis of any life after death theories. Just those idiotic '7 doors of heaven' and likewise inane babble.

No idea how a thread grew to 6 pages over something that's impossible to know. Only thing it could be is the usual wild theories and meaningless beliefs being flung around. You don't know. You hope.
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There is "evidence" everywhere. You just choose to discount it.
 
Surfer said:
With a certain amount of circumspection it makes clear common sense to believe in God and thereby and afterlife and live your life in accordance with your beliefs.



If you live your life not believing in God, you die it turns out God exists then you suffer for that (many religions have not so nice consequences for unbelievers).

However for the devout believer in God - his lifelong belief and faith is justified and bestowed upon them is various rewards (depending on which religion).

So then you might say - ahh but what if there is no god, you die and there is nothing (because brain conditions dont exist = you dead) You have no awareness, no consciousness...you are just wormfood.

THEN the unbeliever might say "i win" The believer will have wasted his life? The problem with that argument is that both the unbeliever and the believer will be non-conscious wormfood so who will be aware to congratulate themselves on being right?

Basically its a win, win situation for the Believer.

Unless of course.... you are a Christian and when you die you find out that your God wasnt the real God...you followed a false religion and that the Hindu religion was the RIGHT and TRUE religion...

Yeah you're screwed then.

I mean what are the odds that your religion will be the right one? That the one you believe in is true....what is probably the case is that there is some kind of God (you probably) but they have nothing whatsoever to do with all these religions (or all religions have fragments of truth of God).

See you on the other side ;)
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I could answer this but il let a pro do it.

 
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