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  • What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     OP - May 18, 2010, 08:38 PM
    Do you think there will not be a life after our death? Or there will be a life but not according to the religions? Or what do you think about that?

    Regardless to the complex theories of the universe and the existence.  Smiley
    "I never argued with another person without hoping that Allah swt would let the truth be on his tongue and not my own." Emam ElShafi
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #1 - May 18, 2010, 08:40 PM
    I think there will be nothing. We exist, and then we dont exist. End of story.

    If it is otherwise, im not unhappy thou  Tongue
    "We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves." - from Goethes Faust
    "Only the wisest and the stupidest men never change." - Confuzios
    "there is no religion of peace, only people who are peaceful while being religious."
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #2 - May 18, 2010, 08:42 PM
    There is an 'after-life' insofar as people are affected by the decisions you made during your life. So make sure they're the correct ones. Smiley
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #3 - May 18, 2010, 08:43 PM
    I agree with both of the above.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #4 - May 18, 2010, 08:46 PM
    You don't live on, your ideas and memory do in the hearts of all you meet and those who are affected by your work. You live through your genetics in your kids and through allowing plants to grow.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #5 - May 18, 2010, 08:49 PM
    @Lilyesque
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    You don't live on, your ideas and memory do in the hearts of all you meet and those who are affected by your work. You live through your genetics in your kids and through allowing plants to grow.

    Do you mean Transmigration?
    "I never argued with another person without hoping that Allah swt would let the truth be on his tongue and not my own." Emam ElShafi
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #6 - May 18, 2010, 09:13 PM
    Our life energy is merely borrowed, one day it must be repaid. Our atoms will be returned to the universe's atom pool to be reused.

    I don't come here any more due to unfair moderation.
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  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #7 - May 18, 2010, 10:01 PM
    mabbr, Do animals or plants have an afterlife?  Did you have a before-life before you were born?

    Watch this short video of Bertrand Russell.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPOMUTr1qw
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  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #8 - May 18, 2010, 10:21 PM
    No afterlife. Though I consider any differences made to the world as a life for those memes after my body's milage runs out. (Goes for everyone)

    "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
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  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #9 - May 18, 2010, 10:46 PM
    Quote from: HighOctane on May 18, 2010, 10:21 PM
    "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
    — Mark Twain

    Great quote. Pretty much sums up my opinion.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #10 - May 18, 2010, 10:51 PM
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    Great quote. Pretty much sums up my opinion.

     

    really? But now that you have experienced life, you're not scared of sleeping one day and stay asleep forever?
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #11 - May 18, 2010, 10:56 PM
    Not a good thing to think about but no I am not scared.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #12 - May 18, 2010, 11:00 PM
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    Not a good thing to think about but no I am not scared.


    of course, I never thought about aging/dying either until I saw my first gray hair.. I'm betting you're under 30...

    No one thinks about death, we all postpone thinking about it, otherwise, there's no point of building a life that will come to an end anyway.
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #13 - May 18, 2010, 11:10 PM
    Yup still 23.

    Personally I'm not scared of death per se. I'm scared of a slow painful death. I'm scared of leaving family or friends who emotionally or financially need me. But in all honesty the idea of me going to bed filled with ambitions and ideas and not waking up the next morning doesn't scare me the least bit.
    After all, I have had a fortunate life so far. I've had good times, made great friends, visited a number of countries, had sex with more than one woman, and tasted a lot of amazing food. That's good enough for me.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #14 - May 18, 2010, 11:19 PM
    I subscribe to Avatar's view of the afterlife - we all become one with Eywa.

    Well, something like that. I believe it can only be one of two possibilities:  either we cease to exist (sensation kind of like being asleep) OR we literally become "one" with the universe depending on how in tune we become with it during our lives. If we neglect the universe then the universe will abandon us when we die kinda thing. It's a work in progress...
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #15 - May 18, 2010, 11:20 PM

    I think we ascend to heaven on the back of a fire-breathing donkey.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #16 - May 18, 2010, 11:24 PM
    I actually had an epiphany about my mortality when i was 23, a few days after my grandmother died.

    I was lieing in my bed, thinking about life and death, and suddenly got crushed by the thought that my time is limited. It was overwhelming. It was like, seeing all the greatness of the universe, and realizing how unimportant, yet how lucky i am to be alive.

    And no, i dont mind not existing anymore. because at that time i wont be aware of that fact at all.
    "We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves." - from Goethes Faust
    "Only the wisest and the stupidest men never change." - Confuzios
    "there is no religion of peace, only people who are peaceful while being religious."
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #17 - May 18, 2010, 11:26 PM
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    Yup still 23.

     

    How I wish I'd be you age again.. I'm 10 frigging years older.

    Quote
    Personally I'm not scared of death per se.

     

    I always, always am.

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    ... But in all honesty the idea of me going to bed filled with ambitions and ideas and not waking up the next morning doesn't scare me the least bit.

     

    Amazingly, this scares me the most! In fact, when I have achieved something or passed  a milestone, etc, that's when I lay down in bed scared it might be my grave.
     
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    After all, I have had a fortunate life so far. I've had good times, made great friends, visited a number of countries, had sex with more than one woman, and tasted a lot of amazing food. That's good enough for me.

     

    same here except for the sex part... maybe that's why I'm so scared?  Smiley
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #18 - May 18, 2010, 11:31 PM
    Quote from: DigDeep on May 18, 2010, 11:24 PM
    I actually had an epiphany about my mortality when i was 23, a few days after my grandmother died.

    I was lieing in my bed, thinking about life and death, and suddenly got crushed by the thought that my time is limited. It was overwhelming. It was like, seeing all the greatness of the universe, and realizing how unimportant, yet how lucky i am to be alive.

    And no, i dont mind not existing anymore. because at that time i wont be aware of that fact at all.


    like I said, it's only because we ACTUALLY do lie to ourselves thinking that the time of death will be so far away from 'now'. Even for a man in his 70's, he'd still think that he would still be alive, at least for tomorrow...

    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #19 - May 18, 2010, 11:34 PM
    Quote from: debunker on May 18, 2010, 11:26 PM
    same here except for the sex part... maybe that's why I'm so scared?  Smiley

    I don't know, could be. But I know if I was in your place I would wanna try it before I die.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #20 - May 18, 2010, 11:36 PM
     Cheesy
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #21 - May 18, 2010, 11:37 PM
    .
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #22 - May 19, 2010, 07:39 AM
    I don't think there will be life after death. I think the idea of an afterlife is is only believed by people who are too scared of death. Why? Because they want the comfort of believing they are immortal, even when their bodies are not.

    Another reason is the idea of souls. Nobody can imagine what it feels like to not exist. When you cease to exist, that's it. You're not here. Nothing. You can't feel it. There is no feeling, no experience, no thought, no mind. There is no "you" anymore.

    I think the "soul" is merely just the combination of electrical pulses and connections between the neuron cells in our brains. In other words, the information and work system in your brain is "YOU"

    But who knows, I think someday we will advance so far in technology, we might be able to cheat death. Too bad that sort of technology probably won't be available in my lifetime.
    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

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  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #23 - May 19, 2010, 08:10 AM
    I have no belief in life after death either and death does scare me. The unfathomable idea of not existing is scary just because I can't imagine it at all. I'm a wuss so I'd like to believe in an afterlife, that I'd be joining a celebration in heaven or some grand, higher state of consciousness or the universe or some other crap, but my rational mind keeps reminding me that it just isn't that way. We cease to exist and that's all there is to it. It is kind of sad, because that makes everything we do just fleeting in the grand scheme of things. Then again, I suppose the lack of an afterlife makes the short or long time we have here all the more relevant and important, the pursuit of your own happiness, whether it comes from pleasing your family, collecting a lot of money or having a large amount of friends.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #24 - May 19, 2010, 10:16 AM
    I don't think there is an afterlife. It doesn't bother me the least bit because I'm still new to this concept. I'm just relieved that I won't roast for eternity in hell for not praying regularly or wearing revealing clothes. So for now I'm like this  dance

    Like IA I am scared of a slow and painful death. Physical pain is a great phobia of mine. But just ceasing to exist doesn't scare me.  It makes me a bit sad to leave loved ones behind, to leave this world without accomplishing all the things I want to, but once it's done, I won't even know it. It just gives me an incentive to get off my ass and do things, turn my life around.
    He's no friend to the friendless
    And he's the mother of grief
    There's only sorrow for tomorrow
    Surely life is too brief
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #25 - May 19, 2010, 01:21 PM
    In a sense, I won't stop existing, I'll personally be in peoples memories, becoming a part of them. Then they being remembered will keep me alive, and so the process will repeat. Though I'll be gone, I'll live on in others. Though that's in a philosophical sense.

    In a literal sense, I'll just return to my original parts, though I've donated them to charity. So I'll become a part of people who need organ transplants, and whatever's left of me, well it'll just rebecome the earth. Maybe find its way inside insects, and I'll become a part of them.

    Though I'll just cease to exist, in that I as a conscious entity will be no more, in other ways I won't be gone.
    It is not the way you live your life that is important, it is how well you enjoy it that matters.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #26 - May 19, 2010, 02:18 PM
    Quote from: mabbr on May 18, 2010, 08:49 PM
    @LilyesqueDo you mean Transmigration?


    Not sure what you mean there, but basically i believe that your ideas pass on through people you knew, you get passed on through genetics if you have children, and you aid plants to grow as you decompose.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #27 - June 08, 2010, 01:48 AM
    i think it's bullshit but I also realize it's comforting to some.

    I was faced with this realization today actually when I accepted that yeah okay I prefer the truth over comfort but that the idea of an afterlife is what keeps some people going, in this context my friend who recently lost her father at a young age. I suppose the fact that she will see her dad in heaven makes her recovery from such a traumatic experience easier.

    I realize, not begrudgingly, why some people might be comforted by this. Though to me it is dishonest and unsatisfactory. Because as long as i have a fulfilling life I do not fear the status of being dead so much (i.e oblivion) as I do that moment before death, right before you cease to live.
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #28 - June 08, 2010, 02:21 AM
    Personally, I don't find the idea of an afterlife comforting. I almost converted back to Islam once and was so depressed to believe that I'm gonna live forever. Death is scary, but immortality is scarier.
  • Re: What do you think about the idea of Afterlife?
     Reply #29 - June 08, 2010, 02:38 AM
    I live on the assumption that this is the only life I'll get, and I'll continue to do so until there's solid evidence to the contrary. Of course, I'd like to enjoy a pleasant existence in any form for as long as possible, but I won't bother speculating on the nature of any potential afterlife.
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