Afterlife (ritual, moral, reincarnate, beliefs, hell)

[Atheist_Dave]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone thinks is going to happen to them after they die, and why. I have never seen sense in a rewarded afterlife as it gets in the way of today, and also I just dont believe in anything spiritual or omnipotent.

Anyways I'll shut up now, opinions and beliefs please x

[Victor]

As for what I believe in the afterlife. Only two options: 1) be with God 2) be without God

As for the reward. I think it's clearly far worse to have a Hitler and a Stalin do what they did and go to their end unpunished, than it is to believe in an afterlife where monsters like that are punished for what they did, and that those who lived a far better moral life are rewarded at long last (for many, the only significant "happiness" they ever had). In the Christian worldview, though, the scales of justice operate in the afterlife as well as (quite imperfectly) in human courts and in gargantuan conflicts like World War II where the "good guys" (all in all) managed to win. Hitler and Stalin do NOT "pull one over on God".

~Victor

[Buttons*]

What do I think?
If I'm right, but not able to connect with gnosis this time around i'll be reincarnated. If I do somehow manage to find that inner knowledge I'll just kind of go back to silence and exist without existing. Doesnt make sense... i know... but that's how I look at it.

If i'm wrong? Well, i plan on being cremated, so nothing will have to eat away at my dead lifeless corpse. Since my brain stopped working, i would cease to be, period. (however redundant that "period" statement was...)
If i'm even more wrong? If there really is a God who will send me to hell because I chose to try and live the best life possible, that's where i'll be. See you all there! *smiles*

[ChrisP]

I believe something along the same lines as Buttons*, but I'm quite happy to wait and see. I think becoming familiar with your own true nature is probably the only way to insight in this area.

[jonmarkgo]

I hope I just die

[TashaN]

Originally Posted by jonmarkgo

I hope I just die

Don't, If you still denying God's way because there is no returning back after death to this life and you will wish to come back and worship God well but it will be too late.

[standing_on_one_foot]

Dunno. I have a sneaking suspicion that if an individual is a decent person during their life, things will all, somehow, work out. Or maybe we all just die. But either way, I'm not too concerned. I'm a bit preoccupied with this life, I suppose I'll handle the next when that comes up :P

[jonmarkgo]

Don't, If you still denying God's way because there is no returning back after death to this life and you will wish to come back and worship God well but it will be too late.

I would rather not go to an afterlife. Even if it existed. Just because heaven or wherever is supposed to be the best place ever, that doesnt mean I want to go there.

[greatcalgarian]

My current conscious self while I am awake will just vanish like when I fall into a dreamless sleep, and my physical body will just undergo disintegration. What I hope is left behind is my thought, my memory for those who are still alive, and that will also disappear into oblivion when they died. Hopefully whatever is generated by me during my current life can be passed on through memory or genetic propagation through my offspring, following the 'law' of evolution.

[Ceridwen018]

As a former RF member named Q once said, "When I die, its party time for the wormies!"