Afterlife (Earth, soul, experience, eternal, God)

[Anti-World]

This is a difficult subject for me because I hate the thought of everything we do ending in the grave. I, however, can't think of any logical reason to beleive in an afterlife.

How does anything we do have any meaning if it fades anyway?

I want to hear the reasons why any of you beleive or do not beleive in an afterlife.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Anti-World

How does anything we do have any meaning if it fades anyway?

When you breath in, do you think the breath you took has no meaning to you simply because you will soon afterwards breath out?

Meaning is something we create for ourselves. Usually, but not always, people tend to think something is meaningful if it helps them to be happy. What do you think of that? Is happiness enough in this life, or do you seek something more?

[Anti-World]

Happiness is fickle and impossible to trully find on Earth, whenever happiness is taken away it's replaced by the feeling of pain and loss. That's one of the reasons an afterlife is so alluring.

[Seraphiel]

How does anything we do have any meaning if it fades anyway?

I don't believe in that. I think that the experiences from our life on this planet will never fade away when our spirit leaves the dead body. These experiences are added up to the experiences we have from other lives, making us more complete. But we will find out if that is true when we are on the other side off course.

[Super Universe]

Everything you do does not fade away. God's spirit gives life to biological forms and in that way He is connected to it all. God experiences everything every lifeform experiences and so it is saved forever.

Humans are endowned with a more significant spirit called a soul which gives us a higher form of self awareness, intelligence. The soul is eternal sentient energy, a fragment of God that is developing into a mature universal being. If you see yourself as the soul instead of the body then you are truly a child of God.

Through your soul God experiences everything that you experience. He feels what you feel. He hears what you hear. God knows what you are thinking. This is why it is said that God is all knowing.

The soul is looking to host or join with a personality and begin a universal career of ascendance to heaven. The soul needs this because it is simply a body (energy body) that can go many places in the universe but it is without a mature mind that has learned right from wrong, learned the consequences of action and inaction, and perhaps most important, learned to do no harm.

When Christ said "Build your worth in heaven, not on the earth" He was pointing out that nothing in the material universe is lasting. What is forever? Not your big screen tv or SUV, not your home, not your body, not even the earth and sun are forever.

Now if you instead choose to see yourself as a human, wanting material things over knowledge and learning, coveting selfish desires instead of spreading joy to others and instigating drama instead of being an agent of serenity, then your soul will discard your personality upon your death and your personality will cease to exist.

The soul will simply join with another life and try again.

[Darkness]

Originally Posted by Anti-World

Happiness is fickle and impossible to trully find on Earth, whenever happiness is taken away it's replaced by the feeling of pain and loss. That's one of the reasons an afterlife is so alluring.

If you want an eternal happiness, you are not going to find it. On Earth, we cannot be happy all the time. We find pockets of hapiness in our lifetime. Good and evil complement each other. Without the evil in our life we would not appreciate the good when we encountered it.

Find what you love in life, and go after it. Find a good guy or girl to spend your life with. Dare to create meaning in your life.

Think about it. "Would living forever add meaning to life?"

[UnTheist]

Originally Posted by Darkness

Think about it. "Would living forever add meaning to life?"

Yes. Without life, there is no meaning. I am not sure what you mean by 'meaning.' If by meaning you mean happiness, living forever wouldn't take that way.

[Darkness]

Yes. Without life, there is no meaning. I am not sure what you mean by 'meaning.' If by meaning you mean happiness, living forever wouldn't take that way.

Immorality would not take away meaning from a life, but immortality, of itself, is not a meaning.

[UnTheist]

Originally Posted by Darkness

Immorality would not take away meaning from a life, but immortality, of itself, is not a meaning.

Living forever would give you an amazing amount of wisdom and knowledge of the world, if you wanted to learn, so that could be meaning.

And I always thought living forever would still make you suseptible to injuries, which could still kill you. If we find a way to live forever, it still won't make us 'immortal.'