truelight Mike
Member
Most of us will be dying within the next 90 years ( I'm looking at 60 tops). What do think is going to happen after and why?
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Forever is coming! What do you think it will be like?
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PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I will go to some positive afterlife that may or may not quite be like what some refer to as "heaven". If I'm not ready to enter, I will be taught in a non-punishing way.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
I may or may not know when that time comes. Until then, I'm just here for the ride.
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
I'm 72 and hope to be gone by 2029. A doctor once said my genetics indicate I'll make 100. My grandma was in her high 90s.
I don't think America will last 10 years unless we all clean up our act. I think China will be big brother by then. America won't have the money to be a war monger any more. Iran will have a Bomb and if Israel is still around it will be because they stopped bullying them. Afghanistan will go dark along with Pakistan.
Increased geological activity will have renewed volcanism out by Ridgecrest, Ca. Oregon will have had its huge Earthquake. Portland and perhaps Salem will be gone. Seattle might be flooded.
Change is in the air.
I don't think America will last 10 years unless we all clean up our act. I think China will be big brother by then. America won't have the money to be a war monger any more. Iran will have a Bomb and if Israel is still around it will be because they stopped bullying them. Afghanistan will go dark along with Pakistan.
Increased geological activity will have renewed volcanism out by Ridgecrest, Ca. Oregon will have had its huge Earthquake. Portland and perhaps Salem will be gone. Seattle might be flooded.
Change is in the air.
On the surface of things...many situations in the world looks pretty grim. In every way most of the world's nations are suffering, economically, politically, personally and spiritually.....caught up in a tangled web of human stupidity.
If everyone just did as Jesus taught us, none of this would be happening.....but humans know better than God as they have apparently always thought......no lessons from history have been learned so we are doomed to keep repeating past mistakes until we wipe ourselves out of existence.....do I think that will happen? NO!
This is not our earth! We are merely the tenants.....and lousy ones at that.
God has already served notice on earth's inhabitants to clean up their act, but it seems as if no one wants to take responsibility for the mess.....this will force our Landlord to evict the bad tenants and to employ his faithful ones to clean up the mess and transform this planet into the paradise that God always meant it to be. (Isaiah 55:11)
God did not create this planet for nothing and he gave us our role here at the very beginning.....to become caretakers of his earth, looking after one another as well as all the other lifeforms that he placed on this planet. We have not done a very good job, but that doesn't mean that God will not fulfill his purpose here.
Forever is going to be spent the way God wanted it to be spent in the very beginning....I am so looking forward to that!
To me it's a great change that is just barely born. Both Avatar Meher Baba and the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo ashram both discussed this. She wrote:
We are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak -- not in its essence but in its outer manifestation -- not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely *sure* of the result. But the road to it is a completely new road which has never before been traced out -- nobody has gone there, nobody has done that! It is a beginning, a *universal beginning*. So it is an absolutely unexpected and unpredictable adventure.
Long as I don't ever have to hear "orange man bad" or the word "nazi" ever again, I'll be cool.
That’s a nice way to put it! And you are right.
But I guarantee you, you’ll want to enter! And you and everyone living will still be taught!
Can you imagine Isaiah 11:6-9 happening before your eyes? What about seeing the dead, all our loved ones, coming back to life? John 5:28-29.
It will be a learning experience....all injustices will be rectified!
(We’ll even learn who shot Kennedy! He will, too!)lol.
On the surface of things...many situations in the world looks pretty grim. In every way most of the world's nations are suffering, economically, politically, personally and spiritually.....caught up in a tangled web of human stupidity.
If everyone just did as Jesus taught us, none of this would be happening.....but humans know better than God as they have apparently always thought......no lessons from history have been learned so we are doomed to keep repeating past mistakes until we wipe ourselves out of existence.....do I think that will happen? NO!
This is not our earth! We are merely the tenants.....and lousy ones at that.
God has already served notice on earth's inhabitants to clean up their act, but it seems as if no one wants to take responsibility for the mess.....this will force our Landlord to evict the bad tenants and to employ his faithful ones to clean up the mess and transform this planet into the paradise that God always meant it to be. (Isaiah 55:11)
God did not create this planet for nothing and he gave us our role here at the very beginning.....to become caretakers of his earth, looking after one another as well as all the other lifeforms that he placed on this planet. We have not done a very good job, but that doesn't mean that God will not fulfill his purpose here.
Forever is going to be spent the way God wanted it to be spent in the very beginning....I am so looking forward to that!The earth itself is amazing...its only wicked humans who spoil it for everyone else.
Well-written, Deeje! As usual.
Skwim
Veteran Member
"Did you ever think as a hearse goes by,
That you will be the next one to die?
They wrap you up in big white sheets
and cover you from head to feet.
And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
In your stomach and out your snout,
And your eyes fall out and your teeth decay,
And that is the end of a perfect day.".
That you will be the next one to die?
They wrap you up in big white sheets
and cover you from head to feet.
And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
In your stomach and out your snout,
And your eyes fall out and your teeth decay,
And that is the end of a perfect day.".
AND, there will be a complete cessation of mental activity.
Next time you suddenly awake from a non-dreaming sleep immediately recall what was going on in your head while asleep. That would be NOTHING. That's what it will be like. Forever will be meaningless. The reason? There is no rational evidence to conclude otherwise.
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ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
The rest of the world will carry on and my point of view will be gone. Why? That's what the evidence tells us.
truelight Mike
Member
So none of us really "know" what is going to happen. Either something will happen or something won't. And that is the next step toward eternity. Either eternity of nothing or eternity of something. What a crazy situation we are in as we inch closer to finding out. What suspense!
Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
All any of us has is trust. God will take care of us, or he won't.
Aurelius
Contemplating Living
I have no reason to believe anything happens. Death is death. Now that may very well raise the question- is that bad?
A little deep reflection can go a long way. Suppose that pleasure is had to the utmost in any ideal moment. That pleasure wouldn't increase if suffused throughout an infinite span of time. It's still exactly the utmost pleasure.
We can conceive however that the dragging on of years is wearisome to the soul. How much more must this be so if we're talking an eternal span of time?
First then, we need insight about pleasure, which heaven is usually thought to be. Then we need to acknowledge that time spans don't add anything to something complete in itself.
I could just say afterlife conceptions put anticipation and terror into the minds of some, but surely that's not true for everyone.
greatdane
New Member
Utterly groundbreaking.
truelight Mike
Member
While I openly admit did I don't know what will happen I have a lot of Hope in Jesus. I have more hope in Him than anything else I've ever known. His teachings and his deeds are the most impressive to me
Coming? Forever has always been here. From I can deduce from my experiences and the lore of my religion, the afterlife isn't much different from physical life. I just want to see my loved ones again. I prefer to focus on this life. What will happen, will happen.
Just because you can't consciously remember something, doesn't mean that nothing happened. Also, during dreamless sleep, the brain is still active.
People have their personal experiences and reasonings from that. That is valid for the individual. All we can have is our opinions on this matter as it hasn't been objectively proven either way. We're still not sure how the brain works or what consciousness is or how it works. We don't even really know how we sleep. The most objective stance would be agnosticism on the subject.
HonestJoe
Well-Known Member
Nothing much. The universe will have slightly more bacteria and slightly less sarcasm but will otherwise continue exactly the same way as it always has.
