sky dancer
Active Member
Awareness itself is timeless.
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Why would you want an afterlife?
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Wow, you really, REALLY don't get it. Eternity is OUTSIDE of linear time.
Start here:
Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mohammed_beiruti
Active Member
we have no choice.... there is an afterlife regardless we want it or no
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
Not necessarily. There are circumstances (i.e. near the edges of black holes) where you can fit infinity long time-spans into the finite universe.
But since that's probably not what you mean, is there an actual problem with an infinite amount of linear time existing somewhere? I don't understand how a mind, a thing that changes from moment to moment, can exist alongside "timelessness."
Koldo
Outstanding Member
I agree. The concept of timelessness and the concept of a mind do not seem compatible to me either.
Even if one puts that aside, there's still the problem of individual dentity. Supposing that a consciousness could transcend space and time and still remain somehow meaningful (which I doubt), this consciousness would be infinite and eternal. If that's the case, how could more than one exist? How could two individual souls transcend space and time and remain separate? It seems to me that if one assumes that an afterlife is a transcending of spacetime, they should assume a loss of individual identity into a uniform oneness, like brahman or something.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Exactly, but I'm just stating large numbers that I can't stand.
petewentz
Fallout Boy
I would want an after life. That's just me, personally. I don't care if the experience is different, or if time is relative, or any of that nonsense...I wouldn't just want to "die". That said, my beliefs are apparent, but just because I wish for an afterlife to occur doesn't mean it's any more likely to occur.
I don't have any specific beliefs about an afterlife, although I do have quite a few favorite possibilities.
Even as a theist I'm not particularly attached to the idea of a life after this one: the way I see it, if all that comes next is complete and utter oblivion, then for as long as I'm alive it isn't an issue for me, and after I die there wont be any "me" to object to the fact that there isn't any me.
Kind of sounds like a win/win.
On the other hand, if there is/are afterlives, I hope I get to be Spiderman in at least one.
Edit: should also add that I have experienced things in this life that suggest to me that there may actually be an afterlife. I never bring those up in here because they would be strictly anecdotal. I figure if you can't show someone something there's no point in telling them something.
Even as a theist I'm not particularly attached to the idea of a life after this one: the way I see it, if all that comes next is complete and utter oblivion, then for as long as I'm alive it isn't an issue for me, and after I die there wont be any "me" to object to the fact that there isn't any me.
Kind of sounds like a win/win.
On the other hand, if there is/are afterlives, I hope I get to be Spiderman in at least one.
Edit: should also add that I have experienced things in this life that suggest to me that there may actually be an afterlife. I never bring those up in here because they would be strictly anecdotal. I figure if you can't show someone something there's no point in telling them something.
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Dan4reason
Facts not Faith
Actually the perfect religion would be where after you die you meet up with four choices: Live in a perfect world, life in a world like this, life in a world of your making, or die perminantly. You can always change your mind. That would be way better than getting old around 40 and dying around 80.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
It's certainly a wonderful fiction if you don't put too much thought into it.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
We're all in for unpleasant surprises for sure. Not existing is the least among these.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
One thing's for sure. No one on this forum really knows what is going to happen to us when we die.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I don't know. If the pattern holds, most will be buried, and some will be cremated.
sky dancer
Active Member
We all know what we've been taught will happen to us when we die. There are delogs in Tibetan Buddhism, who have died, and come back to teach about the afterlife realms.
There are teachings in Buddhism that describe precisely on an energetic, experiential level what happens in the dying process and how being are reborn.
NemisisQ
BY MY COMMAND......
If christianity actually exist, then i'm sure to be seeing hell in the near future.
If it doesn't exist, then reincarnation.
If your refering to paradise, and what kind it is, then i would like cakes... ALOT AH CAKES!!
Titanic
Well-Known Member
What is weird is that first you say you want to be a freemason, then apart of jainism, then left hand path, then jedi, then possible christian. It is all a little confusing. Btw I know this is a old thread but I had to reply on this one. I am honestly confused.