Where do you believe you go when you die

[Samhain]

Arguebly one of the main reasons why people turn to religions or spirituality, is to have an idea of what happens to themselvs and their loved ones when they die.
see my poll above, where you can vote for more than one choice.
P.S sorry about option number nine the author of this thread is a witch you know!
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[ihmurria]

it's hard to properly put into words what I believe, but I'll try..

I believe our spirits all sort of join together, we become one with each other again... and when we're ready to return to corporeal life we seperate and go live as something/someone new, gain new experiences, learn new things. Rarely remember the bits about before, but that the whole point basically is to learn/experience new things. And eventually we can choose to just stop travelling back, hang out with the rest of the spirits... yeah

It sounds a bit hokey when I put it into words, but I dont know how better to explain it

[warmhandedcanadian]

I believe (god I hope this is true) that we go to a heaven-ly place .... to meet up with all other spirits that we are somehow connected to ..... but I feel also that we may go back to earth as another person or animal or whatever.... I mean spirituality is infinite so that makes some sense ..... I just tell my kids the heaven stuff. It is blissful ignorance that keeps us happy.

[Samhain]

it's hard to properly put into words what I believe, but I'll try..

I believe our spirits all sort of join together, we become one with each other again... and when we're ready to return to corporeal life we seperate and go live as something/someone new, gain new experiences, learn new things. Rarely remember the bits about before, but that the whole point basically is to learn/experience new things. And eventually we can choose to just stop travelling back, hang out with the rest of the spirits... yeah

It sounds a bit hokey when I put it into words, but I dont know how better to explain it
this a belief I hold too, i try and think of it as all life is a piece of play dough, we are separate then when we are one with the divine again, we get put back into one large part!
i actually believe we are separate until the point we reach enlightenment, at that point there is no return to earth and we become one with the divine, our mother for ever, taking back all the knowledge we have learnt to her, becoming her
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[warmhandedcanadian]

this a belief I hold too, i try and think of it as all life is a piece of play dough, we are separate then when we are one with the divine again, we get put back into one large part!
i actually believe we are separate until the point we reach enlightenment, at that point there is no return to earth and we become one with the divine, our mother for ever, taking back all the knowledge we have learnt to her, becoming her
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lovely.

[seamonster66]

I believe we come part of some electrical life force of some sort, regarding our conciouseness, I really don't know..meaning I'm not sure if thoughts could be had.

then again, its all just a guess right?

[Samhain]

lovely.
did you like that?
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[warmhandedcanadian]

did you like that?
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No I wrote lovely just for the hell of it.;)

[daisymae]

This reminds me of a Blackadder episode....:D

Duke: Hell?


Godfrey: Yes, Hell: where Satan belches fire, and enormous devils break wind
both night and day! Hell: where the mind is never free from the
torments of remorse, and your bottom never free from the pricking
of little forks!


Duke: NNoooo! Spare me the little forks!

[Samhain]

This reminds me of a Blackadder episode....:D

Duke: Hell?


Godfrey: Yes, Hell: where Satan belches fire, and enormous devils break wind
both night and day! Hell: where the mind is never free from the
torments of remorse, and your bottom never free from the pricking
of little forks!


Duke: NNoooo! Spare me the little forks!
lol thanks for that input:X (<- he's holding a fork)
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[indian~summer]

my belief is that everyones mind is an extremly powerful thing
and when we die our minds continue on and if you believe in a heaven than that is what you'll experience
because its all in your own mind
does that make sense?
your mind constructs the reality you live in
hope that made some sense :)

[Samhain]

my belief is that everyones mind is an extremly powerful thing
and when we die our minds continue on and if you believe in a heaven than that is what you'll experience
because its all in your own mind
does that make sense?
your mind constructs the reality you live in
hope that made some sense :)
it makes perfect sense and its a belief held by a lot of people
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[indian~summer]

it makes perfect sense and its a belief held by a lot of people
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cool, didn't know that

[Samhain]

cool, didn't know that
and with this belief if you die and your scared of going to hell, you'll go there because you believe it, i'll try and look up the theory for you
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[indian~summer]

and with this belief if you die and your scared of going to hell, you'll go there because you believe it, i'll try and look up the theory for you
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awesome
yeah thats weird though cause the hell things part of my theory too i just never knew there was actually something out there like that

[Samhain]

awesome
yeah thats weird though cause the hell things part of my theory too i just never knew there was actually something out there like that
well its like my gaia theory thread, i posted that because there where people that said 'it may sound silly but I believe....'
well it doesn't sound silly cause theres a set theory and its comforting toknow isn't it?
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[Lying in a field]

When we die, we go to vegas

[Samhain]

Terribly sorry, y'all have the wrong idea about this thread, it should have read 'where do we go when we diet'
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[trippedelia]

just back into the earth i guess, just like what i was made from.

[Lying in a field]

Terribly sorry, y'all have the wrong idea about this thread, it should have read 'where do we go when we diet'
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To the health food store i spose

[Wond'ringAloud]

Not sure about this one. The 'shell' back to the dust of the Universe. I would like to think there is something after death, and from two experiences I've had I really should believe, but I wonder was I simply seeing and feeling things my mind had conjured to protect me from my grief. I don't believe in Heaven or Hell, and some people I've known in this life I really don't want to see in an after-life. There was a time when I'd have said dead is dead but now...I'll have to think some more.

[trippedelia]

what are the summer lands?

[AshtonsMom]

I'm not sure what happens when we die. I will say this, death still scares me, in fact it terrifies the hell out of me, but, it doesn't intimidate me the way that it used to.

[Gravity]

why believe you go anywere? i think the concept of an afterlife is plain silly.

you cease to exist, just like you ceased to exist before you were born.

[Samhain]

what are the summer lands?
the summer lands is a pagan belief of what the after life is like, that seems to be espically held dear in the witchcraft branch of paganism.
when you die your spirit takes a trip over the silver seas to summer land where all times and no times exist as one, there your spirit rests and recoperates with all your deceased loved ones until you are ready to start your next incarnation on earth again, while you are in the summer lands you can plan out your next cycle, look at lessons you have yet to learn and plan your next challenges
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[Lagan]

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood
- walt whitman

i believe we go back into the earth and become wholly part of Her

[HikerHauk]

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gifI would die?http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif

[hummblebee]

It's very hard to really categorize for me. It might seem like a copout, but I believe we go where we wish/need/deserve to go. This might mean reincarnation, but could also mean a communion with god/nature. Really, what it comes down to, is I believe our whole lives are "in our head" - no matter how real something is, I can only experience it through the limited perspective of my own experience, my own life. In death, I think new experience can be opened to us - but our interpretation of that experience can still be limited by our perspective.

Dig? I don't know if I'm making any sense any more.

[indian~summer]

yeah man, thats like what i believe
makes sense, and i've realized it's very much like existentialism
It's very hard to really categorize for me. It might seem like a copout, but I believe we go where we wish/need/deserve to go. This might mean reincarnation, but could also mean a communion with god/nature. Really, what it comes down to, is I believe our whole lives are "in our head" - no matter how real something is, I can only experience it through the limited perspective of my own experience, my own life. In death, I think new experience can be opened to us - but our interpretation of that experience can still be limited by our perspective.

Dig? I don't know if I'm making any sense any more.

[fritz]

That was a nice post, hummblebee..Liked Lagan's Whitman poem too.:cool:

[tigerlily]

thanks for leading me here samhain :)

i think indian-summer and hummblebee probably have it right... that makes the most sense to me. i am also afraid of death..... but i guess if there is no absolute truth about it, then i don't have too much to worry about.

[mariecstasy]

i believe we are already part of the divine spark. that in each of us, is the god/goddess that we are. that we are part of the greater whole, and i believe this divine energy to be LOVE.
when we die, i believe we are reunited with that energy of LOVE, the energy of god/goddess and that we are again part of everything. just kinda become part of the big I AM. and i believe it will be ECSTASY:)


d'oh...i just read the thread and have seen that this has pretty much already been said. sorry for being redundant.

[mariecstasy]

and with this belief if you die and your scared of going to hell, you'll go there because you believe it, i'll try and look up the theory for you
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it would be the Law of Attraction. what you think about, you bring about. this is why Mother Theresa never went to an Anti-War rally but would drop all to go to a Pro-Peace rally. think anti something and you bring about what you are thinking....think pro something, and you bring this about as well:)

[Samhain]

i believe we are already part of the divine spark. that in each of us, is the god/goddess that we are. that we are part of the greater whole, and i believe this divine energy to be LOVE.
when we die, i believe we are reunited with that energy of LOVE, the energy of god/goddess and that we are again part of everything. just kinda become part of the big I AM. and i believe it will be ECSTASY:)


d'oh...i just read the thread and have seen that this has pretty much already been said. sorry for being redundant.
this thread is where do YOU believe you go when you die, so repeating someones elses belief is fine
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[Hacker]

I don't know about the rest of you all, but I am going to Cleveland.

[Samhain]

I don't know about the rest of you all, but I am going to Cleveland.
why? (and don't say why not!)
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[Hacker]

It just seems fitting.

[Samhain]

It just seems fitting.
is that where elvis lived?
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[Hacker]

I'm sure he visited Cleveland while he was alive. And hey... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is there, so he is kind of still there too!

[Wond'ringAloud]

Perhaps J M Barrie summed it up succinctly when he wrote in Peter Pan, "To die will be an awfully big adventure".

[Samhain]

Perhaps J M Barrie summed it up succinctly when he wrote in Peter Pan, "To die will be an awfully big adventure".
Ive always believed dieing will be an awfully big adventure, I'm quite looking forward to it!
but I hope I live a long life first!
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[Oz!]

You go wherever you want :)

the soul is eternal..... space/demensions are endless.... infinite possibilities and all the time you'll need to find them!

personnally... i'm heading to valhalla (to party and sweat off the residual stress that Life gives us)... then i'll track down a few old friends.... have a beer with a few personalities that caught my eye here, but i was never lucky enough to meet....... then i'm off to the summerland, to finally relax :)

[stinkfoot]

I think you just go... though it's possible that a return to an incarnate existence might be compelled by unfinished business. Everyone might well have some mission- however small or perverse that might be- to further the fabric of time. Don't know for sure and that itself may be part of the design.

[Samhain]

I see booshnoogs voted for all of them, you can't even take a thread like this seriously??
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