Is there life after death?

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by junglejack, Nov 2, 2013.

  1. junglejack

    junglejack aiko aiko

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    Before everyone gets excited, this is not a suggestion that we'll all end up strumming harps on some fluffy white cloud, or find ourselves shoveling coal in the depths of Hell for eternity.
    Because we cannot ask the dead if there's anything on the other side, we're left guessing as to what happens next. Materialists assume that there's no life after death, but it's just that — an assumption that cannot necessarily be proven.- -

    Thoughts ???
     
  2. Manservant Hecubus

    Manservant Hecubus Master of Funk and Evil

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    It's all assumption that cannot be proven.
    So I go with the simplest, most likely answer. No.
     
  3. WOLF ANGEL

    WOLF ANGEL Senior Member - A Fool on the Hill Lifetime Supporter

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    I have always Believed that there is something more, - it is just that wiTch is beyond the comprehension of our imagination :)
     
  4. guerillabedlam

    guerillabedlam _|=|-|=|_

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    My answer depends on how flexible one wants to get with the term life. I think that the conscious essence of what makes an individual human ceases to exist at death. Having had had a concussion, blacked out on alcohol and entering that stage of sleep everynight between light sleep stages and R.E.M. where there is a loss of consciousness, I can certainly envision an individual's consciousness ceasing to exist. Perhaps some parts of a person get integrated into a different paradigm tho, not referring to allegorical living through children.
     
  5. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    I'm pretty sure being dead comes after death...
     
  6. kansas.highndry

    kansas.highndry Guest

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    I don't know, obviously, but it'd be hella cool to be like a ghost and just be able to haunt people and shit :D
    but i don't think that's how it goes..
     
  7. bird_migration

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    The question already answers itself really. Is there life after death?
    If there is death there is no life. If life would have continued there wasn't death.
     
  8. EventHorizon

    EventHorizon Member

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    The dmt our body releases in death can make it appear as though we've gone somewhere else. Which could cause some who manage to be revived to come back and make some pretty crazy claims and assumptions.

    I think no. We die and then we're worm food. That's just fine by me. I eat dead things all the time, I totally get it.
     
  9. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    to me that makes the most sense, or close enough to it. the possibilities are endless, but owe nothing to what anyone thinks they know about it.
     
  10. Jo King

    Jo King wannabe

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    I can't say what's in store for you but for me there is another place waiting for me after I leave this world.
     
  11. thepaincrow

    thepaincrow Member

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    There is life after death. Many have died, and we are still here.
     
  12. Indy Hippy

    Indy Hippy Zen & Bearded

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    No one can honestly answer this question with any real knowledge. Some believe that the answer is yes, some believe it is no, and some just don't know. That is why we shouldn't worry about it. What will come will come man. Personally I believe in reincarnation. If we believe that a soul is energy of some kind it only makes sense based along the lines of Einstein's theory.
     
  13. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    depends on how loosely you use the term "life", or how long "after".

    infinite possibilities exist. if one is more likely then another, this is not factually known.

    if, by life, is meant a continuation or resumption, of experiencing in some form, it is my inclination to believe there is a very good possibility that it might.

    the possibility of that experiencing taking some other form then the narrower definition of "life" is also real and one which i find attractive and compelling.
     
  14. Manservant Hecubus

    Manservant Hecubus Master of Funk and Evil

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    According to the Bahai, I get to be the equivalent of a retard in the next level of life.
     
  15. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Maybe it was your last one you were told this.










    You know I'm kidding.
     
  16. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    what happens when the god man realizes there's no life
    for him after death ? it's just a tickle of sorrow then life
    goes on and after while there comes a fast and wild swoosh
    of bees'n'butterflies and they know him as he lives within
    a wildlight .
     
  17. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    that is how we are born into each life. i don't believe baha'i says we have to remain that way in any of them.

    at any rate, baha'i is just one possibility. no more the infinite of all of them then any other belief.
     

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