Thread: Do you believe in a 'Afterlife'?

Absolutely, i believe in an afterlife of sorts. If you mean a spiritual afterlife in which my soul carries on after my body is no longer living than i would be inclined to say that i am unsure of that (agnostic) and quite doubtful.

The afterlife life i believe in, is the only afterlife i can really be sure of. That is that the sum of my parts will be recycled into the environment and distributed and incorporated into the various living organisms of this planet. (See food chain/pyramid)

Before or after

When were you ever not?

Now has always been Now

What does such know of before or after?

The idea of an "afterlife" is a superstitious means for combating the fear of death. One must be extremely arrogant to believe there is a system in place allowing them, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot of the universe, to live forever. Besides, eternity is a long time; you wouldn't want it.

Mario pretty much has things right.

I believe in proper grammar.

a afterlife...

lol

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

-Carl Sagan

<3 Carl Sagan

Originally Posted by Conkt

One must be extremely arrogant to believe there is a system in place allowing them, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot of the universe, to live forever. Besides, eternity is a long time; you wouldn't want it.

The human body is a very intelligent biological organism that we do not understand rather than something insignificant. Absolute arrogance or stupidity would be associating such intelligence and complexity with something meaningless such as a insignificant dot. Consciousness as we experience it is something quite valuable. Life as a human is quite amazing if you care to notice. Just because the universe is so large doesn't mean we are not important. Just because the universe is so infinite doesn't mean we don't have a life of our own within it. There's just as many lifeforms of intelligence functioning below us. In comparison to things like bacteria we are highly evolved beings.

As for not wanting to live forever. That is more shortsighted nonsense and a childlike attitude. Any intelligent person worth their salt certainly wants to live forever if possible. In fact that's the ultimate goal of every decent alchemist throughout history. Anyone that doesn't want to live forever has not yet understood how to appreciate life and it's diversity. Has not yet understood about it's infinite possibility. Only a fool chooses death over eternal life.

Is there an afterlife? It's a logical conclusion from the information avaliable today. Unbiased research would lead you in that general direction.

Yeah, you combo-breaking bastard.

I can't prove it to you, but that doesn't mean it can't exist.

But it means I have no reason to believe it exists.

ffs...

Originally Posted by Xei

But it means I have no reason to believe it exists.

ffs...

Don't let it get you down brah

And they all lived happily ever after, with the exception of Mario who developed pyrokenesis and was seized my the government.
I told you to stay away from those fire flowers.