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But I often hear family members say, "He suffered so much from his illness, now he is in a better place." So that means there is heaven, a better place where someone no longer has to suffer. I also hear people who suffered injustice say, "Now he is receiving his reward in hell." So that means there is a place where justice will be executed in an event it wasn't executed on earth, during his lifetime. |
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"scientifically speaking" Energy Doesnt die, it just changes form so I believe there has to be something. I also like to quote contact when a character said something like "if we are alone its an awful waste of space"(paraphrasing).
There is always the idea that Earth is sort of like our pergatory and when we get it right we move on. In that sense I believe in loosely defined reincarnation. I believe if you didnt get it right you get another chance here on earth. I may be crazy to believe this. I believe there are no coincidences and that there is something akin to "fate" in play. There are so many things that have lined up to be like Kismet for me I cant believe that it was all just meaningless and random. __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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I've thought about this question in the past but don't anymore.
Atheism scares me, reincarnation scares me, heaven and hell scare me... I believe something exists and I would love to know what it is but I'm too anxious to think about it. __________________ Complex trauma Highly sensitive person I love nature, simplicity and minimalism |
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I believe there is an afterlife, but I have no idea of what it may be like. Just like everyone else, I suppose. Sending many hugs to everyone
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The closest thing I have found to an explanation of the afterlife is by people reporting their experiences in near death experiences NDE. Here is a blog on that Part II: Near-Death Experience Changes Therapist's Life and Work
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In the process of staying sober I met a higher power - in as close to the flesh as he could possibly be and not be human. That happened in 1982 and it's as real to me today as the day I met him.
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I should have been dead so many times I sometimes wonder if I am dead. I know that sounds weird but what if you never really die spirit wise and things continue for you the way they are. I have heard this mentioned else where and I have tjought it a possibility. a unlikely one but still one. I was then reminded of it when someone said they saw their mother's ghost watering the plants in the morning in her yard just like she had always done. There are so many things that could happen after we die. I am Christian so I am supposed to believe in heaven and hell but I just dont know and thinking about makes me anxious.
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Intellectually it is not reasonable to believe in an afterlife. We certainly cannot know. Yet, I have had an eerie experience that rather shook this belief. If I could choose a belief it would be in reincarnation as that comes the closest to making sense to me but I'm still not sold on the idea. It is absolutely illogical. Still, our physical bodies are reincarnated (matter is not generated it is constantly in a state of change and redistribution). Those adherents of reincarnation would say thus our spirits then are redistributed too. All I can say though is that I conduct myself morally and ethically so it wouldn't really matter to me anyway.
This is a really interesting discussion point to me. I am an agnostic despite growing up in a Christian household. My father is an Anglican Priest but he is also a professor of Philosophy. I get frustrated by this on account as a (intellectually Mensa brilliant man) I cannot begin to grasp that he would believe the very story (virgin birth) that identifies him as a Christian. His choice though. We do however have pretty good discussions on this point. He has actually written books on the subject of 'faith and a life of reason'. They are too high brow and academic for me though. But this discussion is quite relevant as he is at this time writing a book on the subject for the non-academic and about to go on a lecture tour on the subject. |
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What if this life is a real bad dream and when we "die" we wake up?
What if there is no WE, only I am, and I am dreaming of you and you are dreaming of me? What if this dream is totally mind created to the minute detail, feeling real even in afterlife if we are in a transitory place like the Pearly Gates of Heaven? ...ok ok sorry for this rambling I must take my meds. __________________ Cyclothiamia - on Depakote with occasional Thorazine for severe insomnia. Last edited by TimTheEnchanter; May 22, 2019 at 12:02 AM.. |
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I don't believe in an afterlife EVEN after I was in the ICU "seeing" dead people like the kid in the movie The Sixth Sense. Could those dead people have been due to the opioids I was put on at the time? Who knows. I knew that my sister was going to give birth to two sons b/c I saw them in their human form, standing at the foot of my hospital bed staring at me, smiling, as two teenage boys. Now, they look exactly as I had predicted they would from my ICU bed. So, does an afterlife exist? I have no idea. I only know what I saw that time I was in the hospital ICU that i can't explain to this day.
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Or are you talking about hell, the hell of the unbelievers? In that case, it is most logical to believe, just to make sure - but only if you believe. Otherwise it wouldn't be logical. |
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I definitely believe in the afterlife.
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