Theories of The Afterlife

[Sergi]

Ok now in almost every civilization on Earth there is always a perception of the afterlife. You are reincarnated as something else, depending on your past life is what your next life will be, heaven and hell, the underworld etc...

 

What I want to know is what you guys think the afterlife may possibly be like. It's obvious nobody knows what it's like or if it even exist because wll noone has come back from the dead for a long period of time to tell us.

 

Now not to start a religious ttopic or anything but there are 2 differnt views of death. The religious views where we asscend into either a very good palce or a very bad place and the scientific view where we just die and nothing after that is known. I personally think that there are 3 possibilities. One is that after we die we relive our life all over again and this continues for ever. Another possibility is that we die and the same thing happenes as my first thory but we are reincarnated into somone else and that's why we have deja vu and flashbacks in our dreams of past life possibly but our old life is still continuously going on over and over. My 3rd and final theory is that we just die and there is nothiong after that.

 

I also have 1 other theory that may be kinda out there. My other theory is somewhat like the haevan and hell aspect but when we die we go to another dimension where dead people are and we live out our afterlife there forever. Then of course there's the possibilty of being ghost and the whole paranorlmal aspect. Anwyas I want to know what everyone thinks about what may be the afterlife. Also our universe is vast and there is probably millions of things and mysteries that we don't know about and maybe it's true when people have contact with the dead. Also in most cultures now all the way to the past they always beleived that death was only the beginning so maybe that's the truth.

 

Here's some interesting articles I found.

http://allphilosophy.com/topic/1858

http://alexpetrov.com/memes/hum/nde-args.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Happens-Whe...Die?-&id=621188

 

 

 

 

[Machida]

Your 3rd theory is spot on!

 

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Edited August 19, 2008 by Machida

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

It's an interesting discussion, and i suppose it's largely dependent on what makes us who we are. There is a theory that matter is never created nor destroyed. Instead it's physical form will change, it's density and formation will be altered. So if what we are is physical beings, ie our brain, then we will merely be re-distributed in another form. But perhaps we are something other than just physical matter. Maybe our consciousness is what we are, and perhaps when we die, who we are ceases to occupy the physical organisms which are our bodies and brains, and joins all the other energy in the universe. Perhaps we will be assimilated into a collective consciousness of all the beings who have ever lived, and will ever live. Perhaps we will be part of the energy that created the universe 'God', as we were before we came to inhabit our physical bodies.

[Sergi]

It's an interesting discussion, and i suppose it's largely dependent on what makes us who we are. There is a theory that matter is never created nor destroyed. Instead it's physical form will change, it's density and formation will be altered. So if what we are is physical beings, ie our brain, then we will merely be re-distributed in another form. But perhaps we are something other than just physical matter. Maybe our consciousness is what we are, and perhaps when we die, who we are ceases to occupy the physical organisms which are our bodies and brains, and joins all the other energy in the universe. Perhaps we will be assimilated into a collective consciousness of all the beings who have ever lived, and will ever live. Perhaps we will be part of the energy that created the universe 'God', as we were before we came to inhabit our physical bodies.

What if things from Science Fiction like say the "Force" from Star Wars actually exsisted but since humans are relativley young(100,000 years or something) and if someone can master the forces around us they can live forever. I personally would rather live life over and over again but have the chaces to make changes without actually knowing I'm making changes. For instance now I currently don't attend college because I decided to take a year off and say I end up missing out on something big. Maybe in my next life I do attend school and I end up not missiong that big event.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

Well i guess it could be possible. We know there's negative and positive energy out there, which could be analogous to 'the force' but whether we would be able to master it or not depends on your perspective. Perhaps we already do influence it far more than we are aware. But it is interesting that every ancient civilization's mythology talks about 'Good vs Evil' or gods at war, heaven and hell. Perhaps this is what they're talking about. Perhaps you can choose which force you will become a part of once you die.

[HomoUniversalis]

 

But it is interesting that every ancient civilization's mythology talks about 'Good vs Evil' or gods at war, heaven and hell. Perhaps this is what they're talking about. Perhaps you can choose which force you will become a part of once you die.

 

Actually, they don't. The deification of the forces of good and evil as actual metaphysical powers finds its origin in Zoroastrianism. Most religions prior to that were polytheistic, before that worshipping powerful human beings, bears and so on. Indeed, some believe that 'Zeus' might have originally have been a human being idolised.

 

As for the afterlife, Dante wrote way too beautiful about it to buy into reincarnation or any other unpoetic drivel, but the atheism bit does tend to get in the way of the real hard Catholic belief.

[Seachmall]

Your 3rd theory is spot on!

 

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=279716

Agreed.

[jedimario]

Now not to start a religious ttopic or anything but there are 2 differnt views of death.

This can't be anything but a religious topic in my opinion. Our natural world can tell us nothing of existence after death, we only have our religions (or lack thereof) or creativity (which can be religion easily enough) to tell us what happens.

 

I for one am a Christian so I believe that a person goes to either heaven or hell when they die. There is no argument against or for it, it's just what I believe based on something completely unrelated to life after death.

[Sergi]

Now not to start a religious ttopic or anything but there are 2 differnt views of death.

This can't be anything but a religious topic in my opinion. Our natural world can tell us nothing of existence after death, we only have our religions (or lack thereof) or creativity (which can be religion easily enough) to tell us what happens.

 

I for one am a Christian so I believe that a person goes to either heaven or hell when they die. There is no argument against or for it, it's just what I believe based on something completely unrelated to life after death.

Well my parents were very very relgious and were involved in the Russian Orthodox Church but when I was growing up I just never was able to connect with church all like that. I mean I have beleifs but I'm far from religious. I think it was because my parents came from Russia and stayed firm to their beleifs but since I was born and raised here I never connected with the Russian Orthodox Church or church altogether for that matter.

 

But the aspect of religion in America seems to be loosing it's touch especially since science has been able to prove more then anything from the bible. I'm not trying to affend you or anybody but one of the main reasons I just never fully connected with relgion like that is because my mother would always read the bible and I was really into science as a child and what science had been able to prove(dinosaurs, the 1st humans, creation of the Earth) the Bible made no mentions of in a way that is possible.

 

I mean as I said there are more mysteries in our universe then a human mind could even possiblt imagine but maybe there is some sort of life force out there that's very old and had it's hand in the creation of things and that can technicly be "God" but then there's the possibilty that there is more then 1 of those "Gods".

 

Personally me I'd rather somehow live forever then to die and possibly exist ouytside of life or possibly just die and there be nothing after death. But then again I would never know.

[Lt. Dan]

It's an interesting discussion, and i suppose it's largely dependent on what makes us who we are. There is a theory that matter is never created nor destroyed. Instead it's physical form will change, it's density and formation will be altered. So if what we are is physical beings, ie our brain, then we will merely be re-distributed in another form.

 

Like worm food.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

It's an interesting discussion, and i suppose it's largely dependent on what makes us who we are. There is a theory that matter is never created nor destroyed. Instead it's physical form will change, it's density and formation will be altered. So if what we are is physical beings, ie our brain, then we will merely be re-distributed in another form.

 

Like worm food.

precisely like wormfood, then the worms body converts us into energy and uses us to further it's own interests.