2006-06-12 05:38:10 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our soul starts its journey from chemicals, evolves in plants and animals and reaches Human beings. It has to undergo innumerable sufferings and pains and learn billions of lesson to prgoress towards its next evolutionary stage i.e. divinity.
And one life is not enough for all these lessons. That also is the reason behind differnt type of peoples..why some are born rich, some are born poor, some idiots some intelligence. Even two children of the same parents, in the same environment do not progress alike... Reincarnation is the answer !!
When we die, we die with a mental state, where we have some unfulfilled desires...some subtle some gross. The soul after death passes to some astral worlds where it prepares for the next birth, where it can continue its progress towards its evolution (mental evo..not physical)...these astral planes' working is quite similar to hells and heavens mentioned by religions...but the main purpose of these astral planes is not to punish or reward but to work out our desires and prepare us for our next birth
Hell and heaven are tools of religions to keep uncivilised human into some check... for a little evolved minds it is astral planes for purging or working the subtle desires
2006-06-12 18:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No - that's just a fantasy.
If there were an afterlife, there would have to be a 'soul' - some part of us to continue to exist after our physical bodies cease to exist. There are questions we can ask about such a thing:
What exactly is a soul? What properties does it have? What part of a person resides in the soul?
If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.
How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.
So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.
2006-06-12 05:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am convinced that there is a kind of life after death, but not hell or heaven as it is understand in the bible. More a kind of unversal community in spirits where you review your last order/life and if you fullfilled it or not you get the chance to make corrections or a new challenge for higher developement
2006-06-12 06:31:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of being in heaven and 'living'happy for ever, I dont think so. i think we live on in our children and what we do in live. Hell i think was created to control the masses and to allow the church to dominate over ignorant peoples.
Not all religions have an after life though most do, i hope i am wrong, an get to be on the right side, but i dont believe in it.
We just become worm food,
on a different point, but does cremation add to the greenhouse affect, if we where all buried it would remove alot of carbon? just a thought
2006-06-12 05:49:53 · answer #4 · answered by Owen Money 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. It doesn't really mean we will be carrying our wisdom and identity forward all the time. It all depends on how concious we are about that cycle of life. Its not just a spiritual law bit scientific too. Forget about concepts of heaven and hell in terms of spiritualism there is more to it. We might be transferred to another planet with living conditions but nothing can be created or destroyed.... just transformed!
2006-06-12 05:45:05 · answer #5 · answered by TheFinalMiracle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Life after death. Where you'll receive punishments for the sins you've done in this world on earth. Well if you have a religion, you'll be sure to believe that there's life after death. But if you're a free-thinker, then you'd probably straight-away says no.
2006-06-12 05:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by nonentity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, yes I do. At one time I doubted it, but then I studied about NDEs, near-death-experiences, and understand that consciousness survives death. There must be something thereafter.
Personally, I believe in a just punishment/reward after life, that we live only once and have only this life to comply with the grace given us.
2006-06-12 05:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say yes because it doesn't cost any more to say and I don't want to die and take a chance I cannot get into heaven because I said I didn't believe. I will say I don't believe in hell. Maybe if I go there they will throw me out for not believing.
2006-06-12 05:44:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short answer is no, assuming you mean conscious awareness of person.
Life never ends and it did not begin.
When the body "dies," it is still "living" in that it is decaying and becoming part of the earth and universe. Altering the form does not alter the fact that "life" does not end. Nor does it "begin."
It's always been around and always will be.
There is no heaven or hell.
2006-06-12 05:42:03 · answer #9 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do believe in Heaven and Hell.
2006-06-12 05:40:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋