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2006-08-02 01:32:32 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

43 answers

I Don't know. I don't care .( nobody asked me when i came )

2006-08-02 02:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 3

Most cultures past and present, have contained some belief in an afterlife. This belief is usually manifested in a religion, as it pertains to phenomena beyond the ordinary experience of the natural world.

Belief in an afterlife usually entails the belief that something survives the body when death occurs, such as an immaterial soul or spirit. Philosophers have long debated whether the soul or mind has an immaterial or incorruptible quality; see, for example, the Mind-body problem. Some pantheistic systems have seen the afterlife as a process of (re-)assimilation into a cosmic spirit

While the major monotheistic religions of the world (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and their offshoots) almost universally preach some form of mind-body dualism, many Eastern "religions", such as the many branches of Buddhism and Taoism do not contain any such claims, and may in fact preach ideologies that are opposed to it. Zen Buddhism in particular is famous for koans and parables that are meant to teach that the nature of consciousness is transient and/or illusory, with some schools going so far as to say that even the concept of a "self" is fundamentally flawed.

Some conceptions of the afterlife are not overtly religious. Certain scientific fields developed in the 20th and 21st centuries, that were previously either unknown or purely theoretical, support interesting speculation and questions regarding the afterlife.

Is consciousness a sole result of the specific configuration of matter of a living brain, or do some forms of consciousness or experience remain present in the matter and energy that used to be a living brain? If the latter is true, even in part, then it is not certain that the subjective experience of a being's consciousness ends at the time of death, which could be interpreted as a form of afterlife.

Also, the nature of consciousness and sentience itself is a subject of wide debate, and not agreed upon by any means. The emerging field of cognitive science attempts to study the nature of consciousness, sentience, and cognition. It is now possible to study the brain at moments closer to death than ever before, which may lead to insights regarding the cessation of cognition, and possibly even insights into the subjective experience of consciousness at those times. Greater understanding of these concepts, and the processes that produce them, might have wide-ranging consequences for conceptions of an afterlife.

2006-08-02 01:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by IncyWincy 3 · 0 0

Don't know about anybody else, but I am going to Medical School. As a cadaver for the students to practice on. I challenge all Freethinkers to consider this option for their final remains.
It saves money big time, leaving more to leave for your spouse/children/whoever,and it takes a lot of worry out of the hands of the people trying to plan your funeral. What did she want? Here it is in black and white.
You can still have a memorial service, the body just won't be there and you get one last chance to do something useful even if you were a selfish f**k all the rest of your life.

2006-08-02 02:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Wherever we want to. Honestly. We make our own personal heavens and hells depending on what we believe in life.

A good reference that backs up everything I have seen, heard and experienced in my OWN life, past lives and astral travels is "Letters From the Afterlife: A Guide To The Other Side" written through the hand of Elsa Barker, 1914.

Everything I have read in this book is true from what I have personally seen out there.

2006-08-02 01:37:30 · answer #4 · answered by Jylsamynne 5 · 0 0

as a medium i feel i have my own proof of life after death via readings i have given and also recieved
that after we pass from this life we live eternally in spirit , learning and developing
in a beautiful place filled with knowledge and harmony
this place is open to anyone and everyone , not just a select few
there are many levels to spirit dependant on your life actions but progression is something that is avalaible to us all

2006-08-02 01:42:30 · answer #5 · answered by Peace 7 · 0 0

To the crematorium for me and I've told the wife to give the driver of the hearse an incentive, If he sticks to the thirty MPH limit he gets a nice crisp £20, If he goes below thirty MPH he gets Zilch.

2006-08-02 01:39:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

According to my bible, there are two Resurrections. The first brings back those that God selected to work with Jesus as Kings, and those who will be priests working with those brought back in the second Resurrection. The general public.
Activities will be monitored, and those who resume sinning will be destroyed. Those who are willing to follow God's laws will live on the earth forever.

2006-08-02 01:41:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Rot in your coffin or be cremated, your body stays in Mother Earth. Depends also what you believe in, like in the Bible the savior will return. The loyal will go dead and alive, when the time comes, but just see signs that are written in the Bible they want to put our end together. When you start dying yourself put yourself in your faith, the way you want to go.

2006-08-02 02:01:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its been told that Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada is where everyone goes after death.

2006-08-02 01:37:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nowhere. Once we are dead, we are dead.

Why do so many people believe in "another life" in a "better place" and concentrate on that crude fiction, instead of making the best out of the one and only life they have - here on Earth?!

2006-08-02 01:44:22 · answer #10 · answered by Sean F 4 · 0 0

We either rot in the ground or get cremated, but if I had the choice, I'd like to be put in a capsule & shot into outerspace, that'd be so cool!!

2006-08-02 10:21:22 · answer #11 · answered by manorris3265 4 · 0 0

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