Where do you think you'll go once you're dead?

Question

Heaven, Hell, Limbo, or reincarnation. There are many different theories as to what happens to us when we die. Answer intelligently and EXPLAIN. I'll give you ten points if your answer is creative enough. ^.^

Answer 1

No one knows for sure.
Physics tell us that matter is neither created nor destroyed.. so it's conceivable that our brainwaves could change form or go on after death, so maybe there's an "afterlife."
I'm an agnostic, we don't like to discount any possibility if it's feasible.

Answer 2

It's not where you think you'll go it's where you want to go. I don't want to go to Hell or be reincarnated. But that doesn't mean I know I'm going to heaven. I may be a GREAT Christian and do so many things for God but still not think I am going to heaven. I don't know where I'll end up, that's what makes life worth living.
Go for Gold without the L.

Answer 3

All questions and answers related to this concept are going to be meaningless (yes, including my answer!) -- all concepts and beliefs and perceptions that are either unquestioned things we've been taught or things that we've made part of our worldview and our place in it. Again, all just concepts and games that our minds play. Now, apparently, there is a way to resolve this question -- the question of Existence -- but it requires direct experience. The experience has been cultivated in every religion (christianity - e.g. meister eckhart, st john of the cross, islam - e.g. rumi/sufis, buddhism - buddha) and no religion; the experience is universal but the means are different. When one has this experience, all dualistic concepts such as 'birth', 'after death', 'me', 'you', etc. are meaningless. Why? Because the experience is completely non-dualistic -- the 'reality' of a separate self and other individuals (as well as other 'things') is seen as illusory. Can't explain it -- need to experience it. Otherwise, people will go back and forth with various beliefs and concepts that they think make sense to them. For some good reading on this, read '3 Pillars of Zen' by Kapleau.

Answer 4

The only description of what God looks like is in the Bible where it is noted, God is the CREATOR. We were made in his/her image, thus we have every responsibility to be creative. Whether that is procreative or artistic, is up to us. After all, we do have that free choice.

I don't call it Heaven, I just call it "The Afterlife," because I don't believe there is a Hell, except what we live through here on Earth. I believe in reincarnation and that we are here to experience as much as we can and that we choose our lives before being born to them. I believe that we are souls that are broken off from God, because he/she wanted to experience everything.

I believe it is our imperfections that make us God's creatures and those imperfections are to be celebrated! How else can we learn and grow unless we have imperfect lives?

I will be cremated and put in a lake or stream that is over-fished to supply the necessary calcium to the ecosystem. My soul will be back home and I will be enjoying my bodiless-ness again and working on deciding what I want to experience and learn next. In this life, I've learned a lot about disappointment. In my next life I'm thinking I'd like to enjoy a lot of satisfaction and happiness. I can't wait to see what my Afterlife has to offer!

Happy Afterlife to you all!

Peace.

Answer 5

on'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.

Answer 6

The Gita answers this question very well, read it. I recommend the penguin edition. The Hindu religion delves into this subject very deeply. The soul is immortal. So it never dies. You are born again and again untill you are able to shed the yoke of rebirth. The ultimate aim of a Hindu is to achieve the union of soul with the soul supreme (God). Only then you are free from the never ending cycle of rebirth.

Answer 7

I will go back from whence I came. I think it's in another demension. From there, I can decide if I want to be born again and try living all over, or I can just chill in the void for awhile, or I can be like a guardian spirit to someone....But I think I'll just hang out. Yep. That's where I'm going. I'm going back home.

Answer 8

See the Many Worlds Interpretation on the net. Its a thoughtful alternative to the generally accepted views.

Answer 9

I'll be going to the otherside, which some call heaven...except the streets aren't paved in gold and God doesn't sit in a throne, etc. This is definately my last life on this planet, thank God, and I have no desire to reincarnate on another planet.

Answer 10

Limbo doesn't exist so that is out.

I hope that when I die I will go to purgatory (I am not a first round draft pick for Heaven in my present condition). After that - Heaven.

All assuming that is what God wills for me.

Answer 11

“All [both humans and animals] are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.”—Ecclesiastes 3:20.
“The dead . . . are conscious of nothing at all.”—Ecclesiastes 9:5.
“Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished.”—Ecclesiastes 9:6.
“There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [the grave], the place to which you are going.”—Ecclesiastes 9:10.
“[Man] goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4.
The Encyclopaedia Judaica frankly admits: “It was probably under Greek influence that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul came into Judaism.” The Hebrew Scriptures teach simply and clearly that God originally intended for men to live forever in perfect health on this earth. At Genesis 2:7 we read: “The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Notice that the text does not state that man was given a soul but, rather, that he became a soul. Because of disobediently rebelling against God, the first man, Adam, was sentenced to death. Therefore, Adam, as a human soul, died. No part of him continued living in another realm. Thus, the concept of an immortal soul is not a Bible teaching. The Bible says plainly: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”—Ezekiel 18:4
Also note Acts 2:27 (Jesus speaking);" because you will not leave my soul in Ha´des, neither will you allow your loyal one to see corruption." Did Jesus go to hell? No.
Another example:
Matthew 11:11-"He (Jesus)said these things, and after this he said to them: “Laz´a·rus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.” 12 Therefore the disciples said to him: “Lord, if he has gone to rest, he will get well.” 13 Jesus had spoken, however, about his death. But they imagined he was speaking about taking rest in sleep. 14 At that time, therefore, Jesus said to them outspokenly: “Laz´a·rus has died." So to me, death itself is like sleeping. Later on Jesus resurrected Lazarus. So after death we'll be awaiting a resurrection. Acts 24:15 "and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous".
Revelations 20:13 "And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha´des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds." So we'll all be judged at some time. If Hades means Hell, then why would somebody be judged after going to hell? If they were in hell, they would've been judged already.