I just wondered... A mentally disordered person lives very different than those of the ordinary people in a way that they think "crazy." Will they still be crazy even when they are already in heaven?
2006-08-29 05:02:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Im not talking about mentally challenged persons. Only to those mentally disordered... those who were sent to a mental hospital... i mean.
2006-08-29 05:20:22 · update #1
That depends on your definition of crazy and the standards of what a heaven after death is. Certain hypothetical truths do exist. One is that the brain will cease to function as it once did. Without oxygen, the brain is incapable of being crazy.
But in the proximate future, this "crazy" person who died would be remembered as being crazy as long as there exists a person who recalled this person's craziness and still reflects upon it.
Whether a person is in heaven or hell should have no relevance in this question though. You'd be looking for a solution in the wrong place if you traveled in that direction in your studies.
2006-08-29 05:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by Tones 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a very good question. If you don't believe in after life, then the answer is easy.
However, I happen to believe in a heaven, and if that's the case then we must retain some attributes of our identity after we die. If that's not so, then there is no point to life and no point to an after life. Identity is everything.
So, that raises the question, what aspects of our identity our we inclined to retain after death? In other words, what parts of us does our soul reflect?
Say a person is mentally disturbed from the time they're born til the time they die. To say that they are not mentally disturbed after they die denies an important factor of their identity, as it denies much of their experiences in life. On the flip side, to say that that person is still mentally ill makes the after life more of a result of luck of draw than anything else, which kind of defeats the purpose.
I think it comes down to this...we are finite beings and whatever the after life is, whatever heaven is, whatever the soul might be...it all must operate in the infinite, by its very definition. So, when we ask the question, "Would a mentally crazy person still be crazy in the after life," we are applying our finite understandings of things to what is inherently infinite. That doesn't work. Unfortunately, it's the only way we can do things. But, I suspect that the after life works differently than that and we're not looking at it...perhaps CAN'T look at it...the correct way.
I hope that's not a cop out answer. I think it's the best way to explain the possible answer.
I'd be interested in knowing what you thought.
2006-08-29 06:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by Philthy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, going to heaven or Hell doesn't fundamentally change the person you are no matter what medical definition you give it. God made you the person you are crazy or sane and if you can pull yourself togather enough to make it into heaven with a mental disorder God isn't going to change you to suit the opinions of psychologists. It's just common sense.
The better question would be why God made you crazy in the frist place..
2006-08-29 05:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every one is crazy in their own way.. Crazy is just a label for one that isn't what is expected !
How can one be otherwise if they don't know what is expected! The way I see it crazy is more normal that so called normality! What is normal? Has no character, no flavour, nothing to desire, just a setting on your dryer. I don't use that setting.. I chose wash n wear setting!
People called Einstein crazy.. The socalled crazy have more chance of heaven then the so called Normal.. Some people are so concerned about being normal they give up their desires to appear normal.. isn't that just plainly stupid?
2006-09-01 22:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I sense some discrimination in your tone.
What now is sometimes called Mentally Challenged people will continue to be so if not taking proper medication and attending some kind of behavioral therapy.
People who are insane, bipolar, or who suffer chronic depression do not choose to be this way. GOD says they won't suffer anymore once in heaven.
2006-08-29 05:11:09 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At death, humans return to the same state of inactivity they were before they were born. The Bible, at Ecclesiastes 9:5 & 10, states categorically that the "dead are conscious of nothing at all". That being so, a crazy person's craziness, ends the moment he breathes his last.
2006-08-29 05:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by mysweetdarlyn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they will be free from there mental illness just as others will be free from there phyisical illness.
Afterall, most of the "crazy people" have a physical problem with their brains in relation to chemicals.
2006-08-29 05:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by spidertiger440 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that the soul never dies, and that our bodies are just vessels to harbor the soul, and that mental illness or "madness" is physical in nature, you may then say "I may be crazy in the next life, or I may not.
2006-08-29 05:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are crazy you cannot possibly know how to experience being 'crazy'. As we cease to exist at death there is no experience so the question of whether someone 'continues' to be crazy does not arise.
2006-08-29 05:44:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who believes in heaven is crazy to begin with.
2006-08-29 05:08:29 · answer #10 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋