2006-09-04 23:41:20 · 9 answers · asked by ms.curious 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Life is an energy force and that force is never lost. however the vehicle carrying that force (our bodies) does degrade over time eventually becoming useless matter for redistribution to the earths surface. The energy however carries on. This energy contains your memories (all of them), your emotions and the knowledge you have aquired within your lifetime. This energy does undergo a change though, from an individual life force to a part of a collective energy force encompassing more than the human experience. enjoy this individual experience and live your life to the fullest, that way we will all have great stories to tell in the light of love and knowledge. least thats how i see's it
2006-09-04 23:56:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in an after-life. I always have. Because there has to be more to life than this. You should read "Embraced by the Light" By Betty Eadie. That book really changed my life. I read it in high school. And I shared that book with over 300 people. It tells of a women (true story) who died from surgery complications, she was dead for hours woke up in the morgue. Anyway, it tells of her near-death experience, What she saw (heaven). You just have to read it. She has a website too. I wrote to her right after the book came out 1994. She sent me a post-card her phone number, and called me. She is a really wonderful and caring human being. The book was just believable and honest. I think I first saw her on Oprah. But I would start there. I can't describe the book good enough to give it justice. I believe a movie is coming out soon based on the book too.
2006-09-05 06:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by adriana7766 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your question I can make up that you DON'T believe that "that's it". Because "that's it" means that "that" isn't enough. But I don't agree with you. I believe that we stop being after we die. Our entire cousciousness is a result of electric impulses in our physical brain. Once those impulses stop (and they will, at the latest when our bodies are decomposed/burned), there is nothing left of us, save for our memory in others, which is also just the sum of electric impulses in THEIR brains.
Also, don't you think that our life here is enough? I don't like the thought of a "better" afterlife at all, because it makes this life here seem insufficient, or bad, or incomplete. But it isn't. This life here is the only one we will ever have, and we have to enjoy it, make the best of it, cherish it. I think that people who firmly believe in an afterlife don't live their lives to the fullest.
2006-09-05 06:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by lindavankerkhof 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Our biological make-up is energy.
How does the brain work? What is consciousness?
Nobody knows.
They cannot be measured or explained. And since we do not understand the makeup of consciousness or thought, we cannot possibly predict what happens to them. Does the energy transform into some other form of energy - just like our bodies - does it transform into fertilizer?
Unfortunately, all evidence points to the fact that brain function ceases when our bodies cease. All becomes worm food from everything we know.
Who knows - science has always found a way to explain what we thought impossible.
2006-09-05 08:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by quay_grl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There s a Heaven and there s a Hell.
If u r not rewarded for your Kindness on earth, you ll be rewarded in Heaven.
If u r not rewarded for your Cruelty on earth, you ll be rewarded in Hell.
We jus stop being in earth and continue to be in Hell or Heaven appropriately.
Only if people develop this kind of attitude World will be a better place to live in!
Live and let Live!!
2006-09-05 06:49:14 · answer #5 · answered by kummu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out any or all books by Sylvia Browne. Watch her on the Montel Williams show on Wednesdays. She can shed some light on your darkness.
2006-09-05 06:49:35 · answer #6 · answered by bookfreak2day 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we die physically but our soul never dies.now what is soul? if i ask u whose hand is this?-u will tell it's mine.
whose leg is this?-mine
whose head is this?-mine
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then who is this " I " ? who is telling 'this is mine'?
that's ur soul.this soul changes body after we die and cotinues with a new body in the same world. there r so many books on this topic by Swami Vivekananda. better u go through those books.
2006-09-05 08:00:35 · answer #7 · answered by saby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on what you believe in! every one has their own opinion
2006-09-05 06:54:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah, we come back as someone's butt
2006-09-06 03:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by Dahlia O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋