Where do you think we go when we die?

Question

Aliens, heaven, hell, recarnation, etc.what do you think.

Answer 1

we all turn into little Al Sharptons that will eventually take over the world

Answer 2

This is a difficult question because it has to do with something that very few people can talk about from experience! Like Jan, I would recommend that you do some reading. I will also, like Jan, recommend a book that was written by a guy who had a dramatic mind-altering experience while meditating. It presents the Christian perspective on the issue. It is called Revelation and was written by a man named John when he fell into a trance while alone on an island hundreds of years ago. Because of the many images he used, some people find the book scary since it includes references to creatures such as beasts with 7 heads and 10 horns. Still, when you think about it, that is not very different from some of the things that we see in science fiction nowadays! Chapter 20 addresses your question directly. You can find it on line by going to http://www.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html You will find the relevant chapter by using the menu on the left of the screen to select 20 under Revelation. While you are at it, you may also want to look at John 3 and John 5, which show you how to avoid the less desirable of the two possible after death experiences described in Revelation 20. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Instead of wondering, why don't you read up and discover for yourself? A great book I'd recommend, as the author had a dramatic mind-altering experience while meditating, and he was given the answer to that question. It's called "Heaven On Earth" by Stephen D'Amico available at www.ameekpress.com. You'll really learn something from this book! It knocks it right out of the park!

Answer 4

Is there an afterlife??? Consider this:

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.

Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.

Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.

Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.

Knowing all this, how can ANY religion be viewed as anything BUT the invention of men? I know this may not be what you want to hear, and I doubt I'll do much harm to your faith; faith is remarkably impervious to reason.

But we atheists are nothing like what the church leaders are fond of charicaturing us as. We are freethinking individuals who are able to see the Big Picture without the blinders of religion. We do not live in despair, quite the contrary; freethought is incredibly refreshing, liberating, and empowering. We are not nihilists, but lovers of life who see it as all the more precious because there's no eternal afterlife.

We do not need the bribe of heaven or the threat of hell to be good people, we believe in being good for its own sake. Through science and reason, we know more about the true nature of the world we live in than your religion could ever hope to offer.

We are not your enemy. Our quarrel is with irrationality, wishful thinking, superstitions, intellectual dishonesty, and all other forms of thinking that keep mankind mired in darkness, ignorance and hate.................!

Answer 5

I think nothing special happens. We die, end of story. I'm not saying I'm for sure right, but if a god exists, then its pretty cruel to be testing us and giving us no reason to believe but "faith". People only believe because they're told to when they were young, or they're so scared of death or the unknown. I have seen no vision, been given no understanding, or seen any evidence that suggests to me that there is a god. Call me a doubting Thomas if you must, but the general consensus for any other subject would be "If there's no proof, why should you believe?" The fact that the subject supposedly holds the fate of your soul in its grip is what gives the "Just have faith" argument some weight.

So yeah. Dirt. Someone already said it, but I just want to explain why.

Answer 6

Since you are asking us about what we think then I can tell you what I think. I subscribe to the Tibetan theory of reincarnation.
If you need to be born to this earth again because you did not do so well in the last one, then you go to a place called the Bardo, which is a transit place for souls waiting to be reborn. If you don't need to be born back to earth but out of compassion you choose to be born again you then come back from Nirvana which is the place all enlightened souls go after they are done with this earthly plane.

Answer 7

I don't know but I think that it is a really loving place.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 8

The common proposal is not unlike Disneyland.

One waits 100 years on a serpentine line, and when you finally get inside you're bored to death.

Answer 9

It depends on your will,for most of us it's under 6 feet of dirt.

Answer 10

Some of us to the ground, some to the air.

Answer 11

Back here again. Another body, another time, new parents, different experiences.