If there is no spirit after death, then would not this life be unreal?

Question

Where have we been for a billion years before we incarnated and where will be for billions of years after we die. We are only here on earth for a duration of an average of 60 to 100 years. Then where we have been for ever and where we are going for ever is reality. This life would be like a blink of an eye and a dream compared to where we will wake up to.

But if there is spirit and a resurrection then this life would be real and reality will be life for ever.

But on the other hand, if reincarnation is real, then this life is real and the next will be as real as this life.

But if we are only a source of energy after we die and not spirit and reincarnation is not real, then this life is not reality. It may physically real, but true reality would be where we have been and where we are going.

And if there is absolutely darkness and a void of nothing after we die, then there is no reality in this life or the next

What do you think it is.

Answer 1

The person with the sandcastle makes a good analogy. Energy never goes away, it just changes form.
I think it's the simplicity of it that makes it so difficult for us to grasp as humans. I think whether or not it is real by our definition of real is kind of irrelevant.
When you start getting into reading philosophies you get to thinking that one thing is true, and then get stymied because the exact opposite can also also true.
Thing is, I think that's the point. It probably is!
It's always the simplest things that are hardest to reconcile in our minds.

Answer 2

No, no. Think of it this way:

Scientists say that the human body is like a machine. If so, then the spirit/soul is the battery that runs it. When we die some people say we expired.

The human body runs on energy. The spirit/soul is that energy. When we die it's like this:

Energy is neither created nor destroyed but, converts into another form.

When our spirit/soul leaves our bodies, it's our bodies that are dead not the spirit/soul. The life is in the spirit, the spirit is the life. It's like taking the battery out of the machine. The machine no longer functions but, the battery still exists, just not in the machine. Our spirit/soul transforms from being in the body to being of it's own essence. A spirit/soul in it's purest form without an earthly prison. We go to Heaven.

P.S. If anyone says, "when you die you're dead, that's it." They're wrong because the "Laws of Science" says that, "Energy is neither created nor destroyed but, converts into another form." ...........And that's the truth.

Answer 3

The truth is, you can't know anything about life after death for sure. Mabye something wierd happens with flashing blue lights and the Benny Hill Show theme tune?

We know nothing about life after death, really, and this void of knowledge is, as ever, filled by religion, susperstition and the like.

I guess all you can do is wait and see. I hope I get to wait quite a while myself.

Answer 4

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which they are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world. We should make the most of it, for this is all there is.

Answer 5

We're lucky as it is. Before people used to die at 40 not 60.

But I guess people forget all about Science helping extend the lifespan of an average human.

Answer 6

What precisely do you propose via unnatural? Are you speaking of homicide and/or suicide? perchance mercy killing (while somebody is in such discomfort that they ask a pal or physician to easily enable them to die)? As for philosophy there are various theories approximately death. in comparison to somebody else published "in philosophy this is the choose of god" whoever wrote that perchance does not understand what philosophy is. this is extra of a non secular view of death. besides many philosophers have written in super component approximately death. as an occasion, Heidegger observed death because of the fact the of completion of existence. think of of it like a action picture. a action picture has a beginning up and end. existence is the same. And death is the of completion of someone's existence. If somebody the place to no longer die then they might by no ability be finished, in accordance to three philosophical theories. I propose analyzing some philosophy from the french and germans between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. some that cope with the subject rely of death in specific are Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche and a super style of of their contemporaries. 2 books i might propose in specific are Being and Time via Martin Heidegger and Being and Nothingness via Sartre. the former is extremely a would desire to examine for somebody who's fascinated interior the subject rely of death.

Answer 7

We exist after our bodies die. I do not believe in reincarnation though.

The bible says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". When the Rapture occurs people's (saved people) spirits who have died are supposed to be re-united with their resurrected body (glorified, transfigured)

Answer 8

I really believe there is life after death in the spirit world

Answer 9

Nowhere. You came from nowhere and are going nowhere. Life IS reality, it is NOT religion.

This is just the only life you have.

Its not that terrible.

Answer 10

I wish I didn't believe I was this limited human form.