2007-07-31 18:15:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bingo! You nailed it.
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky; (1821-1881)
Fear is the mother of all gods.
— Lucretius, (B.C.E. 94-55)
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
— T. S. Eliot
For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.
— Genesis, 3:19
Jesus says: “I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
— John 8:49
It is an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
— Gloria Steinem
Here's what happens when you die -- you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I promise you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
— Howard Stern
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
— Publilius Syrus, Maxims
I regard religion as a disease born of fear and ignorance and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
— Bertrand Russell
What the mind doesn’t understand it worships or fears
— Alice Walker
The conquering of fear is the beginning of wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
— F. Forrester Church:
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
— Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Imagine there's no heaven; it's easy if you try
No hell below us, above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today ...
Imagine there's no countries; it isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
— John Lennon, Imagine
2007-07-31 18:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Something like that. Not just plain non-existance, though, more like non-existance for the rest of eternity. Non-existance for thousands of years (or however long the Earth lasts or until we find another planet) is what's hard to imagine. Makes me kind of restless, personally. So, that's why I choose to believe in reincarnation. Solves everything.
2007-08-01 01:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I 100 percent agree with this. Everything in the Universe has a beginning and has an end. A cycle of birth and death, there is nothing in the known universe that doesn't follow this principle.
2007-08-01 10:28:58 · answer #3 · answered by reverendrichie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is hard to comprehend , i believe the only why for you to live on is by the impact you put on this world, live on by your name not you soul. i have a religion just one that doesn't believe in a afterlife like the others do
2007-08-01 01:21:12 · answer #4 · answered by Laughing Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. people can comprehend indeed. it's just a given that we have eternal life.
2007-08-02 15:11:13 · answer #5 · answered by raaalphs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good. Note: Religion was made before organized scientific data.
2007-08-01 01:19:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We were originally created to live forever. The Bible makes that quite clear. Why do we grieve if we're meant to die?
2007-08-01 01:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES>..... we cant except what we dont know or cannot comprehend
2007-08-01 01:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-08-01 01:19:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
death is forever sleep. you see not hear not your no more.
2007-08-01 02:41:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋