Nobody really knows the answer to this question. What are your beliefs? It's simply hard for me to believe that after you die, that's it, nothing else. We were brought into this world for a purpose, to live life, to die and to what? What happens next? This can't possibly be IT, can it? What do you think?
2007-08-03 05:46:16 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in God, and I am very spiritual when it comes to my beliefs. I don't limit myself to one religion. I often wonder about these issues, and ask myself -- what happens next?
2007-08-03 05:47:36 · update #1
Uhmmm --- I didn't say everyone was ignorant. That's why I'm asking an open question, I'm open to everyones thoughts and ideas. No right or wrong answers, just beliefs and opinions, all of which I am very open to reading about.
2007-08-03 05:59:22 · update #2
Logic would imply that when you die, it is over. Consciousness is governed by, among other things, circulation. When the heart stops beating, awareness stops, and consciousness ends.
The bacteria that helped you digest your food, begins to digest you, and the molecules you used, are used by other living things..... everything gets recycled... I believe god is being itself, and not a being. Even the Catholic Church admits evolution happened. As a product of evolution, we are part of this planet, and life on this planet is but a blink of an eyelash from beginning to end.... The universe itself has no beginning, no end, no edge, and no middle... and infinity is something the human mind really cannot grasp. Being dead is as it was before you were born... nothing.... But while each of us is here, it is out duty to make life nice for an many people as we can.. I pray to my inner self for the strength to do that.. we all ought to.
2007-08-03 05:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by April 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think the problem is in the assumption: "we were brought into this world." Sure, two people need to get together, but often the intent is not specifically to produce another human being. We aren't "brought", we emerge. In a hospitable environment, we each develop automatically, the result of eons of reproductive progress.
Essentially, we are massive colonies of specialized microorganisms all working cooperatively and unconsciously. We have achieved self-awareness, memory and abstract thought as evolutionary advantages, but the combination creates a desire for meaning and purpose. One human in isolation can't accomplish much, but in a community, all sorts of significant purposes arise. Some of these purposes are in personal relationships, others are on the species level.
Some organisms undergo metamorphosis, essentially reconfiguring themselves into an entirely different kind of creature. If there is some sort of continuity advantage, perhaps we may do this as well, even on a non-corporeal level, perhaps, if there is such a thing. We really don't know. For now, we live in THIS world, with plenty of more obvious purposes suggesting themselves.
It is still quite possible that death is the end for me. My deeds and personal memories will get fractured, transcribed and diluted into the archives of humanity. I ultimately do not survive, but WE do. And that may be the greatest purpose.
2007-08-03 06:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
buddhists believe reincarnation. i've read that the bible used to have verses on reincarnation also but was altered during the 3rd or 4th century by either order of Constantine or his mom. I personally don't know what to believe exactly either. what i do know is that when you trace back existence... the one conclusion you will always come to that you can be sure if its truth is - at some point something was created from nothing. to create something from nothing is the definition of a God. i would assume that by looking around, and the fact that we have free will to make a choice between good and evil.... the people who choose good more than bad will have better chance to be in a better place. so just be good and love as much as you can and you should be A-OK wherever your journey after life in this world may take you
2007-08-03 05:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by The Guru 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not what man thinks what does God say. Do you read the word of God? Do you pray and ask God for understanding or wisdom? Do you know God? Do you have a relationship with him? Luke chapter 18.
Revelations 20. It takes a personal experience and a understanding of the word to know God.
Religion can kill your spirit. Trust the word of God and live.
2007-08-03 06:14:16 · answer #4 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After you die the bible says you go to the judgment throne where God judges you for the way you lived your life. Simply to say if you know Jesus as your Lord and savior. Because if you have that you will be pure. After that you either get led off to Hell or you enter the gates of Heaven. And we are not simply meant to die. God is building his army for when he comes back riding a white horse and we follow him. After God has Dominion over the Earth WE will rule. (I already claimed Hawaii lol) but truly, there is so much more than just dying and sitting in Heaven for all eternity we have a plan.
2007-08-03 05:56:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christians have written volumes in an effort to prove that humans are different from other living things on this planet. They proclaim 'free will' and all that. It is simple not provable that we are somehow more special. I absolutely do not believe that. What happens to us in the end will be the same as all other living things. People should learn to accept this and enjoy your life as we have it today. If there is any future afterlife, like everything else, it will be passed on genetically.
2007-08-03 05:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, you can't tell whether or not there's something after, because people who are dead (not those who go into cardiac arrest, then come back after their brains showed them pretty colors with lack of oxygen) don't come back to talk about it.
The whole thing is metaphysical. That means that it doesn't concern science. Like Stephen Hawkins said: there is no point in studying what was before or is beyond the universe, because it does not affect our reality.
I'm afraid you'll just have to wait and see.
Don't pay too much attention to people who say that they know, because they can only give you their word. They have no proof, because there is no proof to be given...
... and now my brain hurts...
2007-08-03 05:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ask yourself this, why should there be anything more? Seriously ask yourself that is the key. Isn't it already amazing that you have had a life to live? Why is it necessary for there to be more for that?
Think about the billions of years that happened when you weren't here. Billions of them! You didn't miss those, and you won't miss the billions of years after you.
That's why I'm thankful I'm here, and don't worry about not seeing more. Sure I'll miss it, but I missed out on the past too and that doesn't bother me too much.
2007-08-03 05:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
What if someone really does know the answer and has definite knowledge about it? Just because the majority does not know doesn't mean everyone is ignorant to certain realities. It might be a case of most don't know and therefore conclude that no one else does either.
2007-08-03 05:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What happens to all the other animals, the birds, fish, bugs, trees, weeds, people, germs, snakes, etc. all part of nature. In some ways very different, in other ways very similar. We come, we grow up, reproduce, get old, and die - - - - making room for the next and the next generation.
We're all just part of nature. We come from nothingness, and return to nothingness. It's a very pleasant and comforting thought.
2007-08-03 05:55:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋