Why it is hard to imagine there being no afterlife?

Answer 1

Anything is hard to imagine when logic or reason isn't applied.

Answer 2

It isn't hard to imagine at all.

But that's not the point. We can't truly understand something we have absolutely no basis of comparison for.

For instance: we can imagine the Grand Canyon if we haven't been there because many other people have been there and there is all kinds of physical evidence and pictures. However we can only IMAGINE what an afterlife would be like -- if there is one at all -- because no one has ever been there and there isn't any proof of what it is, what it looks like, or even IF it is.

Answer 3

It's not hard to imagine there being no afterlife. Except for the fact God said there is. The only thing God can't do is lie.

Answer 4

Faulty ideas have been with us since before written language

All we have remaining to ponder are the ones which survived once written language was invented.

We can extrapolate with assurance that since Neanderthal buried his dead with various artifacts, tools and flowers that "cave man" had an after life concept, hope, dream, desire, assumption.

So, if you are comfortable with an idea, born 100,000 years ago by people with no spoken language and adjusted as best as possible by modern people to make it less ridiculous, them have at it. Believe away!

Do what makes you happy.

As for me and others, we would rather question stone-age wisdom regarding what ifs.

This is not to say that stone age people didn't possess wisdom, they most certainly did. They survived the last glaciation of our current Ice Age. I'd say that took some doing and quite a bit of know-how!

I believe that prehistoric humans wanted to explain things that confounded them, they probably wanted to know things and that religion may have been the first honest attempt at science.

It was obviously a failed attempt but it may have had an honest beginning, soon, unfortunately purloined by the human con artist and self appointed sooth-sayer to metamorph into the pathetic condition we suffer today!

Answer 5

I am comfortable with either reality, there is or is not an afterlife. I believe when a person dies their energy is reunited with the divine and that person continues as an immortal spiritual being of energy. We will be aware of being with the divine or living an eternal life with those we know and love. Only the dead know for sure what happens. Either way, I'm excited to find out!

Answer 6

It is hard for someone, who is spiritually sensitive with good intuition, to imagine there is no afterlife. Not everyone is sensitive spiritually, in our overly materialistic society we live in. Some people can not even relate to having a spirit, that could live on after death.

Answer 7

It's not.
This is a terrifying realization for many, if not most, people.
The idea of being some kind of random, insignificant event in the universe can demoralize the masses.
I find it a comforting thought.

Answer 8

It is hard to imagine because without any after life there is no need for a Savior because there is not an ultimate consequence for your actions and that is sad

Answer 9

Mostly fear and wishful thinking, I suppose. Not that that make a scintilla of difference to the truth; no afterlife.

Answer 10

For many, it is inconceivable that consciousness will end with death. All of the thoughts and opinions and beliefs that make up our consciousness have the sense of eternity about them, because the narrative of the mind never ceases.