After all, no two lives in this physical manifestation are the same, so isn't it just possible that if there be an afterlife, the experiences of that afterlife will be different?
Think about this for a minute:
Our lives are in large part determined by the culture and society in which we are born and raised. Much of our life is already determined by the circumstance of our birth. In spiritual matters as well, how we relate to spirituality is in large measure dictated by the circumstances in which our life is lived. Each culture has its views on afterlife, just as each culture lives within a different framework in this present, physical life.
Considering this, isn't it possible that the afterlife, if we accept one, will be as varied and marvelous in experience as this present life? I see no reason why there should be no room for different experiences of afterlife, just as there are different experiences of present life. Why must it be one experience?
What do you think?
2007-12-20 07:45:27 · 17 answers · asked by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good Sir, I have been saying that exact thing for YEARS!!!! most people look at me like I am crazy. I laugh it off. I agree. we have no idea what will happen in the afterlife and I think even those who claim to have seen what happens while dead on an operating table only truly see what they wanted to see in the first place. I think it is completely plausible that ones afterlife is determined by what one wants that afterlife to be. Thank you for this great question I will star it
2007-12-20 07:56:34 · answer #1 · answered by Lorena 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I accept the idea of an afterlife, and have no God. I don't think that belief in Gods and an afterlife go hand in hand and cannot be separated. I'm quite happy believing that I will have one, without ever having troubled myself to have the other. Animist.
2016-04-10 10:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you mean by experience. People have different experiences in this life, but the nature of that life is the same - everyone lives in this 4 dimensional (or however many dimensions science predicts) world, on Earth etc. In the same way people might have different experiences in the afterlife, but the nature of that afterlife will be the same for everyone. I can't help thinking that no one who's only lived in this life has the ability to tell us what the afterlife will be like. That's why I'm much more inclined to believe what God says about it, since he created it and would therefore have more of an idea of what it's like.
2007-12-20 07:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Logicaly.... but consider this passage: Thou shall not have otehr gods before me. If whoever said this was the one true God, then whoever is praying and worshiping their ancestors in Japan is spiritualy in trouble. Also if someone were raised in an athiest culture and suppose you say is really true, then they would have no chance of afterlife because they would be raised in a culture against it.
So in that sense I think your logic is flawed in many different ways.
2007-12-20 08:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mike D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iron handed Faith: There are several people who have experienced it.
About a year back, there was a news on Indian TV that a 6 year old saw her father from the previous birth on the road and recognised him. This brought back memories of how she has drowned as a teenager and also several household secrets. Now, she spends time in two households.
There are a few others stories too.
2007-12-20 08:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well theists seem to hang on to the idea that after death they retain one single mind... and this means that the experience will be unique whether every mind is thrown in together or not... just like in life.
I put another idea. A fragmented mind: Part of your spirit lives on, I have no doubt, in the heart and minds of those who survive you. It influences them. However, your spirit is fragmented between those people. Ultimately, when those people die, your spirit is watered down further.
We don't know Tutankhamen.. but he is still a component of the human consciences, however slight.
2007-12-20 07:56:10 · answer #6 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When you consider what Jesus said, that "In my Father's house, there are many rooms," and, "I go to prepare a place for YOU," that suggests that in heaven, we have a "special place" prepared just for us. For in our heaven we will have all the things we love... and since each of us love different things/people, then our heaven will be experienced differently.
As for the "other place," that, too, will be experienced differently. How so? Because each one will be "tortured" by remembering all the different times they could have said "YES" to the Lord, and didn't... and that is different for each one.
Have a blessed day.
2007-12-20 09:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or perhaps the same sequence of events but perceived differently by each of us.
The thing about the afterlife, if there is one, is that absolutely anything is possible. We have no idea.
2007-12-20 08:06:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I never once entertained the thought that the afterlife would be the same for all individuals. You make a good point.
2007-12-20 07:55:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The expectation of an afterlife is bigoted and selfish...Somehow much of us just can't accept the idea that we are NOT important enough to be immortal...or even that immortality is nonexistant.
2007-12-20 07:56:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋