Afterlife?

[ph4ever]

yes I believe there's an afterlife

I also believe in reincarnation

[SOASOAPT]

I am coming back as an elm tree!

[Key Lime Lee]

Conservation of energy... First law of thermodynamics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely transformed from one form to another.

Whatever spark that seperates us from being alive to being dead can't just disappear.

(Not being snide, truly curious!)

So, you don't believe in God, but do believe in afterlife? In your belief system, where do you go? Are you a spirit after your body is dead?

I don't believe in an afterlife per se, ie a place where we (as an entity) go. I think that whatever energy it is that seperates us from life to death (call it a "soul" if you want) must persist. I think it just scatters so that we're not necessarily an entire entity, but rather bits of our energy are scattered throughout the universe.

Now maybe (and this I can't defend, just my own hypothesis) sometimes that energy reforms in the soul of someone new. this might be why some folks feel like old souls.

Or maybe we all share some common molecules of energy and that's why we here all feel like family.

I dunno.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

Conservation of energy... First law of thermodynamics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely transformed from one form to another.

Whatever spark that seperates us from being alive to being dead can't just disappear.

(Not being snide, truly curious!)

So, you don't believe in God, but do believe in afterlife? In your belief system, where do you go? Are you a spirit after your body is dead?

I don't believe in an afterlife per se, ie a place where we (as an entity) go. I think that whatever energy it is that seperates us from life to death (call it a "soul" if you want) must persist. I think it just scatters so that we're not necessarily an entire entity, but rather bits of our energy are scattered throughout the universe.

Now maybe (and this I can't defend, just my own hypothesis) sometimes that energy reforms in the soul of someone new. this might be why some folks feel like old souls.

Or maybe we all share some common molecules of energy and that's why we here all feel like family.

I dunno.

Interesting!

[UAHparrothead]

Conservation of energy... First law of thermodynamics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely transformed from one form to another.

Whatever spark that seperates us from being alive to being dead can't just disappear.

(Not being snide, truly curious!)

So, you don't believe in God, but do believe in afterlife? In your belief system, where do you go? Are you a spirit after your body is dead?

I don't believe in an afterlife per se, ie a place where we (as an entity) go. I think that whatever energy it is that seperates us from life to death (call it a "soul" if you want) must persist. I think it just scatters so that we're not necessarily an entire entity, but rather bits of our energy are scattered throughout the universe.

Now maybe (and this I can't defend, just my own hypothesis) sometimes that energy reforms in the soul of someone new. this might be why some folks feel like old souls.

Or maybe we all share some common molecules of energy and that's why we here all feel like family.

I dunno.

but that would presuppose the notion that the "soul" is an energy that is physical and therefore could be measured and transfered. Could the "soul" be something metaphysical and therefore beyond the scope of the law of conservation?

[flyboy55]

I believe that when we pass on, we go up in the air somewhere, and walk on clouds (just like in that Cream Cheese commercial), and go through the Pearly Gates (after talking to St. Peter) and then go and live in Heaven with everyone else who made the grade.

At that point, we are given the keys to nice big houses in the suburbs of Heaven, and right in the same neighborhood we find all of our deceased relatives - even the ones who drive us nuts. Every day from then on is like a pool party ('cause we all have pools).

No one works in Heaven, because well who needs to? Everything is provided for us! All your favorite foods miraculously appear each day in the kitchen. Those who want to sleep in can do, and those who want to get up early and hang out by the pool can do. Oh and in case you are wondering, Heaven is not a "dry" county.

For a break in the routine, we can tune in to what's happening here among the living, and even send them a message if we care to, but since we'll being seeing MOST of them soon, we usually won't bother.

Normally we won't get to see much of the BIG GUY, because first of all the BIG GUY is a BIG GAL, and she's way too busy answering prayers for all kinds of important things, you know - "get me a better job" or "I need a bigger car" or "Help my team win the game" or "bless (fill in name of country here)".

I think all kinds of people will make it to Heaven, in spite of what organized religion has been telling us about Original Sin, and that stuff about unbaptized babies and suicides and gays and "unsaved souls" not making it. I think when MOST of us get there (I am still hoping I make the grade) we will be mildly surprised at who ISN'T there. I don't think Jerry Falwell will make it but who am I to judge? (For that matter, who is he to judge?).

I know that not all religions have the same idea of Heaven as I do, and that sometimes when people get really excited about being RIGHT, they think it's a good idea to kill other people who have different ideas about Heaven, but I don't agree with that kind of thing and I hope there isn't anyone out there who wants to kill me because my Heaven isn't their Heaven.



Seriously? If there is something after our physical death, (and I think there just might be) then it must be something so overwhelming, so beautiful, and so good beyond description, that all the happiness and hurt and heartache of this world pales in comparison.

I don't consider myself a Christian (as in follower of Jesus Christ) but I think if you can find it in you to unconditionally love every man, woman, child, mannatee, amoeba, raindrop, grasshopper, molecule etc that populates this wild and crazy universe of ours, then you're halfway to Heaven already.

Good night!

[SMLCHNG]

I will say that I just don't know. Good, bad, or otherwise.. Wasn't in my upbringing.. And I can be emotional and logical..

[Key Lime Lee]

but that would presuppose the notion that the "soul" is an energy that is physical and therefore could be measured and transfered. Could the "soul" be something metaphysical and therefore beyond the scope of the law of conservation?

Prolly not in my universe.