Hey Pandas, What Do You Believe The Afterlife Is Like? (Closed)

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If you've lived an evil life, you go to hell where you sit on a cloud playing a damn harp for eternity.

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Anthorn 1 month ago

I choked.

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There is no afterlife. As a kid I was brought up in a church, believed all that stuff, but the logical thinker in me needed to know where it would be, what form it, and we, would take. And how come all the other religions would be excluded from it just because they believed in a different one.

There is no soul, no spirit, no deeper meaning. We are who we are until we're not.

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Mama Clare 1 month ago

Pretty much the same for me. Part of me would like to believe there is something but logic takes over

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I don't think there is a place. I think we just get remade into something or someone else. You know, matter cannot be destroyed and all that jazz. If not, we're just gonna be gone and turn into soil.

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Ryan Jenny Kidd 1 month ago

Matter can be destroyed; energy cannot be created or destroyed.

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I think its like turning off a light bulb. Lights out. The movie is over. There is no bonus content.

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May 1 month ago

I just hope I don't have to stand up from the couch and do the dishes now

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Not sure about everyone else's, but I hope mine is across the Rainbow Bridge... and all the dogs.

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JM 1 month ago

I'd like to go over the section of the Rainbow Bridge that leads to all the cats!

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I don't believe in an afterlife that we experience consciously. But I like the thought that my atoms will eventually help create something else.

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Ms. Mack 1 month ago

I love that we are energy and energy never dies, it goes elsewhere, powers something else. That is amazing!

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I believe that we won't find out what it's all about before we die, but maybe we won't after either. What I do know is that the religions can't all be right - there can't be both 1 deity and several; we can't go into an afterlife and be reincarnated; and of course, the 72 virgins thing makes no sense (at 1 a day, you'd be through the lot in under 4 months, then what? Harassed for eternity by 72 ex-virgins who'd been dumped after a one night stand?). Given the choice, I'd like to be a ghost who can travel the universe - there's lots of the planet I'd like to see, and as a bit of an astronomer, seeing other planets and galaxies close up would be awesome (not to mention other life forms).

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Anthorn 1 month ago

this sounds really fun. My perception of an afterlife is a bit like this. I think that if there is an afterlife, it's probably some kind of ghost-ish thing. Because to me that makes the most sense.

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I think we get this one beautiful, wild life that we can hopefully make the best of - be good humans, do meaningful work, have people we love who love us, rescue some cat/dog/bird/reptile/fish friends, and then when it's done, it's done, and that's the end of us.

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I don't know. I like the idea of reincarnation.

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Libstak 1 month ago

People often argue about why we don't remember previous lives but then as you get older you realise how much of your own life you don't remember. After trauma you have entire missing big holes, imagine the trauma of death, would you ever look back to it? This makes me think that it is possible to have reincarnation given those who have convincing stories of prior lives. Possible is not the same as fact though, so I'm still on the fence ultimately.

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Not at all.

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Transcendence into a higher form of existence. I like to believe that our current life is something like an incubator so we can become something unfathomable after we shed the mortal bodies.

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JM 1 month ago

That's a lovely thought!

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In the mid-1990s I took a class called Philosophy of Death and Dying. We had a physics professor come in and talk about his experience. He was abroad in England and they told his family to be prepared to retrieve his body.

The talk he gave to our class was really amazing. I believe that there is something else out there, but most of us are not attuned.

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Doodles1983 1 month ago

Prepared to receive his body... And then he what? Didn't die? Experienced afterlife and returned? There's a lot missing here.

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I like the way "What Dreams May Come" depicted it, and have adapted that as my image of the afterlife. We make our own, can be reborn if/when we choose, etc. I know was only a movie, but that has stuck with me since childhood.

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E2U&U2 1 month ago

This is what I think the afterlife is. Heaven and hell are experiences that happen here and now. I've had both. I don't believe anything exists after the last breath and heartbeat. I want the afterlife to be this: access to the universe to zoom across space and time and be everywhere at once or nowhere. My husband is back as my best friend and partner in crime. There is a rainbow bridge where 20+ animals wait and excitedly greet me with a melody of barks, meows, neighs and moos. A perch where I can be close to my still-living daughters, watch over them, and even intervene sometimes if I can—a reunion of friends and family, but not in heaven and not with a G-d. A place with no strife, everyones experience is curated for peace and doesn't depend or intrude on anyone elses.

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I believe that there’s an afterlife—heaven and hell. I believe heaven is a place where true beauty, joy, and goodness all exists. It’s what earth was intended to be before humans ruined it. I believe it’s perfect unity with God. Since God is love, wisdom, peace, goodness, I believe we, for the first time, truly understand and get to live in that.
I don’t know exactly what I believe about hell. I believe it’s real but I don’t know if there’s levels to it. There’s Scripture that seem to indicate as much. That the punishment will match the crime.
As far as who goes where, I believe that God has that authority as He created us all. I don’t know that anyone deserves perfection for all eternity (heaven) but I believe God also doesn’t want people to be punished either. However, sin has really screwed up people. Think of what the world would be if people weren’t selfish. Instead we horde and live self-centered lives while we let others suffer and, in some cases, intentionally cause that suffering. I don’t believe that humanity is good based on our history. So, God did the most selfless thing He could do— in Jesus, He provided a way for a restored relationship with Him even though it meant taking on the highest form of suffering in the cross and even going to hell. If people accept that gift, then He gives them a forever relationship with him and that includes being with him where he is. If people don’t want it or don’t accept it, then they continue on to where they were originally heading.
As for people who have never heard, I don’t know but I know that God is just. He will do what’s right by them.

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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 month ago (edited)

Pls don’t downvote people who have opinions different than yours. The question is “what do you think the afterlife is like,” ofc there’s gonna be religion involved in some of these; the question is literally asking about their beliefs! Nobody knows the answer, so it’s merely an opinion that you don’t have to believe if you don’t want to.

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