Re: Is there an after life?
Originally Posted by
Lila
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I don't believe it's allotted.
Neither do I. I don't believe in "you'll die when it's your time." I don't believe, once people are born, that their days are numbered to a precise amount. Everyone's days are numbered, of course, but I don't believe each person is stamped with a set number of days to live and then when it's "their time", they'll die regardless of the circumstances. I mean, think about it...
Take a plane crash, for example, an A-380 goes into the ground and all 500 people on board are killed. Were all 500 of those people
meant to die at that exact moment? Is it coincidence that all 500 of those people, whose times were up (i.e. time to go bye-bye from this earth)
just so happened to ALL get on the same plane at the same time? I think not. And something like that can't be planned. That's just not the way the life works. That is, however, just my opinion. But it makes sense. Because what
doesn't make sense is all 500 people who were killed in the crash just so happened to be at the end of their ropes at the same exact time and they were all
meant to die. I don't buy that.
Originally Posted by
dukeofearl
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So how long would a person live in this afterlife, for eternity?
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I don't think I could handle that.
Originally Posted by
Lila
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Or get reborn? but without memories?
Here's what's kinda creepy to think about... they (the people who believe in reincarnation) say that past lives are where dreams and deja vu's come from. Because when you're reborn into another body, you don't consciously remember things from the life you lived before, but they come out in your dreams. That's why you'll dream about people and places you've never seen before, at least not in your current life. Or like when you walk into a house you've never been to before, but you swear you have been. That happened to me once, at a wedding reception. The house we were at was massive. Mansion-like and built in the 1800's. It was absolutely beautiful. I'd never been there before. But when I went inside to use the bathroom, I didn't even need to be told where the bathroom was, I went right to it and I knew where everything was in that house. I even freaked
myself out a little bit that day.
Those are, supposedly, past-life remembrances. I don't know if I believe that or not, but it's a cool ass thing to think about.
Originally Posted by
Barry
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It's a completely nonsensical notion really, we are as dead after death as we were before birth, but I suppose if it gives you comfort.....
I read or heard something once that made my stomach sink at the time, but in thinking about it, it makes sense...
"Birth is nothing more than death begun."
When I first heard that, it kind of blew me away. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. I mean, if you're never born, you can't die.
Originally Posted by
Mups
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I think along those lines too. We are energy and if may transform, but cannot be destroyed.
I also agree with Lila about memory being wiped clean if we return, possibly to enable us to learn anew without preconceived ideas.
I suppose now I've thought of it a bit more, if we brought old outdated knowledge back with us it wouldn't be very helpful today anyway.
Ahhh, yes, memory wiped clean except for our dreams, according to some people. For centuries people have asked, "Where do our dreams come from?" Well - as I stated above - some people believe our dreams are things that we saw and/or experienced in past lives and a portion of our brain retained it, but only allows us glimpses. Probably as a defense mechanism or as a way to protect us. Think about it, if you were suddenly consciously flooded with everything that happened in one, two or maybe even hundreds of past lives, it would drive you insane.
They say we only use a small portion of our brains anyway. So all of those memories are stored. Maybe that's why some people end up in strait jackets. Maybe their brains simply..... opened up. They're not hallucinating or seeing things at all... maybe they're simply seeing what their brains are showing them and because it's too much too fast, it confuses them and makes them appear they've lost touch with reality.