Would you prefer an afterlife, nothingness, or reincarnation after death?

But heaven is infinite reward for a short struggle. Reincarnation is a reward or punishment you won't receive for your actions in this life.

You wouldn't know about your endless cycle of struggle and reward. Your struggle would go unrewarded and you would be rewarded (or punished) for struggle you don't even remember.

 

Yeah, we just have different mindsets. Every time you mention infinite reward, I frown. That sounds awful.

Yes, every incarnation of myself would not remember my past existences, but it would be a new struggle and new rewards. Every new life would have whole new experiences.

Being punished/rewarded on past/future me's. Would still be me.

 

Does "preference" really matter? It is what it is. Some are right, some are wrong, many will be surprised.

 

THIS is your eternity.

Is it heaven or hell?

 

/sigh

 

You are right, preference does not matter, truth is truth. What do you think will happen to those who are the ones who are "surprised"?

 

They'll find Heaven is an eternity of constant orgasm?

 

I was just thinking of and remembering the good times with my parents the other day. They both died over twenty years ago, yet they live on in my memory.

Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but can change form...

We are eternal.

 

semantic romantic

 

Reincarnation with all of my past memories intact please.

Obviously this one doesn't seem possible or I would remember who I was the last go round.....

 

Which one has the cheapest payment plan?

 

Paradise.

 

At first, I thought about that...nothingness is natural and limitless ... then I realized that we pay for water of all the things in the world. I trust you for the most part, but I'm going to be made if I get taxed or any type service fees for choosing nothingness.

 

I was fine with nothingness before I was born so I suppose it will be fine after I'm gone as well. It's almost poetic, really.

 

The concept of karmic reincarnation isn't quite that simple. While you don't remember your past life they affect and shape what you do. Think of it as training muscle memory where your body can act without conscious thought on actions that you have repeatedly done. In the same way through karmic reincarnation each new life you take something from the previous life. Part of the mystery of understanding life is figuring out what you have taken from your past life.

Also karmic reincarnation is frequently misunderstood as a reward system when it isn't that. It is a cause and effect relationship that is a universal law that actions are likely to create similar actions. If you act compassionately you will get compassion back. The universe isn't awarding you with a good next life but that is the pattern that your current life establishes so the next life is a continuation of that pattern.

 

This silly arrogance of the atheist... They always "know".

I would prefer to meet my maker if that is an option. If there is an afterlife whatever it is would be so foreign it is of no value to judge it based on this life. Sounds interesting at the very least.

 

If this is what they believe ... how is it arrogant? Is you "knowing" about the existence of your maker any less arrogant?

By the way, both Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are very prominent and widely known agnostics/atheists. This post was on Reddit in an atheist subreddit; the author was not posting this to preach to theists. Dawkins has even claimed he can't be 100% atheist because he states he can never actually "know" if there is actually a god or not.

 

I fear nothing after death because it reflects everything we do is pointless. What is the point of living if there is nothing after?

I choose faith over science because faith provides me with hope and imagination. I feel faith should not be questioned by science and science should not be questioned by faith. They are two completely different concepts that continuously battle each other.

I do find science arrogant at times. "There has to be a answer, so we will come up with the most logical answer and deem it so...and everyone else will be wrong". Science tends to blind it self with logic and stifles the imagination. Most scientist will agree we only know a fraction of the percentage of the universe and what makes it tick, but in their arrogance, only limit their "factual beliefs" to this fraction of a percent of knowledge, and shun anyone else who can prove their belief.
And example is the fear of eternity. The belief that you will exist forever. This belief that we will be up in the clouds, singing and clapping and praising Jesus forever terrifies some people. Hell, it terrifies me in my humanly form. We are born into a world where we only know time as something the moves forward in a linear manner. We simply can not fathom a concept that is not controlled or measured by time. I believe it to be something that none of us can understand.

 

Who the hell would PREFER nothingness??

I understand how some can believe nothingness is most likely, but why would anybody favorite it over a after life or reincarnation.