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

Maybe not happiness, but there's a certain peace in knowing that you can let go no matter how much you mucked up while also retaining the better aspects of your living experience by rejoining the people you met

 

I get what you're saying, but at least my interpretation of the concept of heaven is that there are no problems. It's only puppies and rainbows. If contrast and change is what you need to make you happy, then that is what you'll experience in heaven. Whatever your idea of a perfect world/life is, that is what you'll have everyday there. If it's possible to feel bored or unfulfilled there, then how is it heaven?

 

You guys don't understand the concept of eternal happiness. I barely do because it's difficult to fathom living in the world we live.

Why be terrified of always being happy?
How could you feel insignificant when you're always happy?

If it's ETERNAL happiness, by definition, it could NEVER be nothingness.

Maybe on Earth there isn't.

 

Well said

To answer to poll, you must accept each option as 100 possible.

 

*the poll

 

Except that isnt the way it is taught in christian churches.
Heaven can not have sin in it, therefore anything that is considered sinful isnt allowed.......BORING.

I dont know if that is the view of Baptists churches only(Im fairly certain Catholic churches also have that view), but that was the way I always understood the dogma.

 

Again, each option must be considered 100% possible.

If it's truly eternal happiness, bored doesn't exist (unless you want to be, I guess)

 

You didnt understand what I said.

Im ASSUMING that those are all 100% possible for me to even discuss this since I dont believe in Heaven\Hell in the first place. My statement took it for granted that heaven would be just like what constitutes heaven according to christian dogma since it is a religious construct in the first place.

 

I see where you're coming from. Only rebuttal is maybe a perfect life is so indeed perfect you wouldn't want sin, get bored, and could never be nothingness.

All I know is heaven better have an acceptable equivalent to multiple wives, drugs, and a poor diet.

 

Think about it this way. I don't know if you were a rocket fan when they won the championship in 1994. One thing that made it so great was knowing how much struggle had gone into it and also the long history of Houston teams coming up short. Without that contrast there wouldn't have been as much joy in winning it. If things come easy and there is no struggle or risk of failure there also isn't fulfillment. It's why kids who are given everything become spoiled. If heaven is an eternity of bliss without the struggle to get that bliss or the knowledge that it could disappear it would become meaningless within a few decades.

 

nobody knows what will happen after we die - as hard people will try to tell you they 'know'

YOLO

 

Any outcome other than nothingness suggests everything we know about the universe and all the work we've done to study it was essentially a waste. I don't like that.

I am extremely anti-religious and any outcome other than nothingness will validate religions and religious beliefs. I don't like that either.

 

I think only the naive Christians truly think Heaven is a second earth, w/out all the pain, suffering, liberals, smoking, drinking, dancing, cussing and that damned devil. Also, I think its naive to believe we are going to be sitting around clapping to Jesus.

Some of the more down to earth Christians acknowledge that they really have no clue what its going to be like.

 

I believe you are so wrapped up in time and the parameters of your life on Earth.

If something has no beginning or ending, how can you have time? The heaven concept is something no man can fathom.

 

Didn't you just eliminate the concept of god with that question?

We can use wireless devices to communicate with each other, travel to the moon and back, conquer most diseases, close to understanding the sub atomic world, etc, yet we don't have the mental capacity to understand heaven? That is another cop out response when theist are confronted with questions they cannot answer. Just like god works in mysterious ways or our minds are too simple to understand god.

Just curious if you have ever wondered why god and Jesus spent a lot of effort lecturing humanity on how to live and act in order to enter the kingdom yet gave very little knowledge of what that really is? It's like signing a contract where a big portion of the agreement is blacked out and can only be shown to you once you've breeched it. Nobody in his right mind would sign that yet that is perfectly acceptable in religious faith.

 

I genuinely want to come back as a ghost. Who doesn't want to see the world in 2100 and if we've finally landed on Mars?

 

I simply responded to your question, I have absolutely no idea about you or your future.

Could you love a "god" who purchased a free ticket to heaven for you at great expense and offered it to you at no cost?

 

What happens after death used to bother me during that stage when I renounced my Catholic faith but I'm perfectly OK with ceasing to exist now. I can't imagine having enough things to make me happy for eternity anyway. Eternal sex? Maybe.

 

I guess for me the concept of an afterlife is when you leave something behind like your accomplishments, children, etc.

Nothingness after death isn't really much of a bother, I mean there was nothingness before we were born, right?

In my opinion, living forever is more of a self-centered thing. Rather than dwell on it, people should just focus on what little time they have in the world and find or do something that they would deem meaningful.

Anyways, whatever is on the other side, I hope it's a good thing. If not, I'll die again trying to make it into one. :grin:

 

I'm not religious at all (agnostic replicant hunter), but I think that's a damn fine sentiment, judo.