I believe in a friggin afterlife. Ask me anything.

[SmileyBoy]

All religions and Atheists are welcome.:-)

(I'm Muslim, if you must know)

[leftofthedial]

1. isn't "afterlife"

an oxymoron?

[Gringo]

2. Good for you. I hope we can meet up there.

I don't believe in it, but I don't reject the remote possibility. Hope you're right.

[Dagaz]

3. ok

Is afterlife anything like afterbirth?

[Wonk]

4. Why?

[SmileyBoy]

5. I find it hard to believe that one's perception of surroundings just ends.

How could one spend the rest of eternity not being, thinking or percieving anything???

(I'm also kinda defending the reincarnation theory AS IT RELATES to the theory backed by Athiests.)

[Wonk]

6. . . .

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-consequences.html

[leftofthedial]

7. when your brain dies

you can't see, hear, feel, taste or smell.

You can't think.

What perception is it you think would persist?

[enki23]

8. sure you can

lack of existance is no excuse for poor taste.

[premjan]

12. what perception?

I think/remember so I still am.

[Dookus]

9. I've never understood....

why people can't imagine a universe without them in it.

Things bopped along for billions of years without me before 1961, and will bop along for billions more after I'm gone.

My non-existence post-mortem will be the same as my non-existence before birth. *I* didn't miss not being alive before I was born, and I won't miss it after I'm dead.

[Ladyhawk]

11. Do you recall your perceptions

before you were born? Did you have perceptions then? Can you imagine the eternal PAST being devoid of thinking and perception?

Of course you can, because you had no brain with which to perceive. Once you are gone, you will have no brain with which to perceive.

Believe me, I went through months of panic attacks once I realized I could not believe in a god or an afterlife and maintain intellectual integrity. It's a very scary concept. I had to work through it meticulously, but it can be dealt with.

What finally gave me peace of mind was realizing that the time after I die will be just like the time before I was born. Before I was born did I worry about the fact that I couldn't perceive anything? Of course not. I simply did not exist.

When we die, we will have no worries about our own non-existence.

[premjan]

13. what happens when you die?

simplest idea is immediate reincarnation as someone else. the instant you die (with some delay depending on availability of a new-born infant).

or you could say resurrection in the same genetic body, every 2000 years.

[Ladyhawk]

10. How much "friggin" goes on in this "friggin" afterlife?

Since I am a virgin AND an atheist, I should get the most friggin' when I die.

"Woah...wtf...there IS an afterlife!"
Then I'll be approached by 72 beautiful male virgins...

Tell me more. :)