Do you believe in life after death? If so, where will you go?

[PartyPooper]

What / who will you become?

Just wondering.

:-)

[Wapsie B]

1. Yes I do.

All I know is I sure as heck don't wanna be playing no damned harp for all of eternity. The love had better be flowing freely if you get my drift. I want there to be be nonstop pleasure.

[Briarius]

2. Some sort of limbo

for a little while, then another go-around to try and get it 'right'.

[Floogeldy]

5. Bingo

[donheld]

21. What?!

i certainly don't wanna play bingo for all eternity :evilgrin:

[ogradda]

30. Save me a seat.

Or I'll save you one.

[CanuckAmok]

3. I've been bad, so I figure I'll be the next fat comedian on SNL.

n/t

[AZCat]

4. Cleveland.

I will be a bus driver.

[qnr]

6. Only as fertilzer n/t

[Floogeldy]

7. It has been proven to me, conclusively, that our souls survive

In the afterlife. More alive than in this earthly realm.

[PartyPooper]

9. Can you elaborate, please? I love conclusive evidence.

:D

[Goldmund]

12. Took them words right out of my mouth

I also love conclusive evidence...

[Floogeldy]

15. I could elaborate . . .

. . . but I won't. The incident is not something I would share cavalierly on a message board to so many people, as it was obviously directed to me alone. I'm not saying you should believe me. I'm not saying my evidence is scientific. It is, however, conclusive to me.

[Goldmund]

37. Cool

but in that case, you shouldn't even bring it up on a message board and call it "conclusive" -- it's totally meaningless.

[disillusioned1]

10. I used to believe it too

until I read this. I'm not out to convert you, but give you something to think about. From Skeptical Inquirer:

http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-05/near-death-experience.html

[Wapsie B]

11. What proved it?

[Gothic Sponge]

8. The 8th Dimension, or Brooklyn

:shrug:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

13. No, I don't

But, if there is a life after death, I figure I'll end up in Florida, which would be the greatest Hell I could possibly endure.

[unblock]

14. of course there's life after death. just not for the dead guy.

the memories of dead people live on in the people they touched during their lives. if you want to call that an afterlife, go right ahead.

[Ron Green]

16. My belief is that the soul is undifferentiated....

The body dies, the personality dies, what we know of our earthly self ceases. But the soul, the Higher Self or whatever you would call it, continues on in an existence that we can only dimly glimpse in this life, as we seek the spiritual truths. My view is that the Higher Self is unified in a way that we experience as love in the earthly realm, but that in the unseen and eternal realm is sustained.

Or maybe it's like the Frisbeeterians, who believe that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.

[JVS]

17. "Of course there is life after death. Elanor Roosevelt is dead and...

we're still here"--- Cecil Adams

[Cadence]

18. Yeah. Because I had...

two near death experiences and I know what happens. It's kind of tricky but you don't really "go" anywhere, because, well frankly space and time don't really exist. It's more of a shift and you feel a lot lighter. Dying doesn't hurt and it's not scary once you leave the physical body and all of the mechanisms contained within, that produce fear and pain. Outside the body, you're still you, just without the ego and the polarization of the emotions. It's like the "you" ...you're always trying to get to in life but can't figure out how to be.

Actually calling it dying seems funny because it's really more just changing. You can't identify the physical part of you that makes you consciously aware right now. Even if you look at your brain..you can't say, oh that pink part right there...that's me. It's an energy, a consciousness that isn't just sustained by a body. The body more holds the consciousness, and gives it a context via emotions for a time being.
For example if you look at a star you don't think the star is emitting energy because it is contained in some physical object and that object is generating the star's light. You just think it's a star, the energy is sustaining itself. Same thing.

It's much harder to come back into this life, then it is to cross over into the other realm, I'll tell you that much. It feels great outside of the body, constant love and deep, deep peace. Plus you really "get it" that your thoughts create your reality. You lose all questions because first you realize, the second you think of one you already have the answer, but really you're just awestruck at this awesome, brilliant force that is everything and no thing. Humbling doesn't begin to describe it.

[St. Jarvitude]

19. Cool.

Hope what you're saying is true, and that it's not just a temporary neurological thing associated with NDE.

[Cadence]

20. Yeah it's true.

They both happened over 16 years ago. Just ignore that weird twitching in my left eye... oh and never mind when my hand just flies up into the air for no reason. It's perfectly normal...really. I'm fine. Nothin to see here. Twitch ..twitch.

[bloodyjack]

29. Tell us more, please, if you have the time and will to do so

I'm not sure how to react to your post

The way you describe death, it is just the sweetest thing

I want to assume as Jarvitude does that what you 'experienced' can be attributed to a neurological phenomenon associated w/ impending brain death...but frankly I don't know where to even try to begin to make sense of this

What is going on here??

[leftofthedial]

22. I believe in death after life

I'll be dead me, right there wherever they put me.

[donheld]

23. Heaven's Here On Earth

You can look to the stars in search of the answers
Look for God and life on distant planets
Have your faith in the ever after
While each of us holds inside the map to the labyrinth
And heaven's here on earth
We are the spirit the collective conscience
We create the pain and the suffering and the beauty in this world

Heaven's here on earth
In our faith in humankind
In our respect for what is earthly
In our unfaltering belief in peace and love and understanding

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise
Of ordinary people leading ordinary lives
Filled with love, compassion, forgiveness and sacrifice




Heaven's in our hearts
In our faith in humankind
In our respect for what is earthly
In our unfaltering belief in peace and love and understanding

Look around
Believe in what you see
The kingdom is at hand
The promised land is at your feet
We can and will become what we aspire to be

If Heaven's here on earth
If we have faith in humankind
And respect for what is earthly
And an unfaltering belief that truth is divinity
And heaven's here on earth

I've seen spirits
I've met angels
I've touched creations beautiful and wondrous
I've been places where I question all I think I know
But I believe, I believe, I believe this could be heaven
We are born inside the gates with the power to create life
And to take it away
The world is our temple
The world is our church
Heaven's here on earth

If we have faith in humankind
And respect for what is earthly
And an unfaltering belief
In peace and love and understanding
This could be heaven here on earth
Heaven's in our heart

thank you tracy chapman

[PittPoliSci]

24. straight to hell!

sweet.

[the Princess]

25. Yes I do believe

and I want to go to the South Seas and be an island maiden with several husbands! LOL

Hey a girl can dream. :)

[datasuspect]

26. i've been dead before

your soul just exits your body . . . it doesn't go anywhere. very peaceful though.

[sans qualia]

27. Only kinda an opinion....

I've, um, died in dreams three times that I remember, and each time, the experience felt very real and very similar. It was like my mind was slowly being drained of everything. It wasn't unpleasant at all, but I didn't get the impression that it was going anywhere in particular. Just a peaceful, sinking, fading feeling, and then nothing.

But, I mean, it was just a dream. I don't really know why I thought it was relevant.

[bloodyjack]

28. I'm not fit for heaven and there's no room left in hell

I guess I'll just be reborn as some sort of insect who will lead a brief but agonizing existence

[dbt]

31. When I die, I may not go to Heaven,

'Cause I don't know if they let fiddlers in.
But if they don't, just let me go to Ireland,
'Cause Ireland is as close as I have been.

And I know I will be loosened
from the bonds that hold me fast
and the chains all around me
will fall away at last
and on that grand and fateful day
I will take thee in my hand
I will ride on a train
I will be the fisherman.

1. Tanya Tucker (sort of)
2. The Waterboys

:beer:
dbt

[lpbk2713]

32. Wal-Mart......... To be a door greeter.

If I don't straighten up my act.

[StopTheMorans]

33. I'll become Skinner and go to that great DU gathering in the sky

[MsAnthropy]

34. I'm going to be a cat belonging to a DUer

[Andy_Stephenson]

35. I dunno

But should know soon enuf.

[Deja Q]

36. I'll be going into limbo, chronostasis, or Old Navy. Not sure yet.

I'll get back to you after I snuff it. :D

Edit: Spelling. :eyes:

Edit 2: It'll be the Old Navy in New Jersey because everybody knows that New Jersey is Hell...