That should be the focus,
not some afterlife.
This does not mean that morality no longer exsistsl; in fact when you start realizing there is
not afterlife, THIS life starts having A LOT more meaning.
If I choose to life a life of mostly sin and for myself as if there was
not afterlife and I'm wrong, well I don't really want to think about that.
«But this isn't the afterlife I believed in!!!»
I have no qualms about typing it or saying out loud cuz there ain't no afterlife dudes.
Life is short, we will just have to see what happens in the afterlife... I have committed my fair share of sins, so if there isn't an afterlife, good, if everybody goes to heaven just because they were born, good, if I am right in my thinking, I will pray for your blasphemous a $ $
Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.»
«He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife.
Not exact matches
Material items will
not follow you into the
afterlife, so you might as well declutter your home while you're still here.
More importantly, belief to avoid some punishment in the
afterlife is
not a virtue.
If you don't believe in an
afterlife, or God for that matter, well then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.
So, while I don't believe there is an
afterlife, I can
not say that there is
not one.
An
afterlife can
not be empirically tested, so it can't be proven or disproven.
My believe system did
not change overnight, it took some time, but one day I realized religion did
not made any sense and since then in my mind I am
not concerned about the
afterlife, I concentrate on what I have to do now and I feel free.
Whether you believe in the
afterlife or
not, or heaven or
not, or reincarnation or
not, I think we can all agree that the intended lesson is to do good in this life in order to graduate successfully into the next.
Nook — I do
nt find it hateful to hope someone as terrible as Bin Laden gets his due in the
afterlife (if I were to believe in such a fantasy).
I personally believe that there is an
afterlife... and if God tells me, «I made you to suffer for 100 years on earth for an eternity with me,» I can't say that I'd complain to the guy.
Just don't force your beliefs of the
afterlife on me.
There isn't even a consistent belief in the «
afterlife» in Judaism, although after the Babylonian exile a belief in «GeHenna» (close to the Catholic idea of «purgatory») was adopted by many.
The Christian view of the
afterlife is
not escape or liberation from the physical world.
@brad, you can't destory an idea, but a building or group of people that have power can be dismantled... islam and christianity and judism are all beliefs... a.k.a. just thoughts of god, ideas of an
afterlife in heaven or hell... such things are impossible to kill... sadly
I'll tell you right now that I don't believe in a god or an
afterlife.
-- Life without an
afterlife isn't meaningless.
I have no idea what the
afterlife holds (if anything), and I'm perfectly comfortable saying «I don't know».
But a God who executes justice immediately,
not reserving it for an
afterlife.
I read The Grand Design today, and I didn't get the impression that they were denying G - d, or the soul, or
afterlife in this book, merely holding up alternative reasons for why it COULD be true that the universe exists without them.
Even the great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, despite he's belief that there is «no heaven or
afterlife», truly doesn't know.
or Hell... I for one would
not DIE for a cause if I did
not know what I am doing... HE KNEW WHAT COMES AFTER IN THE
AFTERLIFE... otherwide it would
not have made any sense to die for nothing!!!
When Jesus was on the cross and he talked to the two thieves, also having been nailed to the cross, one taunting and one repentant, He talked about the
afterlife,
not about family.
To complicate matters, the christian version of
afterlife isn't the only one.
Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «
afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and
not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.
yo the thing is
not about believing or
not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond
afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
Or the guy peddling, GOD IS MAGIC AND INVISIBLE he promises a magic
afterlife, btw everything I have said there isn't a shred of evidence for!
For those who believe in God, Christ and the
afterlife, to suggest that they ought
not believe would be foolishness.
The second thief could
not see the Kingdom and had no fist - hand knowledge of the
afterlife (the «evidence» that we have been discussing), yet in the midst of being crucified, He pronounced his faith in Jesus.
I find it telling that the dying don't talk about heaven or hell or any other kind of
afterlife.
You said yourself «i don't know if there is a God or
afterlife.»
Now, if someone wants to prove to me that
not all Mormons believe in their orthodox views on the
afterlife or gender, then I'll be much more accepting of Mormon belief.
There is no heaven or
afterlife for broken down computers but there is heaven and
afterlife for the souls or the personalities that lived behind those computer but
not the actual hardware of the computer... after all if you had the soul you can fix it to any more developed hardware that is suitable to living heaven or hell... Though all people hated dark and favored light for it... but as seems that Mr.Stephen Hawking is favoring the Dark over the Light which he named as «Fairy Tales» or «Tales of the Ancient»...!
Mr. Hawking is brilliant, but the concept of heaven and the
afterlife has
not yet been proven by science.Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I'm
not religious and don't know if there is a God or
afterlife.
we do
not go to a «spiritual state in the
afterlife... we will live with resurrected bodies... physical..
Is it
not a chaplain's duty to ensure that as many as possible enter the sweet embrace of the
afterlife?
or Hell... I for one would
not DIE for a cause if I did
not know what I am doing... HE KNEW WHAT COMES AFTER IN THE
AFTERLIFE... otherwise it would
not have made any sense to die for nothing!!!
But it is a completely appropriate question for a CHAPLAIN to ask a dying person whether or
not they have peace about their beliefs about death, God and the
afterlife.
Do you really think that people who don't believe in a God like yours or an
afterlife don't have families?
Everyone deals with their mortality in different ways, but almost everyone when dying thinks about the regrets he or she has for things done or undone while LIVING,
not about the
afterlife.
I think we're a much more subtle people now; we don't need to see someone struck down for disobeying God — we see «natural consequences» and we consider the
afterlife.
Again, I'm
not concerned with proving the reality of an eternal
afterlife, I was more curious about the mind set that would cause someone to prefer non existence over immortality, even if that immortality was HYPOTHETICAL.
There isn't any evidence for any
afterlife at all.