Any of you believe in reincarnation/heaven/etc.?

[novem]

the reality is there is no afterlife, sorry
but many people facing death feel relaxed if they believe that there is something waiting for them,
so we prefer to invent our own vision of afterlife in order to be comfortable to ctb.
when i plan my departure i imagine something good so that i can keep carrying it out

 

[y0dha]

Well I'd like to imagine there will be reincarnation even though I doubt it exists

 

[cation]

when I listen to songs from the last century and none of today's music makes me think that I lived in another time. When I was a teenager I listened to music from the 50-60s all the time to go to school and now I only listen to music from the 70-80s and I'm not even 30 years old. It's silly but...

 

[Thatdude]

reincarnation

No. I hope not at least. Or at worse I hope I can opt out.

I hate the idea of this because it makes no sense. Like you come back with no memories of a prior life makes 0 sense.

heaven

To be blunt, I hope. But I doubt it. Like I hope there is a good afterlife. I miss my granddad that died a few months back, and I would love to see him again. Part of the reason why I haven't CTB earlier was due to him. Now that it seems my parents are kicking me out, I will have no family at all.

My idea of haven is more then less like your own virtual world tailor to you. Like I'm sure my wants and cares for that will be someone else hell.

As far as hell, I seriously doubt it. Like it makes less sense than reincarnation without a memory. Even more the hell that last forever and there is no getting out of it. Like what most people view hell as, even if it only last a given amount of time We never hear stories of people going from heaven to hell, and prisons in RL clearly don't work. And then to punish someone due to factors out of their control. Like would they be a murder or whatever if they had different upbringing/parents, if the times was different, different technology, born in a richer or poorer family, etc. It's basically ignoring how limits all around you control who you are, what you interact with, your options in life, and so on.

I think there is an extreme likely nothing happens. But there is things I can't explain that shows there might be something. One of the basics is what makes a live person alive and a dead one dead. Like if it's lack of electrical, well shooting electrical doesn't solve this and bring someone alive. Then there is scientifically odd things like we have just enough gravity and so on to make life.

 

[justagreenleaf]

As I'm nearing my CTB date I'm really hoping there is something good awaiting at least after the hell ive been through here

 

[Starryeyes]

Reincarnation maybe. But I'd spend my next life as a slug I can almost guarantee it

Heaven / hell firm no

 

[PrincessInWhite]

I think it's arrogant for anyone to assume either way, tbh. We have absolutely no way of knowing or confirming that. Anyone commenting here with certainty either way is honestly just choosing the narrative that brings them the most comfort but nobody has any real authority to say. I'm not religious but personally I do believe in/hope for something after death, I have no idea what it is.

 

[justagreenleaf]

I think it's arrogant for anyone to assume either way, tbh. We have absolutely no way of knowing or confirming that. Anyone commenting here with certainty either way is honestly just choosing the narrative that brings them the most comfort but nobody has any real authority to say. I'm not religious but personally I do believe in/hope for something after death, I have no idea what it is.

Before my current hospitalization I was super involved in listening to various MDs explaining their experiences with NDEs (near death experiences) in their care, etc.

 

[Snatsbats]

Well its simple. There is either nothing or there is something. If you die of natural causes or by suicide you are going to experience or not experience it either way. Suicide only speeds it up a little, but i dont think 80 years is much in the grand scheme of this universe, so dont worry about it. Everyone will face it, so worrying about it doesnt help. You are not going to escape it.

 

[justagreenleaf]

Well its simple. There is either nothing or there is something. If you die of natural causes or by suicide you are going to experience or not experience it either way. Suicide only speeds it up a little, but i dont think 80 years is much in the grand scheme of this universe, so dont worry about it. Everyone will face it, so worrying about it doesnt help. You are not going to escape it.

Part of me isn't worrying but on the contrary, very much hopeful and excited about the potential of an afterlife.

 

[jimmy7754]

The world would be nice if there was just mountains and trees.. I don't think an afterlife is going to be anything special because anything that has ever lived will most inevitably die again.. unless there are some immortal beings out there.. and as far as heaven goes.. I believe heaven would be being dosed up with the best drugs ever created or being a fucking hawk.. there is no way I will ever believe we die and go into some dimension that's unknown floating high as kite.. we already invented atomic bombs and have had physicist smarter than Einstein.. and they all turn out to be atheist.. but again believe what you want… but I'm dying and probably going into another bipolar manic hell..

 

[justagreenleaf]

The world would be nice if there was just mountains and trees.. I don't think an afterlife is going to be anything special because anything that has ever lived will most inevitably die again.. unless there are some immortal beings out there.. and as far as heaven goes.. I believe heaven would be being dosed up with the best drugs ever created or being a fucking hawk.. there is no way I will ever believe we die and go into some dimension that's unknown floating high as kite.. we already invented atomic bombs and have had physicist smarter than Einstein.. and they all turn out to be atheist.. but again believe what you want… but I'm dying and probably going into another bipolar manic hell..

Fellow bipolar here waving hi from the ward

 

[hellispink]

I believe there is a big chance there is more stuff after we leave from here. I am just not sure why. I would like the idea of heaven being in another planet millions of light years from here. Where we could meet with those we onced loved or had good moments with. I have always believed this is hell so I feel like after this trial, there could be more. I am open to possibilities. But even if there is nothing, I would be in peace with that too.

 

[waitingforrest]

If there is, I want to come back as pesky mosquito and bug people with my annoying presence. >:)

Otherwise really hope that I just won't exist because my mind is torture and nothingness is the only way to shut up my brain.

Whatever happens after death, I just hope it will be peaceful.

 

[Nicksy]

In a word: nope. I'm firmly apgnostic in that although I don't believe in anything religious or deathly supernatural i.e. ghosts, I can't quite bring myself to say that I'm sure. I don't think anyone really can be 100% positive, there has to be that small margin of error, and yes, hope.

My mum died eight years ago. When she waps dying (cancer, it took a while) she told me that if ghosts were reapl, if there was an afterlife with any way of communicating with the living she'd let me know...nothing.
I'm open to everything, I just don't believe. I'd love to have faith in something more but unfortunately for me I don't.

 

[jimmy7754]

I believe there is a big chance there is more stuff after we leave from here. I am just not sure why. I would like the idea of heaven being in another planet millions of light years from here. Where we could meet with those we onced loved or had good moments with. I have always believed this is hell so I feel like after this trial, there could be more. I am open to possibilities. But even if there is nothing, I would be in peace with that too.

In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, "There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber."

 

[WiltedSoul]

No, not anymore. I used to - I mean, I was never particularly sure about it, but I always thought that there was something after this. What that "something" actually is, I never really cared about. I just figured whatever we, as tiny insignificant apes on a blue rock, do or think is probably irrelevant to God, the universe .etc, so hell or any sort of punishment probably isn't a thing. I was not brought up with any sort of religion, I was never uncomfortable with the idea of not existing. I just felt that it only made sense.

I don't believe in an afterlife anymore, though. I took SN recently, but was unfortunately saved, and something about that experience has sapped me of any and all spirituality I once had. It's difficult to explain, I just feel much more connected to my fleshy, bloody reality for some reason. I am sentient meat, and nothing else. I am as significant as a shrink wrapped chicken thigh.

 

[Zerengin96]

No, and it would be a terrifying thought for me personally. Eternal nothingness sounds preferable

 

[MrOptions]

I believe you manifest what you want. If its permanent sleep, you got it. If you want rainbows and unicorns why not?

 

[justagreenleaf]

I believe you manifest what you want. If its permanent sleep, you got it. If you want rainbows and unicorns why not?

Now THAT would be really cool. . .

 

[slushy]

I don't think there will be anything. I'll probably just cease to exist. i really wish there could be a better way i wish there could be a heaven where i can finally just be at peace and happy with loved ones. but there probably isn't and it's a reality i have to face every day

 

[KQuotientW]

This is punishment enough. Don't want to come back to experience the same old shit. Even the last few days have been epically shit. Trying to set up charcoal burning and things happen (unexpected visitors or rain). If I can't do it tonight, I'm just getting some rope and finding the tallest tree on my property. Making sure to break my neck as I fall with a noose.

 

[JealousOfTheElderly]

I believe reincarnation is real. What's stopping me from ctb is fear of repeating this life or a similar one over again.
I hope to level up as well.

You know what I believe? That I'm going to fly high with baby Jesus forever and ever when I die for eternity… I am going to bathe in the waters of the lord.. I will be Baptized in his arms and welcomed into the kingdom of heaven..

If these are your beliefs, then why are you here on SS? Isn't suicide the biggest sin in the world according to your christian doctrines?
Jesus does not approve

 

[Yumeko.dreams]

One of the things a lot of people here are sure about, when they look deep enough is that they only wanted to be 'normal'. To be happy. But that isn't possible for people like us, who have been betrayed by life several times.

A long time ago I used to plan and plan my life out, in the hopes to do the 'normal' things; but that was all for naught.
Because of all that hardship I found myself becoming much stronger mentally, to insane degrees, so naturally, given the circumstances I would think that suffering is good, and helpful. Pain is the best teacher. But after looking at myself, I found that I don't really feel anything, all my hopes and dreams were just aspirations to live up to everyone elses expectations. I am hollow in a sense, so why put up with this world?
Rant aside,

when i was younger i died, and was brought back and had to be put into a coma
what i learned

• hell as we know it doesn't exist
• spirits in the spirit world can stay as long as they want
• reincarnation does exist but is never forced
• spirits can create earth like recreations in the spirit world (although reincarnation is more immersive)
• spirits get bored of the spirit world and will descend to live again

This is about what I have theorized. Though you do sound a little schizo. Which I guess is fair.
I hope that is true I suppose, it would be better than heaven or hell.

 

[ewigeruhe]

My personal believe is that our personality, which we build up from scratch during our lifetime, ceases to exist once our neurons stop firing inside of us.
But in a sense i think that both Buddhism and Hinduism are correct, that we are reborn since our matter dissolves into earths ecosystem again ashes to ashes and dust to dust. We maybe reborn as another animal or maybe a tree or a rock who knows.
I hope i become an Edelweiss in the Alps.

 

[Yumeko.dreams]

My personal believe is that our personality, which we build up from scratch during our lifetime, ceases to exist once our neurons stop firing inside of us.
But in a sense i think that both Buddhism and Hinduism are correct, that we are reborn since our matter dissolves into earths ecosystem again ashes to ashes and dust to dust. We maybe reborn as another animal or maybe a tree or a rock who knows.
I hope i become an Edelweiss in the Alps.

Not quite how those twos' reincarnation systems work, theology aside, I feel like the Ego is special in a sense.
I am a scientist sure, but even I say that there is probably a 'soul'; the idea that "we are just signals in a meat construct" is nice and all if you really want to stop existing, but it just seems... Wrong. Or at the least oversimplified.

 

[ewigeruhe]

Not quite how those twos' reincarnation systems work, theology aside, I feel like the Ego is special in a sense.
I am a scientist sure, but even I say that there is probably a 'soul'; the idea that "we are just signals in a meat construct" is nice and all if you really want to stop existing, but it just seems... Wrong. Or at the least oversimplified.

"But in a sense i think that both Buddhism and Hinduism are correct" as i implied here i don't meant it litterally.

 

[Euthanza]

In heaven or reincarnation, will there be any free nembutal and everyone's easily having fun from the sweet flavor it brought you gallivanting sensation? If no, then fuck no, no emetic to satisfy this horribleness

 

[Iwishmynamewasstacy]

I probably wouldn't deserve it after what I'm about to do with my life (namely ending it myself), but I dream about a second life cycle where I'd be born into better circumstances, i.e. that are easier to live with.

Kind parents who raise me with love, without struggling with multiple jobs to keep food on the table, no domestic violence, no bullying, no suicidal ideation starting at age 11, not—well my face, ruining my chances with the person that I liked because of psychosis, the PSYCHOSIS to begin with, the psych ward, etc.

I'd be with my "soulmate", whom I believe I have met and had "all incarnations with" (though it could be my psychotic break that was manifesting, who knows), we'd raise children together, grow old together—have an ordinary life and die old of natural causes, because we wouldn't need to consider suicide to begin with.

It makes me so sad that after this life of absolute pain and chaos, I either sign up for nothing, or more pain in whatever form it takes according to the various traditions of thought/philosophies/religions.

I probably wouldn't deserve it after what I'm about to do with my life (namely ending it myself), but I dream about a second life cycle where I'd be born into better circumstances, i.e. that are easier to live with.

Kind parents who raise me with love, without struggling with multiple jobs to keep food on the table, no domestic violence, no bullying, no suicidal ideation starting at age 11, not—well my face, ruining my chances with the person that I liked because of psychosis, the PSYCHOSIS to begin with, the psych ward, etc.

I'd be with my "soulmate", whom I believe I have met and had "all incarnations with" (though it could be my psychotic break that was manifesting, who knows), we'd raise children together, grow old together—have an ordinary life and die old of natural causes, because we wouldn't need to consider suicide to begin with.

It makes me so sad that after this life of absolute pain and chaos, I either sign up for nothing, or more pain in whatever form it takes according to the various traditions of thought/philosophies/religions.

I think it's one thing we'll never be able to know with certainty. Anything could happen after death, I don't think religions are right though the whole concept seems to ridiculous and they contradict themselves way too often for me to take any religion seriously. But I think whatever happens it's something we won't find out while we're alive.

 

[Musketeer]

One of the things a lot of people here are sure about, when they look deep enough is that they only wanted to be 'normal'. To be happy. But that isn't possible for people like us, who have been betrayed by life several times.

A long time ago I used to plan and plan my life out, in the hopes to do the 'normal' things; but that was all for naught.
Because of all that hardship I found myself becoming much stronger mentally, to insane degrees, so naturally, given the circumstances I would think that suffering is good, and helpful. Pain is the best teacher. But after looking at myself, I found that I don't really feel anything, all my hopes and dreams were just aspirations to live up to everyone elses expectations. I am hollow in a sense, so why put up with this world?
Rant aside,


This is about what I have theorized. Though you do sound a little schizo. Which I guess is fair.
I hope that is true I suppose, it would be better than heaven or hell.

well... anyone who went through what i went through probably would sound schizo. I tell people who question my mental health that if you want proof I just need to kill you and attempt to bring you back, no promises on the bringing you back though. They usually end up just accepting the fact that they probably won't understand it fully.