do you believe in an afterlife?

[sadseraph]

this has likely been discussed here before, but ive always wondered about it, especially as i get closer to my planned date. i see a lot of people saying that its simply non-existence, which makes the most sense to me, but its also difficult to fully wrap my head around. its hard to imagine what nothingness is when its, well, nothing.

part of me wishes that i become a ghost or something. id like to wander around aimlessly.

 

[Darkover]

either nothing forever or rebirth i personally hope to rest in peace for eternity but the universe might bring you alive again in one form or another in the future

 

[JustHere1]

Absolutely and for me it is well-confirmed to exist and is pretty diverse!

 

[MetroPunk]

I believe without a doubt. I am so excited to see it when my time comes. If I had the option to come back to Earth as a reincarnated person to live a better life I would. That's kind of my hope in death. A second chance.

 

[sadseraph]

either nothing forever or rebirth i personally hope to rest in peace for eternity but the universe might bring you alive again in one form or another in the future

ive always been a little afraid of rebirth in case i get caught in the same cycle im at now. but if its a more peaceful life, it would be nice.

 

[Darkover]

Absolutely and for me it is well-confirmed to exist and is pretty diverse!

but there is no evidence that an afterlife is possible

 

[JustHere1]

but there is no evidence that an afterlife is possible

Perhaps not but the spirits I have attached to me, the ones attached to my neighbors, and the one assisting a medium I used to work with, as well as ones that work with members at local apothecaries beg to differ that there is life we can't see. You can do your own research but nothing is quite as convincing as your own experiences - I know this myself, and convey it accordingly - you are welcome to believe it or not. :)

EDIT: I have also seen these people (and sometimes animals? They are hard to see) and they look the same as we do. One of the edgelords that have been in my apartment have a super bomb ass overcoat that spreads out at the base and they make it work so well.

 

[harlow-paige]

sort of kinda, sometimes, i find the line between mh stuff and my actual beliefs blurry sometimes. i guess i like the idea of there being something more, that this painful existence isn't all i'll get to ever experience

 

[Salkak]

I believe in nothingness. But I won't mind being reincarnated into a living family and being actually given a chance to live instead of just surviving

 

[Darkover]

Perhaps not but the spirits I have attached to me, the ones attached to my neighbors, and the one assisting a medium I used to work with, as well as ones that work with members at local apothecaries beg to differ that there is life we can't see. You can do your own research but nothing is quite as convincing as your own experiences - I know this myself, and convey it accordingly - you are welcome to believe it or not. :)

Basically, it is a combination of different psychological bias, like confirmation bias, magical thinking and others.
Also, our brains are really fragile, and they tend to hallucinate quite commonly, and a lot of people think that those hallucinations are real things (for the bias previously mentioned).

 

[sadseraph]

I believe in nothingness. But I won't mind being reincarnated into a living family and being actually given a chance to live instead of just surviving

i love the way you said living instead of surviving. its so hard to actually feel alive when dealing with this sort of thing, more like an empty husk in a human body

 

[JustHere1]

Basically, it is a combination of different psychological bias, like confirmation bias, magical thinking and others.
Also, our brains are really fragile, and they tend to hallucinate quite commonly, and a lot of people think that those hallucinations are real things (for the bias previously mentioned).

Please spare me with this lol. I've had this confirmed for years and continue to confirm via legitimate sources. I do not need to prove anything, but I am open to sharing my experiences to those whom are openminded. I don't need to deal with embarrassment nor feeling like I'm being shamed over sharing genuine experiences, it is not welcome.

For the record, I have handled my mental health appropriately and have indeed explored these options. My mind is sound. Do you condemn those who believe in a god and a heaven and hell, or only those who believe there are more common spirits and a place they belong? Do you have your own thoughts and theories you can discuss with someone openminded to exploring the possibility that there is so much of the world we don't know? You'd be surprised of how much there is that we don't know or ever experience unless we go looking for it.

 

[Malfunction]

Kinda.

My thoughts are that the universe and all its mysteries is the creator of life. When we die, we return to our creator.

There are things that really make me think though. Like children who remember past lives. Some of these stories are really thought provoking.

Whatever awaits, I hope it's better than this.

 

[Darkover]

Do you have your own thoughts and theories you can discuss with someone openminded to exploring the possibility that there is so much of the world we don't know?

the universe is a mystery much of it can't be explained there are something we will never be able to explain

Do you condemn those who believe in a god and a heaven and hell, or only those who believe there are more common spirits and a place they belong?

i disapprove of religion and sprints as pure nonsense as foolish people

 

[blacksand]

No I believe my conciousness will simply be deleted from the universe and it will be as though I was never conceived at all. My mind is only made of dust from stars and clouds and oceans.

 

[JustHere1]

the universe is a mystery much of it can't be explained there are something we will never be able to explain

i disapprove of religion and sprints as pure nonsense as foolish people

You can disapprove, but calling it nonsense and people foolish is ridiculous and in my opinion, close-minded. I have my own issues with people and religion in a variety of ways but I respect people's viewpoints even if I don't understand or agree with them. I try to stay unbiased as best as I can to learn perspective and understanding.

You have no basis to claim that it is nonsense or foolish, but you're welcome to comment your personal beliefs freely without instigating conflict towards me. This thread is to share your beliefs, and I am not here for an argument about my own experiences. You're entitled to your opinions, yes, and I am entitled to disagree with your responses.

If you have questions regarding this towards me, you are welcome to ask if you are respectful - if that is not possible, respectfully I ask you to move on from from this conversation with me. I will not tolerate insults.

 

[ScaredOfMachines]

I don't believe in an afterlife, and eternal nothingness is a bit more appealing to me honestly. What's the point in offing myself if I'm forced to live on as a bystander or another eternal life forever? I'm not sure how I feel about reincarnation, either.

 

[Su Xin]

If I could become a ghost, I would no longer be constrained by myself but would wander among all living beings, attaching to every instance of "greed, hatred, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt" as well as "form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness" in this world.

 

[Dingo67]

this has likely been discussed here before, but ive always wondered about it, especially as i get closer to my planned date. i see a lot of people saying that its simply non-existence, which makes the most sense to me, but its also difficult to fully wrap my head around. its hard to imagine what nothingness is when its, well, nothing.

part of me wishes that i become a ghost or something. id like to wander around aimlessly.

I do and i'm not that worried about what happens in any afterlife because I think God is all-loving. I think we either all go to heaven eventually, some people are annhilated, or a select few are stuck in Gehenna

 

[fuewybfunsfoiceoi]

It would be a non nice realization to find there is still life after death.

Ctb would come across as a pointless action.
I would think did I really ctb just to live again?
Then it would seem as if I had done nothing

 

[DeadEndRoad]

I think of it as similar to sleep. You ever been just chillin and then you fall asleep without realizing? And then only after you wake up do you realize you fell asleep. That's what I think it's like.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Nope, I don't think there is an afterlife. I consider death to just be permanent non existence

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm really unsure. I lean towards nothingness. I actually would prefer nothingness over any continuation of life. Even in heaven. I just don't see another world created by the same God as this one being all that great! Plus, if there's a heaven, why not a hell?

In a way, perpetual reincarnation seems even worse but with that at least I feel, if we do come back here, there's not enough of what we consider to be 'us' (memories, the same genes, the same parents and location) to actually be 'us' anymore. I think 'we'd' simply be someone else. (So, in fact- not still 'us' at all.)

 

[FuneralCry]

No I believe death is just non-existence which is all I hope and wish for, under no circumstances would I wish to suffer in this existence that I always saw as the most terrible, tragic mistake, I personally only see non-existence as desirable, I'd never wish to be conscious of anything at all rather I just want to never exist ever again. I'd always prefer to painlessly cease existing than be enslaved in this existence that just causes suffering all for the sake of it and problems there was never a need for at all, in fact what I ultimately have a problem with is existence itself and all I hope for is permanent relief from it, I just wish for the peace of an eternal, dreamless sleep where all is finally gone and forgotten about.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I will never believe in an afterlife , reincarnation, souls , computer simulation, magic, multiverses , other demensions, rebirth, none of that ever.

to me it makes sense how only a chemical reaction and evolution could create such immense suffering and extreme torture in sentient animals like humans and others. the animals who could feel the worst pain lived longer and passed on their genes . our ancestors are those that could suffer the worst pain. every generation made pain worse. the ones who didn't feel the pain of hunger or starvation or injury or discomfort didn't work as hard to correct that pain so they died younger and didn't have offspring or less offspring. the pain had to be intolerable to the animal to get it to take massive action to stop the pain . so evolution created a torture chamber animal and human brains, a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain.

I will never believe in an afterlife , reincarnation, souls , computer simulation, magic, multiverses , other dimensions, rebirth , none of that ever.there is not one single piece of evidence for any of that not one. however there are libraries of books of proof on every page on every paragraph for evolution , that humans and all life evolved from a single cell. and that cell evolved from naturally occuring chemical reactions. furthermore libraries of books in other sciences like brain science, chemistry, molecular cell biology and others further cross confirm every other experemint and peice of evidence in libraries thousands of books on these and other sciences.

I will never believe in an afterlife , reincarnation, souls , computer simulation, magic, multiverses , other demensions, none of that ever.it seems to me all these beliefs i mentioned above are kinda pro-life because they seem to impart some kind of importance on life. DNA based life is only chemical reactions. chemicals mixed in water and then life evolved. that's it a chemical reaction. it's not important and totally meaningless. only evolution and culture society implanting beliefs into the brains of humans from ages 0-7 is what makes them think any of this has any meaning , importance or value.

the only thing life produces is a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain. that is not important , planned , special , beautiful but an extreme horror.

so to me i don't believe that there could be a god or computer programmer that would think it's so important to create this torture chamber , extreme suffering , unbearable pain .

it's very horrific to think that i would live / exist another minute in any kind of existence , to think that it could continue for quintilion years is a unimaginable nightmare. i'm glad i know it will end after this brain dies non-existence forever the ultimate bliss to me

 

[SadRatQueen]

I personally want to believe in reincarnation, that every life is part of a cycle that repeats, whether in this universe or the next. But realistically, I know that our conscious thoughts are simply a symptom of our brains as a means of si. That once I am gone, I simply no longer exist.

But there is that underlining fear, that there is in fact an after life-- And I'm not going to the good kind.

 

[L'absent]

For me, there isn't even an eternal void waiting for us, because even the concept of 'void' implies something, and that something doesn't exist. There's nothing to wait for, nothing that remains, nothing that continues. With the cessation of biological functions, everything ends, definitively and completely. There is no consciousness to perceive the void, no thought to conceive of nothingness, no 'us' to experience or imagine anything.
Life is just a series of chemical processes that run their course, and when they do, everything collapses: perception, memory, identity, every trace of what we thought we were. Nothing remains, because there was never anything truly 'meaningful' to begin with.
Thinking of an 'after' is just an illusion created by our minds, a futile attempt to assign meaning to an existence that never had any. We are merely the accidental result of random processes, a fleeting spark that extinguishes forever. There is no return, no rest, no other dimension. We simply cease to exist. The end.

 

[Roadrunner]

Me, absolutely NO

 

[divinemistress36]

Unpopular opinion here yes, but I think of it more as another dimension not like described in Bible. I think everybody has a soul and our energy continues somewhere else

 

[requiemforadream]

I experienced clinical death in 2018 and all I can say are the feelings accompanying this experience, endless love, a sense of integration with the whole world, a sense of lightness and bliss. Was it the effect of DMT or is this really the "reality" after death? I still don't know that.