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"don't need to worry anymore" you made the logical fallacy again. The very idea of a good afterlife is precisely that there is no more worry for eternity. That's true of nothingness, yes, BUT it CAN also be logically true if you imagine an eternal life where EVERYTHING negative is impossible, including distressing thoughts like worry. Imagine an afterlife where everyone is permanently high as a kite without any consequences healthwise and where the novelty of euphoria never wears off.
Purpose is such a useless concept. Someone currently high on heroin doesn't care about their seemingly purposeless existence. They're simply too euphoric to care.
That afterlife would be good, or when you are in the dream which you made yourself, eternal lucid dream
Yes, and that's essentially the afterlife that the Bible actually teaches, despite what you may have heard. Most people just don't have the imagination to imagine an existence better than what we currently endure here in this life and universe. But imagine a universe where the laws of physics are different and allow no decay or pain.
Out of body experience, there were series of book about it, when author told about afterlife when you have your own place when you live forever. or go to the place yours religion mentioned in it's book or go back to the earth. This is fair, cause every religion and non-believers too has opportunity to have its own afterlife
Ahh okay. Interesting. Have you tried experiencing lucid dreaming?
Well, what is even the self? Only certain attributes from your childhood self made it into your adulthood self, but do you doubt that your childhood experience was even 'you' because of that? Or even worse, when you sleep (and don't dream) you are practically unconscious, and there is a break in the experience of being your'self' similar to how a death and resurrection would be. But do you doubt whether the 'you' from before last night's sleep is even the same 'you' as today after waking up? You may even feel better today because of feeling refreshed or something compared to having a shitty day before that. But you are still the same person.
Funny, Jesus received a similar objection to this from the Sadducees who rejected a resurrection. His response was this: Matthew 22:29: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." So there won't be any sharing of marriage partners in the new earth (not "heaven", the Bible doesn't say people "go to heaven" but that it's a physical resurrection on a restored earth). The thing is though, can't you imagine a scenario where the whole family has forgiven each other and are no longer holding grudges? If those who hurt you are truly sorry and you learn to forgive and then you all get high together, lol. None of what you said is really an objection towards the concept of an afterlife.
Maybe not appealing to the way you, or others, think right now. A heroin addict's lifestyle may not seem appealing on the outside, but ask someone high as a kite on heroin how they feel while high, lol. Now imagine being permanently high but without health and financial consequences. I'd certainly take that! But then again, I'm just a recovering junkie, haha.
I wish many things about me could change. For example, I wish I could have a brain without social anxiety. Also, it seems like you have a very strict sense of self. It seems like you think you have to be exactly the same as you are exactly this moment or week, otherwise it's not really you. But I remember a time when I was a child and didn't have social anxiety. But I was still me and my mom was still my mom and so forth. Have we changed a lot? Yes. But have we swapped consciousness with foreign entities? No.
Yes, that is what I believe. I don't know why it's so hard to imagine. We literally have endogenous morphine in our brains right now. Just imagine a physically enhanced version of that. The Bible describes the physical resurrection as being a glorification of our bodies.
Again, not "heaven", but a physical new earth restored to a paradise like state. And no, not a dream, but a fully conscious and physical resurrection. Just imagine a universe where all decay and pain is removed. Whether you believe this is impossible (and/or boring, lol), fine. But it's what the Bible describes as the (good) afterlife for those who believe by faith alone in the gospel (that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Some theoretical physicists hypothesize about multiple universes out there where the laws of physics are different, so why can't it be possible for a future universe to be born where what we regard as negative things are gone?
Okay, I don't believe in memory wipes in the resurrection, but I believe any traumatic memory from this life and sinful world would just feel neutral and not painful anymore. Like totally healed trauma.
I don't believe in spirits as in dualism. The biblical afterlife is consistently physicalist. So just imagine paradise, and yes, I absolutely envisage us doing "earthly" things, because the afterlife is described as being on a literal "new earth". Even many Christians object when I say I believe there will even be video games and car racing! Because why not? There will certainly be food as described by Jesus eating with Abraham and the other fathers and prophets. What (or when) we will resemble ourselves is irrelevant. Some have suggested we will be about 30 years old like Jesus when he rose again. But I don't see a problem in me being still me despite age changes. I guess the philosophic issue here is what is called the continuum question.
