Poll: Do you believe in the afterlife?

[Craorach]

I don't NOT believe in an afterlife, much like I don't NOT believe in the existence of "higher powers". I am open to the possibility, but not without proof.

I generally hold the view that nobody has, as yet, been able to show me a convincing argument that their version of what happens or what higher power there is, is the correct one. Until such a time as someone is able to convince me, I will simply ignore it and attempt to live my life as a decent person by my perspective.

If I'm wrong.. if there is, for example, a higher power that damns to eternal torment simply for not worshipping them.. so be it. I have done my best to be a good person, and I would never bend my knee to a life form so weak and insecure as to demand that I do on pain of torment and death anyway.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I'll just have to find out when I get there!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, I don't believe in any sort of afterlife. Not intending to belittle anyone's beliefs or anything, but it just seems to me that any sort of mythology involving an afterlife would originate out of our fear of our own mortality. When you don't fear death you really don't have any need to believe in such things.

 

[4RM3D]

Like how the title says in 'the' afterlife instead of 'an' afterlife, implying there is one.

I wasn't actually implying anything by saying 'the' instead of 'an'. It's just something I didn't think off.

 

[MassiveGeek]

I don't feel any need to "comfort" myself and sugarcoat the inevitable fact that one day we're all gonna fucking die.

Honestly I don't really understand people who feel the need to comfort themselves with fairy tales and make-believe. I do sort of understand the emotional aspects, the fear of the unknown and all that - but frankly, it's not fucking personal. There's no bearded man in the sky who invented death to fuck with you.

We won't know before we die, but my money is on us just dying and that's essentially it.

 

[Labyrinth]

Personally I don't believe in one. As far as I'm concerned I die and that's it.

However it is really funny to get in arguments with old people and then say "Well I didn't believe in reincarnation at your age. I guess you'll learn."

 

[CrashBang]

I don't believe in a god or follow any religion but I can't help hope that there is something after our life, be it any of the options in the poll or something else entirely.
I don't think that there is an afterlife but it is a nice thought.

 

[Miles000]

If there is one, it's a state of consciousness we can't really comprehend.

I don't believe there is any form of afterlife. But that idea holds the most plausibility in my eyes.
Something that makes no sense to anything that isn't already there and a part of it...

[sub]That made more sense in my head...[/sub]

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I believe in Heaven. Im not quite sure what it will be like though, the Bible is vauge on it. Id like to think its a sort of unending state of euphoria.

 

[FortheLegion]

Whatever our last thoughts are is what we'll be spending the rest of eternity thinking. That is my personal belief.

 

[Mestraal]

I find myself hoping there isn't one. The idea of 'eternal life' after dying horrifies me. I don't care how ideal the afterlife is, an eternity of it would get ever so tedious, and it's be inescapable. It's the good old immortality story again. No, living this one life for the rest of time would not be nice.

Reincarnation would be much preferable, si, but I just find that one a tad unlikely.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

i believe when you die you decompose and become other life...its a bit jedi but its pretty much what happens and my fear of death is reduced greatly by this philosophy or whatever it is...

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I find myself hoping there isn't one. The idea of 'eternal life' after dying horrifies me. I don't care how ideal the afterlife is, an eternity of it would get ever so tedious, and it's be inescapable. It's the good old immortality story again. No, living this one life for the rest of time would not be nice.

Reincarnation would be much preferable, si, but I just find that one a tad unlikely.

Well, the general idea of a perfect afterlife is that you'd never really be bored with it. Only good emotions and such.

Or at least, that's what my version of Heaven used to be.

 

[smithy_2045]

There is no logical reason to believe that an afterlife exists.

 

[Mestraal]

I find myself hoping there isn't one. The idea of 'eternal life' after dying horrifies me. I don't care how ideal the afterlife is, an eternity of it would get ever so tedious, and it's be inescapable. It's the good old immortality story again. No, living this one life for the rest of time would not be nice.

Reincarnation would be much preferable, si, but I just find that one a tad unlikely.

Well, the general idea of a perfect afterlife is that you'd never really be bored with it. Only good emotions and such.

Or at least, that's what my version of Heaven used to be.

The problem I find with that idea is that it seems to be almost brainwashing, allowing only positive emotions to be felt. Perfection doesn't come that easy, y'know? Even being elated all the time would wear thin in the normal run of things.

Well, only one way to find out. Regrettably, I don't intend on doing so anytime soon, I kinda like being alive.

 

[LiquidGrape]

In memory of the recently deceased Christopher Hitchens, I find his opining on the matter to be a more or less perfect reflection of my feelings about the 'Afterlife'.

 

[Hamish Durie]

to die but to live on after death knowing the feeling of death whether that be on the battlefeild or on the couch(and anything in between) and still going on knowing that you have already expired once leaving a happy and fufilled life behind(hopefully)behind in your wake....yes I do beleive that there are things the human mind just can comprehend

 

[Ranorak]

So far, none of my dead relatives has come back haunt me, like I asked them to. FOR SCIENCE!
So I can rule that out.

Honestly, I see no reason into thinking there is a after life.
It brings so many questions like, where is it then? How does a soul get there? What is a soul, etc

That decomposition and just death seem so much more likely.