Mercator @ 1/11/2017 10:25

The question should be "Do you think there is an afterlife?", since the only correct answer to "Is there an afterlife?" is "I don't know".

Question was If you died right now is there an afterlife

Which is why I initially only had the three options

I vote yes, for similar reasons to Dyl.

I'd honestly rather live life believing there is something bigger out there and that eventually dying leads to eternal life and be wrong about it than to not give a crap and find out that there is an afterlife and it won't include me.

vladykins @ 1/11/2017 13:52

I vote no, though technically I have no clue. I think it is more important to live like this is the only life you get rather than wasting time focusing on prepping for the next life.

Just speaking from my perspective, but I don't live my life to prepare for the afterlife. I live my life as this is my only, but I also live it in a way that I think God would find satisfying. But the tough thing is that whole concept is very blurred. As much as many Conservative Christians would like to believe and force that it is black and white, it just isn't.

Every day I consider what I do and how I'm living and I process what that means. But, I could try to think of what God thinks of my life and the truth is, I won't really know until I die.

I also think afterlife to some people may not be heaven or hell. There are other versions. I just don't believe in them.

Bryce @ 1/11/2017 14:57

vladykins @ 1/11/2017 13:52 I vote no, though technically I have no clue. I think it is more important to live like this is the only life you get rather than wasting time focusing on prepping for the next life. Just speaking from my perspective, but I don't live my life to prepare for the afterlife. I live my life as this is my only, but I also live it in a way that I think God would find satisfying. But the tough thing is that whole concept is very blurred. As much as many Conservative Christians would like to believe and force that it is black and white, it just isn't. Every day I consider what I do and how I'm living and I process what that means. But, I could try to think of what God thinks of my life and the truth is, I won't really know until I die.

My key thing is I'm not looking for punishment or reward later. How I treat people now is key because it happens to them now and how they feel about it is now, rather than not treat people like garbage because I'm afraid someone is tacking on pluses and minuses on some ledger system somewhere.

I've had this debate with my Mormon friend, who said that with no possibility of eternal life what is the point of life? I looked at him and said "Back when I was a Boy Scout we had a saying 'Leave the campsite better than you found it.' That, to me, is the meaning of life."

He looked back at me and said "I can't argue with that."

Personally I believe in reincarnation and that we are all god and have always been god and forever will be god interpreting the universe that we created through different eyes and circumstances and hoping to make the best of it that we can. So yes, there is an afterlife, and one after that and one after that and one after that.

I don't tend to use the actual phrase "god" when I speak of my beliefs though because that tends to draw personal feelings of the Christian God when in reality I mean the universe which created itself during the big bang

So we are the universe and forever will be the universe, observing itself from the inside out.

But that's just me *¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Darren 💲anders @ 1/11/2017 15:15

Personally I believe in reincarnation and that we are all god and have always been god and forever will be god interpreting the universe that we created through different eyes and circumstances and hoping to make the best of it that we can. So yes, there is an afterlife, and one after that and one after that and one after that.

yo do you believe that collective human consciousness can unite into godhead especially if we continue harnessing the material universe to supplement our intelligence pls respond

we're spanish bbq:spin: @ 1/11/2017 13:18

Darren 💲anders @ 1/11/2017 15:15 Personally I believe in reincarnation and that we are all god and have always been god and forever will be god interpreting the universe that we created through different eyes and circumstances and hoping to make the best of it that we can. So yes, there is an afterlife, and one after that and one after that and one after that. yo do you believe that collective human consciousness can unite into godhead especially if we continue harnessing the material universe to supplement our intelligence pls respond

No because consciousness is not just a construct of humanity though I do believe if we continue with technology humans will eventually create a construct that will either refer to us as God or believe itself to be god

Darren 💲anders @ 1/11/2017 15:19

we're spanish bbq:spin: @ 1/11/2017 13:18 Darren 💲anders @ 1/11/2017 15:15 Personally I believe in reincarnation and that we are all god and have always been god and forever will be god interpreting the universe that we created through different eyes and circumstances and hoping to make the best of it that we can. So yes, there is an afterlife, and one after that and one after that and one after that. yo do you believe that collective human consciousness can unite into godhead especially if we continue harnessing the material universe to supplement our intelligence pls respond No because consciousness is not just a construct of humanity though I do believe if we continue with technology humans will eventually create a construct that will either refer to us as God or believe itself to be god

yo but what i'm saying requires that it's not a construct so it seems like you agree at first

bruh do you think hegel was on to something with the thought that the world spirit is the sum of all human utterances and that through conversation alone (including unspoken) that we are slowly shifting humanity itself from the physical to the moral which is why we have laws and stuff i mean can you imagine lions putting each other in jail for murder lolol

You know I'm more aristotelian than anything bro, metaphysics god of the philosophers and all that

What if THIS is the afterlife

Mayan apocalypse 2012 we've been dead for years now and trump is our president so this is obviously hell right

Curtis @ 1/11/2017 13:26

What if THIS is the afterlife

Also if this is the afterlife then your answer to this poll is wrong