What do you think of the afterlife?

[Necro_Kitty]

I am very against the idea of an afterlife myself, I really don't want there to be an afterlife of any form. Though, reincarnation sounds like the best out of all of the religions versions of an afterlife.
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[LastNite]

Reincarnation only sounds good when you hit the jackpot. You have higher odds of being born in a poor family than a rich family.
Nothing is wrong with being poor, but the struggle alone would make you want to kill yourself.
I'd rather stay as a skeleton underground than take another chance at life. I don't believe in heaven or hell.

 

[unrulydeerly]

I want to think there's no afterlife because that gives me comfort and science backs it. However after being raised religious I can never shake the feeling of there being something past death. I agree that reincarnation would be the best option, out of the religions I know at least.

 

[delinquentsandwich]

I do not believe in an afterlife

but I do hope that if there is one that it will be better than whatever this life is

 

[antarctica]

i dont believe in one and i was not raised religious. its fine but i do get disappointed that this is all there is, that is that this is our one and only life. it would have been nice to experience another life with more fortunate circumstances if reincarnation was real, or to finally be at peace if heaven was real, but theres nothing you can do about that.

my gf believes in a christian afterlife and i dont really know how to reconcile with or humor that belief. seems like my atheism and/or suicidal intents will send me to the bad place. guess theres only one way to find out...

 

[FuneralCry]

I don't, I don't wish for any kind of existence as I see it as an abomination to exist, I'll always see existence as the most terrible, dreadful mistake that just causes all this harm, cruelty and suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured, I'll just always see existence as the problem.

In this existence of torturous suffering non-existence is just all I see as desirable and is just all I see as positive but of course this existence never should had been imposed, there's just so much evil in existing with existing beings tortured in agony every second, I'll just always see it as the most terrible, torturous burden to suffer in this existence, all I want is to erase this existence so it's like I never suffered at all.

 

[l5xington]

The only thing scaring me away from ctb is the possibility of an afterlife. The idea of my whole existence being a constant cycle of life and death is horrifying to me, and if I had a choice, I'd choose being a clam at the bottom of the ocean watching the sea life pass over me for hundreds of years. Out of all the possible options I do hope reincarnation is our afterlife, though, because if it's not and it ends up being heaven after death, I know I'm sure as hell not qualified for it.

 

[thruDeathPeace]

I think there has to be an afterlife because this place is such a mess. This world seems to be made such that if you want something it has to be taken from something else and I'd just like to think there's a reward for realizing that its a fucked up game and that refusing to participate is probably the best way out.

*edit* Almost like reincarnation is the default, a punishment even, for continuing to play the game. But freedom and redemption for those who voluntarily choose to leave.

 

[NickyKymJelly]

No, not really. At least I hope not. Growing up I haven't been comfortable inside any place of worship, so naturally I'm biased and against the idea (since a lot of arguments for the afterlife come from religion) Being that we live in a world where plenty of people believe in it, I can't help but sometimes think it may exist. I think that just stems from the general anxiety of dying though.

 

[hughmun9]

I believe in reincarnation and am a little terrified of it. Mainly because I find Dr. Jim Tucker's research to be compelling evidence. I think it's terrifying because of the state of the earth at the minute. Chances are my existence won't be much more enjoyable somewhere else.

I recently stumbled on videos describing NDE experiences and I don't know what to believe. They sound too good to be true, but the people describing them seem very matter of fact about it. They could've all been dreaming, but their 'dreams' have a lot in common with one another.

 

[nosense-user]

reincarnation sounds like the best out of all of the religions versions of an afterlife.
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Reincarnation is the worst. If you were born again you would probably be born either in africa or india where most babies in the world are born

 

[Johnhawk_Down]

I respect people's right to believe in an afterlife but I myself believe it is a human construct. I used to spiritual but now I am atheist and I don't see that changing. Religion, spirituality it's such a subjective thing, I can't see any evidence of anything behind the natural world. We can at least empirically say we live, we die, and no one has come back to talk about it. So I think death is cessation, a bit like a light bulb going out, a power grid going down. My thoughts are muddled from insomnia, hard to explain coherently what I'm trying to say.

 

[LongJacks]

I don't believe in the idea of heaven and hell it doesn't make sense... I mean what is eternity? Like I'm gonna be in this place of fire and brimstone burning forever and ever and ever? Like what's the end game?

I do believe in reincarnation as it makes sense, plus our consciousness has to go somewhere or our energy and there have been solid accounts of reincarnation but idk

And as for the idea of... nothingness, it's not as bad as people think, before you were born... what did you feel or see or think? Nothing. So vice versa it's not so bad

 

[GodChallengesMe]

If there is afterlife then this life should also technically be it because there's no point in believing in afterlife while at the same time postulating that this one life we have right now is the first manifestation of our sentience and that there has not been anything before this.

This means that if there is an afterlife life as such is a never ending loop that has neither beginning point nor end, like the existence itself in general, call it universe, god, or whatever you want.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Secro]

Unless I am convinced otherwise, I believe there is absolutely nothing after death, and honestly, this thought comforts me. To live after death? That would be hell for me.

 

[DeathJester]

Most people are scared of the great nothingness, I am scared of an afterlife and it's consequences. I have been a more or less spiritual person in those better times many years ago, and the general idea won't go away. Maybe those stories about the fate of suicide victims were intentionally made to scare people away from this decision, but I suffer from a psychological condition that makes me naturally superstitious, magical thinking and all that.

 

[Hollowman]

There isn't one.

 

[canidiealreadyy]

I am very against the idea of an afterlife myself, I really don't want there to be an afterlife of any form. Though, reincarnation sounds like the best out of all of the religions versions of an afterlife.
(First post)

i really like the idea of reincarnation as well and i really wish that was the case but i don't believe there is an afterlife at all either. reincarnation would be made even more fun if you could become animals and if you remembered all the past lives you've lived. i would love to be a cat lol.