Seen someone commenting on the fact that there are very few serious threads on here, so your wish is my command. Do you believe in life after death? Also what is infact life and death? For some reason humans don’t like to think that they simply ‘end’ when they die; many believe in re-incarnation, and others believe they will ascend to heaven.
A question that is impossible to give a correct answer to. I believe when you are dead that's it. The concept of life after death is something humans invented as the thought of our stream of consciousness ceasing to exist is almost impossible to imagine. I hope I'm wrong and the virgins I have been promised materialise
You've answered your own question. There can be no life after death. I suspect you meant, 'Do you believe in life after bodily death?' My answer is still no. When I look at a dead fly I've swatted with a newspaper, or a pigeon that's been flattened under the wheels of a double-decker bus, I don't believe its spirit is living on anywhere. However attractive and comforting it may seem, it would be self-delusional to believe that my fate will be any better after I snuff it.
Very profound. Yes now I think about it would make slightly more sense worded that way, I may try and change it. However for a purely debating point of view, if you observe nature and the cycles it contains, they are very much that cycles, energy cannot be destroyed merely tranformed, look at the creation and death of planets and even the universe and the big bang, all cycles. Yes we probably won't be this concisous being, but who's to say we wont be some other form?
my mum thinks i worked with doctor mengele in a previous life because when i was 2 there was a pic of him in the paper and i knew who he was with out anyone telling me its clearly a load of **** though
I believe in life after the 80 or so years I will (hopefully!) have on this earth. There's more to human life than just what appears, a person's personality, character and consciousness can't be explained simply by looking at the processes in the brain, there must be something more innate. The only problem is, the only way you can find that out is through eschatological verification, which you can't tell other people about, so it's a little bit pointless.
If your consciousness carries on in some form after you die, then I feel sorry for children who die before they can communicate properly or understand anything around them.
It largely can. If someone damages their brain, then it'll often change their personality. As far as I can see, we are that thing inside of our heads. Once that stops working, we're gone. If part of it stops working, part of us goes.
Life after death can't exist though. Death is the end of life, which is why some people, including myself, don't believe in religion.
Bloke sitting at the breakfast table reading the paper and he says to his missus..." What do you think of reincarnation ?" She says " What's that then ?" " Well " he says " It's when you come back as someone or something else after you die " She pause for a minute and says " When I come back I'd love to come back as a pig " He replies " Your not listening are you ?"
There is no after-life. The difference between life and death is that when you're alive you have to pay taxes, when you're dead you don't - unless you've left money for your family and the ****s will try and take some of that too.
Such statements are meaningless. As A.J. Ayer said, it's fundementally pointless discussing things that can't be conclusively verified (or falsified)
That is the definition of death yes, but do we truely die? I would disagree the most interesting topics are the topics with no right or wrong answers. Otherwise conversations would last 5 seconds, say statement everyone agrees.
