Beliefs In A life after Death

I've been here before, I've known this since I was about five...
love and light

i believe that some people have to believe in life after death in order to be comfortable with life. they need to feel like there's somewhere to go once they've died and somewhere where they're loved ones have gone to.
I myself am one of these ppl
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I believe more into science. I think when you die, you brain just shuts down, like a computer. Its just over. I do feel there is something out there, different types of people, creators, etc. I know ghost are really, cause I have had many experiences, but life after death is something I truely believe does not exist.

To me, anything is possible

Heaven is right here right now... only we don't realise this... life is what we make it... to believe in a heaven or a god/goddess outside of oneself is to give up one's own power...

love and light

i belive in it

i have mixed thoughts about this...
somedays i feel that after you die, you're either born into something else (i'm not religious i just think that) or you are still "living" in a spirit. and i like that thought, because i want to haunt all the fools that tick me off. lol.
but then...i think that there is nothing. and i get scared because everything i have worked for...is worth nothing in the long run. it'll be just blackness. and silence.
but we'll see what happens when we get there =)

i belve ther is something but im not quite sure what

Anyone who is not egocentric who has experienced the death of a loved one knows that there is a lot more to it than an electrical or cognitive shut down from their own end
There seems nearly always to be a bereavement process that involves more emotion than when your computer crashes

I was fascinated by something I saw on the discovery channel not long ago. Some anthropologist recently discovered evidence that modern humans coexisted with Neanderthals. Neanderthal sites showed no evidence of ceremonial burials such as found in modern human sites. In this case the physically stronger species became extinct
This leads me to conclude that modern humans may have been more intelligent than Neanderthals. I see no reason why either of these primates would not have the natural instinct to preserve their own kind, however it does seem to show, as it is shown in this discussion, that most who believe in an after life believe in a power greater than themselves

Ok I'll bite.

Life after death? How about life after life, or how about just life full no stop.

Get busy living, or get busy dying they say, ghosts and hosts and angels there may be, and I've seen enough to suggest that whole notion is real, but we are alive in a different way from all that right now, and for a reason i feel.

I do not believe that reason is to contemplate othe lives, but to get on with this one so that when it ends and you collapse from sheer full liveed life exhaustion...it will have been worth it and you will be able to move on completely free of doubt that you wasted a moment.

I believe in reincarnation.
And how you treated others during your lifetime, directly results how you get reincarnated.

I think the idea of reincarnation..well, is beautiful, but I do not believe in it. Sorry.
Still, I am a vegetarian, and an animal-lover.
I think that after death there is a second phase. Life is too big to end simply because you die.

I am a devoute Catholic...so i believe in heaven and hell

Heaven and hell.

But I believe that most people go to heaven, you have to be true evil to come to hell.

And I think in heaven you meet all the people who died before you, and you sit and eat dinner on pink clouds. :)

Lots of people in here posting but saying nothing about the why's.

And there must always be a why, otherwise, the I believe means nothing.

Why you do believe in God, or not...and please don't say the mystery of Faith, or evolution...I and I'm sure everyone else wants to here why you...yeah all of you...believe or don't..and I'll know if you are sprouting some nonsense you read in a book.

Why?

yes, according to einstein, energy can niether be created nor destroyed. it can however be changed. it evolves. splits. becomes something else entirely. I wonder whether the memory of the past form is maintained after this occurs, or if the new form is suddenly given a blank slate. I imagine this might have to do with the degree of the change. Remnants of 'memory' would seem to linger as long as those elements of 'character' and the like would exist in the new forms. but if memory is simply just erased, it seems to me to be about the same as dying, and being nothing. No memory. No conciousness. Cold, lifeless, just maggot food. And this result scares the hell out of me.

There is comfort in a belief in a God, in Heaven or Hell, even Hell can be a comfort compared to that of not-existing. Atleast it seems so to me. But I loathe pretentiousness, and I see beliefs that try to judge the mind of a higher power they've never met, as pure pretension.

You can crucify me as heretic now.

Are you asking us to think outside the box I will try not to use the exact words you asked me not to. I admit that I have been influenced by what I have been taught. I don’t remember being born, but I have no doubt that that I was. I have not seen tomorrow’s sunrise but I have hope that there will be another day tomorrow. Why do I believe in natural laws? Am I witnessing to the natural laws or the effects of the natural laws? I have not witnessed eternity therefore I cannot comprehend it. Have I witnessed the effects of hope and love or the cause of hope and love? I have not truly witnessed matter or energy being created nor have I witnessed it being destroyed. God is everything therefore must be everywhere. Science is the observation of natural events and cannot reach past nature

Yeah, I believe about that too. if there is a heaven, I don't see how there could possibly be a hell. because God is all-forgiving and the like. hell, is more literally, the abscence of God, and you can have that enough on earth. the point is to live like it isn't, for a better world.
Yes I realise my beliefs sound alot like Judaism. I have muchos respect for Judaism. Jesus was Jewish too.

"Even those who commit suicide, becaue only one sin can not be forgiven"

^^ IF you try to commit suicide but don't die, ask for forgiveness then yes you will go to Heaven. BUT if you commit suicide and you do die from it right away, then you do go to Hell, because your life is not yours to take away. Just thought I'd say that..

But yes, I do believe in life after death. For those who recieve Jesus Christ into their hearts and believe that He is Lord and Saviour, the Son of God, and that He did die on the cross for your sins then you will go to Heaven. If you don't, you go to Hell.
That's what I believe =)

"I didnt.. but after reading "Lovely Bones" .. It made me believe in it all a little more. Beautiful book.."

^^ Ha Kristen.. I love that book "The Lovely Bones". I'm half way through it. I don't know if Heaven is actually like that, though.. but I guess we're allowed to dream ;)

May I suggest that everyone read "A Divine Revelation of Heaven" and theres a "Hell" one, too. It's written by Mary Baxter.