An existence after this one, yes.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
No. I do not believe in an afterlife at all.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
heaven is a place on earth
― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
could be a continued consciousness, continued spirit, reincarnation, a castle in the clouds with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens...
― beachville, Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I believe in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_x2-rCFWI
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
"a castle in the clouds with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens..."no heaven for big bopper?
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
HELL o baaaaby
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
don't
― Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
What if you believe in recycling / reincarnation / some other alternate not-heaven-afterlife but not-specific-no either option?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Anything other than it being all over when you flatline, WCC! The power of interpretation is yours.
― beachville, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, but it depends what you mean by "over." Because I don't think that they you-ness of you will carry on after death in any recognisable form, but it's absurd to think that we don't get recycled like every other form of matter and energy in the universe.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
I hate dichotomies. I will always vote "other" if possibly given the option, and kinda resent it when I don't get an "other" option. ;_;
gonna take that as a yes
myself: nah
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
sleeping is a kind of death; you're pretty much reborn every day.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
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― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
See, this is the problem. If you do not provide an answer which is not yes, and not no, then someone always comes along and decides for you that it is a yes (with the added bonus of projecting their interpretations of what they think you believe.) It imposes strictures and structures.
Anyway I'm not actually bored enough to get into an argument about this, even though I am very, very, very bored right now.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's absurd to think that we don't get recycled like every other form of matter and energy in the universe.
well yeah, ultimately the matter that makes up your body will still be around in the Universe, but are you saying the physical principle of matter & energy being recycled extends to abstract conceptual things like the self or the soul?
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Because I don't think that they you-ness of you will carry on after death in any recognisable form
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
ah, ok. sorry to be dense.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
so then what did you mean by "we"
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
you don't have to believe in the supernatural to believe in the inevitability of resurrection technology.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzzfmym0iw1qm5muzo1_500.png
― heavymeddle, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
i believe the SOUL is ETERNAL
― McCrisco/Cocaine (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
i hope there is no heaven, think i read this in a comic or something but i feel like dying and going to heaven would be like waking up from one of those dreams where you live out a whole day in painstaking detail, only to find that you were asleep the whole time and have to do it all over again
― flopson, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
that wasn't heaven, that was the last season of LOST
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Not at all
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
No, but, judging from the amount of time I've spent at the graveside of one of my family members "speaking" with her, the idea of the afterlife must still have some grip on my imagination.
― Träumerei, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Was really hoping more afterlife-believers would open up about this!
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
I imaghine most people are more like "we dont know either way" maybe? I know I am.
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, that would be a cop-out. Did you vote "yes" Trayce?
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
maybe this should go in the "is it racist" thread but there's a bit in michael lewis's new book about irish men believing in fairies, how most of them will claim not to, but if they come across a fairy circle, they won't disturb it, which basically counts as believing in fairies.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
whooooops, missed this poll, but add another mark in the NOOOoooooo column. even if there was a god, it wouldn't want people to party for eternity in heaven. it would get bored after 6 trillion years and turn everyone into doorknobs or something.
― this is my receipt for your receipt (Z S), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
firm NO + don't trust anyone who does.
― Your Ample Girth Does Intimidate (Matt P), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt vote cuz I really couldnt get with a yes no answer tbh! :(
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
To elaborate: its probably no, but I dont like that idea? If that makes sense. Heaven's bunk, but ceasing to exist gives me great heartache.
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
ALSO MAYBE ALREADY WE ARE ALL DOORKNOBS DID U CONTEMPLATE THAT
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
I am 3/4 of a doorknob
― this is my receipt for your receipt (Z S), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason I now have "shoehorn with teeth" by TMBG in my head.
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
whatever happened to a. nairn
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
I have wondered that in the past. He was inscrutable, which I admired in a frustrated way, like I do geir.
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 8 March 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link