If you've been loving you get taken into the heart of Iam to rest in the waters.

Do I look like God to you? Don't ask questions that there are no answers to.

Think before you speak. Your question is impossible, its like asking what happens in the future... you wont know till it happens. You cant exactly ask someone that died can you?

Perhaps, What do you think happens once a human being passes on?
Would work better.

It's the exact same thing you just said it different we would still have to look at the question the same way.

You'll be questioned by two huge creatures who ask you who your God, prophet, and religion are and if they don't like your answer they beat you with hot iron rods for some time unless The Guide comes and saves you. After that, an ugly guy and handsome guy sniff you for good and bad deeds. You go to sleep resting your head on The Guide's lap and wake up to be constricted to the size of a tea kettle to squeeze black oil (sin) out of you. Then, you walk really far and this annoying creature attempts to misguide you on the journey. Eventually, you'll end up in the Valley of Peace until The Big Day and then you'll go to Heaven after crossing a razor sharp bridge, Hell or the Heights to wait for Heaven. In general, the life after this one is unimaginably horrible and for most people it will clearly be the most horrible time of their existence. If a living being saw how the soul is removed from the body, the person would never smile again.

A Big BIG question ...Impossible to answer but for those interested here are 3 sites that look at Death from different angles but all come to the same view ..That our consciousness does survive and go on......


http://www.nderf.org/

www.victorzammit.com

www.worlditc.org

In the ground or in the furnace do not pass go and do not collect 200 dollars.

Ok ok... I dont want to cause any contravursee (never learned how to spell that word), but I remeber seeing this documentary on Discovery about the after life. They talked to people having near death expereinces. They saw there life flash before there eyes, they see themselves lie on the ground, and they remeber going to either heaven or hell. The cool part was, this person was killed. She was dead for about an hour, see? They managed to bring her back to life, and when she came back, she said "I was in heaven." I honestly cant beleive it myself, but hey. This is whant you asked. Right?

I assume you are asking for opinions since know one can provide concrete proof. So, in my opinion, what we experience as reality while we are alive is much diferent then the reality after death. I believe you will continue on after death but your "life" seem so insignificant compared to your "new" understanding that you will have a good chuckle This is of course assuming you reached some enlightment during your lifetime. Otherwise, you may just have to do it all over again... and again... and again.... and again....

*laughs* why does that remind me of 'groundhog day'?
we could actually already be dead and are simply reliving our entire life in the seconds that our brain still fires.

I hope their is something like 'ascension' where we can see all that was and is, in full knowledge of the entire universe, but we mustnt touch. I have always thought of this and as i have said in another topic, life is energy and energy cannot be destroyed, but it must be transformed. As a child i used to lay and try and think of what death is like, in the sense of nothingness, darkness. It always felt extremely diffucult to grasp, and was a very difficult sense to imagine. But when my physical body does die, i want it to be fired into space in a 'space coffin' , to be preserved forever in the vaccum, until i crash that is.

it all depends on what your comfortable with.

when my father died, in my eyes, he is no longer mourned by the living or the dead and for him i have never existed. he has simply ceased to exist. for him there is no him, no soul, no mind, no space, no time, no flesh, no bone, no earth, no heaven, no hell, no god. he only exists in my memory and the memories of those he knew and his image is captured in a few photographs.

Here is the simple truth about everything

There is only one energy that builds up everything in this universe, and therfore we all are this energy and in some sense you live all the lives, you just wont know it. So every life is incredible just like this one. It will start, and then it ends. We are all the same.

I would like to take a moment to talk about this term, I have gone through many nights with the question of where will I go after I die the pain is unbeleiveable just to think about it, panic suppresses my mind. I would think that when we die we just go to the abyss like going to sleep not feeling anything or thinking anything just lying there for an eternity. But then again science comes into this term think about it, the term Evolution has not been proven scientist cant find how chemical evolution evolved us into what we are today, every specie is different so if we did not evolve from past organisms where did we come from? you must beleive that there is a great master of the universe a God. If you read the bible there is no biased facts everything that the bible scientifically states is a fact and you cannot find a scientifical error in the bible. Scientists have made billions of studies and still cant find where humans come from. Think about it all these earth features are perfect for us to live on. I had questions about if a God does really exist, now I beleive because if I do not beleive in him what hopes do I have then? and even if there isn't a God I will not question his existance because he gives me something to beleive in. Beleive what you want but until the day we die comes, then will you know.

To all those ppl who say that before we are born, we remember nothing hence there was nothingness and so after we die we return to nothingness well

We don't remember anything when we were 1 or 2 yrs (1 or 2 days old as well) old but still we were we.... ie we were alive.

Although I wouldn't like to live this or view this life again after I die, if I have any choice

Also to all those who are interested in pure scientific research on survival after death GO HERE:

http://www.esalenctr.org


Enjoy the night

Well as to why we felt nothing before we were born. That's just a theory think about it would your mind at that early in your life be capacified to have the intelligence you posses today? at that early in our lives we didn't know anything and I remember up to when I was 1 and a half. All I remember was playing with my little sister and chasing her after that all I remember is nothing just black, and that's how I would feel everything when I was an infant I was there I could feel things I just didn't have the intelligence to comprehend them. That's why we dont remember anything at that age because we didn't know what something was. As we grew older our brains developed all these feelings, emotions, and as we grew up our brains would remember up to date events that's why when you were 5 you could remember what happened to you but when your 20 you can't. The brain is like a recycle bin that gets rid of unnecessary things and the impact that event had on you would be with you in your memory forever, because you thought it was necessary to keep. But if it didn't have a great impact on you then it would be thrown away. Like that moment where I remembered playing with my little sister I dont know why it was necessary to keep but my brain kept it and it will be with me forever.

Honestly, no one knows. Its impossible to answer, because the only way to know is if youre dead. Lots of people believe that after your dead, your dead, and nothing happens. Others believe that you go to Heaven(If youve been good on Earth), a place to be happy for eternity.(Or Hell If youve been bad on Earth) This is good to believe because it causes people to be good on Earth, hoping for something better after death. It depends on your religion what you want to believe in.

"Well as to why we felt nothing before we were born. That's just a theory think about it would your mind at that early in your life be capacified to have the intelligence you posses today? at that early in our lives we didn't know anything and I remember up to when I was 1 and a half. All I remember was playing with my little sister and chasing her afterthat all I remember is nothing just black, and that's how I would feel ev'erything when I was an infant I was there I could feel things I just didn't have the intelligence to comprehend them."

All I remember is I used to have really horrific dreams (like dogs biting me!) when I was somewhere between 1-2 years old and I used to wake up crying and then back to bed again sleepy sleepy after seeing my mother. The horrific dreams went away after those years. Strange but I think I used to be scared to death in my dreams hence feelings, emotionality in dreams at that age.

Interesting point, as soon as the energy comes into play, there must be something after death cuz energy can only be transferred. Though I don't really believe in god but I do believe in reincarnation and to some extent karma (I didn't used to believe in karma but I have seen somethings happen).

Althought I would like to make this point about reincarnation: Sure your soul/consciousness transfers, but as a person you are still dead, finished, so it sorta goes both way: survival after death and not so so much either.

i dont no exactly wat happens after death and no one does.
i dont think any religion on earth would be able to even comprehend the after life [if there even is one]
i have been a christian and an athiast. neither of these opposite relegions were appealing in any way. there are flaws in both of those beleifs and every other for that fact.
now i am agnostic* and although i dont know for sure bout the afterlife i think its something like this

if ur good in ur life then u will end it only seeing things that you love. in ur... wat ever it is.... u will see things that make u happy and u'll spend all of eternity being happy.

on the other hand, i think that if ur bad its just the opposite. only bad memories forever.

ghosts i think are dead beings that have chosen not to see good/slash bad things forever but have opted some other choice. like earth is where good people whove chosen bad things go or something.

maybe us ourselves are merely ghosts of some pre life we dont remember. if we were bad, our now life is bad and we are being punished for some thing we dont even no we've dun.

anyhow, i dont think life is really worth living at all. so many bad things and so little good ones.
the after life better be a hell of a ride or somebody's gonna pay. lol.

all this from a twelve year old so if its all stupid then thats why.

If all goes well and if God thinks I'm cool then I'l get re-incarnated......

as a human,

A famous person,

A, Humaniod

An, Alien.

A butterfly.....('because nobody EVER suspects the butterfly' teh hehe... *quoted from Bart Simpson*)


And we all get re-incarnted until the apocolypse during the great DA BOOM.

Or our body does'nt get re-incarnated and we 'shut-down' into a permenent coma-like state known as 'DEATH'.


And come back as ghosts!

.......Im on suger today...CaN YoU FeEl It?!

There is no death.
All the answers to your questions are within you, and you can find them.
There is no space, thus we don't "go" anywhere. (Thus, we can "go" anywhere.)

"There is no separate, indivisible, specific point of death. Life is a state of becoming, and death is a part of this process of becoming. You are alive now, a consciousness knowing itself, sparkling with cognition amid a debris of dead and dying cells; alive while the atoms and molecules of your body die and are reborn. You are alive, therefore, in the midst of small deaths...so you are to some extent now alive in the midst of the death of yourself..."

--Seth Speaks, pg. 116/117. Amber-Allen/New World Library.

i find it insane that so many people convince themselves they ''KNOW'' whats going to happen.
shizzle is ridikulous, no one, NOT ONE SINGLE BEING knows for sure whats happens when u die.
tis all part of the fun imo, if u knew it wud take away the mystery, and either way wud make it seem a bit pointless, if i knew for sure im going to everlasting bliss then wot the hell am i doing wasting my time here on this poohole, on the other hand if there is nothing at all just pure nothingness then again wots the point. but not knowing either way makes it a lot more interesting, at least for me personally.

i prefer not knowing, just get on with life.

Well I know I dont know....but my opinion is that in some form you still go on. The hardest thing to grasp is the idea that you end completely...you die thats it, no more existance, no more me.....

Its actually easier to comprehend that we do continue ( and yeah, I like that idea better

These kinds of topics are so disheartening. So many people repeating the same empty-headed mantra "No one knows no one knows no one knows no one knows no one knows." I wanna know what kind of comfort this know-nothing attitude gives people, 'cause I find it every bit as faith-based as the most fantastical theology. It's depressing, 'cause y'all think it's based on Logic and Reason and it ain't at all. Logically, you can say, of course, that YOU don't know, but that doesn't mean that NO ONE knows. Maybe somebody does. You devotees of Scientism should know that you cannot prove a negative, and yet you project the poverty of your own experience upon the whole world.

If no one you knew had ever been to France, would you say, "No one has proof that France exists?" Would you yourself have to travel to France before you would allow yourself to "believe" in France? I hope not.

What about NDE? People have died and come back. Or so they claim. Who are you to say they're all lying or mistaken? And in general outline, they describe remarkably similar experiences, from cultures around the world. Why do you think that is? Why do so many of you dismiss such people's experiences? What do you get out of it? I wish someone would answer that question: what comfort does one get out of presuming that "no one knows?" Is it all just ego? You presume that your own ignorance is universal so you don't feel inferior?

As for me, I'm one of the "lucky" ones, I guess. I was dropped on my head when I was about 2 and a half years old, was in a coma for 3 days. While I was gone, I apparently walked down a tunnel of light, met a line of very nice folks, remember being told, "not time yet, go back," and woke up in the hospital bed. I've remembered that experience my whole life. Thought it was a dream until my teens when I started reading about NDE and what folks see on the other side. If I deny my intuition and play the Western Scientistic Game, I could still call it a dream, but it's interesting that my dream at the age of 2 and a half matches exactly with the stories from other folks who've had NDE. Where did that dream come from?


Hey DW, I like your post and my own experiences as a spiritualist suggest something similar. After my mother dyed when I was 17, she came to visit me about once a year for years after that in dreams. We'd go out to dinner and I'd fill her in on my life. Eventually I got around to asking her about herself and it seemed to pain her a great deal and she wouldn't speak. Later, I seemed to know what she was saying without words. She's since moved on.

You don't go anywhere except in the ground to decompose... People can't just accept reality and instead choose to believe in fairy tales.

i wudnt be so presumtious(duno how u spell it) to say that just because i dont know something no one in the world does, im just saying that until u actually die, u are never going to know for certain, its the certainty that kind of gets me, like fair enough if u have beleif, its jut the fact that people are unable or unwilling to accept the possibily that they may be wrong. and i'd say this is a far more egocentric trait that admitting u have no idea. even people who have had NDE's and stuff and say they have experienced something, maybe they have, but then again maybe they havent.
its just the absolute certainty that someone knows that i find arrogant.
but then i guess there may well be someone who does know for sure, but i dont think they wud be able to prove it either way so for me its kind of irrelevant.
personally i prefer not knowing, its adds mystery, if we knew everything there was to know life wud b pretty boring, and what wud be the point, life for me is about learning and experiencing.
i find it far more arrogant and egocentric to claim to know somethin gfor certain than to say u dont know.
but each to their own if u have a beleif in somethin good for u, personally i think there wud be far less conflict and strife in the world in people were willing to accept the idea that they could be worng about things.
im perfectly willing to accept the idea that my not knowing could be completly stupid as obviously there is or isnt life after death, but truly to the depths of my being i dont know wot happens.

If you die your brain stops working and in order to dream your brain has to work so how do you "dream" like a deep sleep or whatever if you don't have a brain to dream with.

Here is a site that has researched this subject. LOTS of information. The internation association for near death experiences.

http://www.iands.org/

Hey Thug! Obviously NO ONE knows 'cause no one's done it and come back to sit down w/us and tell us about it. If you're REALLY interested, I'd check out some books on Near Death Experiences. Prefer to read about NDE's of children, because Lord knows adults will lie. Not saying they all are lying, but dying kids don't have anything to compare it to, nor do they stand to gain attention, etc. I used to brush it off, but after loosing many that I love, my dad, my granny, several dogs, etc and having some SUPER WIERD things going on around me for 2 - 3 weeks after their deaths, I have come to the conclusion that you just cannot say "coincidence" but just so many times before you look kinda silly! This isn't the end. I'm SURE of it. What is next? Who knows? But I have a feeling it's big, really big!

Nowhere.

Dont worry, you wont be there to care