Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Is there an Afterlife?“, Leave a Reply below!
No, there’s no afterlife. And the nice thing about death is that you won’t be troubled by insomnia and you won’t have to get up to pee.
I personally believe that consciousness as we know it cannot continue after the brain dies, but I’m not dogmatic about it. In any case, we can rest assured the atoms that compose us composed other things before they were “us” and will compose other things after they are no longer “us.”
Afterlife is the same as Beforelife. It is our true existence. Our existence on earth is a momentary experience, like a dream, so that when participating in one, it is often experienced as being reality. Afterlife (or Otherlife) is much more real than the physical world we exist in today. When we wake up from this reality (ie, die a physical death) we wake up from our dream to Who We Really Are: part of the all-encompassing God – beyond Infinity and the finite; eternity and time.
There has to be an after. But an afterlife, noone can answer that.
No.
No one knows if death is a wall or a doorway.
As Mark Twain said, “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
I found these two sonnets buried in a dusty poetry book in the library of an obscure Scottish island. they are by Wilson Bonmdar, a one time tax collector convicted for fraud and destined to spend a lot of time locked up. I think he found his true calling in prison.
Immortality
And shall I live hereafter when the foam
Of this my being breaks away, to lose
Its personality in space? The dews
Of consciousness and memory drawn home
Absorbed beneath the cold and silent loam
Or swept beyond the highest heaven of Zeus?
Shall Natures universal law refuse
To me identity when doomed to roam
Through everlasting fields of fancied space?
And thus the prophet answered, “You and I
Are merely modes of motion, points of power
Revolving round a pure illusive sky.
The motion changeth every passing hour
And you and I are gone and leave no trace.”
I am a part of all that ever was
Of all that ever shall be. In me, time
Life, death, body, soul, the vulgar, the sublime
Are focused by the interchange of laws.
I am a fragment of the Eternal Cause,
A letter in the universal rhyme,
One link in life’s ubiquitous chain of crime,
And virtue, love and hate, of teeth and claws.
I am a factor in the furious gale
That rushes ruthless in the quest of life
A measure of the darkness of the night,
One note in Natures glorious thunder scale,
A centre of that never ceasing strife
Which strives forever to approach the light.
Life after death = Life before birth. All living things return to the void of nothingness. Life is temporary, don’t take it too seriously.
May be, may be not, if there is, we will take it that way, if there is’t we take it also, is our fate.
No.
If there is an “after-life” then it’s a continuation of the life we possess now, so how could it be “after”?
if their is, then i’m going down. so i’d sure hope their isn’t