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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:45 pm
Ya know, I really thought about my atheistness. It kinda sucks that I'm just gonna die and not be there. Then again it doesn't. I can't imagine any afterlife being that good. But tell me religious and not religious people, what you think is so good about your religion and what your religion says about afterdeath. If your afterdeath or your before death is well favorable to me, I'll learn more about your religion.
If anyone thinks this is disprespectful, it is NOT meant to be. I want to learn abut other religions. Ignorance is the key to intolerance, so nonignorance must be the key to tolerance.
If you can, don't mention any other religions in your post and try not to respond to eachother. If you do that, I probably won't read you post and I don't want to do that.
PS You people love my hats don't you?
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:04 pm
NonMisanthropist Ya know, I really thought about my atheistness. It kinda sucks that I'm just gonna die and not be there. Then again it doesn't. I can't imagine any afterlife being that good. But tell me religious and not religious people, what you think is so good about your religion and what your religion says about afterdeath. If your afterdeath or your before death is well favorable to me, I'll learn more about your religion. If anyone thinks this is disprespectful, it is NOT meant to be. I want to learn abut other religions. Ignorance is the key to intolerance, so nonignorance must be the key to tolerance. If you can, don't mention any other religions in your post and try not to respond to eachother. If you do that, I probably won't read you post and I don't want to do that. PS You people love my hats don't you? as a Hindu, i believe in Karma and reincarnation until a soul attains enlightenment and achieves Nirvana and becomes one with God. i'm happy you asked. and i have only ever noticed you wearing just that one hat...
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:15 pm
Reincarnation, from a certain point of view, is a fact, even for an Atheist (unless you don't believe in science either). Matter is never created or destroyed, and thus when you die, you are reborn into many forms. Rocks. Trees. Bacteria. Fungi. Plants. Animals. You name it. You are reincarnated into many forms. The molecules that were once you now return to the Earth and give life to something else. If you understand this, than you understand that for there to be life, there must be death. The food we eat must be killed and consumed; life from death, always.
As for things beyond that, as a Pagan, I can't say it honestly matters that much to me. There may be this thing called a soul and I'll be reunited in another life with my spirit guides. Then again, there may not be. The fact that my body returns to the Earth and will nourish other life gives me enough peace. If only I could be buried NATURALLY instead of creamated or stuffed in a coffin... it's irritating that I cannot have my wish and rot naturally. stare
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:57 am
Starlock Reincarnation, from a certain point of view, is a fact, even for an Atheist (unless you don't believe in science either). Matter is never created or destroyed, and thus when you die, you are reborn into many forms. Rocks. Trees. Bacteria. Fungi. Plants. Animals. You name it. You are reincarnated into many forms. The molecules that were once you now return to the Earth and give life to something else. If you understand this, than you understand that for there to be life, there must be death. The food we eat must be killed and consumed; life from death, always. As for things beyond that, as a Pagan, I can't say it honestly matters that much to me. There may be this thing called a soul and I'll be reunited in another life with my spirit guides. Then again, there may not be. The fact that my body returns to the Earth and will nourish other life gives me enough peace. If only I could be buried NATURALLY instead of creamated or stuffed in a coffin... it's irritating that I cannot have my wish and rot naturally. stare well being creamated feeds plants with all the Carbon Dioxide released.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:27 pm
Pretty much the same as Kalorn, except, put a little bit of a buddhist twist on it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:10 pm
chaoticpuppet Pretty much the same as Kalorn, except, put a little bit of a buddhist twist on it. mmmm, a twist of Buddha...
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:32 pm
i dont follow any organized religion(or even a less than organized one), but i personally believe in reincarnation.
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:23 am
I believe in reincarnation also.
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:05 am
Reincarnation, though it can be flawed.
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:41 pm
Hmm..well, I don't follow any religion for the simple reason that organized religions always have a knack for irritating me when I try to follow them. But in any case, I would like to think that we either vanish from existance completely or that we're reincarnated. I don't know about you, but after a thousand or so years in the afterlife, I'd start getting bored of it. sweatdrop Life is so interesting now because there IS conflict and in the afterlife, there is none.
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:36 pm
I believe in the same sort of idea as Kalorn, and also Starlock, about the going back to the earth. I think that our bodies die and are replenished into the earth so that the earth can bring about new bodies, in any form. But I believe ours souls are reincarnated many different times until we can discover who we really our, or fulfill our sort of purpose.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:32 am
What you do in life dictates where you go in the afterlife. For me there are three options. Die in battle and go to Valhalla to spar and feast with other dead soldiers in the hall of the All Father, Odin himself. The second is that if I live as best I can by the nine virtues I go to Hel, a heaven like place. Finally if I'm a bad corrupt person who has strayed from the nine virtues without my best efforts I go to a hell like place named hifhel.
Sound familiar? Well it's not the only religion to have this kind of thing. The first part with valhalla and tringing to be a warrior is new though. AS far as I know no other religion has a special prize for those who die in battle. I try not to think to much anout the afterlife. Followers of Asatru try to focus more on the presant day. Sure I think about death but I never let that thought consume me for more than a moment. The judgment of my soul is only partialy in my hand. Rather than conentrate on the result I concntrate on the task at hand. Living my life as I do and remembering the nine virtues.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:00 pm
I love the Jewish viewpoint about after death.
We don't know what happens. At all. And we don't really care all that much. Judaism is about the living, not the dead. I mean, in some of our literature and such there is mention of God beinging back the dead when the messiah comes, but until that day comes, we just aren't going to worry about the dead. I mean, we don't think that they just disappear, because some of our literature mentions that when the Messiah comes God will reincarnate the dead. But if we can't really understand what form of us will be around after death, why should it matter right now?
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:00 pm
Well, originally Universalism taught that everyone good or bad goes to heaven. Now, Unitarian Universalism doesn't really say much about the afterlife. The minister at the church I go to once told me that she doesn't believe in hell, at least not in the Christian sense.
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:32 am
Destinykeeper Reincarnation, though it can be flawed. i am curious about what you mean by flawed? is the theory flawed or do you mean reincarnation make mistakes?
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