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  1. 18-Jun-2010 #1
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    Do you believe in life after death?

    Well do yah?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  2. 18-Jun-2010 #2
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    No.

    I hope for some continuance, but know it is highly unlikely.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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  3. 18-Jun-2010 #3
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    Isnt that question a paradox?

    If there is "life" after "death" what does "death" mean?
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  4. 18-Jun-2010 #4
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    no. thats why its called death. We've had our run, all that happens next is we go back into the food chain, bacteria and plants, to herbivores, to carnivores ect.

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  5. 18-Jun-2010 #5
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    Are we talking "Heaven" Life-After-Death,

    "Reincarnation" Life-After-Death,

    "Zombie" Life-After-Death,

    or "Other" Life-After-Death?
    Those aren't real problems, Sam.

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  6. 18-Jun-2010 #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyRay View Post
    Are we talking "Heaven" Life-After-Death,

    "Reincarnation" Life-After-Death,

    "Zombie" Life-After-Death,

    or "Other" Life-After-Death?
    Something like (a) or (b)...
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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  7. 18-Jun-2010 #7
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    nuff said...
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  8. 18-Jun-2010 #8
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    This could be an interesting thread.

    I'm not going to click on "Yes" or "No" on the tabs because, well, I just don't know. None of us do. I will say I believe in the soul being eternal after being given life. I don't know if this necessarily translates to an "afterlife" or not. I don't think it does translate to an afterlife as most people consider it from television/films/media.

    I consider myself a Catholic (not necessarily a very good one usually) and I'd say it doesn't matter if we live on as we understand "living on" after we die or not. This world is what matters and our actions here are the important thing. As far as Heaven (at least as how a lot of people seem to interpret such a place) as some "city on clouds with streets of gold and pearly gates" stuff I think is childish drivel that non-religious people generally drag up as proof of how silly the notion of what's-potentially-after-here.

    I do believe we carry onward (like the great Kansas song) as our spirit/soul, but, again, I don't think this is the way most people interpret an afterlife.

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  9. 18-Jun-2010 #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDFP View Post
    I'm not going to click on "Yes" or "No" on the tabs because, well, I just don't know. None of us do.
    Is it possible to not know whether you believe something or not? I mean, either you believe it or you don't. If there's any doubt then that kinda implies you don't believe it.
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  10. 18-Jun-2010 #10
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    When the batteries run out, the mechanics stop working.

    In other words, no, not at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LouCipherr View Post
    When the batteries run out, the mechanics stop working.

    In other words, no, not at all.
    My mechanics always tell me it's when the money runs out that they stop working

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    My mechanics always tell me it's when the money runs out that they stop working


    Good one. I guess I should've phrased that a bit better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trin View Post
    Is it possible to not know whether you believe something or not? I mean, either you believe it or you don't. If there's any doubt then that kinda implies you don't believe it.
    I clarify this later (maybe not very well?) on in my post. I believe in the soul being eternal and I believe it carries onward, but I don't believe in an afterlife in a traditional outlook of an afterlife.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LouCipherr View Post


    Good one. I guess I should've phrased that a bit better.
    Nah, it was easy to understand. My mind just goes in tangents...especially on Fridays.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    Well, still a good one Aces.
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