I'm really looking forward to the afterlife - if there is one - because I hope I can get my questions answered. I hope (I'm pretty damn sure!) I will be vindicated for my disbelief in mormonism. I also want the chance to live without being indoctrinated from a child. I want to have all the cards laid out and get a real choice, not just what I was taught by family who had been duped themselves.

To have relationships based on truth and reality. Not have anything standing between us.

If we have to keep recycling through this life (reincarnation) I will be seriously pissed for the amount of time that I'm in limbo and knowing that I have to go through this sh@# all over again. Once is enough, thanks.

If we aren't given any answers in this life, why would we get them in the next?

It could be much worse, the life of an earth worm or dung beetle perhaps.

MJ Wrote:
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> It could be much worse, the life of an earth worm
> or dung beetle perhaps.

At least it would be short-lived, and not much thought involved.

There are so many possibilities if the reincarnation can of worms is opened.

For instance, would a new life as an ant be punishment or reward? Maybe people who are suited for the team-work aspect choose that hive complex.

Maybe there would be no higher power directing affairs at all and it's all a matter of chance where one ended up.

It's a crap-shoot, literally, for the dung beetle. ;-)

But it may not be. It may be far worse. Perhaps ending up living eternally as a slave to an abusive master and still have none of the answers you are looking for.

My question is, why the assumption that the next life would be better or have more answers?

Raptor Jesus Wrote:
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> If we aren't given any answers in this life, why
> would we get them in the next?

Yeah, that would suck, too. So we may be struggling with delusions in that life...Makes me wonder if they would be the same delusions or a whole new set.

If you listen to the near-death-experiencers, people still know their family members and friends, etc, so maybe the delusions would be the same.

Thanks for the cheery thought ;-P


I hope you have a good day, RJ.

I have to admit that it kind of pisses me off that when I am right and there is no next life I don't get to tell everyone, I told you so.

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> because I hope I can get my
> questions answered.

What if in the afterlife our brains are wiped clean? What if we aren't human? What if we all merge into one entity? And so on. Just because there might be an afterlife, that doesn't mean it will be like we expect. And it doesn't mean we will get our questions answered. We might get even more questions instead.

" 3-D objects, even the ones that we’re familiar with — you and me and everything around us — these 3-D objects may indeed be describable by information on a 2-D surface that surrounds us, a surface that in some sense is at the edge of the universe. Now, this starts to sound like a hologram; a hologram is a thin 2-D piece of plastic which, when illuminated correctly, yields a realistic three-dimensional image. The idea is we may be that three-dimensional image of this more fundamental information on the 2-D surface that surrounds us.

Now, let me just point out, this is a hard idea even for physicists who work on it every day to fully grasp. We’re still trying to really dot the i’s and cross the t’s and understand in detail what this would mean. But there are many who now take this idea very seriously, that we maybe a kind of holographic projection. "


http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/geeks-guide-brian-greene/


If that were true, then the afterlife may be inside a blackhole (if I understood what wired was reporting on what Greene was saying, but I admit, I still don't quite get it, and I studied physics in grad school)



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I feel like 3D reality is a hologram projected from our brain.

that there is no afterlife. But, that is just me using my rational logic and I really hope I am wrong and happily surprised to find myself still existing somehow when this both of flesh and bones returns to dust.