What do you think happens after you die ?

[Ella2001]

I’m waiting on “you’ll be dead and that’s that“ 🤣
but genuinely curious as to what everyone else thinks happens , I know it’ll be like before you were born , you won’t know but what if after life/recantation is a thing ? I’ve come to terms with the fact tomorrow isn’t promised but what if there’s afterlife and we get born into a horrible abusive family ? In that case I think I’d rather just be nothing ? What you all think ? Love to read these threads thought I’d make one myself 😆

Yes in bodily form. We are made in God's image. Which is interesting in itself! I am intrigued by that.

Personally if I was God I'd have made Scandinavia my home place, but that's just me! 😁As for time period, the Bible starts at Creation (however many years ago you want that to be, I have no fixed idea about it personally) and covers thousands of years. Maybe because the Garden of Eden was in that region? I don't know - it'll be another question I have for God when I arrive! I have a lot! 😆

Clearly he couldn't make Scandinavia his home base because the Gods Thor, Odin and Freya, etc. already had too many followers there and they were unlikely to renounce them and only follow him.

I don’t much fancy heaven being some kind of Middle East (sorry, I’ve been once, including Jerusalem, and it wasn’t my cup of tea). That was for two weeks so I’ll pass on an eternity.

Yep it was a bit crowded there! 😂

@BunnyLake I'm sure there will always be an England of some description complete with tea!

The idea that Heaven is an abstract idea, and is infinite or everlasting is more popular among the more intellectuals. Along with the idea that we are only our soul not a physical presence with a human form. We become neither young nor old not man or woman.
The nearest I get is that only our thoughts continue or even only our love persists.
I also have trouble with Einstein's relativity and Space being infinite.

I’d prefer not England. There are other countries I’d rather spend my heaven in 😁

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And no dodgy stomach from eating too much of it 😁

Why quote the book upon which a religion is based if you don't believe it

Yes, it’s like basing your beliefs on some stoner writing apocalyptic poetry based on a tissue of references to the prophecies of Nostradamus.

Nothing. It's just like it was before you were born.

Because someone was asking a question about what a person had written and I explained what she meant

Well, that sounds duller than ditch water! At least hell sounds like it would be pretty lively.

I do find it strange when people quite categorically say there is nothing.
Given the miracle of existence - that we are here, living our lives- it seems entirely logical to me that there can just as readily be an afterlife as the lives we are currently living.
It's all mind blowing.

My dad is a scientist (professor of zoology) and lectures about Charles Darwin, sexual selection, and the theory of evolution. In his quite matter-of-fact scientific way, he is pretty straight talking about life. "We are born, we live, we die, wr pay our taxes" (yes - a cliche, but i totally agree).

Life is short. We may have been born before, we may yet survive after life. Personally, I think it's a bit like sleep and possibly like when I passed out - a kind of dreamless and totally blank memory. Nothing at all.

I don't know. I always wonder what actually life is.
Maybe when that's answered we'll know what happens in death.

My 7yr old nephew told me he thinks we're video game characters and when we've ran out of battery/lives then we cease to exist.

Immortality sounds boring. We only do things because we know we've only got a short amount of time to do them. Why would you rush to do anything if you had forever to do it?

And whoever said GA - that was the best sleep of my life. I don't sleep well due to my medical condition and I dream of someone giving me a little bit just so I can sleep for once.

There is no logic to the idea of an afterlife

I'd like to think I could float about doing ghost things.
Doing kind things for people I like.and being an annoying fucker to people I didn't like
I will shift your car , house keys.

I would love that and it would be worth looking forward to. The other stuff (eternity following god or Jesus doing what exactly?) not so much.

Sometimes when I watch a film older than I am I’m struck by how all these people were living their lives, making careers, making movies and I wasn’t even a part of the world. Had no idea about it. That will be how it is after I’ve gone. It does seem weird to think how life will go on, children will be born, MN will be here (I expect) all after I’m no more.

There’s nothing logical about believing in an afterlife. The idea was sold to people (especially poor people, especially women) as a way of manipulating them to behave themselves.

I can't believe anyone is applying logic when considering an afterlife. The idea of resurrection into a perfect body but with none of the issues that physical bodies naturally have is not, to put it kindly, logical.

I would love to see and hug my mum and much loved pet again in an afterlife. In reality I think it would just be nothingness.

Absolutely true that there is no logic to believing in an afterlife. I don't think there is logic to the belief in God at all. I don't apply logic nor look for proof. I just believe in God and Jesus and his basic teachings. "Do unto others" etc and believe that we can be forgiven.
On the hereafter topic, there are no animals in heaven because they do not have a soul. According to many academics.