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 😆

Surely life is more precious because it’s pointless? It’s so freeing! Nothing matters! Do what you want! We’re here for a good time not a long time. Truly crazy that WE get to live, out of the whole universe we’re the ones who are here at the moment. In 100 years everyone who is alive right now will be dead (pretty much) and there’ll be a whole new batch of people. Crazy!

I do find the idea of total oblivion pretty bleak in some ways, but in others, it makes everything a lot more meaningful and poignant - as PPs have said, it is purely because of this pointless existence that everything becomes so much more valuable. Imagine, we have all been given this once in a lifetime (excuse the pun!) chance to experience life, consciousness, being alive, and all the amazing things that this encompasses.

As I nearly died at birth when premature - and was saved thanks to modern medicine - I'm going to make damn sure the one I have been blessed with is the best I can make it ❤️

I worded that badly re 'minor'. The point is we have ALL sinned and all fall short, way short, of what is required by God. The perfection that is embodied by Jesus Christ. Not one person on the Earth has ever or will ever achieve that.

I know you are being facetious, but 'tent' in the Bible can mean a tent as we would understand it, a temporary accommodation such as a nomad might use, or it can mean 'habitation'.

Would anyone pity a bird or a dog for living a "pointless" life? (For those who don't believe all the birds and dogs go to heaven). I don't think spending your whole life striving to earn a good place in an afterlife gives your life more purpose than striving to live a good life in the here and now.

Required by God! Sheesh. None of us asked to be here! If he wants to play silly buggers then he’s the one who falls short.

Buddhism believes in the lighting of countless candles / the power of our minute thoughts. I think the point of our existance is the collection of the energy of tbe thoughts we have every moment and how it affects the world. Then we die and our bodies turn to space dust

Mic drop! 100%

@HeyPrestoAlakazam Oh wow! There’s definitely something going on there.

I really have no idea what I believe to be honest. I’d also probably have been a “nothing” before - but I know I witnessed something leaving the body, and it must have gone somewhere.