To ask if you believe in an afterlife?

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I don’t know if I do? I want to, I lost my dad (he was young relatively speaking) and never ever seeing him again is a painful thought, we only had 30 years (we never have enough time though so we) but I don’t know if i actually believe in one, specifically in the theistic sense.

do you believe in one ? What do you believe?

Non religion based, but more Stargate sg1 based, if there is ascended beings, then yes

No , I don’t believe.

Yes it’s happened a few times to
me and also my mother. I found T he medium through friend’s recommendation, my friend booked it, he had no idea who I was, my name anything and I keep social
media very very private. Had never even posted about the family member I lost and he knew it all. Was a very surreal but also comforting experience.

I think our consciousness is just a manifestation of our biological brain and when that stops working our consciousness no longer exists.

Physically we break up and become parts of other things, including new life. But not in a way that is meaningful in terms of self. Only in the same way we eat things that have been alive and they become part of us. In the same way our current skin sheds, our hair falls out, our nails get clipped and those parts of use also become part of the circle of life and become other things, including new life, while we as individuals are still alive.

I don’t think there is a “point” to life other than what we make of it. I know some people find that bleak, but I find it quite freeing.

No. I’ve seen enough dead bodies in my job to know that it just ends.

I dont believe in an afterlife. And if one existed I think it would be an awful place. It's all very well thinking that you'd get to see your beloved grandad again, but what about the people you've no desire to see. What about the people who really want to see you but it's not reciprocated, so you have to try and avoid them? What if you can't stand some of the people your grandad wants in his after life but you have to put up with them.

It sounds no different to this life, but the problem is that it would go on forever. And if it was a place where everyone likes each other and it's all smiley and fruendly all the time, then no one is actually themselves.

I have experienced unexplained things after relatives have died.
My husband died three years ago, or about a year afterwards the television would suddenly switch on at the news times, he never missed the news.The radio by our bed would do the same.Also lights would come on in empty rooms and the radiators when it was cold, he suffered from severe heart disease so was always cold. I often feel my mother's presence, she died 15 years ago.I had a niece who who died very suddenly , I could smell her favourite perfume or a while afterwards.
My grandfather kept appearing in front of me, nearly always on a bus! I once saw him in a market looking at plants, he had been a keen gardener.My grandmother once appeared in a dream shortly after her death.She was sitting at her dining table with us, and telling us she loved being where she is now, she has met all her relatives and rounds who had previously passed and they all had a great time talking.Then she said that was all she was allowed to tell us I must go back now
Sorry if I appear mad but I did experience all these things, it may have been my mind playing tricks but I am telling the truth.

There is a school of thought which strongly cautions against using mediums, even reputable ones. it is considered that the mediums aren't actually in contact with the dead relative during the seance but recent disembodied souls floating about in a state of purgatory. The information may be accurate but it is not coming from the loved one but filtered through two other sources and liable to distortion. Mediumship relies on the fact that the sum total of all energy/knowledge in the universe has always been fixed and is therefore accessible by those who can access the akashic records.

No, I don’t.

‘Afterlife’, ‘Heaven’ etc are fairy tales which humans have always told themselves to help them cope with the reality of death and the pain of bereavement. Comforting, perfectly understandable, but fairy tales none the less.

When you die you’re dead. Your life ends. In exactly the same way as the lives of the insect splattered on your windscreen or the chicken you had for dinner.

Friends not rounds!

This is my belief too.

Why would there be an afterlife. It's made up nonsense like the tooth fairy and Santa Claus

i read going to a spiritualist church and then someone genuine would most likely approach you if they felt they had a message

Yes I 100% believe in the afterlife and God.

I believe you will see your dad again OP x

My father was a cunt, I hope I never see him again.

No, it's bollocks.

No.
Don't believe in anything. You're dead, you're dead.

….though not dogs, obviously. They’re all waiting at the Pearly Gates as if it were Heathrow Arrivals.

Yes. I never, ever feel alone. Even if I was on a desert island I always feel like I'm being watched over somehow and that someone or something can see and hear me.

Also my Nan has dementia and rarely talks of her son who passed away a few years back. The other month she kept looking up at the corner and mumbling his name and then she just said clear as day "are you my Son or are you my Angel?" ❤️

Honestly I'm not sure what to believe, but just wanted to follow up your comment with

"Indeed"

(If you know, you know!)

I lost my father in my late 20s. He does after a long and.painful illness. I kept looking for signs to know he was around. Nothing appeared.

I am a born Hindu and have been told about reincarnations etc. My dad didn't believe in it, his thoughts were after cremation, we become one with nature and nothing of us remains.

There is a one thought in Hinduism which believes that Human life is awarded after lot of struggle. This is your opportunity to do good and if you have done good things, you will get freedom from reincarnation cycle and will merge with the one(Moksha/Nirvana).

I am not adept at Hindu scriptures so above is a very raw summary.

I do believe that my doing good will help me in meeting my father as I am sure he has achieved Nirvana.

How do you know there's nothing before we are born? We would not remember it if there were ...

I'm not a believer. I wish I were in some ways, but I just don't.

What about all the people who have been resuscitated and clinically dead? They all describe feeling love, all said they now believe in heaven now. They describe it as a feeling like no other. Most people near death are visited by their deceased relatives, seen this a lot in the elderly. I believe there is something.

I believe. If I didn’t I’d go mad