25-01-2012, 05:32 PM
Toms306 Wrote:That said, I don't believe in anything after death, I've been waiting to die for years now and I hope there's nothing after! For me anyway! Maybe people that believe in afterlife get it, and those that don't, don't get it....the thing is there's no proof for either, obviously no ones lived through it, so well never know until you're in that position.
Tom, how dare you be so negative about yourself! Don't be waiting to die, you've got so much ahead of you! You are too young to be depressed, you can't even grow a moustache yet
Ignore the people on here that just refer to you as a spammer. You shouldn't have to care what people think, be yourself and do your own thing, friends are for losers :mrgreen: You've got to be more selfish, look after number one, no one else will.
Regarding your opinion on the 'afterlife' for a lot of people it would depend what it was and whether or not it's something you would necessarily want to believe in. No point believing in it if it would be something like eternal damnation :nope:
Jacko Wrote:My views are:
- Everything happens for a reason
- If you live a happy and guilt free life you're reincarnated into something nice, If not you become reincarnated as something horrible- If this life you're good to others, then the next life will be good to you.
Haha, that's my afterlife sorted then! At the age of 22 I can quite confidently say that I have done some bad things and have guilt for them as well as other things that have gone on in my head but my view is if you don't feel guilt for bad things you have done then that is wrong.
n0v0s Wrote:Sorry to hear about your Nan mate.
I believe that once you pass, that is it. I don't believe in there being a body and seperate soul/spirit. The 'spirit' is you. The very thing that characterises you from any other person. It is the unique structure and physiology of your brain, and the way in which it has become wired throughout having lived a life with experiences unique to you and the way in which it interacts within itself and with the world around you.
Once you die, my belief is that the 'spirit' dies with you. Your loved ones hold memories of you, and remember you. That i believe IS the spirit people talk of. Memories of someone who once lived, living on. When we dissect cadavers, the body is very much detatched from 'human' so i can see where the idea of the body being a vessle belief comes from.
Well that is quite a negative view on things isn't it! I to think that is the case however, once you die thats the end, just like before you were born!
On the human dissection thing, I do find it incredibly sinister the way the government can just whisk off your cadaver, strip it, rip all of the organs out, dissect them, keep them, do whatever they want with them basically and ship your empty carcuss out to be disposed off with the innards missing! As if dying isn't bad enough, is it too much to ask for a dignified burial, with your body intact!?
On the thread in general, this is the kind of thing that I ponder daily. There was a time a couple of years ago where every night I would contemplate death and how my life was slipping away because I was so lonely, but now I've got used to it and accept that I will just do my own thing and if I meet people that's good, if I stay a lone wolf without a wolf pack then so be it. A lot of people need prompting to think about death, but for me the acceptance of mortality and awareness of life being temporary reminds me that I've got to do what I want to and not try to compare my life to that of others or the common image purported by the media that a teenager/adults life is all fun and games.
