10-17-2024, 04:41 AM
I did this thread at ATS a while back.
Let's give it a try here.
What do you expect to happen when you die and why do you expect it?
Are you expecting to go to Heaven or Hell or Purgatory?
Reward by being with God in perfect paradise, or the exact opposite in Hell with loss of God and all is wrong?
Or is it the Muslim version of 'paradise'? Lots of food banquets and sex.
Or the nirvana version ... losing yourself and melding back with the perfect 'one'.
(Hope I got that right)
Are you expecting to be reincarnated?
Are you expecting to pop out of your body and wander around as a spirit?
Are you expecting obliteration? Nothingness?
Do you not expect anything and you just take it as it comes?
What do you think is going to happen ... and why do you think it?
I've experienced spirits, both good and bad, so I know they exist.
I've experienced ghosts which means that either at least some people have an afterlife, or that means the evil spirits are pretending to be dead people to get you to interact with them. I don't know which.
I've experienced supernatural things and seen amazing things in Medjugorje on pilgrimage.
I also believe I've had prayers answered so I believe God exists.
But belief in those doesn't necessarily mean that you have to believe in an afterlife.
My religious background tells me to expect Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. However, some of the stories of reincarnation are very convincing, so I do have an open mind that sometimes God may allow/send people back to do it again. That's His business and I wouldn't argue with someone if they think they are reincarnated. It's a depressing thought .. having to come back and do it all again and not even remembering anything about what you have lived before.
But then we come to the stories of Near Death Experiences. Everyone has probably read some of them. I've read that MOST people who have Near Death Experiences .. experience NOTHING. Yep. 90% of people who have cardiac arrest, die, and then are revived say they experienced nothing. The void. Obliteration. It's only 10% that have the classic meetings with dead people or the tunnel and the loving bright light .. etc etc. And scientists are studying to see if those 10% who have those classic NDE experiences are having hallucinations from a dying brain or from chemicals the body is releasing as it dies ... they have found that parts of the brain remain active for six minutes after the heart stops. The brain could be producing all sorts of fanciful events for the dead/dying person to experience during that time.
Anyways ... what do you expect to happen and why do you expect it?
Let's give it a try here.
What do you expect to happen when you die and why do you expect it?
Are you expecting to go to Heaven or Hell or Purgatory?
Reward by being with God in perfect paradise, or the exact opposite in Hell with loss of God and all is wrong?
Or is it the Muslim version of 'paradise'? Lots of food banquets and sex.
Or the nirvana version ... losing yourself and melding back with the perfect 'one'.
(Hope I got that right)
Are you expecting to be reincarnated?
Are you expecting to pop out of your body and wander around as a spirit?
Are you expecting obliteration? Nothingness?
Do you not expect anything and you just take it as it comes?
What do you think is going to happen ... and why do you think it?
I've experienced spirits, both good and bad, so I know they exist.
I've experienced ghosts which means that either at least some people have an afterlife, or that means the evil spirits are pretending to be dead people to get you to interact with them. I don't know which.
I've experienced supernatural things and seen amazing things in Medjugorje on pilgrimage.
I also believe I've had prayers answered so I believe God exists.
But belief in those doesn't necessarily mean that you have to believe in an afterlife.
My religious background tells me to expect Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. However, some of the stories of reincarnation are very convincing, so I do have an open mind that sometimes God may allow/send people back to do it again. That's His business and I wouldn't argue with someone if they think they are reincarnated. It's a depressing thought .. having to come back and do it all again and not even remembering anything about what you have lived before.
But then we come to the stories of Near Death Experiences. Everyone has probably read some of them. I've read that MOST people who have Near Death Experiences .. experience NOTHING. Yep. 90% of people who have cardiac arrest, die, and then are revived say they experienced nothing. The void. Obliteration. It's only 10% that have the classic meetings with dead people or the tunnel and the loving bright light .. etc etc. And scientists are studying to see if those 10% who have those classic NDE experiences are having hallucinations from a dying brain or from chemicals the body is releasing as it dies ... they have found that parts of the brain remain active for six minutes after the heart stops. The brain could be producing all sorts of fanciful events for the dead/dying person to experience during that time.
Anyways ... what do you expect to happen and why do you expect it?
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Don't be a useful idiot. Deny Ignorance.
Don't be a useful idiot. Deny Ignorance.
