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Showing Original Post only (View all)When you die, there will be nobody waiting to greet you [View all]
There will be no white light, no reunion with loved ones, no long gone pets, children or parents.
Friends who died before you won't meet you in the afterlife, and there will be no paradise.
That is because there is no heaven. No hell.
Just now.
Just here.
If you regret something you did, you will never have a chance to change it.
All we have is now - RIGHT now, as a matter of fact.
So what are you doing right now?
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Any evidence for this disagreement, or do you just feel you need to believe it?
HERVEPA
Feb 2013
#18
I believe it's all Energy. Up to us how we use it--whether we seek the growth/better/wise
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#20
Since resuscitation methods have improved, millions who would have died in the past are now being
Cal33
Feb 2013
#23
There are international institutions that have been involved in debates and discussions
Cal33
Feb 2013
#28
If this is true, why have scientists never been able to document "out of body experiences"?
Taverner
Feb 2013
#29
Questions like yours have been asked thousands of times. If you do not intend to do
Cal33
Feb 2013
#30
Question...how would a born-blind patient know how to describe things around him/her?
Heddi
Feb 2013
#116
You do know that blind people use the part of their brain, normally used for sight...
Taverner
Feb 2013
#144
I have not heard of this before. But I am familiar with the idea that it is possible for nearby
Cal33
Feb 2013
#146
Yes, many are doing that, especially those who claim that others who don't believe the way they do,
Cal33
Feb 2013
#160
This thought has crossed my mind also: The representation of God as an old man in the clouds
Cal33
Mar 2013
#166
What you are implying is that the human brain (or at least the brightest ones) is capable of
Cal33
Feb 2013
#91
Perhaps, but the only way we can truly understand them is Scientific Research
Taverner
Feb 2013
#158
There is no evidence that it's "your synapses." You choose to believe that, like others
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#79
Sounds like you've come across too many rigidly fundamentalist type of people. Are you
Cal33
Feb 2013
#108
Of course it's a state of mind. But I'd say you'll find a higher percentage of them in
Cal33
Feb 2013
#114
Others are equally convinced there is a God or a supreme being of some sort.
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#80
I believe that many become atheists as a reaction (whether consciously or not) to
Cal33
Feb 2013
#88
Nope. Most atheists just realize the belief in a god or an afterlife makes no sense.
HERVEPA
Feb 2013
#102
Or very young. He was still a teen-ager -- a freshman at college, I believe, and very
Cal33
Feb 2013
#118
I have no quarrel with atheism at all. You seem to be simply following what feels right to you.
Cal33
Mar 2013
#170
Am sorry to hear of your condition. I am open to most ideas about the hereafter. But, don't be
Cal33
Feb 2013
#95
I had a long-time neighbor whose mother passed away. A few days later while (I'll call her Mary)
Cal33
Feb 2013
#106
I believe in neither god/s, heaven, hell, an afterlife nor ghosts ... but
Arugula Latte
Feb 2013
#105
What I do know, is people have all sorts of experiences that, while perhaps not "objectively" real
nomorenomore08
Feb 2013
#115