is there an afterlife?

this poses a very very serious question to me as im an atheist. i dont believe there is some all powerful being who knows everything were going to do even before we do. but at the same time i want to believe in some sort of afterlife because of gohsts. i know they exist, my own house is haunted more and more people are believing in them with the huge amount of evidence to support it. but still. i how do we know there is an afterlife.

Lol.

i know, its a contradiction.

They're demons out to devour your soul for being an atheist.

Cool, I'd like to see them! Especially if they are female.

She wants to play.

Play! What?
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yea, your right its just.. rather unsettling to think about, ever sense i nearly died a few weeks ago its been on my mind alot.

That's not uncommon. Near death experiences often make you reevaluate what you believe.

Probably the best thing for you to do, is explore some of the beliefs around you and see if any of them feel right to you. Remember, your own belief is your own. You don't have to conform to anything someone says. But it can be helpful for reevaluating your own belief by studying what and why others believe a certain way.

It's a sort of refining process.

i would but it just grinds me the wrong was like bigtime. i refuse to belive that someone or something knows EVERY SINGLE DETAIL about my life before i do. its just the way i am.

I'm not saying you have to believe in God if you don't want to.

Having a belief is not something that has to be connected to a diety.

I personally believe that if you do not believe in an afterlife you are just naive. Its not that I believe that there is an afterlife, I just refuse to believe that our existence will end with the death of our bodies.

If there is an "afterlife" we will never truly know. Depending on what you believe, your human flesh will never know. You will either be reincarnated into another person/thing or you will be in some sort of limbo/heaven/hell type situation.

And I doubt we will ever know.

There is nothing more to life than what we've got. Live for you, not for a chance that you may live in an after life. Our body is all we've got. We are sacks of chemicals, might as well live how we feel makes us happy.

I personally believe that there is an afterlife. Having gone to a catholic school, I have heard stories of miracles from my teachers and peers, stories of Near Death Experiences where they saw themselves from afar, dying, and were "climbing up ladders into a brilliant, peaceful light," who were then resucitated via medical means. Of course, this is my personal belief, and I'm not asking you to believe in it, it just seems to me that the easiest thing to do is to believe in a God.

I want to become cockroach so I will survive million years <--- my sexy teacher favorite insect.
I bet trekki859 finished watching ANGEL BEATS.

And that's why trying anything once is alright, because hey, you only live once.

I use to get pretty worked up about the whole idea of death and being dead but I then came up with this theory; You are only nonexistent if you are not conscious to accept the fact that you have really died. So what I am saying is don't fear the reaper since if an afterlife doesn't exist you won't know it since your brain will have rotted and therefore not function. I sometimes believe that incarnation would be cooler than an afterlife since you'd comeback as a different species or person. Although if there is a heaven I hope it has tons of schoolgirls with wet striped panties waiting for me to pound the hell out their tight vagoos.

No.

I see it as humans trying to push fairness into the equation of life. Just living once and go through so much with no reward well that's no fair! So we like to think after all we go through there's something in it for us, eternal happiness.

Personally if there is an after-life then that annoys me, I like knowing that when I die that's it, with sleep you never want to wake up no matter how much the alarm clock protests, same with death for me except no amount of alarms will resurrect me.