Life After Death

Skulldroog

I don't believe in anything like that. I see religion and the life after death thoughts and theories as a "safety net" for people.

Just not my thing.

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dingdonghead

There IS life after death, how it happens can be in different ways. Reincarnation exsists but from the souls point of veiw it's all happening at once as teh soul exsists beyond time there are no past lives or future lives just lives that it has.

PeacefullyStoned

Thank you for putting it into words. My beliefs hover very close to that, and I can never put words to it.

There is just to many little coincidences in life, that have to be more then JUST coincidence. Little things that stick with you from past lives.

Peace and Pot.

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MxMike

Although I do not believe in a life after death, my life is much better since abandoning such thoughts. In my mind I just can't see the possibility. It is an intriguing concept though.

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Osprey

Having been "out of body" (yea, I know it's hippy shit) I have to believe that somehow the energetic signature of an entity has some means of independent and ambulatory existence.

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What are we? What is to become of us? This and more, after the break. . .

dingdonghead

Well yea you're spot on with that.

Imagine your soul as a great complex of "recordings" of teh realitys you have (and will) experence that has many different aspects, certain events realated to the same aspect will play out again and again over time untill you have mastered that aspect.

But of course from the point of veiw of the higherself it's all one thing that is just there, like we're being born off of the bottom of something greater and trying to gain the knowledge and the attributes to become the greater thing it's self, yet it's already there, yet for some reason we put our conciousnesses into linier time so it becomes a learning process, it's a strange thing that "logic" can't relaly apply to. The thing of time and everything is almost like the fule the being needs to become what it may be, impossible to put it into logic really. It goes beyond the realms of the comprehension of the conciousness I engage to type this messege put it that way.

Death

I know, but I'm not telling.

WeFlYiNgHiGhNoW

Life is like a bunch of chocolates, ya never know whatcha gon get

AK_47

I was an absolute atheist for the longest time. Now I still don't believe in a God or a supreme being, but I have a semi-Buddhist belief that I always find hard to articulate clearly. But here goes. (BTW I've been here about half a day and you guys are damn well the best community I've ever laid eyes on....)

So. Basically, I came up with this thinking about consciousness and what it means. I've always like to think about at what point during the creation of a new life does its consciousness awaken? And when it does... what prompts that consciousness? Where does it originate form? Buddhists and Hindus share a fairly similar view of a a universal soul, or collective of consciousness. So when I die... I think perhaps my consciousness leaves me, and joins a sort of collective... But I mean, the universal soul, it's not a physical thing, dig? I don't think of it at a specific location or anything. So then, whenever a new life is created, a little bit of that universal consciousness enters that mind. Of course the new mind has no old memories, they've all been mixed and faded by time. So in a way I guess I do think of life after death, as our soul joins with others and then is passed into living creatures again and again in a never ending cycle. We may at some point form a new consciousness through this process, in fact I think it's likely we will, but we wouldn't know it. For some reason this is a very comforting way of viewing things for me.

Eh, maybe I'm just crazy. Maybe losing my best friend to a drunk driver a couple years back sparked some of this. I don't know. I'm finished now, carry on

PeacefullyStoned

I completely 100% makes sense to me. That is exactly what I believe, dead on... and I can never put it into words properly. So good job!!!
I would have never considered this before losing my Dad to cancer... so losing somebody definitely opens your mind to new things.

I come across to many things, and people that feel familiar to me to just ignore that connection. To many little coincidences that makes me feel and believe that we are all connected by the universe somehow, and live on forever as souls.

Thank you for posting, I am so glad you did

Peace and Pot.

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desertweed

I believe that we go on as something... that there is energy that can never be destroyed.
I believe in a Higher Power.
I was taught to be a Christian.

I have read the Bible, I do not belong to, or go to any church at this time in my life... and YES, I have doubts about it all...

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AK_47

Thanks Peaceful, yeah it is hard to put into words isn't it? Ah, man... whenever I smoke and think of this kind of stuff it seems so much clearer than when I'm not floating. Of course, there's no way I could manage to articulate it then, so I'm in a tight spot. Guess I got the main idea across though, and I'm glad you agree

BTW, for the record everyone, if there is a supreme being, I believe it to be female. I'm about to flatter all the ladies here, but the female form and psyche is in every way awe inspiring compared to us brutish guys (still glad I'm a guy though, that way I can appreciate said beauty ), so I can't see a supreme being (assuming it resembles a human), taking any other form.

420HeidiXx

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mainestoner

well, I for one believes that there is a God...after all, all of this(he opens his hands widely to encompass all of existence), didn't just happen...I don't believe any one religion has it either, I think it's so complex that we, in our earthly forms, couldn't even possibily understand, but understand this...what ever is going to happen, is going to happen, and there is nothing you can do about it. People have been dying for millions of years, and if you think this one lifetime is all you get, don't you think that would be kind of a waste. A lifetime really isn't that long, hence why I took the long way around to saying that I believe in reincarnation. I believe that if the soul, or the essense of which is you...wants to come back, it can, if not, it goes on. So stop worrying about what happens next...it's going to be here before you know it.

So, party it up my friends...