Is there an afterlife?

Question

I have always wondered this. I was reading greek mythology, and it kept going on about Hades and the underworld. Is there a place after death?

Answer 1

Yes there is a place where we go to after what is known as death.  It is a different dimention and the people there are just like us but the body is not made up of matter.  It may look similar but constitutes watervapor and air.  It is the land of perpetual light.  No darkness there.  It is a land of silence too.  After a while, when we get restless there, we have the option to come down to earth again.  Thus we are reborn.  Many books have been written on this subject.

Answer 2

Most likely yes.

But i don't think its an 'afterlife' where you live another life for eternity. I reckon our 'life energy' remains after we die but we but we are no longer a physical individual but apart of a whole universal consciousness as our energy is apart of that which makes up the universe.

Hope i made sense.

Answer 3

I believe in afterlife, but I don't believe it at Greek mythology prespective.

Answer 4

I believe there is.  It is a matter of faith, not proof.  There are more things in existence (in "creation") than the purely physical and tangible.  Human beings do have a spiritual capacity as well as their ordinary physical senses. Modern physics shows us that "how things really are" at the subatomic level is very different from how we perceive them in every day life.  There seems little point to this life if this is all that there is.

I have no idea what an afterlife will be like.  How can we know?  Can a tiny child imagine what it is like to be grown up, with adult responsiblities, experiences and relationships.  Can a capterpillar imagine what it is like to be a butterfly?

Various religions give descriptions of "the next world".  They are all based on the religious imagination of their teachers, gurus, prophets.  All of them are trying to describe something intangible and utterly unimagineable.  Some images appeal to us, others don't, some repell.

For myself, I happen to be Christian.  I put my faith in God, through Christ, that all will be well.  As I can't imagine what it will be like, I don't bother about it..  If there is an afterlife, I trust in God that I will be OK.  If there is no afterlife, I will never know anyway.

I don't take the apocalyptic images in Revelation literally.  God inspired?  Possibly, but only to help people wrestle with thoughts and fears and hopes of what the end of the world and a "new and perfect creation" might be like.  Frankly, the Boble would be much better if most of the Book of Revelation were not there.  But that's another argument.

Answer 5

There is an episode of "Star Trek-The Next Generation" you should watch where the fictional holographic character, Prof. Moriarity, becomes sentiant and takes over the self destruct device on the ship and threatens to blow everyone up if they don't develop a means of transferring him off the holodeck and into the real world. In the end, the Captain creates another holodeck simulation which leads Prof. Moriarity to believe he has escaped the holodeck and the ship and flown to a planet  nearby where he lives out is life...in reality this is all taking place in a microchip with enough capacity to last a lifetime...

... so Star Trek...the words alone are enough to turn you off reading this entry...but I think that episode hinted at the nature of the afterlife...it happens for those who believe in it.Infact this is Jesus's main message....believe in an afterlife.....only those who believe are destained for eternal life. I guess our brain probably "dies backwards" through our evolutionary triune brain...the neocortex first, the limbic next and the reptilean brainstem last. I think if you believe in a God and an afterlife and have not turned yourself into a nervous wreck in life and feel you're going to h**l. your dying brain creates an afterlife from all of your believes and in your last moments this new life is frozen and lasts for the eternity of your death..essentially infinitety. This is what Jesus was trying to get across to people and it is the main message in the book of revalation. Thus like Prof. Moriarity in the episode of Star Trek we have enough microchip memory to last an eternity. I hope I'm right:)

Answer 6

There is a life after death ......... with great god

In the heaven or in the h**l.. as per our life now

Answer 7

Go with what you believe in.  Find out for yourself.  Are you just asking for opinions?

Answer 8

The answer to this question ranges from one to word to volumes of text. It really depends on how subjectively relative you want it to be.

Answer 9

Read Alan Watts.  He will answer that in his own way probably better than anyone on here can.  And you can find him on youtube.

Answer 10

No there is. I mean, yes there isn't.

No way of knowing. There's no evidence that there is, but it can't be proven that there isn't, either. We don't even really have the knowledge to gauge the probability. Moreover, how one defines "afterlife" becomes an issue. So, maybe?

Answer 11

courious species humans can be ..

maybe the more evolved species in the universe like aliens know already but we have to learn more about this subject

Answer 12

Well, It Is All To Do With Belief. Many People Believe You Go To Heaven/h**l And Many People Believe Their Is An Afterlife.

.. I Believe In Afterlife's But Only You Can Make The Decision Whether It Is True Or Not. x

Answer 13

I suppose so.there is a place after death