Thoughts on the afterlife

Question

i've asked this already but am hoping for a more optimistic reply :) do you think that people who never had a chance to make their dreams come true (i'm talking about tragedies such as refugees or people who can't escape and immigrate, people being murdered and so on) receive all of that in the afterlife, the joys they didn't experience here? thanx

ps) if anyone can relate, please answer, but know I'm not talking about reincarnation, I do not believe in that. Thanx.

Answer 1

I would say so, because if it's out of your control like the way you were brought up, there must be something to look forward to. Otherwise, what would be the point of going on?

Answer 2

Sadly, there is no afterlife, and there is no scale of justice that compensates people for bad luck, illness, accidents or misery. Life, and death, are unfair. That is why we must make the most of this life, for ourselves and for others.  

Answer 3

So you are talking about victims such as Jessica Lunsford? A 12 year old girl that was molested by her neighbor for days, only to be forced to crawl into a garbage bag and then buried alive? While buried alive, she poked her middle and pointer finger out of the 2 trash bags. When police dug her up, dead, those two little fingers (out of the bag) were decomposed all the way to the bone. Do not take that away from her. Death is not pretty and you can not spin it to be. The crackhead that did this to her, should have never been free / out of prison to begin with. I do not know if she is now at peace but I d**n well know she got justice. She got justice for other children as well.

Answer 4

i would say  that they would recieve all of that in the afterlife because it wouldnt be their fault and god would be taking care of them. God takes care of all even if they have a wrong doing at some point in their life.

Answer 5

Well the way I see it if they don't have the energy to remain earth bound yes. Some do and stay.

Answer 6

I believe in the traditional Christian view of Heaven. I believe that those things will be trivial in comparison to all we will be offered there. Just to be in the presence of God will out shadow all of the things that may seem so important here, but trivial there.

Answer 7

If a person's desires are of a physical nature, then the answer is no.  The spirit is not of the flesh so the spirit does not care for the desires of the flesh.

If it is my life long dream to have a 1964 Mustang convertible, I will not want one in the afterlife.  My spirit just will not care if my hair is whipping in the wind while I drive down the highway.  

It is a spiritual existence and when they look at people doing their physical things, yes I do believe that the dead do see us all the time, they look at us like we look at wild life.  They know we are of the flesh and that is just the way we are.