There is an afterlife. My dad was with me after he died. I literally felt his hand on my leg. My cousin saw her grandpa after he passed. She saw his spirit before anyone told him he had died.

Anonymous wrote:Hmm I don't give to charity or volunteer to earn anything. I do it because the well being of all is related to the well being of me. I support other doing good work because they may be positioned to be effective in ways that I am not.

Do you practice a religion?

Hmm I don't give to charity or volunteer to earn anything. I do it because the well being of all is related to the well being of me. I support other doing good work because they may be positioned to be effective in ways that I am not.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

really?

You can't make your life fun? You can't enjoy your kids or your spouse or your friends and family?

You're pathetic.

blaming some BS on your unhappiness

We make our own happiness. And that's why religion is such a crock of shit.

Perhaps the Religion board is the wrong place for you, love. And I feel sorry for you.

So by making my own happiness instead of relying on an "outside source" as a reason for living, you feel sorry for me?

I don't feel sorry for myself.

I'm happy with my decision to make the most out of life.

As I said earlier, let's just LIVE instead of LIVING FOR. But yet, when I say that religion is selfish - that it's self-serving - I'm attacked. I don't tithe to earn a spot in heaven.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

I've often wondered how someone who doesn't believe in any existence after this one keeps tucking away this bit of knowing, that all of this ends abruptly and then nothing.

Maybe that person is concentrating on living life to the fullest and not worrying about things they can't change, like the course of nature -- of life and death that they see all around them

Maybe they are grateful for the incredible accident of being born in the first place and don't demand eternal life on to top of the great undeserved gift of being born.

The current world - the dimension we inhabit - is one out of an infinite number of dimensions. I believe that the past, present, and future, as well as the happenings of the many dimensions - are constant and concurrent. Time is an illusion, as is reality.

In a word, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

I've often wondered how someone who doesn't believe in any existence after this one keeps tucking away this bit of knowing, that all of this ends abruptly and then nothing.

It's like before we were born -- nothing -- and nothing we remember for a couple of years after being born, then life starts coming into focus, then it goes on for a while and then it ends - like all the other living things around us.

Yes. There is zero upside to not . Period.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

really?

You can't make your life fun? You can't enjoy your kids or your spouse or your friends and family?

You're pathetic.

blaming some BS on your unhappiness

We make our own happiness. And that's why religion is such a crock of shit.

Perhaps the Religion board is the wrong place for you, love. And I feel sorry for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

I've often wondered how someone who doesn't believe in any existence after this one keeps tucking away this bit of knowing, that all of this ends abruptly and then nothing.

I have gone back and forth on this. I do hope there is an afterlife - preferably a fun one - for obvious reasons, but it's something the rational side of me has significant doubts about.

Anonymous wrote:Is it inevitable that discussing heaven makes a DCUM thread into a bit of hell?

Look

I'm all for a heaven. But if I have to rely on some belief system to get me through life, I'd feel like an actor on a stage.

Let's just live instead of living FOR.

Is it inevitable that discussing heaven makes a DCUM thread into a bit of hell?

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.

really?

You can't make your life fun? You can't enjoy your kids or your spouse or your friends and family?

You're pathetic.

blaming some BS on your unhappiness

We make our own happiness. And that's why religion is such a crock of shit.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. In my mind, it's a clear fabrication to help people get through the pointlessness of life and the extreme grief of losing loved ones.

This is so sad. I'm so glad I wasn't raised this way.

I was raised that way I really wish I wasn't. It makes life so small and pointless.