Originally posted by: PhoeniXof_Hades
Yes and no. Sometimes strongly, sometimes weakly. Most of the time a fence-sitter. 😆
You never know what happens to you after you die. However, human beings fascination with death - or the unknown - remained. Which is what crafted out religions and system of beliefs.
I don't follow anyone's idea of an afterlife - not even an atheist's. 😉
But here's a good thing if there's no life after death - once you die, you die. There's nothing more to regret, nothing more to ponder over, nothing more to complain or whine about. You just loose your "I" self. Sounds like a sad end? 😆 But think this way - how do we know heaven is filled with flowers, nymphs and wines? Why do we comprehend eternity to be something vast - vas beyond our thinking power? For all we know, eternity could as well be a suffocating end to what we have seen; maybe we will be stuck onto a two dimensional world.
That said, I do wish the afterlife exists - just in the way I have painted it in my dreams. I am going to burn out this mortal coil and join the universal consciousness that lives forever.
Argh, do I sound like Believe now? 😆 (Nothing against you Vinu). 😆
To quote Mitch Albom, "people think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for." To me, this is what life after death is - heaven or hell, whatever it may be, its more than just scenery. It is answers to life long questions, and to life itself.