^^^ evolution, in a sense. Eternal evolving of atoms (energy) that continues to 'recycle' itself- and making who we are today, who our children are, and animals, plants, trees, everything. I think what's more beautiful is that we share this energy.

Logically, ya hope whatever gods may (or may not) be are not swung by whimsy. Or spiteful.

Logic fails. Belief fails. I eat cheese nips.

and all this falls under 'is there a god?' if there was would he grant us a heaven? or would we be reincarnated? i dont know, but i do know myself and what sounds good to me and to me i like reincarnation it gives the idea that your dead relatives arent really dead their just , somewhere else starting a new life totally oblivious to what they had before or maybe they decided for an uncomplicated existence as an animal.
and to qoute the simpsons "noone ever suspects THE BUTTERFLY!" thats what ill become even if i'll only live for a little while in such an existence, and thats my opinion on this matter

I hate thinking of no life after death... it makes me feel sick, like there's no point to being alive other than breeding. When my time comes, I think my soul will leave my body and go to this sort of limbo where I will look over my life and remember all the lessons I learnt. Then I will get a choice... to go to the nice place with fluffy white clouds and angels or to come back to earth to live one more time. Thats my theory anyway

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Yeah I am afriad that is what I believe, wished I believed in afterlife to be more relaxed if you know what I mean.
Death scares me death and, I guess, like me most of humanity are so I figure out that's the reason why there's religion and all the other believes, to try and believe that we won't have to stop living. It's a way to live more comfortably.

that's how i used to think.. but then i realized, we humans don't know anything about death until we expierence it. therefore, you can't make any assumptions. science has not progressed that far, so you can't say your explanation was scientific. :)

I wish either souls lived on after death or reincarnation, but I'm skeptical.

I don't find any reason to think there's NOT afterlife. It just seems categorically absurd to assume the negative.

Here, let's practice:

-- The universe is infinite and evidently expanding. Are there other planets orbiting stars ANYWHERE in ANY galaxy that might sustain the sort of life that we currently call "viable"?

Answering that there MUST be NO other planets like ours really flies in the face of logic, doesn't it? Think of the potential number of options, and the chance that a few fell into place properly! I find it unlikely that there aren't, like, sixty or a hundred options to support life, just because there is such a VAST EXPANSE in which planets might be.

Here, let's try another one.

-- Presuming that all the ducks in a certain pond were the same species, and the ducks were split evenly fifty-fifty between the genders, would you say that there would be no baby ducklings next spring? Or some ducklings? --

It's possible there'd be no broods. Maybe there was a chemical spill, maybe a hunter killed all the males, I dunno. What are the chances? Low. Why be silly and INSIST that the NEGATIVE ZERO STATE is the ONLY possibility?

I feel the same about life-after-death. So much we don't know, so many particle physicists still finding doo-dads that zip around right straight through us all the time, so much of our scientific understanding is based on potentialities. Why be "hard-nosed" and try to prove how "scientific" you are by ABANDONING all that science teaches you about not assuming anything until it's proven?

Life after death has to be pretty much a given until it's disproven. (And that's an unlikely proposition.)

I see myself being burned and then mya shes spread in the bushes. The end.