I voted maybe.

I can't prove by any means or any experience that it is even possible, nor do I personally know anyone or have met anyone that believes it does.

Logically it would seem not, I would say what ever is left would naturally go back of what is left and re-used just like fertaliser, maybe it's not nice or fancy to think this way but there is nothing wrong with that.

New life may very well be influenced by what returns.

I voted Yes.

I think it fully depends on what religion you're in. If you are a christian, then there's definitely something after death. If you're taoist, then there's not even a life after death. You will be reborn to another life. But as a christian. Yeah.. Believe in that.

What I think is that the body you live in dies. then the soul or something like it goes in to another body which will be born. The body is like machine. The soul uses it and when it dies it finds a new body.

So the evils and the good you did in your past life will affect your new life. If you did evil in your past life you will be born in to a unhappy life such as being born to an unhappy poor family or born in to a country where war rage on. But if you did good in your past life you will be born in to a happy life! Like a $rich$ place.

THIS IS JUST A PASSING BY THOUGHT. I do not want to offend any religions or anything.
Just enjoy your present life and be HAPPY!

Ironically your teacher got one the basest facts 100% wrong. Our universe has 4 dimensions

As a Christian I most certainly believe in heaven and hell.

This post has been edited by Darasen: May 8 2008, 06:32 PM

If there isn't, then it doesn't really matter what you believe, does it?

If there is, then it does matter what you believe, doesn't it?




It is human nature to plan for the future. In so far as we are able it is only rational that we prepare for what will happen. So the question is whether we can know what will happen and if we can know that there is, then the question is whether we can do anything now to prepare. If not then you are right. But if the answer is yes then that is another matter indeed.




I not only have serious doubts about your math, but I have doubts about whether playing the odds in this case will help one at all. Modern Christianity will tell you that your chances are 0% of being OK, regardless of what kind of life you live, so playing the odds doesn't help at all.




Our universe has at least 3 spatial dimensions and at least 4 space-time dimensions, but perhaps it has more - the best guess of current string theory is 11 space-time dimensions, but 7 are very small and only experienced in the variety of forms that energy can have in it.

I believe that heaven and hell are what people make of themselves. But ultimately the difference is found in the infinite nature of God compared to our own finitude. In a relationship with God we can find endless choices and inspiration, neverending challenges and excitement, and eternal growth and becoming as we seek to become more like Him. But without God an eternal existence must end in banality and despair.

I voted yes. I am Catholic, and an extreme one at that. I believe in Heaven, Hell, God, Angels, etc. But one thing I need to mention. Purgatory is said to be between Heaven and Hell, and by what we humans that believe in Heaven and Hell say, is that Heaven is beyond the sky, and Hell is below the Earth. With that being said, that could be a reason these 'ghosts' walk the Earth, because Earth itself is Purgatory. Now, you could also say that we are all already dead, and are walking Purgatory to repent for our sins, and that death is just a simulation of moving on to a more spiritual place, or for some, a more horrible place. You could argue that it is physically impossible that Heaven and Hell can't exist. But the thing is, some scientists have recently discovered that the law of physics could be greatly flawed. Thus nulling out the fact that Heaven and Hell can't LOGICALLY or PHYSICALLY exist. These are my beliefs, yayayayaya. :]

Yes haha... it seems we are now speculating since we have no experimental evidence to back up that claim. But then if we're talking theoretical physics, it is possible that an object in the fourth dimension could "pass through" our plane of existence in three dimensions and then disappear again. So we could be "dragged off" into the fourth dimension and taken to heaven or hell.

However, I also wish to add that I do not believe in any afterlife. I am one of the five people that voted no. I want to see more people vote!

It would be nice to just say YES or maybe to put many people's minds at rest by saying NO... It is and always will be a religion vs science debate that will go on for eternity, or maybe til the end of the world... That too, is up for debate.

We know what we know from how we were taught to believe. Many that will follow the technology of sciences and theories of evolution and totally facts will think that what you see is what you get... and that is that...

I was brought up to learn and grow and know that there is a heaven and a hell. As I grew older I understood why it was and that there are many things that will go on in life that cannot be explained easily and openly. Because of this, there can only be speculations... and when you cannot pinpoint perfectly, there will be disagreements and opinions.

I have voted YES... I am a Christian, but I am not an 'over the top' religious nut that crucifies or even goes around judging people... I found spirituality that cannot be expressed by typing what and how I feel on a forum... This is the part that others can scratch their heads on.

I have lived and seen many events that could not be explained other than being miraculous. And I have done things and have regretted them because I have a conscience. Funny that it has science in its' name...

Ok, so if there were just places on this forum that let you right pages and pages of thought on a topic, this would be a good one for me... but I can get a little carried away at the same time... I am glad each of you can keep an open mind, and don't be afraid to feel how you feel...

I am pretty sure that there is life after death, because there has been many story tellings and movies made with psychics that make contact with the otherside. To neglect that there is not another side is just ignorance rather you believe it or not. Because I can tell you for certain that I have a couple family members that can call on spirits as a practice. And if that is not enough to prove that there is not afterlife than I dont know what else to say. Even the movies that have been released on the occurences of ghosts and such is half of the truth. Lost souls, and such I believe is half true. But I really dont know what the truth of it all is unless I move on to the otherside to tell you guys. Even discussing about this gives me the creeps, but Im sure there is a afterlife. Whether it be another dimension remaining on earth, or the so called heaven and hell of a world. Science I believe cannot even to determine its reality, because its something that cannot be tested to be proved, but only can be experienced before it is proved true. But those that have experenced it will probably come back marked as crazy and lunatic if they started to spread nonsense. So in my conclusion I do believe that there is another life after what we live, I just hope heaven got a ghetto, hehe.

I don't think there's life after death, I believe that when you die, you're death and that's it. One lives the present, there's is (IMO) no such thing as a soul that will enter another body afterwards (reincarnation) or that you will go to hell or something, none of that seems to be real, for me.

The fear of christianism about going to hell for being a bad person in your life, is just that. So that you live in fear and not commit crimes or tell lies or commit any other kind of sin. It's a nice story, if you're bad you are going to hell, so then we all have to be nice and we'll go to heaven.

No I don't think that's true, but I'm thankful that more than 95% of the population on earth believes so, if not then it would be chaotic everybody killing themselves (more than they do now) and other serious stuff...