Is an afterlife pointless?

[Borderlands of Rojava]

https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/12/the-ult ... t-popular/

This may explain how reincarnation is possible if true.

[Neanderthaland]

https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/12/the-ultimate-mystery-consciousness-may-exist-in-the-absence-of-matter-2019-most-popular/

This may explain how reincarnation is possible if true.

That's some Deepak Chopra level shit right there.

Oh, he's cited in the article. Even better.

[The Hindustani State]

eh. islamic version of the afterlife is abundant dreams and doing anything. i never died,nor am i close to dying,nor do i want to die.

but i really think its not pointless.

The Muslim afterlife sounds pretty cool tbh. I've read about it and it sounds alot more fun than the Jewish or Christian one.

But even that would get boring after a while, right?

I think in a way, our Hindu cycle of reincarnation and living different lives is kind of the more "fun" thing

[Kasa Tkoth Sphere]

If we're talking about an all-powerful being in charge of such an afterlife, it could do what we would call impossible — like keeping everyone entertained forever without changing who they are, or reuniting parents with their child while also keeping that child away from the parents they find abusive. Complain all you want about contradictions, but an omnipotent being can resolve them, against all notions of classical logic, by its nature.

Do I think this actually happens to dead people? Not particularly. It's fun to write about sometimes, though.

[Infected Mushroom]

In my ideal afterlife, everyone becomes a deity-like consciousness in their own micro world. They can then create and insert themselves into their own matrix with altered memories.

Earth was just a trial run to see what you like and don’t like.

[Vallermoore]

It depends what the afterlife is like. If it's horrible, like being stuck in one's own dead body or in a lake of fire, yes, but it could also be quite fun. I could be the dictator of my own afterlife, with everything I could possibly want.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

The Muslim afterlife sounds pretty cool tbh. I've read about it and it sounds alot more fun than the Jewish or Christian one.

But even that would get boring after a while, right?

it probably wont,since i never experienced since i didnt die at all. but it probably wont end beacuse you can communicate with others too.

you also have anything you could need. basically a abundant heaven. oh wait it is a heaven.

Oh,maybe you had died,but you don't know.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I just would love if I could prove the existence of Valhalla.

[Matroyska]

there’s a video by the amazing Non Stamp Collector on the topic: ten hours alternating between a depiction of heaven and hell. by 2 minutes in it’s boring (and harrowing). an infinity of that? no thanks.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

If there was an afterlife, I feel like it’d get mind numbingly boring at a certain point, either bored of paradise or bored of endless torture.

[Rea]

We can’t comprehend eternity, because we live in the passage of real time. Time and eternity cannot coexist.

With the passage of time, things break down. Material possessions and physical organisms including our own bodies deteriorate. That’s entropy for you. The earth and climate changes, etc.

No such things can exist in the utter absence of the passage of time (eternity), a concept incomprehensible to those of us who have lived with time for our entire existence. Personally I find most anxiety and stress is related to the passage of time in some way. The gradual development of long term health problems, the pressure to pay off accumulating debt and keep up with changing financial pressures, the pressure related to gradually changing human relationships. The idea of eternity is attractive by comparison, but only if I can spend that eternity pursuing the defining aspect of my spirit - my spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ. An eternity of afterlife spent pursuing anything else is pointless and boring, to the point I might actually prefer the pressure and anxiety of the moment. At least something is always going on.

As a Christian, only an afterlife spent in the presence of Christ appeals to me. I’ve been a Christian long enough to know I never get bored with my faith; something new is always evolving, changing, about my perspective on the world and how I interact with the situations in my life. That’s a trend I feel will continue in the Christian afterlife, irrespective of the absence of time. It won’t be boring at all, but rather a constant renewing of my faith as I walk with my Maker forever and ever.

[Rea]

https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/12/the-ultimate-mystery-consciousness-may-exist-in-the-absence-of-matter-2019-most-popular/

This may explain how reincarnation is possible if true.

As a believer in the metaphysical, I think this would go a long way towards explaining how the metaphysical can exist in the absence of the physical.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/12/the-ultimate-mystery-consciousness-may-exist-in-the-absence-of-matter-2019-most-popular/

This may explain how reincarnation is possible if true.

As a believer in the metaphysical, I think this would go a long way towards explaining how the metaphysical can exist in the absence of the physical.

Maybe consciousness is a force independent of matter. That would be interesting.

[Kowani]

As a believer in the metaphysical, I think this would go a long way towards explaining how the metaphysical can exist in the absence of the physical.

Maybe consciousness is a force independent of matter. That would be interesting.

It would be a bit nonsensical if so.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Maybe consciousness is a force independent of matter. That would be interesting.

It would be a bit nonsensical if so.

Would it

[Kowani]

It would be a bit nonsensical if so.

Would it

…Yes?

[Saiwania]

The chance given was the life they lived before, the punishment or reward (if it exists) is that.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

The chance given was the life they lived before, the punishment or reward (if it exists) is that.

So what are you saying?

[Uiiop]

The knowledge gap itself kind of lends a feeling of pointlessness to the idea, yes. Living in a material world with more spiritual stuff rendered as guesses and paranoia makes me more focused on the here and now than the might be beyonds.

Still I don't want to knock anyone else's thing of cessation and hope for a place where they don't have to be even capable of wanting that.

[Exalted Inquellian State]

The chance given was the life they lived before, the punishment or reward (if it exists) is that.

Quoting Al?

[Suriyanakhon]

I think that when a lot of people imagine an afterlife that they think it will be the same as the life that we've lived before, which probably makes sense given that most religions depict an afterlife in heavily material terms (streets of gold and all that) which some of the less theological minded take as literal. But things such as time and consciousness will be so completely different that it's impossible to fully comprehend what it would be like, much less claim that it would be boring.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I think that when a lot of people imagine an afterlife that they think it will be the same as the life that we've lived before, which probably makes sense given that most religions depict an afterlife in heavily material terms (streets of gold and all that) which some of the less theological minded take as literal. But things such as time and consciousness will be so completely different that it's impossible to fully comprehend what it would be like, much less claim that it would be boring.

Idk I just pictured a neon colored dreamscape of eternal nothingness and light filled with the souls of the dead.

[Saiwania]

So what are you saying?

An afterlife is around as a concept, primarily to try to give a sense of consequence for what someone does whilst they're alive. So in that sense, it isn't pointless.

[West Phoenicia]

The Afterlife is not pointless. It's relevant, and shows there is more than just this out there.