I tell my husband something like that when we see on the News people celebrating their 100 birthday, etc. Here I am just about to turn 65 and I can't imagine living to be 100 years old.
That doesn't appeal to me. Without my loved ones my life means nothing and I could care less about an afterlife.
At 65 Babs, I told everyone I intended to live to 139 (not sure why that number ) but have changed my mind since
Well since I have actually seen a couple of spirits (or ghosts as some refer to them) there is no doubt in my mind that a spiritual realm exists.
Yeah, being old and in pain on earth is plenty enough of that stuff as far as I'm concerned. If an afterlife does exist where we live for eternity...I'm kind of thinking our bodies would exist differently than they do here on earth, as our earthly bodies would definitely not make it for eternity!
Reincarnation sounded interesting to me...but only if you could pick who or what you wanted to come back as. I also read once that we keep coming back until we get whatever lesson we were supposed to learn right. If this is true I will be coming back forever!
Yes that is the theory and when I was young and very attached to life, I thought I would deliberately not learn life's lessons to ensure I had another round, but that has changed as well. I can't even remember what the lesson is I am supposed to be working on anymore
I definitely can understand that Chrissy, and often feel this same way. My life is my family and loved ones! And I don't think life on earth would be worth living without them...so I have to believe if there is an afterlife...my loved ones will be there too sooner or later.
Tom, I find what you said here very interesting....the part where you take the view that you started as nothing and will end as nothing. I noticed when I started planting things that even though they may have died to what they were at the end of their season, etc., they always seemed to return in some other form...reseeding theirselves at times or ending up as mulch to nourish other plants, etc. Most of life does this in one way or another...so maybe we do too.
I've always felt that nothing comes from nothing, and everything comes from something. You can neither creat matter or destroy it. You can only change it's form. I have no idea from whence I came, and I have no idea of where I might go. But somehow I feel I'll not be of 'THIS' world, or this form, and this I find exciting. I don't need guaranties.
With the afterlife, I have only 2 choices - to believe or not to believe. What do I get when I don't believe? Nothing. But if I believe then I get encouragement, a positive outloook that there is something to look forward to when we die. Well, dying is the ultimate issue that's why religions are teeming all over the world because almost everyone, except the atheists maybe, are hoping to stay alive after dying, alive in the sense that our consciousness still exist. So for me, I have to believe in life after death.