Afterlife

Hey, i was wondering if you know any creative and unique ways to present something visually. i’m doing a project on afterlife, and we have to show some kind of visual depiction. the project was mainly about the beleifs about afterlife in various religions (buddhism, hinduism, christianity, islam, judaism), and now we need to present visually. i didn’t really wanna do a poster, just cuz thats not very creative..i mean everyone can do that. i can’t do a powerpoint cuz we don’t have this special room booked….so any other neat ideas i can present this??

well you could bring stuff 2 reptresent the religion… i just got an idea…hw about if u use a bristol board and on one side u write about buddhism… and like thier color… red i guess…. then like a little buddhoo statue… and try 2 make thier temple…. it will look really sophisticated…. and while presenting each religion have like a religious song… like 4 chiristian u could use the song hallelujah… i luv that song…. i bet it will be great….

good luck

The catholic faith is:

When we die, our soul is directly judged. This judgement will result in:

1. Our soul goes to heaven, we meet our Loving God, our Creator and stay there permanently.

2. Our soul goes to hell, where we’re separated permanently from our God, cannot be changed anymore. This is very sad.

3. Our soul goes to the waiting room (purgatory), where our soul needs to confess the sins during eartly life. Once the sins are confessed, our soul goes to heaven.

When Jesus comes for the second time on judgment day (dooms day), His judgement just confirms the above judgement – and our body joins our soul again.

Up to now, the persons who have both body and soul in heaven are Jesus and Mary – all the rest of the saints in heaven , their body are still on earth.

God loves us all!

It seems like many of the language choices for expressing ideas are made on the basis of how the ancestors who shared that religion spoke rather than, say, on the basis of clarity of communication with others who do not share the worldview. I find it hard to believe that there haven’t been theologians who have expressed the same ideas as the Bible, for example, in much more compelling language, and yet they aren’t admitted to the canon.

Another instance is the idea of a satisfying afterlife. It is not necessary at all that afterlives be anything other than a dark dimension of some kind, as in the Greek worldview, or that there be any afterlife at all. But there is a need to to honor our ancestors, so they are depicted as celebrated and rewarded, and given powers so they can stay close to us and hear us.
Godsgirl55: Jesus was officially designated "God from God, begotten not made" to place him above the deified Roman emperors, who were adopted as Gods, yet still created. So you see, you’ve demonstrated exactly the phenomena I am talking about: the circumstances justifying the language have passed, but you still speak that way because its how Christian ancestors spoke.

Many people will not see it that way, and some (such as the Christian Fundamentalists) might even find the notion offensive. But in a psychological sense, it could be possible. Religious people talk of deities in a rather familial sense (father, mother), and in many traditions, greet one another as brothers and sisters. I would not have accepted such an idea just a couple years ago, but the more reading I do on the background of religious thought, the more I find that everything comes down to a certain set of mythological, archetypal, and/or ancestral themes. Ancestor worship is a very strong theme within ancient religions, and likely has carried over into certain aspects of modern theology.

I have one day to complete a paper on hamlet. My thesis is that death imagery in the play serves to question the validity of an afterlife and show the immorality of revenge.

help?

Elizabethan Revenge in Hamlet

http://shakespeare.about.com/od/hamlet/a/hamlet_revenge.htm

http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/essays/Ehamlet2.htm

http://www.shmoop.com/theme/literature/william-shakespeare/hamlet/revenge.html

Or is there a scientific explanation for them eg hallucinations because of the brain shutting down? Are there NDEs that science cannot explain?

There is research that already shows its electrical and chemical activity in the brain causing the hallucinations.

By ’specialized’, I mean afterlives that cannot be properly reached without a specific ritual, even if it’s just placing two coins on the deceased’s eyes so that they can pay a fair to Charon, for example.

I met someone a while ago that was afraid of death because she couldn’t get someone to mummify her, and thus couldn’t properly be buried in terms of her beliefs, and in result wouldn’t properly depart to the afterlife.

What about these people? I’m sure the various deities out there are highly traditional. What happens to people that are, for example, worshipers of a Greek goddess or god (or more), who aren’t buried with the required fare? Does Charon take modern coins? What about people whose afterlives require a different ritual?

Are they properly seen to the other side despite the fact that their rituals do not or can not go on anymore?

Protip: I am not looking for the answers "There is no afterlife", "They go to Hell", or "Hey, you’re that genderless pronoun who keeps asking about necromancy. Why don’t you ask them?", or variants of. ]:

I believe that it all depends on what they believe. I feel that the afterlife is another place where lessons are learned just like they are here. However it is a different level of consciousness, or being, what have you. I believe that our life here on earth depends greatly on what we decide while we are on the other side. I also believe highly in re-incarnation as more of a choice than a requisite. Bright Blessings to You and yours!

if you believe in an afterlife, please give a brief explanation of what you believe happens in the afterlife.
wow, that is interesting. thanks!
good grief, who’s giving out thumbs down?
Who said anything about eternal torment? I asked about Jewish beliefs, not a discussion of Christian beliefs.

answer: there are many views because the afterlife isn’t described in Judaism. Most Jews don’t focus on the afterlife, they let G-d worry about that. Jews focus on the here-and-now: keeping G-d’s commandments, studying Torah, caring for others and helping to repair the world.

Some Jews believe that when someone dies and they are righteous, they go to join G-d immediately. If they aren’t righteous they spend a short time away from G-d.

Some Jews believe that we enter a sleep-like state until the Messiah/Messianic age and then join in the new world to come.

Some Jews believe in reincarnation until the Messiah/Messianic age or until one becomes righteous enough to join G-d.

haha only jokin

i know such a place as hell doesnt exist

now my assignment to you muslims is for you to think to yourself whether an eternal afterlife makes any sense

to give you a hint…. it doesn’t

regards,

ex-muslim called musa

I agree with you – I just don’t see any evidence supporting any of their claims.

@Ruchjat, you say that with such relish, such glee. Really enjoying that, are you…your mental picture of someone else’s torment?

You realize that it doesn’t bother atheists because atheists don’t believe that any of that will take place, right?

But you believe it…and you really seem to enjoy the idea of people suffering that way, all in revenge for having had a different opinion than you did.

That says quite a lot about you.

Decisions
It is interesting how two people in the exact same situation will make different decisions based on their personalities. A good example of this would be the play Antigone. In this play, there are two sisters, Antigone and Ismene who lost their two brothers, Polynecese and etoclese, in civil war. Given to one was a hero’s burial, while the arrogant King Creon condemned the other to rot in the fields. In Greek theology, in order for a person to transcend into the afterlife, a proper burial must be performed. Therefore, according to their beliefs Antigone and Ismene’s brother had been condemned to the equivalent of hell. Antigone and Ismene are in the same situation but make different decisions. Antigone defies King Creon’s law about her brother because she values her family and religion more than the law. On the other hand, although Ismene loved her brother, she uplifts the law because of fear for her life. I have qualities of both Antigone and Ismene and in the same situation, I would make Antigone’s decision to defy King Creon’s law, but like Ismene, I have a sense of preservation, and would be make precautions as to not get myself killed.
this is the statement i need to be the thesis could you please help me revise it

I have qualities of both Antigone and Ismene and in the same situation, I would make Antigone’s decision to defy King Creon’s law, but like Ismene, I have a sense of preservation, and would be make precautions as to not get myself killed.

Like Antigone, I would chose to defy King Creon’s law, but at the same time, like Ismene, I would take the necessary measures to avoid getting killed.

I’m trying to find out what exactly the Jewish faith says about afterlife.

I’m getting rather conflicting information where it is a place called "Sheol" where both good and evil people go and then a place where only good people go and evil people cease to exist.

Can some one help me understand what the "general consensus" is??

Traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the end of human existence. However, because Judaism is primarily focused on life here and now rather than on the afterlife, Judaism does not have much dogma about the afterlife, and leaves a great deal of room for personal opinion.

Some scholars claim that belief in the afterlife is a teaching that developed late in Jewish history. It is true that the Torah emphasizes immediate, concrete, physical rewards and punishments rather than abstract future ones. See, for example, Lev. 26:3-9 and Deut. 11:13-15. However, there is clear evidence in the Torah of belief in existence after death. The Torah indicates in several places that the righteous will be reunited with their loved ones after death, while the wicked will be excluded from this reunion.

Belief in the eventual resurrection of the dead is a fundamental belief of traditional Judaism. It was a belief that distinguished the Pharisees (intellectual ancestors of Rabbinical Judaism) from the Sadducees. The Sadducees rejected the concept, because it is not explicitly mentioned in the Torah. The Pharisees found the concept implied in certain verses.

The place of spiritual reward for the righteous is often referred to in Hebrew as Gan Eden (GAHN ehy-DEHN) (the Garden of Eden). This is not the same place where Adam and Eve were; it is a place of spiritual perfection.

Apostolic Believer In One God, Jesus