Afterlife

crusader – I can do that and I have, and mankind condemns these things and puts labels on them. I can do that in 3 days, after those three days I begin to change the pattern of things down here. Or have you all been unaware of what is going on in the last 2 years?
for – it has not caused me any problems as of yet but it has for you all. He is not pleased with you all to say the least.
Fort – thats very true what is going on in this world matter not even an eyelash up there.

If you have found a path to the outer dimension and higher spiritual plane and are able to commune with your ancients that is indeed a true gift. Agreed you should not divulge this privilege as usurpers may follow you and invade the inner sanctum of this higher plane. Silence when one is blessed so is preferable. I will try to remember this when sharing in the joys of the afterlife in the here and now. You may also have found the afterlife is a greater mirror of the physical world albeit without the intrusive drama and awareness of conflicting presences and turmoil’s.

The Underworld is divided into different sections according to one’s actions: Elysian Fields for those whose actions warranted reward and a separate region for those whose actions warranted special punishment. What is the advantage of having a mythology that incorporates both aspects into its afterlife

Most mythologies are trying to explain our own existence (life, death, rebirth <if any> and our purpose while we are here.) The underworld(s) in mythology is to explain what happens to us after death and why. It is all part of the attempt to explain the grand scheme of things and what we are to do with our time here and how we should conduct our lives while we are here.

I was just interested if anyone out there had any near death/afterlife/ghost/haunting experiences.
Actually, the question wasn’t a matter of, "gullibility," I am doing research for a paper I am writing. This isn’t an opinionated matter, so please keep the pseudo-philosophy at bay, I would like to have examples of actual experiences, if any, thanks.

Um, a *near* death experience means the person wasn’t actually dead, and the "afterlife" they see is a drug trip caused by their own brain chemicals from the lack of oxygen, in fact the very same effects people describe from their NDE’s had been recreated by administering hallucinogenic substances to test subjects. Please don’t be so gullible.

EDIT- I wasn’t making an attempt towards philosophy, I was talking about scientific research, here, I’ll even give a link.
http://www.skepdic.com/nde.html

For example: In Hellenismos (Greek Paganism) when you die you go to Hades, well, does everyone go there? Will asatruars (Norse Paganism) go to Hades to, or will they go to their afterlife?
According to your Pagan religion will Christians go to Heaven or will they go to one of the Pagan afterlifes?

Thanks!

I’m heathen. Pre-christian heathens believed that the dead went into the gravemound or something similar (a gravemound/hall in a mountain). But when confronted with christianity, they were given an option. Radbod of Frisia denied christianity on the basis that he would rather spend the afterlife with his family instead of in heaven with a bunch of people he did not know and had no relationship with. Also, the concept of Hel, as in place and giantess, is a later syncretic belief and probably reflects influence from both christianity and Classical myth. Such concepts would at least suggest that the afterlife destination of people weren’t considered consistent.

The dead left on the battlefield and not returned to their familial gravemounds, rested in Valhal, the hall of the slain, where dead warriors fought eternally. In other words, it was the gravemound of unclaimed dead on the battlefield where they were left to be buried by time and the elements.

The dead who were lost at sea and unclaimed resided in the nets of Ran. Again, the same concept as the gravemound, but the location is the sea of unclaimed/unburied bodies.

Your afterlife is where you are buried.

The other day someone told me Jews believe reincarnation, which I’m pretty sure is flat-out wrong. But I’m also pretty sure they don’t subscribe to the Christian view of Heaven/Hell. So what exactly is the Jewish view of an afterlife, if there is one?

This guy is a Messianic Jew.

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Chayei-Olam/chayei-olam.html

Thankyou for asking sincere question about islam

well, i didnt get you when you said church’s concept of afterlife? concept of hereafter is found in every religion appox. because its the basic requirement of human logic, otherwise, God will be unjust. but God says in Quran that "Allah is never unjust In the least degree" [Al-Qur’an 4:40] , and the faith in hereafter is one of the basic 6 beliefs of islam.

This life is a test for the hereafter. The Glorious Qur’an says:

"He who created Death And life that He May try which of you Is best in deed; And He is the Exalted In Might, Oft-Forgiving" [Al-Qur’an 67:2]

"Every soul shall have A taste of death: And only on the Day Of Judgement shall you Be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved Far from the Fire And admitted to the Garden Will have attained The object (of life): For the life of this world Is but goods and chattels Of deception." [Al-Qur’an 3:185]

"In the Hereafter, there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion" (Quran Surat al-Hadid 57: 20)

HOPE THIS ANSWERS. ALLAH KNOWS BEST

Meaning that these beliefs all rely on each other and if one is false then they are all false?

It’s like those pop stick boomerangs that I used to make when i was a kid. If one stick is removed… it all falls to pieces.

The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, in chronological order) believe that the history of the universe has a trajectory. It started -here-, we are -here-, and it ends -here-. They believe we are all created as part of God’s plan, which includes creating, running, and ending the universe in a finite time frame. While there are some Abrahamic believers who believe in reincarnation, it is not really a major feature of any of these religions. Mostly they believe we get one life to learn and grow, to succeed or fail.

Hindus believe the universe is eternal. They believe that we all come back again and again, forever. If we do well we are born next time in a higher caste. If not, we might come back as a mosquito. One consequence of this is that there is no afterlife!

I’m writing an essay on Egyptian afterlife during Ramesside Period.
I’ve got all the info on Book of the Dead etc, but i was wondering what actually happens to the Egyptians of lower social status as they could not afford funerary books and didn’t get their own tomb or undergo a mummification progress. Would they still go on the journey with the Weighing of the Heart etc? thanks

poor people in ancient Egypt were generally buried in the sand, and the hot dryness had a similar effect on their bodies to mummification. In fact the process of mummification was invented so that bodies buried in tombs would still be preserved like the bodies were in the sand. So I think the poor would have expected to go to the afterlife as well, since their bodies too were preserved.

What is the religion where you live life well to have a better afterlife?

I think you’re looking for Buddhism, but Hindu is also close.

When I think more about it though, isn’t that what all religions ask us to do? Not that everyone does, of course….