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I totally believe there is an after life. Apparently, it's one big raving party & our time on this planet is just a dress rehearsal to see how big a party animal you are.

By the way my family knock it back, I presume they are aware of this as well.

Good point. Being the Webmaster of a very popular ghost site, this topic obviously features regularly in my forum discussions.

What I have always wondered about the Afterlife, if there is one, is just what do they do for entertainment "up there"? I mean, if there are no discos or theatres or restaurants, then it must be a pretty boring place!

I think life after death is the same as it was before you were born, you are unaware of anything, its just nothingness. You wouldn't know or feel anything. I think there is definitely lights and the feeling of euphoria, but I think its the brain shutting down. I think there's a built in part of the brain that works out your times up and helps it be a bit more of a relaxed affair. It can be triggered by mistake sometimes i.e "I seen my life flash before me." I would love to think there is heaven but I doubt it.

We have science nowadays to explain the things that in centuries gone by, people turned towards religion for. That's what religions purpose was, to help us understand where we came from and how we came to be. With modern science, religion is becoming less important as we use science to help us understand questions man has been asking for 1000s of years.

Totally agree.

If you put a hundred people in one small room and ask them to talk loudly all at once for a good half hour, then somehow in the blink of an eye they are all gone but you..you can still feel their lingering words all over you, crawl along your neck, its science and psyhiological and its what I believe to be our living ghosts. Our dead ghost, the entities so many claim to see are perhaps a mix of the above with a little exaggerated brain activity on our part haha! I`m not a skeptic by the way, I`ve been contacted by a regressor and parapsychologist before time (another story) but I simpy think its much more fundamental and safer sitting on the fence!

ii think the point is no body will know for definately what happens after death until they are gone and if it is nothing obviously you wont be any the wiser, so if you do believe inlife after death and it gives alot comfort while we are on this earth i dont see what the harm is as long as it isnt hurting any one else

Only just picked up on this thread.
Interestingly,although we are a Christian country, we all have different thoughts and opinions which is a good thing.

I have wondered for long enough why people who don't believe in an after life,under the most soul destroying and distressed times, of having a child close to death,in many cases they choose to have the child baptised.

In the case of a disaster, such as being on a near to sinking ship in the middle of an ocean, lost and without navigation. What would we do? In that situation, which I have experienced and at the time, many of us on board non- believers. We had nowhere to go and no one to help.In sheer desperation and fear, we all prayed as hard as we could. I still ask why.

Is it our deep seated beliefs or because we truly do believe in something more powerful than we can imagine when put to the test? If so, we must believe in an after life which I most definitely now do.

I don't believe in reincarnation. (but then, I didn't the LAST time I was here, either!!) :-)

Every one's a good one.

Personally, I don't believe in reincarnation. But then I didn't the LAST time I was here either!! :-) Anyway, if it was such a good place to go-why didn't Bin Laden blow himself up much earlier to inspire his troops?
PS. An anagram of "Osama Bin Laden" is "Lob Da Man In Sea!!"

You are a nutcase Filys. Are you like this ALL the time or just some of the time? You are like a breath of fresh air.

I agree with Kieran1981 he has hit the nail right on the head there couldn't of put it net better my self

Not really a believer myself and asked my sister who "died" for about 5 minutes many years ago if she'd seen anything, which she said she hadn't. Having said that though she was very drunk when this occurred so the booze could have clouded any visuals I suppose.
Anyway, what I wonder is, IF there is a life after death and we do meet up with our family, then if I die when I'm say 80 and go 'upstairs' if I meet my mother who died when she was 70 and my father who died at 72, then that will mean I'm older than my parents and maybe they won't recognise me and it'll be very confusing for us all because I'll be older than them...so that's what confuses me.
Also, if everything that's ever lived goes to heaven and has an afterlife, well it's going to be very crowded and will there be dinosaurs knocking around too ? It's too much for my brain to take in.

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Tell you what. My mother died just 2 years ago aged 90yrs. She came back to me on I believe on 3 occassions. I am prepared to say that two of them could have been pure coincidence but one was a definite. Four months after she had died and it was the dog that first guided me to her.
I can't explain and wouldn't even attempt to.