What's Your Verdict Or Belief? from Is There Life After Death?

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    Suzie-Shine Suzie-Shine Aug 7, 2009 @ 10:46 am | in reply to MLM1776
    Thanks so much for your comment. It must be wonderful to have such a string belief. I hope to have this one day.

    I do read the Bible at times, especially the New Testament. I believe that Jesus was real but find it difficult to comprehend how He could be the son of God. To me He was a man ahead of his time. So much of what He said rings true: turning the other cheek, about love and so on. I actually try to follow some of this.

    Maybe I'll see the 'light' one day. I shall keep seeking: if you seek, you find!

    Suzie
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    MLM1776 MLM1776 Aug 6, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
    Hello Suzie.
    What a lens! I feel for those who are seeking truth and want to know it. I'm 50 now, but way back at 20 I was in such a place. I wanted answers. But I wanted nothing to do with that whole bible, Jesus, God thing. When we die, that's it.

    Or so I thought. I truly was looking for answers, but not from a God that I felt did not even care about the pain in my life. Was there a God at all?

    A series of events lead me to seeing into a group of people's lives that were confusing Born-again Christians. That was a surprise. It was their lives that made me understand they had something I did not have.

    Why in the world were they happy in all situations? Weird. I had to know more. They explained What Jesus did on the cross.

    Finally I did accept Jesus as my Lord, And I cannot keep it from you. He's real, He is the Jesus in the bible. Forget Religion, Find a bible and just read about Jesus. The real, loving, caring Jesus is there. And He is worth more than anything in this world.
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    RinchenChodron RinchenChodron Jul 29, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
    Another well done lens. Some of your readers might also enjoy How Buddhists Look at Death.
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    Webcodes Webcodes Jul 29, 2009 @ 10:56 am
    As a Christian, I believe there is life after death. Just look at some simple concept such as seeds and trees.... do you know how ridiculous it is that a seed becomes a tree if you bury it in the ground? It's just one argument that makes me think that there is a God and therefore an after life... 5*.
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    Alex Alex Jul 17, 2009 @ 10:52 am
    i think that all this isn't true ,the universe is so big , it's our illussion that something will exist after death , but it owned because life is one :)
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    BunnyBoiler BunnyBoiler Jul 16, 2009 @ 11:57 am
    "...Why else would virtually all of us try to hang around as long as possible, and do everything we can to keep our loved ones alive - it's because we have doubts..."

    That is a very powerful point :)

    enjoyed the lens!
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    JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jul 9, 2009 @ 5:02 pm | in reply to spirituality
    Yes, I too believe in life after death -- and I believe in angels as well!
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    SH SH Jul 8, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
    I'm not a Witness, but they have good bible explanations. They say: Until the memorial tombs open, 'the dead are conscious of nothing at all'. Satan rules this world which is why bad things happen, 'Woe for the earth and for the sea for the devil has come down to you having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time'. Like Job, we are being tested but God will eventually step in, 'Jehovah is not slow..but he is patient..he does not desire any to be destroyed'. 'For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are the pangs of distress..and this good news will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come'. 'In the last days, critical times hard to deal with will be here..men will be lovers of themselves..money,self-assuming, haughty..disobedient to parents..etc. etc.' He will 'bring to ruin those ruining the earth'.
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    Suzie-Shine Suzie-Shine Jul 7, 2009 @ 9:43 am | in reply to chefkeem
    That sounds okay! Serve the bullies right.
    Thanks for the Blessing. I'm tickled pink.
    Suzie
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    chefkeem chefkeem Jul 6, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
    After death, we all go to a cute little (air-conditioned) ice cream parlor smack-dab in the center of a 100-degree heat vortex. The bullies have to wait outside...

    This lens warms my heart with joy. Therefore, I gave it a hearty SquidAngel Blessing. :-)
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    cconiam cconiam Jul 5, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
    After the death of my daughter, none of this made any sense to me at all. I did go to chruch and believed in heaven and hell, but after watching her die of cancer (not a good way to die), I just couldn't understand anything about religion. But I have to tell you that as she took her last few breaths she reached out, we were all there holding on to her and she reached past us as if someone was there waiting for her.
    Nice work here.
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    spirituality spirituality Jun 27, 2009 @ 6:11 am | in reply to JaguarJulie
    I believe in reincarnation and karma. Which means that yes there is life after death & responsibility (ultimately). See these lenses of mine:

    http://www.squidoo.com/karma-reincarnation
    http://www.squidoo.com/heaven-hel
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    Chadrew Chadrew Jun 25, 2009 @ 11:23 am
    I don't think there's life after death. I would very much like for the afterlife to exist, but sadly that doesn't seem very likely.
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    Angelus Angelus Jun 24, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
    Tibetan saying: "Everyone dies but no-one is dead."

    I enjoyed your lens. 5 stars awarded.
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    Kylyssa Kylyssa Jun 22, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
    An interesting perspective. Personally, I believe we die and our personality ceases to exist. I believe we are the sum of the biology, chemistry, and electricity inside our bodies and once that biology, chemistry, and electricity reach a fatal imbalance we are gone forever.

    Of course, I'd like to live forever, I just don't believe I will.
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    genglo genglo Jun 22, 2009 @ 10:57 am
    I am also a big fan of living, so I hope that there is something else after we are done here. I have no idea what that something else, is, but I'm still hopeful. The alternative is too depressing. Thanks for the thoughtful lens. I'm enjoying exploring your lenses.
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    almawad almawad Jun 22, 2009 @ 12:16 am
    I was brought up in an atheist family ...I was taught that there was no God ..and all the talk about it was just manipulation .... the ignorant believe ..enlightened people do not ....

    Sometimes I had deja vue feelings , sometimes I thought that my parents might be wrong .there is life after death ...

    I studied the Quran and the Quran alone ( no explanations ,no traditional proverbs) and it says that your soul goes back into a state of sleeping after death - you must see your life in your dreams .Bad deeds provoke nightmares !
    Can it be that hell= nightmares?
    Until you will get up and live here or there or in between .

    For me it sounds fair . there is a code written deep into us about what is good or not .Poverty stricken or too rich we feel that ...
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    drifter0658 drifter0658 Jun 21, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
    I have an odd and maybe twisted version of immortality. Okay, versions. First is through genetic imprints. Deja Vu. Who is to say that some distant (or maybe not too distant) relative didn't pass over the same ground and that inherited memory (or snapshot) isn't recalled from some dusty old file to be merged with the current vision?

    Blow flies (and other necrophagous critters) or just plain ol' rotting. The beginning of the life cycle is often death. What we think of as "Bubble Memory" in computers and other electronic devices I see as a possibility in human memory. Once again, genetic imprints being passed along the food chain, thus leading to possible "re-incarnation".

    What do I believe? I believe a creator lit the bunson burner that started this huge experiment. I believe in love. I believe every thing given to us is beautiful; we uglify it.I don't believe in fear mongering through doctrine, especially from faiths that take their name from a man that rebelled against like doctrine
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    tcinvestor tcinvestor Jun 21, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
    Nice thought provoking lens.
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    Victoria_Neely Victoria_Neely Jun 21, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
    The "144,000 people go to heaven" belief held by Jehovah's Witnesses always seems to confuse people. It's the number of people who go to heaven to reign with God, but that doesn't mean everyone else is doomed to nonexistence. It means all the other people accepted by God get to live forever in a paradise on earth, petting lions and such. If the earth-bound chosen ones are already dead by the appointed time, God resurrects them.

    Maybe you already knew that, but I felt like clarifying. :) I was raised as a Witness, but don't really hold with the teachings anymore. I'm still sorting things out.
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    Dkprincess6 Dkprincess6 Jun 21, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
    I'm not exactly sure what my beliefs are. I used to believe in Heaven and Hell, but some things have changed that in me. The reincarnation thing makes some sense, but, seriously, I'm not sure what happens when we die.
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    The_Bard The_Bard Jun 21, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
    I'm more of a secular humanist myself - but that gives me a lot of room for manoeuvre!
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    JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jun 21, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
    I'd love to hear Katinka spirituality's take on this -- I believe there is something after death.
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    Suzie-Shine Suzie-Shine Jun 21, 2009 @ 12:30 pm | in reply to GreenEcoBean
    In a way I agree with you, GreenEcoBean, it is depressing but it's a reality. And, yes, perhaps we do believe because we love our life. I keep thinking, and saying, that there must be a reason for life - but perhaps there doesn't have to be. Who knows. I'll keep looking for an answer though.
    Thanks for commenting.
    Suzie
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    GreenEcoBean GreenEcoBean Jun 21, 2009 @ 11:28 am
    This lens is kind of depressing. That said, I have the EXACT same beliefs you do. But maybe we are just believing it that way because we love our life and it is how we keep from dreading death. After all, life (and death) is not fair. Who's to say we don't just disappear into nothingness?

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  1. Do We Go To Heaven?
  2. Will There Be A Judgement Day?
  3. Does Religion Manipulate Us?
  4. How Do You Pick The Right Religion?
  5. My Own Belief About Life After Death
  6. Reincarnation Makes Sense
  7. Karma And Reincarnation Or Rebirth
  8. Yet Another Cleopatra!
  9. Is There Life After Death?
  10. Life After Death: Bets Being Taken Now!
  11. What's Your Verdict Or Belief?
  12. A Few More Words From Me
  13. There's Lots More Info on Life After Death