I have lived always with a fear of a higher power.
When I make decisions - I am consciously choosing the one that feels right and I also believe in karma.
Other than mental illness - I care about my energy and my future karma and things like that.
In the plane, I thought about after life. I thought, I do not remember most of my life and childhood and pre birth so what if - there is absolutely nothing after death. Nothing at all. I will die and just disappear.
(sorry for this subject btw)
So if you know, you have very few years or time left which is passing so quickly and then after that you will no longer exist with this consciousness. what would you do?!
I don’t know if there’s an afterlife or not but I too am still fascinated by it all. All the audiobooks I’m listening to at the moment are on that topic.
Nobody knows what happens. It could be worse if there’s an afterlife. Who’s to say it’s going to be better.
I was atheist up until 18. I wasnt living differently (well of course way different cuz was pre sz years). I hated the idea of being dead forever, it tormented me. I would try to not think about eternal death, and keep myself distracted. I think atheism had to work it’s way out of my system, but i had to go through that bad experience of horrible atheism to evolve naturally as a person.
Somehow I can’t wrap my mind around the idea of not existing, though I know I didn’t exist for at least 13.7 billion years before I was born in this universe. I don’t know if I have existed in other universes. Then again, somehow the prospect of not existing seems appealing. I mean, nothing could bother you if you didn’t exist.
We have many many lifetimes and if you do good they are progressive in nature. How you do in this one determines where you go next. Your oversoul decides where you go next in your journey. God created oversouls to manage the life in the universe.
This thread isn’t fair…just because someone believes in karma or repeated lives they get to talk about what they believe…christians aren’t allowed to talk about what they believe…so why are the non believers allowed to talk about it?
To answer your actual question, I’d try to act in ways that gave me greater self respect. I’m older than you and one of my regrets is that I did more things to decrease my self respect rather than increase it.
I am not 100% but I have thought a lot about reincarnation … I kinda feel there might be something there … but as for karma I don’t believe it and if it does exist it’s cruel part of life. My dad was once told he was blind cos of his past beliefs.
This is funny because I think the opposite. I have done everything till now to earn self and others respect throughout life . And now all I care about is just being happy. I wanna be happy and do not care about stuff anymore.
I hope you have some good memories though because that’s all there is (to me)
I’ve always preferred that there be nothingness after death, however because we all have a conscience. I figure there must be a conscience giver, with his law written on our hearts. So I will live for the conscience giver. Would be miserable for me to live any other way.
I don’t know if there is anything after death. I’d rather live my life like this is the only one I’ll ever have. If there happens to be another one, I’ll be living that one then. But I’m not going to waste my time preparing for an after life that might not even be there.
A waste of time would be doing something for someone or for a cause that is not worthy. I truly believe in a righteous loving creator whom is worthy of praise. So to me anytime spent in that matter is time well spent. Afterlife or not. It all hinges on your perception of who that deity is.