The After Life

msbrunnettemickey · 04-19-2005, 05:24 PM

I have been reading lots of posts, and lots of comments, and i came up with this thread.

What do you think of the after life?

As i have been sitting on my bed for an hour, trying to answer my self i went up to my brother and asked him what he thinks. We sat down on the kitchen table, and started talking.
I asked him "How come we, can't remember what we were in our past generations? How can't i remember if i was a cat, or a bird, or a fly?"
My brother told me "That is the way God created us, for some reason he doesn't want us to remember, but only your soul remembers"
I asked him, if there is anyway or actually REMEMBERING.
He looked at me and said, "I'm going to tell you, but you have to promise you are not going to do it"
So i promised him, and he said,
"In the Tora, there was a King, he was also, like you, he wanted to know what he was, or how he was in his past generations, or as you call it "after life" So he went to a "witch" or a psychologist, and told her to connect him with his other life, and he found out all the secrets that were hidden in this world. God punished him"
Then he told me "If you went to that so called psychologist and told him/her to connect you with your other lives, what would you think if you discovered you were Hitler?"
I said no more, but closed our disscusion in saying
"God, i wish i could remember who i was before i was born"

Omeganitros · 04-19-2005, 05:28 PM

Reincarnation would be mighty cool. Remembering would be even better.

JurseyRider734 · 04-19-2005, 05:31 PM

That story kind of sounds made up. Asking your brother this and him taking you to a table and talking about it like that, it sounds fake, but I guess the same thing could have been said in a different situation. I wish I was a princess in the afterlife or something.

I often think how it would be cool to go back in time and re-live your life with all of the knowledge you already had, which would explain why you would be a genius baby. A 1 year old doing Algebra II? Sounds cool. Or you could just play along and not make the same mistakes in life that you regret, because you already learned. You could be a better person, too. I always think how cool it would be to do that.

vashthestampede0987 · 04-19-2005, 05:32 PM

It's an interesting thought. I think I'll meditate on it a bit.

msbrunnettemickey · 04-19-2005, 05:35 PM

I promise you Jurs..
It's not made up..
My brother is studying about it now O.O

I wish i was a kid that can do Algebra II!
That would be awesome!
Never actually thought of that... But what i think is that my brother was Albert Einstein, since he is 3, and can play on the computer + do math...
You give him a picture of 2 triangles and he is like
"OH IS 2!!"
well, close to Eintein...

supamario198 · 04-19-2005, 05:37 PM

lmao unicorns

04-19-2005, 07:33 PM

What makes you think there's reincarnation?

I've found that reincarnation is a belief widely held by people who want to believe in an afterlife but can't grasp the concept of life without death.

Verruckter · 04-19-2005, 07:48 PM

I don't really beleive in the afterlife. However, I can't imagine that there is absolutely nothing after we die.

Tasuke · 04-19-2005, 08:13 PM

I believe in an afterlife wholey because I don't/can't imagine the alternative.

msbrunnettemickey · 04-20-2005, 03:18 AM

Since im Jewish, I have to believe the after life

RevenG- · 04-20-2005, 05:31 AM

I wish I was Gandalf in my past! lol

**stretchypanda** · 04-20-2005, 06:41 AM

HEY RevenG, stop being annoying!

And I'm guessing saying you HAVE to believe in an afterlife is poor wording. You don't HAVE to believe in anything, you just do it.

As for me, I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this issue. I've been raised to think that there will be a greater life waiting for me after death than what I live through now, and that's pretty much what I've accepted all my life. It's something I just don't think about too often.

msbrunnettemickey · 04-20-2005, 11:25 AM

Well... My mom always threatens me! By saying... "Oh God would punish you if you don't listen and respect me"

Well, i guess i don't really want to die and not remember what i was, or who i am. I feel blank, and empty trying to figure out WHO I WAS before i was born.

suicidalmuskrat · 04-20-2005, 12:49 PM

What the hell? Since when do Jewish people believe in reincarnation?

msbrunnettemickey · 04-20-2005, 12:58 PM

THEY DON'T!

They believe God... ^_^

suicidalmuskrat · 04-20-2005, 01:00 PM

Ok. Just got a little confused when you were talking about what you were wondering you were in previous lifes, and then when you said you were Jewish. So just clarify for everyone: Do you believe in reincarnation?

msbrunnettemickey · 04-20-2005, 01:01 PM

No i do not.

The "after life"
Means to me, where you go after you die, for example, Heaven.

fusi0n · 04-20-2005, 01:03 PM

I don't believe in anything after death.

The whole reincarnation idea is cool, but still rediculous in my mind as to actually being true.

msbrunnettemickey · 04-20-2005, 03:05 PM

I'm not against that, do whatever you believe, or believe whatever YOU want to believe

MalReynolds · 04-20-2005, 04:45 PM

I think having all that knowledge as soon as you are born would be maddening. Try sitting for four years until you develop the proper motor skills to access your knowledge to some degree. And then, it only looks like scribbles.

Now, if you had the motor skills to match your brains, retaining knowledge when you're born... That'd be something to see.

Mal

04-19-2005, 05:24 PM	#1
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	The After Life I have been reading lots of posts, and lots of comments, and i came up with this thread. What do you think of the after life? As i have been sitting on my bed for an hour, trying to answer my self i went up to my brother and asked him what he thinks. We sat down on the kitchen table, and started talking. I asked him "How come we, can't remember what we were in our past generations? How can't i remember if i was a cat, or a bird, or a fly?" My brother told me "That is the way God created us, for some reason he doesn't want us to remember, but only your soul remembers" I asked him, if there is anyway or actually REMEMBERING. He looked at me and said, "I'm going to tell you, but you have to promise you are not going to do it" So i promised him, and he said, "In the Tora, there was a King, he was also, like you, he wanted to know what he was, or how he was in his past generations, or as you call it "after life" So he went to a "witch" or a psychologist, and told her to connect him with his other life, and he found out all the secrets that were hidden in this world. God punished him" Then he told me "If you went to that so called psychologist and told him/her to connect you with your other lives, what would you think if you discovered you were Hitler?" I said no more, but closed our disscusion in saying "God, i wish i could remember who i was before i was born" __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-19-2005, 05:28 PM	#2
Omeganitros auauauau Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Hee-Haw! Age: 37 Posts: 8,897	RE: The After Life Reincarnation would be mighty cool. Remembering would be even better.

04-19-2005, 05:35 PM	#5
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	I promise you Jurs.. It's not made up.. My brother is studying about it now O.O I wish i was a kid that can do Algebra II! That would be awesome! Never actually thought of that... But what i think is that my brother was Albert Einstein, since he is 3, and can play on the computer + do math... You give him a picture of 2 triangles and he is like "OH IS 2!!" well, close to Eintein... __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-19-2005, 05:37 PM	#6
supamario198 FFR Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 32	RE: The After Life lmao unicorns

04-19-2005, 07:33 PM	#7
User6773 Guest Posts: n/a	RE: The After Life What makes you think there's reincarnation? I've found that reincarnation is a belief widely held by people who want to believe in an afterlife but can't grasp the concept of life without death.

04-19-2005, 07:48 PM	#8
Verruckter FFR Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canada, with the cool people! Posts: 2,707	RE: The After Life I don't really beleive in the afterlife. However, I can't imagine that there is absolutely nothing after we die. __________________ Truth lies in loneliness, When hope is long gone by -Blind Guardian, The Soulforged Image removed for size violation.

04-19-2005, 08:13 PM	#9
Tasuke FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: where ever you aren't Age: 35 Posts: 1,671	RE: The After Life I believe in an afterlife wholey because I don't/can't imagine the alternative. __________________

04-20-2005, 03:18 AM	#10
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	Since im Jewish, I have to believe the after life __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-20-2005, 05:31 AM	#11
RevenG- FFR Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: California Posts: 425	I wish I was Gandalf in my past! lol __________________ [deviantART] "Originally posted by Tokzic" we really need a "whine about your relationship problems" forum

04-20-2005, 06:41 AM	#12
stretchypanda shock me shock me Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Texas Age: 41 Posts: 4,123	HEY RevenG, stop being annoying! And I'm guessing saying you HAVE to believe in an afterlife is poor wording. You don't HAVE to believe in anything, you just do it. As for me, I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this issue. I've been raised to think that there will be a greater life waiting for me after death than what I live through now, and that's pretty much what I've accepted all my life. It's something I just don't think about too often.

04-20-2005, 11:25 AM	#13
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	Well... My mom always threatens me! By saying... "Oh God would punish you if you don't listen and respect me" Well, i guess i don't really want to die and not remember what i was, or who i am. I feel blank, and empty trying to figure out WHO I WAS before i was born. __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-20-2005, 12:49 PM	#14
suicidalmuskrat FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Muskegon Posts: 739	What the hell? Since when do Jewish people believe in reincarnation? __________________ I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old danish. Done, and done.

04-20-2005, 12:58 PM	#15
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	THEY DON'T! They believe God... ^_^ __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-20-2005, 01:00 PM	#16
suicidalmuskrat FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Muskegon Posts: 739	Ok. Just got a little confused when you were talking about what you were wondering you were in previous lifes, and then when you said you were Jewish. So just clarify for everyone: Do you believe in reincarnation? __________________ I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old danish. Done, and done.

04-20-2005, 01:01 PM	#17
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	No i do not. The "after life" Means to me, where you go after you die, for example, Heaven. __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-20-2005, 01:03 PM	#18
fusi0n FFR Player Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 38 Posts: 2,158	I don't believe in anything after death. The whole reincarnation idea is cool, but still rediculous in my mind as to actually being true.

04-20-2005, 03:05 PM	#19
msbrunnettemickey FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: BOOBALOOBA! Posts: 1,780	I'm not against that, do whatever you believe, or believe whatever YOU want to believe __________________ בקצה השמיים, ובסוף המדבר, יש מקום רחוק מלא פרחי בר מקום קטן, עלוב ומשוגע, מקום רחוק מקום לדאגה יש אומרים שם שמשיקרה וחושבים אל כל מה שקרה אלוהים שם יושב ורואה ושומר אל כל משברא אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן אסור לקטוף את פרחי הגן ודואג ודואג נורא

04-20-2005, 04:45 PM	#20
MalReynolds CHOCK FULL O' NUTRIENTS Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: A Denny's Bathroom. Age: 38 Posts: 6,571	I think having all that knowledge as soon as you are born would be maddening. Try sitting for four years until you develop the proper motor skills to access your knowledge to some degree. And then, it only looks like scribbles. Now, if you had the motor skills to match your brains, retaining knowledge when you're born... That'd be something to see. Mal __________________ "A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline." "Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!

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