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What do you think your life will be like after you die?

If I get to the Celestial Kingdom, I think this is what my life will be like. Much like it is here, only incalculably better. No pain. No worry. No sleeping. Worshipping God. Associating with family and friends. Choir practice. Having children. Nurturing children. Helpi;ng in planning a new earth.

I do wonder if I there will be quilting.

charity wrote:What do you think your life will be like after you die?

If I get to the Celestial Kingdom, I think this is what my life will be like. Much like it is here, only incalculably better. No pain. No worry. No sleeping. Worshipping God. Associating with family and friends. Choir practice. Having children. Nurturing children. Helpi;ng in planning a new earth.

I do wonder if I there will be quilting.

The most appealing thought about the afterlife for me is seeing people who have passed away who I miss. Both sets of grandparents and my best friend who died in a car crash will probably get very tired of having me hang around. LOL

No sleeping.

I hope the afterlife affords me many opportunities to sleep, and to dream. I only hope I'll be better at remembering my dreams.

I also hope to enjoy food in the afterlife, but without worrying about how healthy it is or about the necessity of brushing my teeth.

I hope they have computer games in the afterlife.

charity wrote:What do you think your life will be like after you die?

If I get to the Celestial Kingdom, I think this is what my life will be like. Much like it is here, only incalculably better. No pain. No worry. No sleeping. Worshipping God. Associating with family and friends. Choir practice. Having children. Nurturing children. Helpi;ng in planning a new earth.

I do wonder if I there will be quilting.

you're going to get bored. unfortunately, worring over whether that choir number is going to go over well, or the quilt is going to come out right, the frustrations with practice and trial and error, and then the relief that follows pulling it off and having it appreciated will no more exist. So think of something that you can do so easily, in your sleep, that is absolutely no challenge and without risk, say, watering the plants. and that's what your life will be like for eternity, sheer, endless, repetitious boredom.

you'll be wishing the atheists were right and non-existence to set in.

Discussions like this always remind me of the movie What Dreams May Come. Have you seen it, Charity?

Shortly after becoming agnostic, I decided that (since I had the power) I was going to recreate God in an image I found acceptable, and I was going to create a vision of the afterlife that was acceptable to me. At that time, my afterlife consisted of really creamy chocolate, beautiful mountains and waterfalls, lots of birds and butterflies, and just a few people who I knew and loved.

I think it was a good practice for me to do this , and I have had some good times speculating with others about their version of afterlife. One friend's afterlife consisted of a giant big screen TV, the perfect recliner and the perfect, sports event.

Maybe it is because I am getting older, but now all I want is just to become nonexistent. The idea of something being forever, or eternal just exhausts me. I like completion. I like finality. I like endings. It helps me value the moments I have in the here and now, and gives me something to look forward to.............sleep.

Discussions like this always remind me of the movie What Dreams May Come. Have you seen it, Charity?

Shortly after becoming agnostic, I decided that (since I had the power) I was going to recreate God in an image I found acceptable, and I was going to create a vision of the afterlife that was acceptable to me. At that time, my afterlife consisted of really creamy chocolate, beautiful mountains and waterfalls, lots of birds and butterflies, and just a few people who I knew and loved.

I think it was a good practice for me to do this , and I have had some good times speculating with others about their version of afterlife. One friend's afterlife consisted of a giant big screen TV, the perfect recliner and the perfect, sports event.

Maybe it is because I am getting older, but now all I want is just to become nonexistent. The idea of something being forever, or eternal just exhausts me. I like completion. I like finality. I like endings. It helps me value the moments I have in the here and now, and gives me something to look forward to.............sleep.

charity wrote:If I get to the Celestial Kingdom, I think this is what my life will be like. Much like it is here, only incalculably better. No pain. No worry. No sleeping. Worshipping God. Associating with family and friends. Choir practice. Having children. Nurturing children. Helpi;ng in planning a new earth.

Why does the LDS description of heaven always sound like those who hit opium pipes all day?

Mercury wrote:

charity wrote:If I get to the Celestial Kingdom, I think this is what my life will be like. Much like it is here, only incalculably better. No pain. No worry. No sleeping. Worshipping God. Associating with family and friends. Choir practice. Having children. Nurturing children. Helpi;ng in planning a new earth.

Why does the LDS description of heaven always sound like those who hit opium pipes all day?

“Religion is an opiate of the masses” (Karl Marx)

What timing. Laying around last night discussing this very thing. I don't think of life after death as a reality and neither does the man I spoke to last night consider it a reality. His thoughts of life after death were that heaven sounded creepy to him and that he would dread having to go to some sparkly shiny place with harps and angels.

Life after death, for me, would mean that my children live on, my maybe one day grandchildren and that the earth would absorb my decay and use it as it will to continue on the cycle of life. *humming Lion King theme song now*

barrelomonkeys wrote:What timing. Laying around last night discussing this very thing. I don't think of life after death as a reality and neither does the man I spoke to last night consider it a reality. His thoughts of life after death were that heaven sounded creepy to him and that he would dread having to go to some sparkly shiny place with harps and angels.

Life after death, for me, would mean that my children live on, my maybe one day grandchildren and that the earth would absorb my decay and use it as it will to continue on the cycle of life. *humming Lion King theme song now*

WOW!! Just about what i was going to say. How enlightened You are! :-) It's really interesting how humans can differ so broadly on such an imagined issue, as "after-life", and still have so much in common??

In my current state of understanding, i find it not only impossible, but impractical to believe the mythology of heaven and residing therein in any way, shape, form, or activity.

I agree with B'oMs, our bodies will, being bio-degradeable, return to replenish/fertilize growth of, and for the living. Genesis alludes to that fact. And the evidence is obvious. Our "spirit-stuff" will continue as we distributed it, within our families and associates--whether momentary or life-long--either as "Mean or Kind Spirits at the moment". Some of course being more consistant, as either than are others contributing their wares to society. Makes the World as it is.

Good question Charity. I hope you are open to answers that differ from yours. Warm regards, Roger