Have you ever seen a movie that when people die they go through a tunnel towards a light? Is this actually true? One of the most interesting question about life that sometimes you might not be able to answer is life after death. Is it real? Where is it? Or what is it look like? After I have been researching, I found out that most of the answer is based on religious beliefs.
According to my research, most of the American people that is Christian believe in Jesus Christ. They believe "The good people go to Heaven and the bad people go to Hell." People who believe in God and trust in Jesus to save them go to be with Jesus in heaven. People who do not believe in God or who trust in their own goodness to save them go to Hades. Non-believers are thrown into the Lake of Fire along with Satan and his demons. Believers will then spend eternity with God in the New Jerusalem. So, we know that there are only 2 places we can go after death which is Heaven and Hell. There is no specific definition of heaven and hell but Heaven represent an eternal happy life where Hell is the opposite.
While Buddhist believe something slightly different. They believe in reincarnation. The life after death depends on your karma (your good and bad action in this life). Your karma will also effect your last thought that will determine your next birth and or the reincarnation. You might be born in the heaven or hell or you might come back as a human again in new life as a new person. And it is also possible that you might be born as an animal too. After your next life there will be another next life. The only way you can stop this wheel of suffering (Samsara) is following the instruction of the teaching of Buddha to become enlightened and enter the state of nirvana. The easier way to say this is if we do good things more than bad things in this life you probably have a good life after death.
The similarity between this two religion is what you do in this life will effect your life after death. And they are all encourage you to do good things. But regardless to all that religion beliefs where do you think you going after death? Maybe it is going to be a whole new world or born in other planet or we just disappeared? What if we never die and it happens to be that our body turns off while your mind still awake and walk around like an invisible soul? Our imagination can go on and on. We can see some of our imagination, thought, and beliefs about life after death are being put in many sources like movies, music, literature or etc. So many different answers can’t be all right, but they all may be wrong. Who would know the truth? Where do think you will go after you death?
I just hope it's peaceful wherever we end up.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post. I agree with Rand in that wherever we end up I hope it is peaceful.
ReplyDeleteI liked your post, and it asked allot of good questions.
ReplyDeleteI think about a lot, I want to know what happens when everyone dies. Good topic
ReplyDeleteIt's always an interesting thought to contemplate where you go when you die. For all we know, any religion could be right, or none of them at all. I guess we'll have to find out when we all finally do "kick the bucket".
ReplyDeleteInteresting post and I hope that I go to a nice place right in front of God.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to think about what will happen, and where we go after death. I hope that is really is a place that is better than where we are today, on Earth. Good topic.
ReplyDeletethats really interesting to me. i always have question about this kind of topic.. thats good topic
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rand. It's scary not knowing where we'll end up after we die. We do have an idea, because of our Catholic faith, but what if we are completely wrong? I just hope wherever we end up is peaceful.
ReplyDeleteGood post. I hope that wherever we go after life is a good place, but it isn't something I really like to think about.
ReplyDeleteI have been not have a religion in my life. Therefore, it is really myterious that people can believe what they cannot see and what they never experianced.
ReplyDeleteI do not know where I will go when I die, and I am okay with that, although I do wonder.
ReplyDeleteI believe in Heaven and have faith that God will give us Eternal Life after death.
ReplyDeleteGood post. I believe that people go to hell or haven after they died as a muslim. Islam also teaches recreation after the death and teaches judgement. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to see the differences in views of the afterlife between Christianity and Buddhism! I certainly hope that wherever we go it is peaceful.
ReplyDeleteWhitney i agree with you! If God wants where i go to be peaceful, then it will be.
ReplyDeleteGreat post too. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteTo this question there are a million possibilities but only one true answer. But there is no way to find it in our life except through death.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. very interesting
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ReplyDeleteIntriguing subject (I love theology), but a few factual errors exist here. For example, not all Christians believe Heaven and Hell are the only two destinations after death: Catholics also believe in Purgatory, and some, like the Jehova's Witnesses, do not believe in Hell.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to try imagining an alternate history where the USA was Buddhist, Hindi, Muslim, or some other major world religion. How would that have shaped the country differently?