fkusumot said:
Well, that nun was wrong. Your logic is blind to other possibilities because of something you were told as a child. There is no requirement for a heaven or a hell for there to be an after life. If you can prove otherwise please do. |
OK Fkusmot let me rephrase that as afterlife. Yes there are otehr possibilities like reincarnation and the like but if that were teh case it is very likely we have been reincarnated many ties and we don't rememebr or past lives. It could be that we come back as bug or stay human or come back as an alien depending on our actions but we will not have any memory of what we did this life and once again that wouldn't matter.
You could end up on a celestial plane with others or you could experience your bodies corpse rotting to death neither of which would be affected by the choices you made this life. Heaven and Hell are versions of afterlife that have a consequence based on what you did in your life with the memory of what you have done.
What other forms of afterlife are there? More importantly what other forms of afterlife are out there that would make you regret or be proud of the decisions you made while alive during this life. As long as you are happy this life it doesn't matter if others feel you wasted it. That si the point the nun was making and it is a point that makes sense to me and I am pretty sure buddhist monks would agree with that.
You assume I am blinded by what I was told as a child. I assume you make assumptions. I have read hindu and buddhists and zoaster texts. I even go to temple once in awhile with my Thai freinds. We have buddhists that come to my meeting in San Francisco. My church has no preachers no pastors to tell us what is right or wrong. Furthermore I am constantly at odds with other peoples interpretation of the bible and even the translations. I am at odds with the way it was put together and how things were included and excluded from it.
So what other types am I missing?
