Have been pondering this qn for v long le. ok lah~ 2 or 3 days niaz...keke...
where do free thinkers go when they die? do they believe in an immortal soul?

have posed this qn to a couple of mi frens but can't realli say we reached a conclusion. First we muz establish that free thinkers also believe in the Soul. when a person is born, we have our body and this special something that makes each of us.. well..us. its v cliche but i think life would be pretty meaningless without a soul.
But one ger said that the soul juz die with the body. As Sophie's World puts it, the soul disintegrates when the body matter dies. Den what is the purpose of living? does that mean that i can live an absolutely exciting, fun but evil life? since i onli come to this world once, and i become void after i die, den might as well just go ahead and be ruthless about everythig right?

Or lets presume that there is an immortal soul.
1) Goes to heaven/hell (reminding mi of my qn: if a person has a severe fear of height, how to go to heaven? assuming heaven is UP there)
2) Reincarnation

1) Being a free thinker..... which heaven does he/she go to?
Or there is onli one heaven? if there is onli one heaven then won't it be v weird if say a hindu finds himself out side the Christian Gates into heaven ? Don't be offended but it brings to mind this cartoon picture of all the various Gods from various religion happily hanging out together, playing chess and drinking coke. Ahem~ Also, I think Christianity and Islam advocates onli One God. In Buddhism and Taoism, heaven is reserved for the various Gods. den how? bringing us to 2)
Well, doesn't it seem too coincidental that most religions believe u BURN in hell ? (Reminding mi: why cannot freeze? LOLZ)


2) Free thinkers are unlikely to believe in reincarnation as like the Buddhist and Taoist and Hindu devotees. however, a soul muz go some place right? if not into heaven den this is the onli alternative i currently can think of.

Disclosure: The above are purely questions the author is pondering over. It is NOT intended to offend, desecrate nor insult any religion mentioned or otherwise.

What do you mean by free thinker? I don't believe there is a heaven or hell. My theory is that there are other worlds. Worlds where the soul exists without the body. We move on from level to level. One level being better than the next.
» SofiWolf on 2004-05-22 01:10:28

hmm
i thought the book right the soul is eternal instead of disintegrate? religion is kinda separatist, you can't believe in more than one. I guess its the matter of teh principles and the teachings that would contradict each other. Buddhism believe in reincarnation However the Christians do not. And to answer the question, i guess there can be no sure way of knowing until one experiences death himself, but the irony would be that he would be unable to tell it to us. Well, if you believe in an eternal soul, then you would believe it would go somewhere. If you do not, then perhaps you can believe that your soul disintegrates upon death. Anything we can think of is possible and nothing is for certain, i guess that's why they are called free thinkers!
» Koban on 2004-05-22 01:13:56

What do you believe Koban?
» SofiWolf on 2004-05-22 10:51:19

me? i believe in God but im not too sure if i can call myself christian because i don't frequent church anymore. But does it make me any different from those who proudly proclaim that they are and are just sunday church goers?
» Koban on 2004-05-23 12:14:43

I do..
.. realise that there is no sure way of answering my questions and that religions are independent of each other. I'm probably influenced by my religion, supposedly, Buddhism.(I say supposedly coz not realli that devoted.) Which kindof overlaps other religions like Hinduism(Karma), Islam(peace/non killing)bringing the religions to a certain level of agreement/similarity, except for Christianity(which i am not familiar with). In any case, we will nv know the ans.
» merrick on 2004-05-23 03:48:32

I know there is a GOD.I don't believe in religion and I don't believe religions have the answers.
» SofiWolf on 2004-05-24 11:33:22

then..
wat gives u the ans? reason?
» merrick on 2004-05-25 07:20:04

The answers are not even in reason, it's like you said we will find out in the end.
» SofiWolf on 2004-05-27 01:55:46

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