(July 18, 2013 at 10:17 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: I just had a thought concerning the concept of an after life. First of all,I hope there is an afterlife I mean who wouldn't want an eternal play ground. With that said while thinking I think the concept of an afterlife actually is illogical.
I don't want an eternal playground - so that's one.
(July 18, 2013 at 10:17 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: 1. It is only correct to assume that a higher power or deity of some kind is kinda a prerequisite for an afterlife. For it would require one to create another existence outside of this one.(correct me if I am wrong.)
You are wrong. You are considering only the narrow Christian outlook on afterlife and shutting your imagination off to different possibilities out there. Maybe multiverse hypothesis is true and when we die here, we wake up in another universe. Maybe this life is a shared dream and when we die here, we wake up to our real life. Maybe we don't need another existence outside this one at all - maybe our consciousness simply exists in nature after our bodies are gone. All these are possible without there being any higher power.
(July 18, 2013 at 10:17 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: 2. Because of premise one, this poses a interesting issue. What winds up happening is you create a redundancy. Why have an afterlife at all. Why couldn't the current reality be like the after life? Why separate existences? Now to the theistic religion this is even more problematic because those questions carry more weight. How this happens is because the god is given certain characteristics. Most of them perfect intellect, if they have perfect intellect even with free will. Why create this crappier reality and then have an afterlife?
Most religions answer it by saying that 1) this life is a test and b) its our own fault that its crappy. But the simple reason is - that's what religions are for. To make you think that this life is crappy and not worth having, but you have to tough it out anyway because there is a better one coming later on. This way, when it asks you to give this life as payment for the supposed afterlife, you'll happily do it.
