Sure in heaven

I'd rather that there would be no such thing because after going through hell with this life, I really don't see the need for another. No one knows what happens after you die. No one - not Christians, not Hindus, not Muslims, no one else. Not Bible, not Gita, not Koran, no other religious book. No one knows what happens. Just live your life doing your best, don't cause harm to anybody, don't thrust your thoughts on anybody. It does not matter if you believe in one religion, another or none at all. All religious books are right on some aspects and wrong on others. Saying that "you will be with God in heaven" may be as incorrect as "you will be a worm in next life if there is such a thing and I sincerely hope not". Who knows and why should anyone care at this point? I mean after living through the daily bumps and grind in this life I really don't want to ponder if there is a next one after my death.

And now that you've got me thinking about it, I'm really hoping that there isn't one. Shit, when I die just let me go back in to a state of nothingness, let all my traces of ever existing here in the first place be gone. All this talk about heaven or hell is nothing but a fabrication of nonsense talked about by people who are afraid of death and not knowing what awaits them after. Can't everyone just be happy with the fact that they are here and maybe all of this means nothing? And if there is a god or grater force then it is playing with our lives like pieces of objects on a chess board.

Before asking if we believe in the next life, it is important to understand what we as humans were originally designed to do in this in life. We were designed to work. In the first few chapters of the Bible we see that God created a workplace for man (We call it the garden of Eden), and then created man to work at tending that garden. I believe that Adam found the work he had to do was very satisfying to him. Since that time, each generation has worked. Here's the rub. Because of what we call the "Fall of Man", the earth was also put under a curse. The work that humans had to do became much less than fully satisfying. There is still something in the nature of man that requires him to work. Look at Bill Gates and Bono. They have absolutely no need to work, but there is something inside them that "requires" them to work.

In the Christian Scriptures, as Jesus is departing, he says three things.
First: that he was going to prepare a place for us. By inference he also said that this place would be compatible with our nature. A big part of that nature is the need to work.

Second: That wherever that place is, God will be there in a much more tangible sense than here on Earth. I believe that this implies that the work that he assigns us to do will be completely satisfying, and completely righteous.

Third: that he is with us and guiding us. I believe that this indicates that the work that he is preparing for us is something that is not completely foreign to us. What do I expect to be doing in the next life? Working at the most satisfying tasks I could imagine and having fellowship with others and with God himself.

I just read some replies, and here are my thoughts i'd like to share

To me your dead and that's all.

I second this thought, for i believe, this world, humans, everything, is based on an enormous amount of lies, or uncertainties, and due to these, first of all, you can't say what is true or not, and second, you can't confirm that all the legends, or things we think are true or not, aren't just born from human fear, or other emotions, cause yes, we are in a world of humans, where mostly, every fact, figures or whatever, is born from human emotions or mind, and sadly, we weren't at this stage of evolution 500, 1000 years ago, so who can tell, that heaven, and such, aren't creations of people who feared death or who wanted to live further? cause wasn't it, one of the main fantasy of man? eternal life? some people can turn around words and say, when you burn a paper, it becomes dust, and that dust scatters, so it can be the same for man, that is when they die, they exist in another form, but, i saw a rat dead on a street once, everyday, cars kept running on it, until it disappeared, yep, it dries under the sun, and disappears, totally, back to the paper example, when it burns burns and turns completly into dust, that's the end, it exist no more, and even if it exist in dust, that dust isn't the paper, it's dust, full stop, so why believe in another life? why not accept once and for all that there are things which can be attempt only once, people claim that we have several lives, then, it would mean we can die several times? no logic on my point, but all these aside, i did like and shall quote one reply

I don't question life and death, I live now.

here again, questions about afterlife and such, are just born from irrational fears, it's like, i put a paper in front of you, and you're worried about if you'll have more paper to write further, why not try to make the best use of the paper in front of you already? you're given life, make a sense of it before thinking about existing in another lifeform, but, the topic itself was, if we believe in entities, so, hmm to reply to that, actually, i got to admit, there are some energy, for sure that we can't measure, but to go as far to claim that a spirit, can exist in that kind of energy, i don't think, nature or physic is that far perverted as human mind

if we look at it that way, everything around, opportunities, events, chains, are supposed to be a lead of fair events, where's the fair if some do have the right to live further and some not? is it fair to have one top to decide of it? then how about our right to decide? to be aware? the most funny part of it is, people do live fearing of what it would cost them tomorrow, aren't we suppose to be living in a way that the cost we pay today ensures our tomorrow? so a lot end going to church, claiming they've seen this and that, lived through this and that, to ensure there path to heaven or purgatory or such, and the few that do really believe in religion, they get manipulated by that category of people, life is just a mess created of lies, and so much more, why bother about all these? it's not like, we can't bring back all the lies to light can we? shouldn't we focus on creating something that could erase all what's behind? and make what's ahead worth everything else, i think the world would be better if people could think that way, but i've seen much in this short life, and why i can say, believing, is a big word, for the only thing people believe nowadays is in their body impulses not in their mind!

Before asking if we believe in the next life, it is important to understand what we as humans were originally designed to do in this in life. We were designed to work. In the first few chapters of the Bible we see that God created a workplace for man (We call it the garden of Eden), and then created man to work at tending that garden

i read this, and i felt i had to add something, hmm just my way of thinking, so please don't take it as some sort of attack or trying to prove something, i've always told myself, that god doesn't exist, but that man couldn't have evolved this much in so few, yeah, i really believe it's too few, and even if it was longer, it's too weird that man got this far, so i tell myself, maybe, a form of life existed before, and still does, or managed someway to influence life, but not worth to be called god, just a form of life that we can't understand or, a form of life who entertain itself by using his abilities and created life or so, but reading that made me realize, that even if god exist, he/she/it wouldn't be different, i mean, if you had power? i mean, as god had, and a level of understanding, would you go as far as creating life and a planet? or stars and such? isn't it a bit too much of coincidence that everything was born exactly where it had to be for a specific purpose? coincidence doesn't exist, only inevitability, one of my favorite quote, so i think, life, and whatever is behind it, is just some enormous game, a really enormous game that we can't grasp, so we end believing in afterlife and anything for, other than working, another nature of man, is to hang and grip tight to any sign of hope, even when it's out of sense!

Yah, i believe in afterlife, because if there is no after life there is nothing to look forward to everything will be senseless

Yes, i believe the next life. if possible i want to restart my new life as a human. i do not want to go the heaven and hell. i would like to try the other possibilities.

@~kzhr

i would like to try the other possibilities.

isn't it a bit selfish? sorry to be straight, no offense meant, but, "try other possibilities" is an excuse for us to do anything good or bad in this life, and hope to do other good and bad things in another life, looking for other possibilities, then why not try to make out of the best possibilities already in this life? i'll pick some extreme but logical example, a chicken, is breed, then killed and used as food in one life, reborned, it would be the same thing, don't you think it would be the same for human? if you were to born again, you'd just do the same thing, cause, even if your life change, if you believe in afterlife, then it means souls exist, and if souls exist, then it means your soul won't change in another life, numbers, letters, they don't change, they evolve, when i add "c" "a" "k" "e" it becomes cake, not 32, it evolves, it gets a meaning, meaning that we humans defined, chosen for, so if this life was chosen for us to prove something, then it's the only, you don't have several chances to do a cake properly, once missed, it's missed, that's all!

@~nagatoboi

Yah, i believe in afterlife, because if there is no after life there is nothing to look forward to everything will be senseless

talking about sense and senseless, first of all, i want to say, nothing got a sense in this life, world, universe, the being is the one that makes sense of what surrounds him, so, if for you, all what you did was senseless if there's no afterlife, what you did in that life could become senseless for the ones living tomorrow, why not think of it in that way?

Well, the saying does say to look ahead, remember past mistakes and enjoy the now. it's great to think, "yeah after i die, there's something for me." beliefs never really hurt anybody, only when people start judging or forcing their beliefs on others is where all hell breaks loose. (the pun was there on purpose) lol

Wow metaphysical question
Do you believe in next life ?
did you mean hell and heaven?
okay, i must believe it
but, all peoples will not get there until after the Judgment Day

I'm always surprised at people's reply to these sort of topics with a "yes" and an indefinite one as if they know for sure. Truth of the matter is no one knows for sure. The way I look at it is this, if some form of god exists, and I was created by this being, then this creator also gave me the brain with which I try to better understand the world around me. So when I die and have my chat with this creator, you would think he/she/it would understand my point of view better than I do and take this into consideration. On the other hand: if by questioning the world around me in the only way I know how, with the brain I was born with, I am damned... my only conclusion is that I simply should not have existed in the first place.

Now, to strictly adhere to the topic at hand, of all I have learned of history, world religions, culture, society, of science, of the behavior of the universe, of all of my own personal experiences. I would conclude at this point in time that in all probability there is no life after death, we are but mortal creatures who share the planet with a multitude of others like us. I would go further and suggest that consciousness is, in a way, a self-contained universe. The only way to make a measurement is through comparison, to compare death to life would require a similar consciousness and awareness that exists in both. But if consciousness is only a result of the curious arrangement of molecules in which we exist, then this awareness ceases to exist when life ends. Therefore, to know what it is like to be dead would be comparable to remembering a time before you were born.

To be honest, I don't. But even if I did, theres just too much to do and enjoy in this life for me to worry about my next one.

I don't really believe in a life after death. To me, once your dead your dead end of story. Although this is just what I believe, to some there is a life after death.

Sometimes I'm not really sure. There are so many different thoughts about it. I don't really like the thought of just 'Okay you die, and that's all, nothing else. ' I would like to think that after this life there is something more and we don't just hit a brick wall when we die and have nothing else after this time.