Is there a afterlife

**sidalby** · 01-18-07, 01:28 PM

How many times do we get reborn? or is this life the only chance we get?
I think most people believe in God because of the promise of life here after. I believe eternal life takes the form of memories, i can picture in my mind and hear the voices of my dead parents when ever i choose to think of them, so in my mind they are still here and always will be. Is that not eternal Life.

**wsionynw** · 01-18-07, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by sidalby

How many times do we get reborn? or is this life the only chance we get?
I think most people believe in God because of the promise of life here after. I believe eternal life takes the form of memories, i can picture in my mind and hear the voices of my dead parents when ever i choose to think of them, so in my mind they are still here and always will be. Is that not eternal Life.

Eternal life for your parents? So when you die their eternal life stops being eternal?
There is no evidence of an afterlife.

**nds1** · 01-18-07, 01:42 PM

I know this. I would rather be conscious than non-existant. I'm not terrified of being non-existant, but I would definetly rather be conscious, and living, than non-existant. I don't know why. Maybe it is the survival mechinism of the brain or something.

**Medicine*Woman** · 01-18-07, 01:51 PM

sidalby: How many times do we get reborn? or is this life the only chance we get? I think most people believe in God because of the promise of life here after. I believe eternal life takes the form of memories, i can picture in my mind and hear the voices of my dead parents when ever i choose to think of them, so in my mind they are still here and always will be. Is that not eternal Life.

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M*W: Welcome to sciforums. I am an atheist, so believing in reincarnation of the body is foreign to my understanding. However, I do believe in genetic memory. When I think of my deceased parents, their memory lingers. When I think about my deceased great great grandparents whom I never knew in my lifetime, it feels as if I had known them, and I can imagine what I think they would have been like, but that's not based in reality. This thing called genetic memory encodes on the genes of generations to come, so there must be some validation to it. I don't know enough about it to explain it, but there's so much about the mind that we don't understand. I believe that I inherited genetic memory from my ancestors and passed it along to my children and grandchildren. Those future grandchildren and great grandchildren whom I will never know will have some kind of idea who I was and who my ancestors were.

It's an interesting subject, and I would like to learn more about it. I read once in a new age type of book that reincarnated beings are reincarnated within their own families. That's what I would call genetic memory.