Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!eagle!alice!rabbit!mam From: mam@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: What do YOU think? Message-ID: <1589@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 19:20:06 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.1589 Posted: Tue Jun 14 19:20:06 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 05:58:01 EDT References: <437@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 16 What a question! My answer is yes to the first question.I don't know if true understanding is the right term. Maybe a better one, at least in my experience, is true acceptance.I don't know if we can ever not be afraid of death, but we can accept what will occur after death. In fact, a big part of religion is helping people to accept and to fear death less.However, this brings me to a contradiction, beacause while I am a Christian, I have not figured out what life after death will be like. I am also terrified of dieing(?). Angels and harps is not what I envision. I agree with whoever said that we can determine what our life after death will be like. I think this is so because no one including us can describe to those we leave behind what is happening to us. Also, do we "really" experience life after death? (This would be another good topic for debate on this net group.) I am inclined to think that we do not experience life after death in the physical sense. (That seems rather obvious, but I know people who would disagree with this.) Asto what conditions this, I can't say. For me, it is not anything tangible. I believe what makes sense to me, what is logical, and somewhat what doctrine dictates, but not much.