All things Philosophical. discussion

What conclusions could one draw across the board if one knew there was an after-life? You can make your own interpretations as to one or two or good or bad etc.

I think the idea is wonderful and comforting. I do believe there is an afterlife and I look forward to seeing people and animals who have already passed. I have faith that this is possible.

By leaving us to decide that there was an after-life is a rather broad category. One of many conclusions that I could argue is that if there is an after-life is death 'real' or just a concept. The idea of death, usually, is that it is the end, no consciousnesses or awareness, where the concept of nothingness is not just a concept anymore. However, if there is an after-life, as this hypothetical situation presents, then we did not loose our consciousnesses and thus are not dead.

There are many other ways to interpret the after life but at the moment I will leave it at this.

Monkeys don't go to heaven.

I was perhaps very vague...I should have perhaps said something along the lines of the point of Stephen Fry that even if it is true that there is an afterlife then it would still be better to live life as though there were none, on order to live fully at all. It stops laziness and re-installs the meaning provided by death on the existential level as a limit. Discuss.

Problem about not believing it can lead to nihilism or cosmic indifference as in Camus novel, as N said better the void for purpose than to be void of purpose- the overman !