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I really don't know what to believe.
One thing I've always been afraid of is that maybe people just accept concepts like any sort of afterlife because we can't possibly comprehend the idea of not 'being'. It sort of goes the same for higher powers.
I personally hope, and feel somehow that there is probably something else, because, quite simply, I don't think that it's possible that our world is all there really is. It just seems really possible that there is a different plane of existence or some sort of cosmic recycling of all the energy from every living thing.
I find both redirectional afterlife and reincarnation pretty valid because they can explain a lot of things.
The idea of a Heaven, Hell or Purgatory don't really seem to hold that much for me in the traditional sense, though. I can't imagine that things can be as cut and dry as being condemned to one plane or the other for all eternity (or doing work to transcend in a purgatory). Especially the idea that, in Christianity, not accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior of your soul sends you straight to Hell, even if you were, say, a Buddhist that lived a life better than someone who was a lax Christian. Things like that really make me question a soul judgement system.
To me, the afterlife could very well be just a straight reincarnation into another form anywhere across the universe (I just indirectly quoted the Beatles there . . . neat) or your soul or life energy moving to a different plane of existence. Then, it could be much like how we live on Earth, just transferring the way we live to another, very different one. We may be in the same form, a similar one or be something that is nothing like how we are now.
Anyway . . . I've gone on here far too long . . . because this is an interesting topic.
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