It seems unlikely that there should be some higher power of any kind. So I don't really believe in that.
It sounds strange, but I think the universe has always existed, and that there is an infinite amount of space available. If there is an infinite amount of space available, why not an infinite amount of time?
Sidetracking slightly, but I went to see a talk/'show'* by an astronomer which claimed that the research community had seen something that could be evidence of another universe (!), possibly colliding with ours! He showed a figure which looked like a stack of elliptical discs hovering in space above each other, where each disk represented one universe. The colliding universe had then somehow turned, so that it was no longer parallell to the other universes...
* It was science, but it was a bit more like science directed at children. Hence the 'show' part.
Anyway.. about the afterlife.
As I find it hard to imagine that I will just disappear after death, I do believe there is something more, but I have not seen it, so I do not know what it is. I suppose this in a way parallells to what I said about the universe always existing. In the same way, I, and every other living thing, will also always exist. Not the physical bodies of course. We all know that they don't last forever.. but the inner stuff (call it soul, if you will..) that makes up who we really are.
I think all this parallells to the law about conservation of mass, or energy, that mass/energy cannot be destroyed or created, just moved around.
I think that nothing can ever be created, or disappear, and that it is a universal law. Things can only be redistributed and/or transform.
As for ghosts, I do believe in ghosts, but I am not entirely sure what they are.
I believe that I may have seen a ghost once. It only appeared a very short moment, and all I could discern was that it had the shape of a man, possibly wearing a hat and with a tool belt. So I figured it was the ghost of a worker, possibly a carpenter.
I could definetaly write more about this ghost story, but I will try to keep it short. All this happened in a house which me and my family lived in from 1996 to 2008 (I moved out in 2006). My mom and sister claimed to have some strange sightings too, more often then me, as I only saw it once. What my sister saw had more of the appearence of a poltergeist. I never experienced any of that. Even our dog reacted to something once, that none of us could see.
Anyway, later, my mom told me that we had bought the house from a brother, or other family member (can't remember) of a dead man, that supposedly died in the Kings Bay accident - a mining accident. So it wasn't a carpenter, but a miner? I don't know.
I read more about it on the internet, and found a list of names of the people that died, and one of those names was marked to come from my home town, as well as having the surname of the person we bought the house from... Creepy.
Anyway, to sum it up:
I don't believe in any deities, really. Though, sometimes I can be a little confused. I believe that we will not go away after we die, but I have no idea where we go. I do not believe that we have any say in the matter, and I don't believe in any form of heaven or hell. Things have always existed, and will always exist, some place/form or other..
I do believe in ghosts, but I am not sure what they are. It is a strange idea (as is everything else..) that souls will be 'left behind' to roam the earth.. probably especially since I don't think there is any set destination after we die. |