The Afterlife - what is it like?

[Owlswing]

I can't be the only person who believes in an afterlife, but how do those others who believe in it see it?

How will you be dressed?

Who, if anyone, do you expect to see there?

If you would search out relatives who would you search out?

Who would you avoid like the plague?

Who would you search out to say 'Thank you' to because you didn't get the chance (for one reason or another)

Who would you search out to deliver the punch in the mouth that you didn't deliver for any reason?

Who, if anyone, would you search out to talk to who was not a relative? What would you want to talk to them about?

[Nearly Sane]

If there is an afterlife, and I am not dressed fabulously, then I wouldn't be seen dead there.

[Owlswing]

If there is an afterlife, and I am not dressed fabulously, then I wouldn't be seen dead there.

You know something? You can be a right sarky bastard when you are in the right mood!

[SusanDoris]

There isn't of course even a scrap of evidence for any such thing as an afterlife, but I'd first go and have a chat with Voltaire, then clipboard in hand, I'd start making a list of souls to form the escape committee

[SteveH]

I'd organise a dinner party with George Orwell, Dr Johnson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, John Keats, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley, and Andrea Dworkin. That should get some interesting conversations going.

[Roses]

I hope when one dies one stays dead. There isn't the slightest scrap of evidence for an afterlife. However, supposing one does exist, we might be very different people to what we are in this life.

[SweetPea]

I hope when one dies one stays dead. There isn't the slightest scrap of evidence for an afterlife. However, supposing one does exist, we might be very different people to what we are in this life.

Well, yes, we will no longer be in our physical form but in our spiritual form.

[jeremyp]

I'd organise a dinner party with George Orwell, Dr Johnson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, John Keats, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley, and Andrea Dworkin. That should get some interesting conversations going.

What? Like

"Who is this nobody who's invited me to dinner?"

"Do what I always do with these invitations and throw them into the bin."

[Gordon]

Aside from people: if the afterlife doesn't include motorcycles, guitars and horseracing then it isn't worth afterliving - and if that is indeed the case, then I refuse to attend (if summoned).

[jeremyp]

Who would you avoid like the plague?

Typhoid Mary.

[Roses]

Well, yes, we will no longer be in our physical form but in our spiritual form.

And what is your definition of 'spiritual' form?

[SusanDoris]

Well, yes, we will no longer be in our physical form but in our spiritual form.

Can you define this 'spiritual form' and say wherea bouts its abode will be?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Can you define this 'spiritual form' and say wherea bouts its abode will be?

Why should it have a whereabouts? Mathematics doesn’t have a whereabouts. It doesn’t for instance thrive a lot better in temperate climates.

[Owlswing]

Why should it have a whereabouts? Mathematics doesn’t have a whereabouts. It doesn’t, for instance, thrive a lot better in temperate climates.

Derail! As usual!

[Walt Zingmatilder]

If there is an afterlife, and I am not dressed fabulously, then I wouldn't be seen dead there.

You will receive a golden colander for your work as moderator.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Derail! As usual!

How is it’s derail for goodness sake.

[Owlswing]

How is it a derail for goodness sake?

Because, just like #14, it has no bearing or connection to the OP.

[Roses]

If I am unfortunate enough to enter an afterlife, I hope I will have a Kindle and be able to download books of my choosing. I also hope I am able to continue with my hobbies, particularly my digital artwork. It would be nice if one or two of the possessions I own in this life accompanied me, like my sword, Excalibur, it might come in useful.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Because, just like #14, it has no bearing or connection to the OP.

14 was in response to Nearly Sane’s 13. That is what reply means.

[Owlswing]

14 was in response to Nearly Sane’s 13. That is what reply means.

This, of course, does not change the fact that #12 was a derail!

End of - as this particular conversation, if continued, would also be a derail!

[SteveH]

"Derailment". "Derail" is a verb.

[Nearly Sane]

Why should it have a whereabouts? Mathematics doesn’t have a whereabouts. It doesn’t for instance thrive a lot better in temperate climates.

In what sense is something described as an after'life' like maths?

[Roses]

I was wondering what maths has to do with the topic of afterlife?

[Nearly Sane]

I was wondering what maths has to do with the topic of afterlife?

It's an analogy. Not a very good one imo but if Vlad thinks'whereabouts' is a question that somehow does not apply, it does at least raise the idea that not everything that we talk about has a physical whereabouts.

[Owlswing]

"Derailment". "Derail" is a verb.

Pedant!