donholy28:
If there were no life after death where a person reaps d reward of their deeds.....what then is d essence of doing good?

johnydon22:
If you are good because you want a reward after you are dead, you are just good because you need to be rewarded and not because you want to be good, it is called Selfishness and is that really goodness?

If you are good because you fear punishment after you are dead, you are only good to save your own skin not because you want to be good, that too is selfishness and is that really good?

The essence of goodness is to be good for goodness sake, be good because you want to be good, be good because you want good to happen and most of all be good because you are empathic and compassionate towards others... That is goodness

donholy28:
I asked a question... that answered his question

aaronson:
Life after death,Hold up a minute,how can you believe such a thing?
Man and mammals almost alike with their anatomy and other features and only reason man dominate is his intelligence and so if mammals don't do religion,Don't you think man's intelligence is making him think the absurd?

johnydon22:

I guess some people just find comfort in the whole notion of "Passing away" instead of simply "Dying"

It's not difficult to understand why we create these stories for ourselves, given that we are probably the only species on the planet who know at a very young age that we are going to die one day.

Other creatures just live in the moments.

I really doubt that the birds and dogs out there are fretting about an afterlife or performing rituals to gain a spot in heaven.

But our knowledge of the inevitable end of our being is somewhat of a burden to us........ So why don't we stop dwelling in such wishful fantasies as an afterlife and focus more on [size=15]What we have now and where we are right now [/size]