<p>Do you believe that, if you kill someone while alive, you will face any consequences after death? </p>
<p>I'm a completely nonviolent person, but still, this is an intriguing question.</p>
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if you kill someone while alive
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how would you kill someone if you were dead?</p>
<p>no, but it will **** up your life</p>
<p>i'm making the distinction because the question assumes that there is an afterlife in addition to normal life.</p>
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how would you kill someone if you were dead?
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<p>Zombies.....duh</p>
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how would you kill someone if you were dead?
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<p>It's amazing what a little effort can do.</p>
<p>Paranoia about post-mortem consequences has been spread globally by all major relgions. I think enough evidence exists for a serious, critical thinking person to compltely discredit any of the major religions (Christianity, Islam). The prospect of an afterlife existing independent of any major religion, and similar to the christian hell no less, is preposterous. So, in short, absolutely not. Unless you take a humanist approach to spirituality and claim that your name/repuation lives on without you, in which case killing someone would damage your "afterlife."</p>
<p>i figure even if u did it clean and mafia style and had no connection to the victim, it would still be bad. for the rest of your life, you would be wondering:</p>
<p>A) does anyone know it was me? will the cops figure it out today?
B) am i gonna go to hell?</p>
<p>The one thing I don't like is how we all say killing is wrong, but then we suspend that belief sometimes. consider world war 2. american soldiers who killed germans were still taking human lives. thou shalt not kill, right?</p>
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i'm making the distinction because the question assumes that there is an afterlife in addition to normal life.
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just because there is an afterlife doesn't mean you can come back as a ghost...</p>
<p>^ did you seriously enter this topic for the sole purpose of trying to outsmart me?</p>
<p>Well, presumably, the more people I slaughter in this life, the better my reputation will be when I'm an einherjar drinking mead in the halls of valhalla, so yes, it does seem that there will be a reward in the next life for the more killing I do in this one.</p>
<p>This thread fails</p>
<p>Let's make it more interesting!
If you purposely gave false testimony leading to someone you strongly dislike being incarcerated for life, how guilty would you feel and for how long?</p>
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did you seriously enter this topic for the sole purpose of trying to outsmart me?
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<p>I know I did.</p>
<p>No... they entered into this topic for the sole purpose of trying to outdumb you.</p>
<p>I agree with JJJ1234, but just in case I'm wrong, I plan on not slaughtering anyone. :)</p>
<p>Q1: Uncertain about the existence of an afterlife. Believe that the obligation to those who come after us is greater than the motivation that comes from fearng reprecussions after death. Thus, we should uphold ethics for the sake of the living.</p>
<p>Q2: 128.348 days</p>