In the book, Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach, the utopian world of this future requires not just the knowledge of reincarnation, but being able to see God. Not know it through religion, but being able to see it.
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In our world, we don't know that something greater exists and trying to strive to that glory, not knowing what that is or how to obtain it has caused a lot of strife.

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Meaning does not derive from imagined afterlives, it is determined and found in the here and now.

It's common for people to think an afterlife important or "more meaningful", but it's one of those things that if you actually look at it logically for more than about 10 seconds, the imagined meaning evaporates in a puff of logic.

What I think happens is that people realize some of their hopes / dreams / aspirations / goals are not going to happen, and supposing that this will be rectified in an afterlife is an alternative to pitching a fit about not getting their way in this life. But there's another alternative: let go of your preconceived expectations and instead focus on the things you DID achieve / attain or that were unexpected positives.

The life I chose / wanted for myself as a young man involved things like being the husband of one wife, with whom I'd have a reasonably conflict and drama-free shared experience. This and other things I hoped for are never going to happen and I'm never going to know what it even feels like. But things I didn't even put much effort into, DID come to pass. I have a fantastic profession that compensates me with great $$ and even social status without demanding the last farthing of my life force in exchange. My first marriage may have ended in divorce (and madness for my wife), but it produced my two children. My second marriage ended in death for my wife, but she contributed many memorable experiences that we shared. And so forth. If you quit insisting on a rigid definition of what success and happiness / contentment look like for you, if you seek the meaning there is rather than the meaning that didn't prove out, then you won't have the need to displace closure and justice into some imagined afterlife, or into some externally bestowed magic coming from on high even in this life.

This is more or less a version of Buddhist thought I suppose ... don't be attached to particular outcomes, keep yourself present-focused rather than past or future. It is far more pragmatic than the Christian notion of demanding life has to be a certain way or god will wipe ever tear from your eyes later.

I only concern myself with what I can do with the time I have on this earth. The legacy I leave with my children. What happens after is out of my hands.

Life after death is a beautiful dream but unfortunately I think life will loose value given to the present time. ?Life is here and now!

You only get one shot at this, make it as meaningful as possible and enjoy the adventure. The journey is almost always better than destination and forget everything else...

The only "life after death" that will ever exist is that which (1) in the memories of those who knew us, and (2) in the influence we had on the lives of others which, in turn, they may pass on to others.

Where have I heard this one before?????..... ????

It isn't rational to expect that we have some spirit that lives on in a supernatural existence. We bring meaning to our lives when we assume responsibility for our words and deeds NOW.

I don't want any life other than this one.

I can’t agree with that premise. The fact that we know that this is the one and only life we’re ever going to have, makes it more important to live it to the best of our ability. Thoughts of “jam tomorrow” (as we Brits say) only tends to make us think that what we are doing here and now is less important that what is promised later. It makes no difference whether we think our afterlife will be in heaven with god, or some other imagined utopia, the effect on the significance of our lives here and now would be the same.

Why would i believe in that which I cannot feel, see, or do. My immortality rests in the memories I leave with the people that are left behind, Once everyone that I have ever influenced has died, there is nothing left of me but dust. I came in as stardust and I leave a stardust. And I am OK with that.

Ok .

life would be LESS meaningful if there were a life after death. something exclusive is more meaningful and valuable than one from which you can shrug "next!" or if you literally mean it would be more meaningful if we believed in a life after death, regardless of whether or not there was one, you'd be saying that life is more meaningful if you're delusional. if that is so, who cares which delusion it is? and by the way, not all religions posit a life after death. (jewish folklore does but judaism actually doesn't, to name one example.)

and what do you mean "the world that we created amoung [sic] us"? we didn't create the world. in its way, the world "created" us.

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I do not believe in an afterlife apart from becoming fertilizer. ? The life you have now is the only chance you get. Make sure you enjoy it

I disagree... if there is not an after life and this is all we get... doesn't that make this life more meaningful