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Eternal Life is Like What? | Episode 312 | Closer To Truth

2021-05-05 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter: some are collective and ethereal in the spirit, others individual and corporeal in the body. Which would you choose? (Your opinion means nothing, of course.) Featuring interviews with Richard Swinburne, J.P. Moreland, Seyyed Nasr, Varadaraja Raman, and Huston Smith. Season 3, Episode 12 - #CloserToTruth ▶Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@doriangray2454 2021-05-07

I'm dead and I love it over here.

42 10 replies
@jmerlo4119 2021-05-13

To be honest. I would be fare less disappointed and less annoyed if these individuals simply say: "I don't know".

33 5 replies
@bobbabai 2022-08-17

I think it's a lot easier to imagine going to sleep and never waking up than it is to imagine living forever. And I think it's less frightening.

25 12 replies
@andygoldensixties4201 2022-09-22

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen

22 2 replies
@jamese9283 2021-05-06

"The anecdotal evidence is unscientific, and the scientific evidence is nil." Of course, because life after death is one of the many areas that science is largely unable to study. Science is really good in certain areas, but can't answer everything.

17 7 replies
@cristianm7097 2022-03-26

Eternal awareness is hell. Can we take breaks from it ? Can we sleep in the afterlife ? Eternal sleep is a preferable fate.

14 2 replies
@jimbobcharles2782 2021-10-20

My Dream is to change those beautiful mountains PURPLE My Opinion is this episode clearly demonstrates religions are far from the truth!

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@koopsjunta 2022-11-16

It’s a fantasy. Nothing more. A hopeful dream where everyone lives happily ever after.

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@barnabyrt1012 2022-07-22

St. Paul said: "eye has not seen, ear has not heard"...

2
@Alan-z7i6t 2024-12-11

A permanent rest after life is a reward, not a punishment

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