I'm trying to explain vacuum genesis and the probability that we'll all appear here again at some point.... to some friends. We've all been drinking. [more inside]
posted by Baby_Balrog on Sep 12, 2009 - 14 answers

My dad recently read The Shack and really liked it. Can you recommend other books with a spiritual leaning (not necessarily Christian) that he might also like? [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby on Aug 25, 2008 - 9 answers

A Crisis of Identity? All my life, I've been the sort of person to avoid my faith to a certain extent (I would pray and try and be as good a muslim as I could, but there was always so much more I could do, and I knew it). Recently, I've met someone who's awakened that desire in me to finally make the commitment, and it feels great to have begun to do so, but there's another side of me that feels like I'm (I don't even know how to say it...) cheating on it... [more inside]
posted by hadjiboy on May 20, 2008 - 38 answers

Has anyone with reasonable credentials actually sat down and calculated the probability of an afterlife? [more inside]
posted by 517 on Apr 27, 2007 - 46 answers

What are some religions or philosophies that teach that at death (or any other time) one's discrete soul is absorbed into a greater entity such as God and so the individual is no more?
posted by partner on Jan 12, 2007 - 16 answers

Is there now, or has there ever been, a culture that did not include the concept of an afterlife? [more inside]
posted by obol on Nov 14, 2006 - 14 answers

Why are people who believe in heaven sad about death?
posted by Pretty_Generic on Apr 9, 2005 - 28 answers

Is death the end?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Oct 8, 2004 - 74 answers