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Bad news kiddo on that last statement you said -- people have the right to hold whatever opinions, but that does not mean they have any kind of supposed right to have those opinions go uncriticized or questioned. Opinions should have a basis in reason, there should be things the opinion is based off that the opinion is a resulting logical conclusion and judgement from. The right to have an opinion means I can't go and kill somebody who is of the opinion that all women have no right to live (just a random example I'm using) or to force them into a formal re-education program and/or facility or anything like that, however I can question and criticize them all I want (so long as I'm not going so far as to be like stalking them or something in the process), especially when they chose to come to a place like this designed for discussion on and debate of such subjects. Maybe you didn't get this from the introductory threads and rules thread and such, but I have a similar policy here to what they have in the extended discussion. This place is not meant to be a "opinion dumping ground." It's "put up or shut up." When called upon to do so, either defend your stance and the reason(s) behind it or if you are absolutely unwilling to do so if somebody asks it of you (either in the form of a direct question or in the form of posting challenges to what you said) please do not post here in the first place. I'm going to go check the main introductory and rules threads and if this isn't clear there already I'll add something about this in.

Instead of asking things like, this, or is death better than life... ask the oposite

Why do you always write long posts? You make me confused with all the long explanations and examples... Sometimes..

There has to be something in the after life

I believe the soul is immortal and that in some form you never end.For anyone that hates life,I can see why you wouldn't be happy,but that's only if you assume the "after life" will be the same as your life now.There are too many possibilities to comprehend;the afterlife could be a life where pain doesn't exist.Knowing we're immortal,we shoudn't fear death.Of course this is only my opinion,but that's all anyones beliefs about death are.

Got any reason to believe this other than speculation, wishes, and maybe some stories you or others claim are your past lives?

So then no? (My post was trying to ask for anything that was not based on anecdotes and feelings, things you could actually prove to other people without them having to "just take your word for it.")

Been there, done that long ago and many times enough as it is with giving these things a chance to present themselves. Without the conditions having changed any since I last found that nothing happened when I gave it a good ol' honest and open chance, I conclude that that's not advice worth taking unless you have some seriously radical new information you can prove to other people, such as myself, which would alter the situation and the things that play into the equation of if it would even be in the realm of possibility and not totally illogical.

And believing something enough that you think you see it still doesn't make something become real seeing as otherwise every dirty night gown under a kid's bed would actually really become a monster and every person to ever take hallucinogens and see something like a rainbow colored panda tap dancing in their living room would actually have such a thing there and it really could go and sit on an innocent non-high person who unwittingly wandered into the room. Also, the body does have a strong connection to the mind - people have actually caused physical malfunctions in themselves by being convinced they were sick for example as I'm sure you've heard of - so perhaps believing enough could make your eyes and your brain work together wackily enough that you really do think you see something, but again, that doesn't mean it is real. That thing you see may be seen alone and stand up to no other tests for if it is real, such as say that tap dancing panda my be seen by one man, but if he can walk right through it, that's a sure sign it is not in fact exactly what it looks like. You can usually trust your eyes, but looks can be deceiving so sight should not be believed when it goes against all your other methods of obtaining knowledge.

I also don't believe reality and thus the truth comes custom fit for each individual so that such a thing as "my truth" as opposed to everybody else's exists, but that's another story too and it's possibly even a named logical fallacy. (Things can be "true of" different people differently, like it is "true of" Dana that "I have red hair", and "true of" Paul that "I have brown hair," but not "true for" like facts of existence change from person to person.)

As a funny side note though, even what people I have met in real life who believe in mystic type stuff would say your recommendation would be useless for me. They claim I've never seen anything supernatural by myself (even when I tried giving it every opportunity) and that they never see anything supernatural in my presence and that they can't read my mind or do anything to really prove anything of a mystical nature to me because I'm a "void/null psychic" and I unconsciously emit very powerful stuff of some kind which cancels out or doesn't allow near me anything of such a nature. lol Excuses, excuses . . .