This is just one of those controversial subjects. Oh well.
I was raised Catholic, so I have that upbringing obviously influencing my opinion. However, I'm not a person of faith necessarily, as I consider myself Agnostic. Anyways, time supposedly is directly relevant to our universe. In other words, it's another dimension (the fourth) that we are in, but are not able to manipulate. The prospect of eternity is beyond our reasoning, since we've never experienced anything like it. Try to imagine what it'd be like to live with an illness for 60 years. Hell, most of us here aren't even 1/3 of that age. It's too tough for us to really fathom completely, even that being such a small measurement. But when it comes to eternity or infinity, our mind simply cannot fathom a lack of restrictions, since restrictions essentially define what we base our knowledge on. Our understanding comes from certain beginnings and ends, and if something were to break those rules, we'd be unable to imagine it.
The idea of heaven/hell being eternal obviously escapes us due to its eternal nature. Do I believe it? No. But I'm a wishful thinker. I mean, I believe in ghosts and such, and those are supposedly forces within one's body that remain after death. So if there are those forces, if they don't remain, they have to go somewhere. I really cannot say I believe we'll go to heaven or hell, but I can definitely hope that when I die, I will reach a place of eternal happiness, whether that be Heaven or Nirvana or something. The name doesn't really matter, it's the concept that really is of importance.
So that's my view. Can it be proven? No. But I hope it's real.

It's all personal preference, and whether or not (like you mentioned) if we can grasp or fathom the idea of eternity. If I were someday to make it to Valhalla and drink mead with the gods in the great halls, I would be eternally grateful. Reaching any sort of epitome, and/or eternal happiness is all that, as human beings, we can hope for. What's better than spending and eternity (fathomable or not) as a happy, delighted and satisfied person.
Simply experiencing something beyond the realm of human existence would make me happy. Though part of me wants to believe that nothing happens, and that we enter a world full of emptiness when we pass on, I strongly believe that there has to be something else. No matter what faith you rely on or believe in, there should be some sort of salvation.

I believe I'll see when I get there. Then there's no possible way to be disappointed.

QUOTE(Asphyxiated. @ Feb 7 2007, 11:00 PM) [snapback]346988[/snapback]I believe I'll see when I get there. Then there's no possible way to be disappointed.
Sure there is. If you end up in eternal fire, I'm sure you'd be pretty pissed lol.

depends where you wanna be lol

i jsut posted my views in the religion thread, and cba to post them again... in a nutshell... i hope there is.

i hope that life after death, involves me no being aware of the life...i.e. i wanna be a tree!
either that or just not exist...im quite content with both those ideas.
If someone told me that when i died, i was gonna become a tree, i would be the happiest person

when you die.... your gonna be a tree.

when I die, I want to be a beaver.

at this point, i would post two..... very obvious pictures... but as i've already received a warning by doing that, i wont