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What do you believe or think happens after death?
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What do you mean your grandma told you she died...? Like at the end Sixth Sense?? (not being rude, legit asking and relating it to something I think we'll both know)
I've been thinking a lot about this over the past few years. If there was another human born with the exact same brain/cerebrum makeup as you in the future, would you technically be reborn?
I think nothingness is the easy and logical answer, but I honestly have no idea what to even predict.
What if you did exist per loop theory but just have no memory of it?
I think nothingness is the easy and logical answer, but I honestly have no idea what to even predict.
What if you did exist per loop theory but just have no memory of it?
As a semi- agnostic, Im fine with nothing, certainly wont have the capacity to be surprised. But...
I would like to think, instead of pure judgement, if you were a good person, meaning you spend part of your life learning compassion, empathy, patience, there's some sort of obstacle that would be overcome with those skills.
Like, no one's going to say "you were bad, you fail", but selfish people just wont have the skill or experience to move onto another plane or whatever. If you worked on yourself, you see a wall and realize wait, I can make it over that. And then on to a new adventure.
I would like to think, instead of pure judgement, if you were a good person, meaning you spend part of your life learning compassion, empathy, patience, there's some sort of obstacle that would be overcome with those skills.
Like, no one's going to say "you were bad, you fail", but selfish people just wont have the skill or experience to move onto another plane or whatever. If you worked on yourself, you see a wall and realize wait, I can make it over that. And then on to a new adventure.
Full story is she died in the hospital and my family returned home. I overheard them talking about her death from another room and I drifted off to sleep. In my dream, I was lying up in my bed and I was in a state of sleep paralysis. I could barely move my head to my left and that's when I saw her sitting on my bed. In the Vlach language that I speak, she said that grandma has gone away, but in a shocked tone. Out of the shock of seeing her (and her shocked expression) and the fact that I couldn't move comfortably in my bed, I "jerked" my head to my right sharply to attempt to get out of the dream. I suppose I sub-consciously understood I was in a dream state. I think had she spoke to me in a calmer tone, I would've stayed in the dream, if possible. She was living with me for a long time, so I think that had something to do with her visiting me.
I'm satisfied with our current understanding of consciousness: that it exists as an emergent property of biology, and isn't a seperate, distinct thing. So obviously we just switch off when we die. But it's fun to think about waking up in a VR chair or whatever.
I believe there is a form of reincarnation that takes place, but not in the sense most people think of it. Some sort of Karmic energy that gets passed to another life. The person you are today, your identity, memories and relationships fade off into nothingness. But I believe there is a reason people can recall "past lives" and such, and that is because there is some sort of cosmic memory, sort of like a "soul" of a person, but it's not you as a human in any sense. I don't know, it's hard to explain but falls along the lines of what Buddhism and Hinduism believes.
This could be a dream, so when we "die" we simply wake up in the reality we actual live in. We could be some random guy in a deep sleep in another country, or a completely different species sleeping in the sun on another planet in another universe. We're just in such a deep sleep we've forgotten who or what we really are and that's why this dream feels so realistic.
Nothingness, and it doesn't scare me one bit.
I'm scared of dying though. I'm afraid of slowly losing my mind until every day is like a dream where I'm surrounded by strangers who claim to be my family. I'm scared of minutes, or hours, or weeks, or months, or years of excruciating pain with no way to make it stop. The nothingness is fine, and at that point, I'll welcome it.
I'm scared of dying though. I'm afraid of slowly losing my mind until every day is like a dream where I'm surrounded by strangers who claim to be my family. I'm scared of minutes, or hours, or weeks, or months, or years of excruciating pain with no way to make it stop. The nothingness is fine, and at that point, I'll welcome it.
Ok? Thread is not asking what happens. But what YOU believe happens. No one is trying to prove anything here.
I answered the question and explained why I "believe" that. Believing in anything else would require evidence.
This would be a lame thread if everyone just posted what they are voting for without saying anything else.
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though sometimes i wonder about a scenario thats like how the only part of dreams we remember is right before we wake up, and if that happens directly before death it might be interesting
but its basically impossible for me to imagine a lack of brain activity with my brain so like, thats not gonna be accurate
though sometimes i wonder about a scenario thats like how the only part of dreams we remember is right before we wake up, and if that happens directly before death it might be interesting
but its basically impossible for me to imagine a lack of brain activity with my brain so like, thats not gonna be accurate
I don't know and I don't really care. I believe there's nothing after life but I'm not concerned about it.
I think it only makes sense for the next thing we know after death is gaining consciousness in some other form. Even if there's nothingness for near infinity in between until whatever ridiculous chances of shit we cant understand lines up, we won't feel the time anyway.
Sometimes I think we loop other times I feel like everything in the universe is the same thing.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it...
My intuition is nothingness followed by a loose form of reincarnation that is not necessarily bound to this universe (I voted "Other").
People from the future copy your brain into the Matrix where you can live forever until a new body can be made for you
I always think about this Roger Ebert quote when it comes to death
"I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris."
"I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris."
I don't know about you but maybe it isn't me who dies, but the universe that disappears when the time comes.
I'm pretty much on the same boat. But I guess I'll find out when it eventually happens. Can't freak out about something until I'm close to it I guess? 😅
Why would that freak you out? It's no different from before you were born.
We are all children of the stars. Made from them, living among them and then returning to them in death.
A part of me wants something like reincarnation. But in reality, I know the real answer is nothing. We just die, our consciousness disappears and either our body is cremated or become worm food.
