What happens after we die.

[GG_Guru]

Re: What happens after we die.

You can't really tell what happens when a person dies because we haven't experienced it ourselves. The closest thing to dying would be falling asleep. One thing I can tell you for sure is that, life is a cycle and when we die our bodies become part of the earth. We will end up decaying and rotting away as time passes until we become reborn again. Now, I don't want to make any assumptions because I know what I speak of is based off pure theory, but wouldn't it interesting if life restarted over again and we were not aware of it? That question strikes undeniable ignorance to science but there are things we still do not know. I don't believe in creating a hypothesis because I myself don't have the power to do so and claim it a fact, but there mere thought of reincarnation is something worth looking into.

[perfectchaoslemon]

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Why would you ever be aware of nothingness? It's NOTHING for a reason. If you're dead, you're no longer perceiving. Your eyes, ears, nose, nerves, etc will no longer work, and neither will your conscious, self-conscious, or any other form of sentience/perception/identity/inner monologue/etc. All of these things reside in the brain, and when the brain stops working, so do all those functions.

We know what nothingness was like because we don't remember experiencing anything before we were born. This would make sense, considering we didn't exist. When we die, we return to that state of non-activity.

We don't remember experiencing anything because it happened in an instant. Now you're telling me you know that there's nothing confusing to a permanent loss of consciousness. Explain to me exactly how it's possible to experience nothing for an infinite amount of time. It's not. All you're saying is that it's like before we're born, but that is temporary. There was an end to that nothingness, and there came life. Unconsciousness to the mind is completely skipped over. You can't skip over something that is infinite, so within that there must be some sort of realization.

[cixOclock]

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I know a lot of people have already said this. But death is just like sleep, I mean when you sleep a dreamless-sleep you don't even remember what happened.
Or if you pass out and come back.
Its sad that people have to die... theres no reason for it, I wish I remember what science article it is, but they went into detail about how a body has the capability to regenerate itself forever. I'm really not sure what magazine it was in, but I remember reading about it.

[Mollocephalus]

Re: What happens after we die.

reincarnation can indeed happen, but not really in the same way people think, especially if you take soul translation into consideration. the atoms that compose a body will disassemble and eventually enter another life cycle. however, that does not mean that the group of atoms that compose a living being, defining the beginning and end of such living being, will transfer to another one. Even if that could happen, the two living beings would only be sharing the same "blocks".

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

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LET'S START A NEW THEORY!

Uhh, okay... let's say the nanosecond before you die, you start dreaming. Now you're dead, but one molecule in your brain is still dreaming. Now you continue your life as an atom/molecule/something really small. You'll never wake up, you'll just be floating around, dreaming dreams and such. Sweet, let's make a religion out of this, FFRers unite!

[awein999]

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A more interesting thought is learning how to live life to the fullest:

A lot of people get too worried about little aspects of life. It's really all just a perspective issue.

example 1: At my stage in life, being a senior in high school, my fellow classmates are scared to death about not getting into a "good" college. What does that mean? One that is respected by society? Probably for most. They worry so much about something that really doesn't matter, you are getting into a college that's for sure, you go to Weston High School wake up, and maybe you might even like a small lesser known college more than an ivy.

example 2: Getting a well respected job after college. People work so hard for that status, but what if you enjoy being a janitor more? Or being a gym teacher? Or a sexologist? You have to ask yourself "what do I want in life? What makes me happy?" The true answer to that is usually different from the current day sociatal expectations.


My stance on death is that the fear is illogical because you can't feel pain when you are dead. The fear of death is just an evolutionary illogical fear. Death is like the ultimate peace. We will likely never accept what death is (or isn't). From consciousness we can speculate, but only that, which is why it is so unsatisfying to a lot of people.

"Matter flows from place to place
And momentarily comes together to be you
Some people find that thought disturbing
I find the reality thrilling" --Dawkins

[Izzy]

Re: What happens after we die.

We don't remember experiencing anything because it happened in an instant. Now you're telling me you know that there's nothing confusing to a permanent loss of consciousness. Explain to me exactly how it's possible to experience nothing for an infinite amount of time. It's not. All you're saying is that it's like before we're born, but that is temporary. There was an end to that nothingness, and there came life. Unconsciousness to the mind is completely skipped over. You can't skip over something that is infinite, so within that there must be some sort of realization.

Why are you having so much trouble with this... Of course you can't skip over something that's infinite because that is the point. You don't skip over it, it just keeps going. You are infinity non existent after that point because you have no more brain to observe.

I'll repeat it. There is nothing confusing about a permanent loss of consciousness.

Experiencing nothing for infinity isn't any more complicated then nothing for 1 year or 10 years. It just keeps going. It's not so much experiencing nothing because really you wouldn't be experiencing at all. It's just straight up nothing forever. You will be nothing forever when you die. Assuming you is "you" as a whole. Your atoms will probably be distributed among other things.

[cixOclock]

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"Matter flows from place to place
And momentarily comes together to be you
Some people find that thought disturbing
I find the reality thrilling" --Dawkins

Wait what? When your body deteriates it becomes earth molecules. Dirt. So are you saying that reptiles pass on their atoms from one generation to the next?
Everything is made up of atoms, those atoms collect on your shoes and such, but in no way do those dirt molecules transfer to sperm and eggs.

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, atoms move around yes, but it doesn't cause conciousness to travel. Your thoughts aren't atoms, strange thought.
But yeah.

[Mollocephalus]

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i think dawkins wanted to point out both the irony and the fascination in being part of such a great cycle.

and also mock people who try so hard to seek something else than the obvious.

[cixOclock]

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Mmm gotch'yah. Ohwell, when your dead your dead, its just sad that we die when our bodies have the potential to live 300 or more years.

[awein999]

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all matter since the big bang has traveled, part of that matter came together to be your consciousness eventually later in the universe's existence That's where we came from. And this is a quote from a famous scientist not me lol.

[cixOclock]

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One scientist doesn't just prove evolution completely, now this isn't a topic about evolution, but why should I believe in evolution when even the scientists, the supposed experts don't even agree on it?

[Mollocephalus]

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why should I believe in evolution when even the scientists, the supposed experts don't even agree on it?

why should i believe in pasta when even the most prestigeous chefs cannot agree on the cooking time

[devonin]

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As you say this -isn't- a thread about evolution, so lets not get into this thread of the discussion here please. Though cix, I'll point out that quoting a scientist is not the same as concluding either that the one scientist is the only one who believes that, or that one scientist believing something necessarily makes it fact.

[cixOclock]

Re: What happens after we die.

Well alright, but Dawkins beliefs were more based on emotional-driven results. He wasn't driven by evidence. But thats all I'm going to say on that.