Afterlife
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The premise of this thread is flawed.
Because you see to have wants and desires, to exist at all, I'd have to be alive.
The thing is, when I DIE, I cease to exist and I no longer have any thoughts or feelings.
Asking me what I want to happen to me after I die is like asking what movie I want to be screened at the cinema after I leave - I honestly don't care.
And the continuation of consciousness beyond the physical doesn't count, because my mind would still exist and I'd technically not be dead.
If the question were rephrased:
"What would you want to happen to your consciousness if you assume that it continued to exist after the destruction of your physical form?"
Then the discussion might be a bit more interesting.
I'd hate to exist forever, the thought of a life without fear of death sounds so incredibly boring and pointless. I mean sure you could acquire all knowledge in the universe, you could understand the very fabric of existence, you could go to brunch with the big G-man, you could write the perfect song and direct the perfect movie, and you would still be alive, with only an infinite length of time to go! You could travel to every corner of the universe, and then tell every single intelligent organism in the universe about every single one of its ancestors going right back to the origin of life, and you would still be alive!! Is anyone seeing the pointlessness of this yet? You could create your own universe and watch it mature and die from big bang to big crunch, hell you could create as many universes as you wanted and watch them flash in and out of existence one by one, and you would still be alive at the end of it! You could rearrange every single photon in the universe into trillions of magnificent artworks that bring tears to the eyes of god, and you'd still have an infinite length of time left. So if you ask me, I want to cease to exist at some point! I don't want my consciousness surviving beyond 'death'.
tl dr; Life is meaningless if you never die.
Because you see to have wants and desires, to exist at all, I'd have to be alive.
The thing is, when I DIE, I cease to exist and I no longer have any thoughts or feelings.
Asking me what I want to happen to me after I die is like asking what movie I want to be screened at the cinema after I leave - I honestly don't care.
And the continuation of consciousness beyond the physical doesn't count, because my mind would still exist and I'd technically not be dead.
If the question were rephrased:
"What would you want to happen to your consciousness if you assume that it continued to exist after the destruction of your physical form?"
Then the discussion might be a bit more interesting.
I'd hate to exist forever, the thought of a life without fear of death sounds so incredibly boring and pointless. I mean sure you could acquire all knowledge in the universe, you could understand the very fabric of existence, you could go to brunch with the big G-man, you could write the perfect song and direct the perfect movie, and you would still be alive, with only an infinite length of time to go! You could travel to every corner of the universe, and then tell every single intelligent organism in the universe about every single one of its ancestors going right back to the origin of life, and you would still be alive!! Is anyone seeing the pointlessness of this yet? You could create your own universe and watch it mature and die from big bang to big crunch, hell you could create as many universes as you wanted and watch them flash in and out of existence one by one, and you would still be alive at the end of it! You could rearrange every single photon in the universe into trillions of magnificent artworks that bring tears to the eyes of god, and you'd still have an infinite length of time left. So if you ask me, I want to cease to exist at some point! I don't want my consciousness surviving beyond 'death'.
tl dr; Life is meaningless if you never die.
I would love to be in the Mushroom Kingdom as my heaven as another of the few human inhabitants.
Yeah, sign me up too.Xorghul said:I doThrobbingEgo said:Who wants to live forever?Xorghul said:
It's kind of hard coming up with more Highlander references without having actually seen Highlander.
The Highlander?ThrobbingEgo said:Yeah, sign me up too.Xorghul said:I doThrobbingEgo said:Who wants to live forever?Xorghul said:
It's kind of hard coming up with more Highlander references without having actually seen Highlander.
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Oh, the Highlander!(Google is your friend)
What do i WANT to happen? Cool...lets see...
I wanna come back as a huge wall of flaming death and incinerate all human life from the face of the earth.
I wanna come back as a huge wall of flaming death and incinerate all human life from the face of the earth.
I'd think it's more of a "can't live with them, can't live without" them kind of situation. We're social animals. We're driven to communicate. Put someone on an island by himself and he'll invent people to talk to.Gorbek said:
What could be more horrifying than realizing that you're truely alone?
That must be a real hit at parties.jasoncyrus said:
"So, what do you do?"
There brain wasn't function, but it wasn't dead either. You still get the rush of endorphins and cool shit to trip out on.Nickolai77 said:Ideally- a pretty awesome afterlife, a universe by your mental construction. (I would make it like the Elder Scrolls universe XD)
Most likely?- Nothing, when your dead your dead- eternal unconsciousness.
I hope something comes from the research into Near-Death Experiences (NDE'S), but it to early to draw any conclusive conclusions from there.
nb- NDE's- not an accurate term, because the people reporting NDE's have been verified to be clinically dead (not near dead)- this means no brain activity while doctors attempt to resuscitate the patient. The big question of course is, how on earth do people have NDE's when their brain was not functioning?
(Clinical death is described as your heart stopping.. Your brain is an oxygen whore, but it doesn't quit working all together. Parts of your brain begin to shut down as oxygen amount lowers. Using the little oxygen you still have left for the important stuff as the stuff that doesn't support life functions are shut off.)
