Poll: Ghosts, Heaven or Nothing?

[Dragon_of_red]

I was watching a show on T.V about Ghosts, and i thought, "hmmmmm, is that what happens to you after you die, or is it something like your a ghost, you go to heaven or hell, The Underworld, reincarantion or just plain nothing."

Like Ghosts - your soul is left to wander the Earth Aimlessly.
Heavan And Hell - Depends on how good you are in life, depends were you go.
Underworld - You dont have a choice, no eternal rest, just staight to Hell.
Reincarnation - Becoming a new person, object or any other type of thing after you die.
Nothing - You just rot in the ground, no feeling, no thought, not even nothing.
Other - This is open for just random stupid (Not to stupid) Ideas that you might have, but please specify what you think...

What do you think is the Ultimate thing after death?

 

[Sewblon]

I voted Heaven and Hell.

 

[Jamash]

Ghosts and Heaven & Hell, or reincarnation, aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, ghosts are believed to be souls which are prevented from going to the afterlife.

I voted for 'other' because I think more than one of the options is possible.

 

[Raven's Nest]

What do you think is the Ultimate thing after death?

Chuck Norris looking down at your freshly roundhouse-kicked lifeless cadavre...

On topic... This

Ghosts and Heaven & Hell, or reincarnation, aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, ghosts are believed to be souls which are prevented from going to the afterlife.

I voted for 'other' because I think more than one of the options is possible.

'For the record, don't put me down for mummification'

Cookie's for quote.

 

[rottenbutter]

Upon death, you are reincarnated into a dimension made entirely of cheese. And if you achieve enlightenment while you are there, you can escape the cheese dimension, and return to this world, with the amazing ability to control cheese. Only one person has ever escaped that dimension...

 

[Ignignoct]

Other:

We are all the divided consciousness of a singular, nameless entity experiencing itself subjectively through billions of lenses simultaneously, and upon our death, our fragmented consciousness returns to the whole with what we've experienced.

Or at least, that's what sounded the coolest.

Also hoping to haunt a house some day if I get the chance or die traumatically enough to leave my conscious "residue" hanging about the human world.

 

[Matronadena]

though I've grown up with heavy christian pushing from one side, heavy Celt pagan on the other.... I moved on to Soto Zen Buddhism ( Dogen lineage)

now Remember that each sect has very different views of what...

that appealed to me most about Zen is it already shared most of the beliefs or I should say philosophies I developed..

To put make it abit easier, think of it all as " the force" but not in a spiritual, or mystic sense..


when one dies it takes months for our magnetic, and electrical fields to dissipate, over decades our physical mass is broken down, over millennia even bone remains eventually break down to nothing..


however all of those things are made of matter, and contain information... as best we know in physics the only thing that " could possibly" destroy that information would be a singularity like a black hole...

but that information as is basically scatters and rejoins the universal flow, and may in time be reused to build a new life form, or be added into a forming rock, or even aid in the birth of a new star billions of years from now after our own dies...


basically what Im getting at is a smaller version of universal creation.... what makes the matter matter that created us, our planet even our own star.....was the byproduct of another star(s) in their deaths.. our deaths and that of our own star will just continue this process..


so while its more scientific in the cycle of things, more like a nothing void....and less "peaceful" I still see it as something to be proud of... to know that I am part, and contributing to something far larger and greater than my single minded self.


" main reason I choose the " force" to describe it, is just a nice wording for the flow of the universe as we understand it scientifically)

 

[Radelaide]

Nothing happens to you after you die other than either being cremated or buried. You don't see a white light, you don't spend time in Limbo being judged for your sins.

Nothing happens.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Nothing happens to you after you die other than either being cremated or buried. You don't see a white light, you don't spend time in Limbo being judged for your sins.

Nothing happens.

Well, if you're buried hundreds of germs and bacteria will have a nice meal. If you're cremated however all that happens is that you personally contribute to global warming...

 

[Abedeus]

Reincarnation.

Well, probably, nothing. But how can you describe or feel nothingness when there is no of you? Meh.

You can't. Same as you can't show a 3D object on a piece of paper. Sure, you can give it a look of a semi-3D, but you can't show a 3D in 2D.


Or you can't imagine, even 50% correctly, how a 4D object looks like.

 

[Marv21]

this thread is self defeating as arguing about the possibility of the existance of "gods". if anyone knows then they would have to be dead, and thus could not tell us.

Or they wouldn't want to???


*duh duh duhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!*

 

[Abedeus]

Reincarnation.

Well, probably, nothing. But how can you describe or feel nothingness when there is no of you? Meh.

You can't. Same as you can't show a 3D object on a piece of paper. Sure, you can give it a look of a semi-3D, but you can't show a 3D in 2D.


Or you can't imagine, even 50% correctly, how a 4D object looks like.

It was sort of a rhetorical question, really. -_-

And I answered it. Because I love destroying rhetorical questions.

 

[Elim Garak]

There is zero evidence of this, but logically it makes sense.

1. We are just a collection of atoms and some energy.
2. Everything that can happen (not against physics) will happen.

Therefore, somewhere, at some point in time, atoms will arrange themselves to reproduce us.

Either that or it is like DBZ where you go to fight aliens in another dimension. :-D