The Afterlife and You!

[chadachada123]

Valhalla.

The idea of fighting to the death and feasting every damn day excites me in more ways than one.

Really, any kind of afterlife that allows for full immersion like that would be awesome, especially if other species are allowed to join. Imagine facing off against an alien race that we don't even know about yet!

Such fun and more would be had for millennia.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Hello! Welcome back! I hope you enjoy the newer updates to the website like the forums looking slicker!

 

[Madara XIII]

Hello! Welcome back! I hope you enjoy the newer updates to the website like the forums looking slicker!

Preciate that, and call me old fashioned, but it'll take some time for me to get used to this new layout.

 

[God'sFist]

Valhalla all the way. the whench pouring me beer and feasting on the finest meats. and when I'm done go murder people for fun huh seems kinda what I do virtually minus the hot chicks giving me boos.

 

[Lizardon]

What happens to you when you die? The acids and life forms living inside of your body eat their way out, while local detritivores eat their way in.


My least favourite afterlife would be one where I was tortured with spiders with clown faces that were on fire. It is my greatest fear.

I once read a great teenage fiction book named <url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elsewhere-Gabrielle-Zevin/dp/074757720X>Elsewhere, which is a story about the following fantasy afterlife:
Once you die you go to a land just like Earth, where you proceed to age backwards until you are a newborn baby again, at which point you get reborn as a new person.
I like that idea of afterlife.

My least favourite afterlife is the one where I get tormented by devils for eternity simply because I didn't believe in some omniscient cloud that a bunch of people living in caves once wrote about.

Hey I read that book as well, I really liked it. Awhile ago I was trying to find a copy of it but I just couldn't remember the title. Thanks for that, now off to the library!

 

[Lizardon]

Hello! Welcome back! I hope you enjoy the newer updates to the website like the forums looking slicker!

Preciate that, and call me old fashioned, but it'll take some time for me to get used to this new layout.

Just thought I'd let you know that at the bottom of the page under More Info there is an option to toggle back to the old forum layout.

Also, you're old fashioned =P

 

[Madara XIII]

Hello! Welcome back! I hope you enjoy the newer updates to the website like the forums looking slicker!

Preciate that, and call me old fashioned, but it'll take some time for me to get used to this new layout.

Just thought I'd let you know that at the bottom of the page under More Info there is an option to toggle back to the old forum layout.

Also, you're old fashioned =P

OMG thanks. That really came in handy

 

[Grimh]

Nangijala is best afterlife.


True story.

But seriously though the idea of any kind of eternal afterlife sounds horrifying to me. Reincarnation sounds alright though.

Also JonTron is awesome.

 

[Circleseer]

Kurzweilian Singularity proposes we can transcend our biological form for an existence in virtual reality as pure data. That would be after-life, since we'd not be alive It would also last potentially eternally, and one can do whatever they want in VR, potentially create new worlds. You'd not be limited to your old 5 senses, or even a body, and you could merge with anyone or everyone, then separate again, etc.

And to me, that scenario STILL sounds more plausible than the more 'common' afterlives various religions propose.

 

[Ganath]

...The pokemon world. That Afterlife. Yes, please.

 

[Goofguy]

I'd be cool with going to Valhalla and doing that gig for eternity. Battle preparations by day and all-you-can-eat boar and mead by night? Is there anything better?

Something just occurred to me about Valhalla...

The idea is that everybody spends the days slaughtering each other then come back to life and spend the evening feasting and partying. Sounds good to begin with, but what if you happen to be the WORST FIGHTER IN VALHALLA?

Wouldn't that mean you would get your butt kicked all day then hear about it all night, day and night after day and night, for eternity?

I never thought about it from that point of view before. This thread's getting to me.

Need to go lay down again.

Well if you're fighting every day for all eternity, wouldn't you be improving your skills and getting better?

 

[Catfood220]

The is none. When we die we rot and that it.

Not necessarily, you could die in a fire and nothing left but a charred skeleton.. No rotting there.

 

[Saulkar]

I personally believe it is something beyond comprehension. Something so vastly different that the physics that govern our mind are far too limited or incompatible to even grasp the tiniest, trailing filaments of such a reality.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Well, I always liked the idea of reincarnation but you have no recollection of your previous life.

 

[Ix Rebound]

Well, I always liked the idea of reincarnation but you have no recollection of your previous life.

yeah that's exactly how figure it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When it comes to death and, dying all I know for sure is that it's going to happen to me and everyone. My body will likely be cremated or (hopefully) compressed into a diamond. If I'm just buried, I'll just rot and decay until I'm dust within a box. That's what happens to the body, organs and, physical brain of Joe-Shoggoth here.

As for my consciousness itself? That's the million dollar question now, isn't it? Here's what I think. Consciousness manifested once for each of us in who we are now so who's to say it won't manifest for us again in a different body? I look at consciousness as a user and the body as the hardware being utilized. The user moves on to a different platform but the hardware itself wouldn't know where the user has been or, where it's going?

As for my ideal Heaven though...I dunno, the option of being reborn in one of the fictional universes I've encountered in this living world? The choice of being reborn in the Marvel or, DC universe, the chance to be born as the main character in a HaRomCom anime (like Love Hina) or Hell, the being born into a porn (if you're into that kind of thing). For me it would come down to Old Republic Star Wars, DC Universe (as a Meta)...

Spoiler: ...or this

My Hell would be being forced to sit in a movie theater surrounded by the people I met in life who I hated the most, being forced to watch with them my worst/most embarrassing memories. Once. Then I'm given a second chance at this current life with no definite memory what the Hell just happened.

For the record, I don't follow any organised religions but am open to the possibility of the existence of any number of Gods/Goddesses. If they do exist though, they don't interact with us anymore.

 

[Basement Cat]

I'd be cool with going to Valhalla and doing that gig for eternity. Battle preparations by day and all-you-can-eat boar and mead by night? Is there anything better?

Something just occurred to me about Valhalla...

The idea is that everybody spends the days slaughtering each other then come back to life and spend the evening feasting and partying. Sounds good to begin with, but what if you happen to be the WORST FIGHTER IN VALHALLA?

Wouldn't that mean you would get your butt kicked all day then hear about it all night, day and night after day and night, for eternity?

I never thought about it from that point of view before. This thread's getting to me.

Need to go lay down again.

Well if you're fighting every day for all eternity, wouldn't you be improving your skills and getting better?

Yes, but so would everybody else, right.

But you make a good point--Perhaps others might have bad days and make it possible for you to improve your skills and not spend eternity as everybody's favorite punching bag.

 

[Zealous]

I'd be cool with going to Valhalla and doing that gig for eternity. Battle preparations by day and all-you-can-eat boar and mead by night? Is there anything better?

This. So much of this. Eternal feasts for all of eternal eternity. Seriously. Think about that for a sec. All the food you can ever eat and all the alcoholic beverages you can drink. Ever. I'd also assume you don't gain weight cause you're an immortally awesome eternally young badass who can lift a broadsword with your eyebrow muscles. So yeah, sounds good to me.

Something just occurred to me about Valhalla...

The idea is that everybody spends the days slaughtering each other then come back to life and spend the evening feasting and partying. Sounds good to begin with, but what if you happen to be the WORST FIGHTER IN VALHALLA?

Wouldn't that mean you would get your butt kicked all day then hear about it all night, day and night after day and night, for eternity?

Okay, well even if you were quite literally the shittiest warrior in all of Valhalla, it doesn't really matter that much. I mean, yeah you'd die pretty quick now and again, but then you get to go party all night long. I'd like to think that there might be some decent guys up there who might give you some pointers on your form and maybe even help you train every now and again. Plus, after a couple of years I'd assume you might get better at handling a weapon and who knows, in a couple millennia you could be king of the war games.

Although, I just realized why Valhalla exists. It's basically a training ground for Ragnarok. So eventually, at some point everyone in Valhalla would fight the real fight. They'd battle the giant army and that would be the end of the world. Everyone's eternal souls would die in that conflict, cause the giants are supposed to win. No matter how hard you fight or how long you train in Valhalla, eventually even your immortal self would be destroyed in the end of the world.

 

[Goofguy]

I'd be cool with going to Valhalla and doing that gig for eternity. Battle preparations by day and all-you-can-eat boar and mead by night? Is there anything better?

This. So much of this. Eternal feasts for all of eternal eternity. Seriously. Think about that for a sec. All the food you can ever eat and all the alcoholic beverages you can drink. Ever. I'd also assume you don't gain weight cause you're an immortally awesome eternally young badass who can lift a broadsword with your eyebrow muscles. So yeah, sounds good to me.

Even if you do gain weight from all the binge drinking and eating, you'd burn it off from all the rigorous training during the day... Win-Win!

 

[CleverCover]

My favorite is the reincarnation idea from the Hindu religion, although I like the thought that you pick when you want to be born and hope to fuck it's a good one.