Well you die then they burry you then you start decomposing intill your just a skelaton. Nothing happens sorrey if it makes people depressed it certainly makes me feel bad.solidsnake101023 said:
What do you believe happens to you when you die?
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I believe in heaven and hell but with a twist.
I think that we recreate the feelings we had in our last second of death. If we were good then we would be happy ad if we were in pain or similar the image of pain would remain after we ceased to exist.
Something like a phantom leg. You know after they cut the leg you can still feel the pain in it. Something like that. We die and feel the last feeling we had before we died. Kind of scary actually.
I think that we recreate the feelings we had in our last second of death. If we were good then we would be happy ad if we were in pain or similar the image of pain would remain after we ceased to exist.
Something like a phantom leg. You know after they cut the leg you can still feel the pain in it. Something like that. We die and feel the last feeling we had before we died. Kind of scary actually.
In my case, it'll go like this:
1. Cease bodily functions.
2. One of the following: (a) buried, (b) cremated then buried, (c) cremated then scattered or thrown in the bin or something, (d) none of the above, thrown in a lake or whatever
3. The end.
At point 2, I don't much care which option applies. I won't know much about it, on account of point 1.
1. Cease bodily functions.
2. One of the following: (a) buried, (b) cremated then buried, (c) cremated then scattered or thrown in the bin or something, (d) none of the above, thrown in a lake or whatever
3. The end.
At point 2, I don't much care which option applies. I won't know much about it, on account of point 1.
Someone will attempt to loot my corpse under ground after a rumour that I was buried with all my wealth.
Used to have this weird dream as a kid where millions of bodies would be floating down a river, each with a light in his/or her chest and at certain points the light would move from one person (and the body would sink under) to a new body which would have risen up out of the water.
I guess in a round about way I'm saying I believe in reincarnation, although we'll have no memories of a previous life. That'd be nice.
Of course there is the strong possibility that this is it and the rest is blackness. In which case better live up your time here because it won't last long.
I guess in a round about way I'm saying I believe in reincarnation, although we'll have no memories of a previous life. That'd be nice.
Of course there is the strong possibility that this is it and the rest is blackness. In which case better live up your time here because it won't last long.
Sadly, I am one who believes in the depressing reality of no life after death. I really wish I felt belief as other do on their spirituality, as my perception of death is bleak, but I don't.
Given that you wouldn't have any memory of your past life, is it really you being reborn, or is it really you being recycled?Rusman said:
Yeah I guess it probably would be, it would be nice to think that we would be exactly the same person, albeit with some minor graphical enhancements and just no memories of a previous existence but that wouldn't explain why similar, more outspoken entities (like Hitler or Ghandi) haven't kept popping up more often with the same goals but a different face. I mean it's not like it doesn't happen but if we did reincarnate then by averages it should happen a lot more.Cry Wolf said:
Basically the same thing your computer experiences when you turn it off.
I think you would be completely unaware of anything happing while dead. If you were to be brought back to life at some point in the future, it would just be like waking up after a deep sleep, when you didn't have any dreams.
I think you would be completely unaware of anything happing while dead. If you were to be brought back to life at some point in the future, it would just be like waking up after a deep sleep, when you didn't have any dreams.
You can be reincarnated into an animal, but only if you have lead a bad life. I would be turned into a butterfly, no one expects the Butterfly >manaman said:
*cookies for reference
I suppose the difference in interpretation come down to how we both define how we became to be. If you are to believe we would be reincarnated as the same person, then you likely believe that we're born the way we are. I on the other hand believe we are the sum of our experiences, and thus if I were to be reincarnated without memory then I would not be the same person.Rusman said:
Or, I completely stuffed up and made assumptions about your beliefs which were incorrect.
I believe your mind would go through some form on lock, where you are unable to percieve anything from the outside world but you are only bound by the power of your imagination. SO you would end up wherever you think you would go after death.
Of course, this is just a theory I came up with just so I could sleep at night whenever the thoughts of death creeped up in my mind.
Of course, this is just a theory I came up with just so I could sleep at night whenever the thoughts of death creeped up in my mind.
I think I sit somewhere in the middle, less of a nature Vs nurture and more a nature as well as nurture, I think something are inherently with us from day 1, but a lot comes from our experience like you say. I never really thought about this side of the coin though and, you do make a good point, if we really had no memories the likelihood is we would become very different people. But then it could turn the other way, if we are a completely different person then is it still reincarnation? How much of us is inherent to our "souls"?Cry Wolf said:
Also you didn't stuff up, I have a strange amalgamation of beliefs.
You know how sometimes, you've hit the snooze button for 5 mins, fall back asleep and have dream that feels like it's lasted for hours of even days? I think that as your dying, it would be nice if the last signals of your brain before it shuts down are you dreaming. As far as you're concerned, because you have no knowledge of it ending, you're in a place where anything can happen for the rest of your life.
This is really where I was coming from. I've thought long and hard when it comes to life after death and spirituality, trying to find or create something I can truly believe in. I've pondered many times the idea of reincarnation, and the idea has always been somewhat unsettling to me. How I define myself as a person is forever linked to what I have done, and the idea that it might be taken from me is more than a little daunting.Rusman said:
As for how much is inherent to the soul, what is a soul? I find myself as somewhat of a materialist, and I believe spirit and the mind are one and the same. Given this presumption, what is inherent to the soul is merely the strongest element of human nature - survival.
Also, I don't believe there are really any strange beliefs - even less so the apparent composite of multiple already conceived ideologies. I don't think anyone person should be confined to the ideas of another - which happens to be one of my problems is personally finding faith in religion.
Closer to the topic: Does believing in more-than-death bring peace to you? I've never found ease with any philosophies on death and I was wonder if there really was peace to be found.
Very interesting view on what the soul is. I find myself wondering if such a thing exists quite a lot. The closest I have come to some how explaining it to myself is that the soul is literally just what makes a person individual, the collections of personality traits that are unique to you and you alone.Cry Wolf said:
I'm not sure it beings me peace, I prefer the idea to the alternative of just nothingness for eternity. But I think a lot of it comes from me wanting to know what will come after me. How will humanity advance or even if we will at all.
I'm still very questionable about the matter, I think in all likelihood there is nothing and that saddens me a little, it gives a sense of futility sometimes, but then it also spurs people into motion, knowing that time is short makes you live each day with with more vigour, forget mistakes and move on looking for new experiences.
In a way, believing that there is nothing may even bring more peace than believing that there is more.