What happens after death? (speculation thread)

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Circusfreak

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Since nobody really knows yet, I think it would be fun to run this thread.
So, any ideas on what might happen to you after you die?

To make sure we're all on the same page keep in mind that I'm not talking about the body, I mean the YOU, the thing that is experiencing being you and having your memory and personality. (memory and personality are both just parts of the brain that rots away). some people call this the "soul". it contains no information about you, just YOU.

Also keep in mind that this is only speculation. I'm not asking what you actually believe in.

It would be nice if you would suggest things that contradicts what we already know.

heres my entry:
What if we all share the same "soul"? I mean if you would have your "soul" being put in another persons brain, you(that is now that person) would not even notice anything have happened because you can't remember anything from the person you were before's memory, that is in his brain which you left behind. Instead you would have the memories and personality of the new person and think they were your own. So maybe there is only one "soul" that is simultaneously being every person and animal in the universe. so that when you die you'll just keep living as all other beings.

let me see your ideas.

[EDIT: some people seem to have forgotten that i'm not asking for what you actually believe will happen. I dont believe that my entry is true because theres no support for it. Also i don't really like the word "soul" either. thats why i have quotation marks.]
 

Redingold

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You rot in the ground, or have your ashes scattered, et cetera, et cetera.

I consider the "soul" or conciousness to be an emergent property of a network of neurons in the brain.
 

Jak LesStrange

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Its my belief that we transcend this reality and enter a dream-like state where we have control over a dimension of our own :)... I'm not a nutjob, I just think this is a nicer alternative to other afterlives I have read about, such as Burn in hell for stealing a twinky or be reincarnated for stealing some old guys shoes.
 

Jedoro

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Our souls become fuel for something called "alchemy," a method that people in an alternate universe have of transmuting things into other things. The principle of equivalent exchange demands that the energy they need comes from somewhere, so our souls go into what is essentially a "fuel tank" for their alchemy. So, every time they change something into something else, a human soul is completely destroyed.

So much for eternity, huh?
 

Scrubiii

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Nothing at all.

Like when you are asleep but not dreaming. Everything just ends.
 

Canadamus Prime

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I imagine much the same thing that happens when you shut off a computer, only much more permanent.
 

Biodeamon

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wouldn't this be in the religion forums? but then again there is the whole entire rotting issue...

I'd say peaceful oblivion.
 

No_Remainders

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Redingold said:
You rot in the ground, or have your ashes scattered, et cetera, et cetera.

I consider the "soul" or conciousness to be an emergent property of a network of neurons in the brain.
Pretty much.

I'm not a fan of the idea of having a "soul".
 

MetroidNut

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I'm going to have to go with "nothing". I would argue that there is no such thing as a soul, and that the human mind is nothing more than a byproduct of the physical brain. Honestly, though, I prefer nothingness to most ideas of an afterlife. The usual idea of Heaven, for instance, seems like an eternity of mind-boggling boredom.
 

hazabaza1

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I think it'd be cool if like, you lived your life again, but with slight changes. Like being born as the opposite sex, or growing up in a rich family.
 

Wintermoot

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the universe splits off into a alternate timeline where you keep living to support the consequences of you surviving.
you won,t notice death.
 

Grell Sutcliff

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one theory I have is that maybe your memories would go with the soul but the soul wouldn't remain itself but would meld with other souls to form what I call the collective which would gather the memories and blank pieces of it would break off and enter other bodies to form new souls to gather more memories.
But most of all I believe that what happens to your soul (even wether it exist) is more of a matter of luck, so you just gotta hope you were born in a universe that has some place like heaven however if that universe starts to break you better start swearing because after it breaks your soul could turn into a hotdog or pure energy or whatever else you can imagine.
 

Jonluw

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Well, I believe my mind/soul exists only as electrical signals moving between neurons, so I suppose what will become of me is that I(the electrons) will be scattered around the earth taking up new tasks.
 

LaughingAtlas

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Paying special attention to the word "speculation" in the title, here's a theory I haven't heard regurgitated repeatedly:
I think maybe the universe resets itself or something. Part of the Big Bang Theory (if I heard right) was that eventually the universe would have to stop expanding and being to contract again, shrinking back into nothing and perhaps blowing up again, interminably. That might explain portentious dreams better than "Oh, you dreamt of a moment of no apparent relevance and then days, weeks, months, or years later experienced that exact moment again, and everything; things you said, heard, felt, etc. were precisely as they were in the dream? Must be a coincidence, no matter how many times it happens."
Maybe we've been through our lives countless times and when we die we're effectively out of action (like fallen party members) until everything starts over, seeing events we already lived as dreams during moments perhaps not important to us, but relevant somewhere else in existance like a planet being vaporized or a pivotal act sure to (for lack of a better word) change the course history. I'm aware that not everyone has these dreams, congrats on your luck of the draw, because they're rather irritating.
To put this more simply; I think what happens after we die might be somthing like unconciousness until the eons pass and we're born again. It doesn't make a lot of sense to even me, but then, the concept of "knowledge" (like the knowledge that the earth was definitely flat) doesn't make sense to me either, so maybe I'm just SOL when it comes to explaining things with little or no visible impact on our lives.

Personally, I'm kind of hoping for nonexistance, few afterlife scenarios I've heard of sound appealing in the long (that is, eternal) run.