You know what's scary to think of?

PizzamanIRL

No, this isn't a religious belief thread.

When you die, does everything stop forever or do you live on forever in some after life? I mean, picture a circle and pick a starting point on that circle. When you live your life, you have gone around that circle fully. Then what? That's it? Everything stops completely? Or you keep looping in some other life forever?

I can picture it in my head better than I explain it in words. It's weird to think about. It makes you really want to live your life to the fullest instead of just going through the process of life until it's over.

Witcher

Liv evry day lik its ur last hun

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I think there is an afterlife.

Senna

Nope, once you're gone you're gone.

Macavity.

When you die, that's it. Anything else would be terrifying to me.

DazMarz

I want to be reincarnated as a bra

Captain Chaos

Being dead forever. Scary to think about but good thing you won't know anything about it when it happens. What else is scary is you were dead for 14 billion years before you were born. Have good long think about that and your head will start to hurt.

KERSPLAT!

When you die, that's it IMO. It's nothing, just like before you were born. But in reality, who knows?

Kevin McCloud

Its game over i say.

endacl

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I think there is an afterlife.

Of course there is. You won't be in it though.

NIMAN

No-one knows, end of.

And when you die you will find out ...... or else you won't.

Captain Chaos

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

When you die, that's it IMO. It's nothing, just like before you were born. But in reality, who knows?

Logical reasoning. The only part of the bible that's true "from ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

Son Of A Vidic

DazMarz wrote: »

I want to be reincarnated as a bra

Be careful what you wish for. With obesity levels increasing worldwide, you might very well end up as a bra supporting some man boobs.

kneemos

Would modern man interact with Neanderthals?
What about animals?It would be
presumptuous to think we are the only ones with a soul.

BBDBB

There can be only one!

Kevin McCloud

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Logical reasoning. The only part of the bible that's true "from ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

Is the bible available on kindle do you know, it could be my next book.

Squeedily Spooch

Being eternally aware of yourself sounds awful. I like the idea we all have only a limited time here, make the best of it and don't worry about what happens at the end as nothing you can do will change it. This idea that there's pearly gates and nice man with a beard up there forever is just nonsense peddled to sell bibles.

Squeedily Spooch

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Is the bible available on kindle do you know, it could be my next book.

It is and it's free, several versions of it too. I'd recommend everyone reads it, it was what finally turned me off believing in God. If more Christians read their bibles there'd be a lot less Christians. There's some horrific stuff in there.

kryogen

Everlasting life is the thing that has scared me most ever since I was a pre teen I think.

When you're dead your dead. I hope.

mikeyjames9

It never bothered me 'til I became a parent

kneemos

Squeedily Spooch wrote: »

Being eternally aware of yourself sounds awful. I like the idea we all have only a limited time here, make the best of it and don't worry about what happens at the end as nothing you can do will change it. This idea that there's pearly gates and nice man with a beard up there forever is just nonsense peddled to sell bibles.

Good to be open to possibilities is it not?

The_Kew_Tour

Personally I hope there is no afterlife.

If there was is it better be good.

Squeedily Spooch

kneemos wrote: »

Good to be open to possibilities is it not?

The possibility that we await eternal worship of a tyrannical god is absolutely terrifying to me.

kneemos

Squeedily Spooch wrote: »

The possibility that we await eternal worship of a tyrannical god is absolutely terrifying to me.

Well if your sure that's what happens.

The_Kew_Tour

And who is to say God is the lovey dovey fella some portray him to be.

If there is a God he could be a Nazi loving, Pol Pot worshipping man or woman(or both) for all we know.

Calibos

kneemos wrote: »

Would modern man interact with Neanderthals?
What about animals?It would be
presumptuous to think we are the only ones with a soul.

In fairness, its pretty presumptuous to think we have a soul never mind neanderthals

I can assure you though that your Iphone has a soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6YnAqPv4w

Squeedily Spooch

kneemos wrote: »

Well if your sure that's what happens.

If you're a Christian that's exactly what happens. Love me or burn in hell.

Nobody Knows :pac:

I'd be of the belief that when you're gone, you're gone. Humans can't comprehend the concept of "nothing" so it's very hard for us to imagine it. When we think of "nothing" we think of darkness, but even darkness is something.

shuffles88

I wish there was an afterlife so that I'd see people that I loved who had passed away again. But the logical side of me I doesn't believe that there is. I'd hope that in its dying moments that my brain creates a 'heaven' so I don't realise I'm going nowhere like how you often hear of people on their deathbeds 'seeing' their deceased loved ones in their dying moments.

But the thing I like to think of when I get a case of the deep thinkies about life and death is the Carl Sagan quote "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." It brings me comfort to think that my make up is aeons old already.

Squeedily Spooch

The idea we just turn back into what we came from is far more comforting to me than spending eternity in as Christopher Hitchens put it, "a celestial North Korea". Don't question the leader or he'll send you to hell.

kneemos

Squeedily Spooch wrote: »

If you're a Christian that's exactly what happens. Love me or burn in hell.

Don't think they're doing hell anymore,just a tactic to scare the masses.
Don't believe religion has much to do with God.If he has anything to do with Catholicism I think I'd opt for eternal blackness.

Squeedily Spooch

kneemos wrote: »

Don't think they're doing hell anymore,just a tactic to scare the masses.
Don't believe religion has much to do with God.If he has anything to do with Catholicism I think I'd opt for eternal blackness.

I don't believe in the Chrisitian God so the rules dont apply to me, same as the rules for reincarnation and Hinduism don't apply to Christians. It's much easier to just see the whole thing as nonsense and live a good life without worrying about a boogeyman in the sky watching you naked.

Chunners

Where you alive before this? if not then you can assume that it isn't a circle, now don't get me wrong it is great to think that you are the one thing in the whole of creation that really exists whereas 15 billion years of Earth burning, of dinosaurs living and dying, of mammals evolving will prove you wrong so really what makes you think that for all the life that has died in the last 250 million years you are the one specific life that deserves preferential treatment? Death isn't a circle but take solace that death isn't an experience either, when you die you die, you end so you won't be there to experience it. If you believe you somehow do experience it then technically you are religious because you believe in an afterlife

The Diabolical Monocle

Never is there a promising hopefull certainty - regardless the school of thought.
Or concise solid answers.
Yet bad sht happens all the time and the questions are fking impossible.
Giant psstake.

Celly Smunt

Chunners wrote: »

Where you alive before this?

Who's to say you weren't. Life could be an algorithimic loop for one persons consciousness.

Chunners wrote: »

if not then you can assume that it isn't a circle, now don't get me wrong it is great to think that you are the one thing in the whole of creation that really exists whereas 15 billion years of Earth burning, of dinosaurs living and dying, of mammals evolving will prove you wrong so really what makes you think that for all the life that has died in the last 250 million years you are the one specific life that deserves preferential treatment? Death isn't a circle but take solace that death isn't an experience either, when you die you die, you end so you won't be there to experience it. If you believe you somehow do experience it then technically you are religious because you believe in an afterlife

Life might not be linear,which is something which is under investigation at the moment in terms of time. If time isn't linear then life isn't linear and therefore could run parallel right now to what we perceive as 250 million years ago. Just different planes on the same level.

Deep ****,but when it all boils down to it nobody knows except those burned in urns or buried in the ground. Even though i wouldn't be a believer of an afterlife as such, i don't think something can cease to exist. Once something exists it exists if it never existed it doesn't exist which brings us back to loop theory.

Piriz

You can live on in the memories of others or a legacy if you are lucky enough to leave one... so make sure you make lots of positive memories with people...

Applause

Well, if there's an afterlife wouldn't everything that has ever died be in it? Seems like it would be a very annoying place full of dinosaurs and Hitler.

COYVB

What intrigues me most about death is that if, as I believe, when you die that's it, then that means at the precise point of death everything that has ever existed ceases to have ever existed for you (including, and because of, your consciousness and memory). That's an incredibly difficult thing to get your head around

AlanS181824

Blay wrote: »

Liv evry day lik its ur last hun

wil doo, tah luv.

cha me ohn beboh der hun xxxxx


Haha :pac:

Chunners

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Who's to say you weren't. Life could be an algorithimic loop for one persons consciousness.



Life might not be linear,which is something which is under investigation at the moment in terms of time. If time isn't linear then life isn't linear and therefore could run parallel right now to what we perceive as 250 million years ago. Just different planes on the same level.

Deep ****,but when it all boils down to it nobody knows except those burned in urns or buried in the ground. Even though i wouldn't be a believer of an afterlife as such, i don't think something can cease to exist. Once something exists it exists if it never existed it doesn't exist which brings us back to loop theory.

Thats a valid point that needed to be made by some moron but really if time wasn't linear how many other morons have to try prove that time isn't linear before they die and go into this other universe where they can no longer prove that time isn't linear?

brandnewaward

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Be careful what you wish for. With obesity levels increasing worldwide, you might very well end up as a bra supporting some man boobs.

hairy man boobs...

FanadMan

When you die you live on forever......in the worms, maggots and plant life around the grave. It's an endless cycle of life, death and rebirth.

COYVB

FanadMan wrote: »

When you die you live on forever......in the worms, maggots and plant life around the grave. It's an endless cycle of life, death and rebirth.

Those worms, maggots and plant life won't be around for anything even starting to half resemble a millionth of a percentage of forever

Eileen Down

If there is an afterlife, I hope there's tea. Spending Infinity without a cup of tea would be nothing short of hell.

carlmango11

Why do people over complicate this question with circle metaphors and "no one knows" bulls*it?

We're talking monkeys on a rock in space. When we die our brains stop working which causes our thoughts to cease. End of story. Much in the same way as a dog or a rat or a cabbage. Why would people assume any differently?

smurgen

carlmango11 wrote: »

Why do people over complicate this question with circle metaphors and "no one knows" bulls*it?

We're talking monkeys on a rock in space. When we die our brains stop working which causes our thoughts to cease. End of story. Much in the same way as a dog or a rat or a cabbage. Why would people assume any differently?

Because the universe and existence isn't as simple as was previously thought.time is a lot more complex also and in another universe events already finished in this universe might only be unfolding.start reading up on quantum mechanics and the like and you'll see how mental the universe really is.

kumate_champ07

if you give a dog some food and it doesnt eat it, what does it actually taste like to the dog? they lick their own asses, surely there cant be things less appetizing than dog poo?

Laois6556

In a couple of hundred years a persons life expectancy will be 500 years old. Can you imagine that? Being alive for 500 years. Wow.

laurinjames

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form.

I think the things you do in life and your spirit live on.

laurinjames

Laois6556 wrote: »

In a couple of hundred years a persons life expectancy will be 500 years old. Can you imagine that? Being alive for 500 years. Wow.

Cripes, it's hard enough to get through the 80

kumate_champ07

Laois6556 wrote: »

In a couple of hundred years a persons life expectancy will be 500 years old. Can you imagine that? Being alive for 500 years. Wow.

they'll have to figure out a new formula to replace 'half your age plus 7'