“I like to think that we come back as someone else. That’s the least unsettling theory.” not for me it isn’t once I’m dead I want to stay that way….People love to romanticize reincarnation while forgetting that they may come back in a much worse position than they were. Right now you are able to read write and walk… what if you can back as a blind deaf paraplegic? I don’t know where we “go” I’d think of it as a long long long sleep….when you go to sleep and you wake up you don’t automatically know what time of day it is. I’ve had times where I went to mid day about 3 and woke up at dusk but it looked like early morning so I thought it was the next day. When we are sleep we are unaware of the passage of time. You shouldn’t fear death because it happens regardless….its like fearing puberty….the fear increases the discomfort of going through it….
Once I leave this world I want to say “goodbye” not “see you later”….
“What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”
Well, maybe we come back not as some random other person, but what if we come back as that fat guy in the third row? Or worse, what if we come back as Anne Coulter? 😐 I’d rather not speculate.
Kidding…I have had past life regression therapy…as well as having an awesome NDE. Yup…I’m certain I’ve done this before…and I’m doing it again…on purpose. haha
“You shouldn’t fear death because it happens regardless….its like fearing puberty….the fear increases the discomfort of going through it….
I loved this. How often do we spend time worrying about we have to go through instead of enjoying our time. Worrying doesn’t keep it from happening…Cuz think about it…wasn’t the birth experience the WORST hell? Death is way easier than birth. So maybe instead of worrying about dying in this lifetime…perhaps you should really be focussing on worrying about perhaps having to be born again in the next life? just kidding…stop worrying…learn to live while you’re alive…dying will happen without your help.
Death is intriguing in that it’s shrouded in mystery which leaves room for people to implement their own answer for the question that cannot be answered: What happens after we die? Cultures and religions and even modern scientists have tried to answer this question and they’ve each concluded something different. Individual people all have different answers when asked this question as well.
I don’t believe anything happens when we die, we are organic machines and once a machine ceases to work that’s it. Paraphrasing Stephen Hawking “Computers don’t go to heaven”. I’m not afraid of death though, but I’m biased because I’d actually like death to come sooner than later.
You should see an episode of this show which is narrated by Morgan Freeman “Through the Wormhole: Life after death” It gives arguments and opinions by neurologists, philosophers and people whom have experienced death as close as you can: having an NDE (Near Death Experience) It’s rather interesting and everyone has different answers. I think you would like it, as it doesn’t portray death as something to be feared, but rather something to be questioned and explored.
I had to google Ann Coulter. Just reading her wikipedia page made me want to punch her.
I don’t believe in reincarnation. Mathematically it doesn’t make sense. Ok, so life on earth has existed for 10 million years. Do you know how many souls that has been? Where would they all fit? There would be a waiting list 10 trillion years long to get a body.
It’s impossible to estimate the number of organisms that have lived & died on earth, but according to world-mysteries the number of people who have ever lived is 106,456,367,669.
There are currently 8,500,000,000 living human bodies.
How do you cram 106 billion into 8.5 billion?
And if you think the expanding population will solve the problem, it’s the other way around. The more the population expands, the more dead people we get. Essentially there will NEVER be enough living bodies to contain all the dead souls.
Therefore I conclude that death must be pure oblivion, nothingness, nil. Either that or we all get reincarnated as Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection.
Did you know that if the connection between a person’s left and right brain is severed, their right arm may begin to operate by its own accord, controlled by the “silent” right brain? Called Alien Hand Syndrome. Weird shit. If you think about it, aren’t we each really two people?
So… if a person’s brain loses the bridge between halves, which side gets the original consciousness? Or does it split, and result in a body occupied by two identical personalities, which are unaware of each other, and each having “alien hand syndrome” on the opposite side?
If you’re a doctor, does this count as two patients?
Usually, from what I understand, when the two sides of the brain are disconnected, the left brain takes dominance in right handed people, while the right side takes dominance in left handed people – but since the two sides are disconnected from one another, the non-dominant side becomes “silent” and can act out from time to time. That’s the whole spiel with Alien Hand Syndrome – the non-dominant side of the brain starts getting angry because it’s not included in decision making, so it throws shit at random people or does other annoying things like that. Haha..
Considering the biophysical aspect, all life springs from inanimate (dead) material. Hydrogen, oxygen, ********, and carbon aren’t alive, but they form the building blocks of life. When a complex living thing dies, it gets consumed by living things. If you look at the world around you, things are dying all the time and there is life that makes use of the leftover parts.
Is there life for you as you are after you die? Doesn’t look like it. If you died in a field and allowed the soil to reclaim your body, countless bacteria, parasites, insects, and other larger animals would consume it, and you cease to exist as you.
You as “you” had no existence before you were conceived, when you sleep and aren’t dreaming, you have no feeling of the dead skin that sloughs off your body, the hair that gets cut off, the fingernail filings, there’s already a lot of you that’s dead right now that you have no experience or feeling of. Even some of the stuff that’s partially “alive” in you right now, you have no feeling or experience of that, either, like the lost blood, vomit, poop, sweat, urine, or tears.
While I think past life experience may be some kind of tuning into the wavelengths of someone else’s past experience, there is no real experience of life after death for any given individual.
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“I like to think that we come back as someone else. That’s the least unsettling theory.” not for me it isn’t once I’m dead I want to stay that way….People love to romanticize reincarnation while forgetting that they may come back in a much worse position than they were. Right now you are able to read write and walk… what if you can back as a blind deaf paraplegic? I don’t know where we “go” I’d think of it as a long long long sleep….when you go to sleep and you wake up you don’t automatically know what time of day it is. I’ve had times where I went to mid day about 3 and woke up at dusk but it looked like early morning so I thought it was the next day. When we are sleep we are unaware of the passage of time. You shouldn’t fear death because it happens regardless….its like fearing puberty….the fear increases the discomfort of going through it….
Once I leave this world I want to say “goodbye” not “see you later”….
I like this quote by Woody Allen:
“What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”
Well, maybe we come back not as some random other person, but what if we come back as that fat guy in the third row? Or worse, what if we come back as Anne Coulter? 😐 I’d rather not speculate.
If I were to come back as Ann Coulter, I’d have commit suicide… again.
Reincarnation…hmmm
Kidding…I have had past life regression therapy…as well as having an awesome NDE. Yup…I’m certain I’ve done this before…and I’m doing it again…on purpose. haha
“You shouldn’t fear death because it happens regardless….its like fearing puberty….the fear increases the discomfort of going through it….
I loved this. How often do we spend time worrying about we have to go through instead of enjoying our time. Worrying doesn’t keep it from happening…Cuz think about it…wasn’t the birth experience the WORST hell? Death is way easier than birth. So maybe instead of worrying about dying in this lifetime…perhaps you should really be focussing on worrying about perhaps having to be born again in the next life? just kidding…stop worrying…learn to live while you’re alive…dying will happen without your help.
Good Luck
Amakua
Losing what you know you have, is much harder than never knowing what you missed.
We know virtually nothing at birth.
But death comes once we have spent a lifetime (even if short) acquiring knowledge and experiencing our world, learning what, if anything, is valuable.
We are born with no concept of value…
We spend our lives learning the meaning of value, and assessing the value of life…
And then death comes and takes it all away.
Perhaps without a sense of value, and without ever valuing anything, death would seem irrelevant.
Death is intriguing in that it’s shrouded in mystery which leaves room for people to implement their own answer for the question that cannot be answered: What happens after we die? Cultures and religions and even modern scientists have tried to answer this question and they’ve each concluded something different. Individual people all have different answers when asked this question as well.
I don’t believe anything happens when we die, we are organic machines and once a machine ceases to work that’s it. Paraphrasing Stephen Hawking “Computers don’t go to heaven”. I’m not afraid of death though, but I’m biased because I’d actually like death to come sooner than later.
You should see an episode of this show which is narrated by Morgan Freeman “Through the Wormhole: Life after death” It gives arguments and opinions by neurologists, philosophers and people whom have experienced death as close as you can: having an NDE (Near Death Experience) It’s rather interesting and everyone has different answers. I think you would like it, as it doesn’t portray death as something to be feared, but rather something to be questioned and explored.
I had to google Ann Coulter. Just reading her wikipedia page made me want to punch her.
I don’t believe in reincarnation. Mathematically it doesn’t make sense. Ok, so life on earth has existed for 10 million years. Do you know how many souls that has been? Where would they all fit? There would be a waiting list 10 trillion years long to get a body.
It’s impossible to estimate the number of organisms that have lived & died on earth, but according to world-mysteries the number of people who have ever lived is 106,456,367,669.
There are currently 8,500,000,000 living human bodies.
How do you cram 106 billion into 8.5 billion?
And if you think the expanding population will solve the problem, it’s the other way around. The more the population expands, the more dead people we get. Essentially there will NEVER be enough living bodies to contain all the dead souls.
Therefore I conclude that death must be pure oblivion, nothingness, nil. Either that or we all get reincarnated as Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection.
@cyanides:
Multiple Personality Disorder.
This explains how 106 billion souls can fit into 8.5 billion people.
It’s clearly correct.
I’ve already got my bid in for Grand Vizier of Antarctica when it becomes colonized.
Did you know that if the connection between a person’s left and right brain is severed, their right arm may begin to operate by its own accord, controlled by the “silent” right brain? Called Alien Hand Syndrome. Weird shit. If you think about it, aren’t we each really two people?
left arm / right brain — oops, sometimes i forget which hand is which. I should put post-it notes on them so I’ll remember.
So… if a person’s brain loses the bridge between halves, which side gets the original consciousness? Or does it split, and result in a body occupied by two identical personalities, which are unaware of each other, and each having “alien hand syndrome” on the opposite side?
If you’re a doctor, does this count as two patients?
actually, replace identical with some other word like “vaguely similar.”
@CN Hahaha I stand shamefully corrected!
Usually, from what I understand, when the two sides of the brain are disconnected, the left brain takes dominance in right handed people, while the right side takes dominance in left handed people – but since the two sides are disconnected from one another, the non-dominant side becomes “silent” and can act out from time to time. That’s the whole spiel with Alien Hand Syndrome – the non-dominant side of the brain starts getting angry because it’s not included in decision making, so it throws shit at random people or does other annoying things like that. Haha..
Considering the biophysical aspect, all life springs from inanimate (dead) material. Hydrogen, oxygen, ********, and carbon aren’t alive, but they form the building blocks of life. When a complex living thing dies, it gets consumed by living things. If you look at the world around you, things are dying all the time and there is life that makes use of the leftover parts.
Is there life for you as you are after you die? Doesn’t look like it. If you died in a field and allowed the soil to reclaim your body, countless bacteria, parasites, insects, and other larger animals would consume it, and you cease to exist as you.
You as “you” had no existence before you were conceived, when you sleep and aren’t dreaming, you have no feeling of the dead skin that sloughs off your body, the hair that gets cut off, the fingernail filings, there’s already a lot of you that’s dead right now that you have no experience or feeling of. Even some of the stuff that’s partially “alive” in you right now, you have no feeling or experience of that, either, like the lost blood, vomit, poop, sweat, urine, or tears.
While I think past life experience may be some kind of tuning into the wavelengths of someone else’s past experience, there is no real experience of life after death for any given individual.