What happens when you die?
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- set0
lol gotta love cunts that laugh at others beliefs while having literally no idea themselves either.
It's alright little fellas we can talk about it like grownups.
- stoplying0
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
- Emily Dickinson
After my wife and I had our first kid, we went to visit my folks and my Mom had my son's picture hanging on the fridge with this quote taped to it. It really made me rethink things seeing that my Mom believes this. She's 76.
- omg0
Death is just a waiting area till we are ready to live life again.
- bored2death0
Why are you trying to describe a state of being in which your current senses, conciousness and understanding will no longer exist?
- hotroddy0
I used to ask this question in my 20's and early 30's and I think it's because I was uncomfortable with the answer. I don't ask it any more. I've come to grips in knowing no one's conscious is immortal.
- ApeRobot0
You live, you die, reunite with the cosmos.
- nb0
The only reasonable end-point of this debate is agnosticism. And it will be that way forever, as far as I can see.
But hey, imagination is fun, so go right ahead.
- sarahfailin0
What part of "you" is it that continues after death?
What is the self?
I think that if you examine this closely enough, you will find that there is nothing there at all.- I'm pretty sure you are what you eat. I definitely remember learning that in school.nb
- aliastime0
"Actually lots of things happen after you die, just none of them include you..."
- Louis CK
- IRNlun60
I have no idea and accept that i'll never know in my life time. Although the theory I like the most is that physical bodies are like an antenna that pick up on frequencies of consciousness. Consciousness being an infinite and constant ocean of energy throughout the universe. Only our physical bodies can pass away, but the consciousness is endless. Always present to any physical antenna evolved for its reception.
- I have discussed this thought with others as well.BabySnakes
- BrokenHD0
I think of it like this:
Millions of miles of raw space dust coalesces for a brief moment, to become star, to become planet, then single-celled and eventually complex, attaining consciousness, and thereby living a "life." The life eventually ends for most, due to entropy. The raw material that makes you "you" is then broken back down and absorbed into the planet from whence it came, and eventually, back into the star. The star inevitably dies and spews forth its evermore complex guts into space. The cool part is that the raw material, due to the laws of physics, will coalesce once again, later in time, to live another "life." This happens over and over, forever. The fact that the law of gravity or attraction or whatever exists, is super sweet and divine. At least until we figure out how to extract and harness the Higgs-boson. lol
Since the universe is infinite and possibilities are infinite, your exact consciousness (i.e. a certain combination of chemical/material reactions et al) will eventually repeat, verbatim. Many times it will not, which is also fun. Explains deja vu, past lives, reincarnation. The vast span of time between these lives matters not, as space dust is not conscious of the passing time, until its brief, conscious coalescence.
Thats my theory anyway. Came up with it while holding my breath in a swimming pool sometime around '00.
- cannonball19780
Everything goes black.
Then you see some clouds, and a big curtain is drawn to reveal a big warehouse filled with everything you have ever encountered in your life.
Projected on the ceiling is a big screen that shows you info graphics answering any question you have abut the statistics of your life: amount of chocolate you've eaten, cubic cm of fart air expelled, money spent, number of times masturbated, etc.
You can rearrange all the things in the warehouse to reenact any scene in your life and change what happens to see how it could have been done differently, but that's it.
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- what then? What happen next?ApeRobot
- whatever you want, as long as it's in the warehouse.cannonball1978
- ukit20
How about this:
Everything goes black, and you go shooting past some clouds though an infinite ocean of space-time towards a distant light. The veil of material reality dissolves away and your soul enters the eternal dream realm of quantum consciousness. You become one with the universe and finally understand that heaven, reincarnation and eternal life are all real.
But then you die anyway, because you didn't follow the one true religion, which it turns out was Scientology.
- marychain0
You get thrown in an oven...or slowly devoured by worms. Either way...you're not likely to know about it. Your freak moment of consciousness will be over.
The void awaits us all.
- oey0
life goes on...but not for you.
- jaylarson0
haven't the foggiest. never happened to me. even people with near death experiences may have it wrong. our poor brains just aren't that good and give us so many illusions.
- cannonball19780
The moment of death is your consciousness fragments into all the multitudes of consciousnesses that comprises the living tissue that once was coordinated into the super organism that was you. You—all those consciousnesses, which are red blood cells, bone tissues, brian matter, etc.—all this consciousnesses which are less aware, have no common goal, so they go off on their own and eventually die, and break down into their proteins and atoms, etc.
The complex consciousness that was you becomes more consciousnesses that are stupider and care about smaller things, until those things break down as well until eventually it becomes non-life.
The singular entity that was you, however, with all your cares and importances, ceases to physically exist. Your legacy lives on as the causality of your actions echoing outwards in reality, but that too will fade.