Please do not resort to religious discussions as this will be locked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, I was wondering what happens after you die?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've always pondered on the thought, I know there are many many possible answers. Not really answers, But suggestions and theorys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

personally, I think people who are still living and people who are dead live in to seperate worlds, but the same world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The dead are taken from the living world and placed in the 'other' world without knowing, But the real world still knows they are gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If that makes sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please discuss yours..

 

 

 

..And remember, Keep it away from religion and flaming, I'd like this topic to be taken maturely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this does get locked, I'd like to apologise for touching on a religious side of things.

What happens to you when you die is something unknown.

 

 

 

Religion is used to understand the unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's impossible to have a discussion about the afterlife without including religion.

What happens to you when you die is something unknown.

 

 

 

Religion is used to understand the unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's impossible to have a discussion about the afterlife without including religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought that, but thought maybe there are other ways of explaining it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Close and lock this if you really wish.

What happens to you when you die is something unknown.

 

 

 

Religion is used to understand the unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's impossible to have a discussion about the afterlife without including religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree. We don't exactly have much room for conversation here.

Isn't it just the same as when you weren't alive? Before you were alive you were "dead" so shouldn't it just be the same.

You can discuss the afterlife without religion by bringing metaphysics into it.

Isn't it just the same as when you weren't alive? Before you were alive you were "dead" so shouldn't it just be the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats the most logical thing. Lack of consciousness and no feelings or thoughts. Nothing more to say about death really. It is after all a great nothingness.

Isn't it just the same as when you weren't alive? Before you were alive you were "dead" so shouldn't it just be the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain that some more, Sounds interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surely you must go somewhere?

 

 

 

I mean, It's hard for me to grasp.

 

 

 

But.. Well.. I don't see how you can just stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must go on somehow I assume.

I think that's the end - you're over. I don't know why I think that... if your brain is dead, it has no control over you anymore?

 

Isn't it just the same as when you weren't alive? Before you were alive you were "dead" so shouldn't it just be the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain that some more, Sounds interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surely you must go somewhere?

 

 

 

I mean, It's hard for me to grasp.

 

 

 

But.. Well.. I don't see how you can just stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must go on somehow I assume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nope. You certainly don't have to. You WANT to, that's what religion is. IMO anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But as we are discussing afterlife, there is for me but one answer, our conciousness lies within our brain. Created by the electrical currents or whatever, haven't studied it deeply enough to explain more. But when we die, they stop working. So no conciousness. Might sound harsh to some, but that's what I beleive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, another side to this is an afterlife in the sense that what we created, the people we touched who still live on, how they think about us, build monuments, etc :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I say, let the living care for the living (afterLIFE) and let me die in peace.

Please discuss yours..

 

 

 

..And remember, Keep it away from religion and flaming, I'd like this topic to be taken maturely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since when did religion become childish? Seriously, I don't really like the idea that when you're views on things after life/death are based on religious ideas, you can't voice them.

 

Isn't it just the same as when you weren't alive? Before you were alive you were "dead" so shouldn't it just be the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain that some more, Sounds interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surely you must go somewhere?

 

 

 

I mean, It's hard for me to grasp.

 

 

 

But.. Well.. I don't see how you can just stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must go on somehow I assume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

like korla said, its probably more you want to believe theres something there..

 

 

 

you certainly dont HAVE to go on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

heres a (very bad) analogy for you:

 

 

 

you are a ball.

 

 

 

before you're "born" you sit at rest at the top of a hill.

 

 

 

at some point, you're given a little nudge downhill. (birth)

 

 

 

eventually, you're going to reach the bottom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now.. this ball doesnt HAVE to keep moving does it? once it reaches the bottom it is going to stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

im not one to believe that the "mind" is somehow seperate from the "brain". I think when the brain stops, the mind stops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hey maybe there isnt "endless nothingness", you just cant experience it :-)

i've got plenty of death theories, most of them based on fantasy books...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the whole sabriel/lirael/abhorsen way of dieing and death is pretty damn cool - so im totally into that atm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(thers a none religious way of doing things - how dieing works in alternate realities.)

 

Please discuss yours..

 

 

 

..And remember, Keep it away from religion and flaming, I'd like this topic to be taken maturely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since when did religion become childish? Seriously, I don't really like the idea that when you're views on things after life/death are based on religious ideas, you can't voice them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can't talk about religion, Like said in the sticky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wasn't saying religion is childish, I was saying, Please people, Respect other peoples veiws and opinions, Don't personally attack people.

 

Please discuss yours..

 

 

 

..And remember, Keep it away from religion and flaming, I'd like this topic to be taken maturely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since when did religion become childish? Seriously, I don't really like the idea that when you're views on things after life/death are based on religious ideas, you can't voice them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think what he meant was that breaking the temporary ban on religion was childish. It's not the subject matter, it's the principle of breaking rules.

Nobody knows.

Nobody knows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your supposed to discuss your thoughts, But hey.

Nothing. The inescapable reality of the end is all that happens. You just end. You are no more than a pile of flaesh and bones and liquids and chemicals. How would you exist any further.

Nothing.

It is after all a great nothingness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ugg...that just gives me the shivers :shock:

 

It is after all a great nothingness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ugg...that just gives me the shivers :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try thinking about what would exist if the universe never existed. The answer is nothing, but it just perplexes your mind when you think about it.

I'd like to think its a never-ending dream, but in reality, i'd have to say nothing - Im an atheist, so i have no religious opinion...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dot quote me asking for justifaction to my answer, its my opinion :

Having lived in a house that has been home to 2 ghosts in my lifetime, I'm pretty confident that death isn't "The End."

Having lived in a house that has been home to 2 ghosts in my lifetime, I'm pretty confident that death isn't "The End."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been wondering this myself. :-k

Without religious input, this thread becomes pointless and one-sided. Everyone is going to say that there's nothing real after death (or perhaps somebody will believe in the paranormal), so there will hardly be any interesting discussion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unless, of course, Insane feels like arguing the metaphysics of it, because I know I'm certainly too tired and busy to do so. :P