What do YOU think happens when you die? (2 Viewers)

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Just an honest opinion of what you think. Whether that be faith like spiritual, religious, or scientific or whatever. Just give your opinion and move on, and respect everyone's opinion please. After all, we are ALL alive and trekking this journey together brothers and sisters. ALL of our opinions matter as far as I am concerned. PLEASE BE NICE! I LOVE ALL OF YOU.

I will give my opinion if things remain civil and fun.
 
Man, I wasn't ready to think of something as deep and profound as this tonight, but let's give it a whirl. Not that it matters, but I'm a raised Roman Catholic now agnostic.

My current belief is that it'll just be like going to sleep except without dreaming or ever waking up. The brain and consciousness just shuts down and then it's just....nothing. Absolutely painless and without suffering when all is said and done.
 
Colquhoun said:
Philosophically, I would like to believe that there is something else after death...
But the scientific part of me says that we are made of stardust...and that our consciousness is electrical energy that simply disperses.
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But is not a "dispersed consciousness" a consciousness nonetheless?
 
I’m a big fan of this theory:
But I think it’s most likely that after death, there is absolutely nothing. No afterlife, no memory, no dreaming, everything you have done in life is pointless to yourself. The only thing that will be remembered is what you did to others. And eventually, even that will be forgotten too.
 
Cliff Notes:

I attended Baptist Sunday School religiously throughout my childhood. (See what I did there?)

I firmly believed in God and the stories in the Bible. I began questioning my beliefs when I was travelling the world while in the Navy. I spent a year reading materials on the subject, including Confessions and other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy. I really didn't want to let go of my childhood beliefs in God, but I could find no evidence in support of his existence.

I would describe the first half of my 20's as a slipping from being agnostic to an atheist. I read The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Johnathan Weiner, which opened my interest into Evolution.

I have been a devout atheist ever since.

What happens when you die? Darkness. Dust in the Wind. The World goes on, without us.
 
First of all, I think we will see the true reality of the universe. Our current existence is contained in 4 dimensions (height, length, width, and time). I understand that mathematicians have proven the existence of at least 10 dimensions. There is a lot more out there that we just don't know about.

Also, the reality we currently experience is actually a digital simulation.

1) The Digital Part - Most of us in school were told we could cut a piece of string in half, throw away one part, and cut the remaining part in half. Theoretically we would be able to this an infinite number of times. That would be true if the world were analog. However, physicists have discovered that once you get down to a certain size (I forget what the size is but it is specific and measurable) your pieces lose the property of locality so you can only do this until you get down to a specific digital unit.

2) The Simulation Part - Everything is made up of atoms. I assume we've all seen a diagram of an atom with its electrons spinning around. Those spinning atoms make things look solid, just like if you spin a bicycle wheel fast enough you see a solid plate instead of the spokes. With atoms the ratio of the distance of the nucleus to the electrons compared to the size of the nucleus is around 100,000 to 1. If all electrons suddenly froze in place, virtually everything you see would just disappear as only .001 percent of what you are seeing is actual matter rather than empty space.


I wish I had enough faith to believe there was just nothingness on the other side, but I just don't see that being the case.
 
crussader said:
I understand that mathematicians have proven the existence of at least 10 dimensions.
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Not exactly. There are various theorems that require multiple dimensions (some well in excess of 10) to maintain stability and yield accurate predictions. The world of quantum physics entertains a lot of these systems, and quantum entanglement certainly appears to support the hypothesis that other dimensions likely exist that we don't fully understand yet. But that doesn't exactly equate to us "living in a 10 dimensional world" in the sense that someone dropping acid or watching Stargate might think it does.
 
I'd like to think there is something that transcends our existence after death. But I'm not really capable of believing in something without sufficient evidence for that belief, and I've seen no evidence that supports anything beyond us simply ceasing to exist.
 
RainmanTrail said:
I'd like to think there is something that transcends our existence after death. But I'm not really capable of believing in something without sufficient evidence for that belief, and I've seen no evidence that supports anything beyond us simply ceasing to exist.
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While on the subject what happens when you die Rainman, do you really believe that when cheetahs race and one of them cheats, the other one goes, "Man, you're such a cheetah!", and then they laugh and eat a zebra?
 
Mojo1312 said:
While on the subject what happens when you die Rainman, do you really believe that when cheetahs race and one of them cheats, the other one goes, "Man, you're such a cheetah!", and then they laugh and eat a zebra?
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Typically yes. That is my stance.
 
GianThaMan said:
I’m a big fan of this theory:
But I think it’s most likely that after death, there is absolutely nothing. No afterlife, no memory, no dreaming, everything you have done in life is pointless to yourself. The only thing that will be remembered is what you did to others. And eventually, even that will be forgotten too.
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Yep, put me down for absolutely nothing happening, too.
 
Fwiw my Father is Catholic. My Mother Jewish

Neither pushed their beliefs on me growing up, instead permitting me to make my own choices

I identified as an Athiest in high school. As I've aged I switched to Agnostic.

I don't believe in the god that various religions portray, but I don't discount the possibility of "something" intelligent existing

The struggle I face is that we view things with a beginning and an end. You are born, eventually you die

Our mothers birthed us, so we know we came from them. But if there is a god, how was it created....and then what created the thing that created god, and so on and so forth

Aside from numbers, it's difficult to conceptualize infinity, especially with existence

If I absolutely HAD to pick a theory, I believe all beings and matter have an energy that is recycled and reformed, perhaps not into the same beings and matter, however.

But I really don't know. I hope after death I'll get more answers, but don't believe we'll be anywhere close to solving the riddles of existence in my lifetime, or in the entirety of human existence
 
A couple years ago, I had a routine medical procedure [cough, COLONOSCOPY, cough]. They put me under for the short time necessary. I did not know the anaesthetic was going to be fentanyl—which, as I found out, is some seriously powerful shit.

Anyway: This was not a “drift away” experiences. Not “I’m getting drowsy... Drowsier... falling asleep...” They mentioned they would be starting the meds soon and BAM, the portcullis came down. Just lights out.

When I came to, I did not know that I’d been under. I thought we were still waiting to start.

That’s what I expect death to be like, at least unless I’m bleeding out from a gunshot for 5-10 minutes.

It’ll just be over and I probably won’t even know it. I may experience some odd dreamlike hallucinations as the electricity in my brain dissipates, but that’s it.

When you shut off an old computer for the last time and take it to the dump/recycler, you don’t think “I wonder where the computer’s memories and functions went.” I don’t see us as different.
 
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Taghkanic said:
A couple years ago, I had a routine medical procedure [cough, COLONOSCOPY, cough]. They put me under for the short time necessary. I did not know the anaesthetic was going to be fentanyl—which, as I found out, is some seriously powerful shit.

Anyway: This was not a “drift away” experiences. Not “I’m getting drowsy... Drowsier... falling asleep...” They mentioned they would be starting the meds soon and BAM, the portcullis came down. Just lights out.

When I came to, I did not know that I’d been under. I thought we were still waiting to start.

That’s what I expect death to be like, at least unless I’m bleeding out from a gunshot for 5-10 minutes.

It’ll just be over and I probably won’t even know it. I may experience some odd dreamlike hallucinations as the electricity in my brain dissipates, but that’s it.

When you shut off an old computer for the last time and take it to the dump/recycler, you don’t think “I wonder where the computer’s memories and functions went.” I don’t see us as different.
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Sometimes I’m sad for all the memories and work that just disappear when a hard drive is discarded, knowing that it just takes a few random electrons to activate it all again.
Then I laugh and eat a zebra
 
ekricket said:
Sometimes I’m sad for all the memories and work that just disappear when a hard drive is discarded, knowing that it just takes a few random electrons to activate it all again.
Then I laugh and eat a zebra
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You too? Glad to know that I am not alone.
 

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