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dissentowner · 03-14-2011, 07:59 AM

Of course just like everyone else I am scared of death because it is the great unknown. So I am interested to see what CP's thoughts are on what happens to you after death. What do you believe? Do we just dream forever or lie in eternal darkness? Is it a state that we cannot even fathom while we are alive? Do you believe in reincarnation or ghosts? Do you believe in such things as a spirit in your body? Do we go to "a better place?" Lots to discuss or debate here, all I ask is to please not ridicule somebodys ideas or beliefs on the subject. As for myself I have no idea.

T@T · 03-14-2011, 08:06 AM

Nice and dark with endless sleep!

CaptainCrunch · 03-14-2011, 08:07 AM

I've come to the realization that there are now more days behind me then ahead of me, thats just statistics. And there are times when I honestly do think about death.

I would like to think that there is some great reward, or reincarnation or something like that to carry you forward because on those days when I think about it, if there isn't then isn't everything that we do a waste?

I think we just stop, I think our brain carries on for several painful minutes slowly starving to death and recording our death in painstaking detail, and then there's nothing.

The Goon · 03-14-2011, 08:08 AM

My standard joke answer is that when you die, you meet up with other dead relatives who confront you about your relentless masturbation (they've been watching).

Honestly, though - no clue. I'll take a wait and see attitude.

worth · 03-14-2011, 08:11 AM

You die. There is nothing. The end.

parch · 03-14-2011, 08:34 AM

Maybe it's because I'm still young, but I'm more scared about my loved ones dying than I am about dying myself. It is for this reason I like to believe that there is some form of carrying on after death, and that the people I love that I've lost are still around and with me in some way, no matter how big or small, rather than being here one moment and being gone forever the next. I don't really believe that their spirit wanders the earth checking in on their loved ones, but more that there is a part of them attached to physical objects/memories they've left behind, be it a photo, or an old t-shirt, or a place, that makes me feel like they're still around when I see it or am near it or think about it. I might just believe this to make myself feel better about death though, and it might just be part of my greiving process, because at the same time, I think more realistically that when I die, I won't even know it, and there's just nothing more.

Pinner · 03-14-2011, 08:37 AM

I just hope it's quick

dissentowner · 03-14-2011, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by worth

You die. There is nothing. The end.

What is nothing though? Seriously, is that even possible?

GGG · 03-14-2011, 08:41 AM

The religious side of me likes the afterlife heaven concept. That when you die you soul passes on to another state. Whats interesting are all the near death experience people reporting that something happens as you die.

My thoughts ignoring a religious option is that the mind never actually lets you die. As you approach death its like approaching the event horizon of a black hole. Time moves faster for you but no time passes on the outside world.

In dreams you can dream for days in only a few seconds. So I suspect that as you die you move into a dream state that essentially lasts forever as a last ditch effort of your brain to protect you. This would explain all of the near death people reporting heaven like experiences, calming light. So then heaven would be your dream state.

SeeBass · 03-14-2011, 08:42 AM

Do you remember what it was like before you were born cause it is just like that.

CaptainCrunch · 03-14-2011, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Pinner

I just hope it's quick

For you I can promise you that, as long as you give me the location of the hidden rebel base

J pold · 03-14-2011, 08:45 AM

Remember what it was like before you where born? Yeah I imagine it's something like that.

calgaryrocks · 03-14-2011, 08:46 AM

heaven. As a christian I believe there is an afterlife, but it is hard to fathom what that will be like, as another poster mentioned, an almost dreamlike state. but with God.

DuffMan · 03-14-2011, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by worth

You die. There is nothing. The end.

exactly.

troutman · 03-14-2011, 08:49 AM

Heaven = meeting your dead relatives again.

Hell = spending eternity with your dead relatives.

scotty2hotty · 03-14-2011, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by SeeBass

Do you remember what it was like before you were born cause it is just like that.

Some people DO claim to remember what it was like.

Not saying I believe them. Just sayin.

CaptainCrunch · 03-14-2011, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by J pold

Remember what it was like before you where born? Yeah I imagine it's something like that.

My very first memory was of swimming very fast down a large pink tunnel and into a massive cavern. Even though I had a single minded focus, I sensed that I was being accompanied by thousands of others with the same single minded determination. I banked hard to my three oclock and saw my target. It was a huge white round object that seemed to coated in a slick jelly like substance. I arrived there ahead of the rest of my bretheran and I suddenly felt the need to ram it.

I hit it with all of the force that I could muster, pushing and wiggling trying to get inside, that was my mission in life. The object was warm and the suffice coating had the consistancy of tapioca but I finally managed to push my self in . . .

And then I spent the next 9 months bored out of my skull, I would have read a book, but reflecting back . . . reading was a foreign concept to me, the inn keeper also failed to mention that T.V. wasn't included in my check in fee, but it wouldn't have mattered because I had no wallet.

I took out my frustrations and tried to call for help by kicking and striking the walls of this substandard prison..

Suddenly I heard a deep voice yelling, its time, and I felt myself being pushed back up the tunnel that I came from, towards an extremely bright and painful life.

On the way out I frantically looked for a knife to carve a clever inscription in the wall of my prisoner so that he could amuse himself, but alas I was naked and had no pen, and writing was foreign to me.

CaptainCrunch · 03-14-2011, 08:55 AM

I've always thought that Heaven was your best day ever for all eternity

Hell was your worst day ever for all eternity.

So Heaven would be the day that I lost my virginity

Hell would be three days later when I didn't bother to phone her back.

JohnnyB · 03-14-2011, 08:58 AM

Can't say I am really afraid of death. I just think of it as an end of being, which is hard to conceive of as anything frightening. I don't want that to happen, but I don't really think of it as frightening, like I would find hanging on a high wobbly ladder frightening.

Russic · 03-14-2011, 08:59 AM

This is probably the only downside I've come across as an atheist. I've tried to believe ... did the whole church thing growing up but it just never stuck. For the most part there's no problem with this, but I find funerals tough. You try to celebrate the life of your loved one and believe they are in a better place, but I simply don't. I always want to believe the romantic notion that my grandpa is looking down on my grandma and one day they'll be reunited but just wanting to believe something often doesn't make it so.

I'm in the "think about what it was like before you were born" camp.