Thinking about what happens when you're dead is mindfuck

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  • Putting it this way might be a little more comforting: When you die it is just like it was before you were born.

    Death should not be anything to be afraid of, if you fear death your whole life, that's not living.

    A response to people's "near death experiences" and think they are seeing "Heaven" :
    When people die for 5 minutes or so and then doctors are able to save them and bring them back, They are basically dead so their lungs stop working and are not supplying oxygen to their brain. When your brain is deprived of oxygen, you begin to hallucinate. Your body knows it is dying so your brain will hallucinate what you think heaven will be like.

    I am an Atheist. There is no proof God exists, But on the other hand there is no proof that he doesn't exist.

  • thrice1888 wrote:

    I am an Atheist. There is no proof God exists, But on the other hand there is no proof that he doesn't exist.
    The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually bases their "theories" on that aspect.
    If I remember correctly, they offered 250k $ to anyone who can prove that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Obviously nobody won. But that's the point: You can't explain anything regarding morals logically. There are no formulas for it, no mathematical theories. It is just what a society expects you to be like - nothing more than an idea a bunch of humans agreed on sometime and then taught to their children, maybe sometimes changing a few details like the view on women that changed and so on. However, why shouldn't I just go out there and kill somebody? Sure, we learned that you don't do that and you will most likely be jailed, but there is no evidence that would explain this moral logically. You can't explain this with mathematics or physics, there just is no way.

    To stay on topic: Death is death. Everything ends, so do we. You won't feel anything, except for the potential pain of actually dieing (being burned alive is the most painful example here). You just won't be there anymore, or not functioning at least. According to the conservation law you can't just disappear, but you won't be functioning anymore, just a body slowly dissolving. The only way to "stay alive" is to stay in the people's minds: Go out and accomplish something in your life and people will still talk about you hundreds of years from now, just look at Aristotle or similar philosophers, mathematicians, ...

    That's how we view the world today, and while we can't prove completely if this is right or wrong, it is how we live and how we understand the world.

  • Man usually try to create themselves religions,although the proof of a non-existencial being is based on the ones which created,humans are limited beings,we can't see every color but we know there are more,but we can't even imagine them how them are supossed to be,man created religion and give to deitys born from the sea of thougts a mind and powers,but humans don't know how a other being will reacted,how he will act,how he will eventually do the things,nearly everything in religion fallacy in the line of thought "Human gave the names to the powers and the actions of the ones called gods". 95% or more religion has fallen in this thought and is just a illogical existence for itself.

    Death,we are not "alive" itself,we are just a being that recurring in the samsara the cicle of death and life,we are made of ernegy the ernegy that moves us someday will go out from our body and we will eventually be in the stream of samsara once again.

  • response to The Egg story

    mKeRix wrote:

    Nice story about death: The Egg

    Anyways, when you die your brain "disables" - the electric pulses and chemical reaction don't happen anymore. Therefor your mind isn't existent anymore, or well, it doesn't work anymore. As far as I am informed the connection you built during your life are still existent, so theoratically you could still remember a lot if you would reincarnate with the same brain and no damage to it.

    Wikipedia:
    Death is the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, murder and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury. Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death.

    You can also read more about different "afterlife" theories here.



    I've read the story the Egg before and I can definitely say that I was confused but in a good way. It really makes you think. I would recommend others to read it as well.
    I don't exactly agree with the message because it isn't very logical but it's absolutely one way to look at what happens after you die.

  • i believe when you die you are taken somewhere.. your own nightmares and at the point where you want it to end your are born again in another life and have forgotten everything but will lead the same life but have different experiences
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  • mKeRix wrote:

    You can also read more about different "afterlife" theories here.

    mKeRix wrote:

    Wikipedia:
    Death is the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, murder and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury. Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death.

    mKeRix wrote:

    Anyways, when you die your brain "disables" - the electric pulses and chemical reaction don't happen anymore. Therefor your mind isn't existent anymore, or well, it doesn't work anymore. As far as I am informed the connection you built during your life are still existent, so theoratically you could still remember a lot if you would reincarnate with the same brain and no damage to it.

    mKeRix wrote:

    Nice story about death: The Egg


    I think my brain is dead, reading thix after school.
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