Can you remember before you were born?
There's your answer. ;)
^^^^what this guy said. Still though....the absence of consciousness or awareness that disappears when you die is a fascinating concept. You have a sense of existence in your mind and all of a sudden it's gone when you die? So there's no reason to fear death because it's as if you never existed in your own mind to begin with after you die?
What a complete mind fuck.
Here’s something to ponder...
What is after death you simply are reincarnated as the same person in the same time and forced to live the same life over and over again. Would you consider this a blessing or a curse?
Here’s something to ponder...
What is after death you simply are reincarnated as the same person in the same time and forced to live the same life over and over again. Would you consider this a blessing or a curse?
Same life as in everything happens exactly the same every decision same ect and you have no memory of previous life so can’t avoid mistakes ect?
Yes. Everything is exactly the same. Same choices. Same mistakes. Same good times and bad. You won’t be aware that you have done this cycle before.
Yeah, but most of us think of these things in high school.
Here’s something to ponder...
What is after death you simply are reincarnated as the same person in the same time and forced to live the same life over and over again. Would you consider this a blessing or a curse?
What the fuck does that even mean? High school? What are you talking about?
I think about it a lot.
Yeah, but most of us think of these things in high school.
So I’ll start by saying that coming to a point to where I have absolute faith in an infinite deity happened pretty much by accident or chance. Long drive through west Texas ,nothing but 12 million miles of open highway and the only station I could get was one that had a daily program that took you through the Bible over the coarse of 5 years. Sounds rough right lol, this was about 15 years ago and the man who put that program together died in th mid 80s.
So I listened, his name was Dr. J Vernon McGee and he was explaining about Abraham and Lot’s flight from sodome, but at the same time he was giving some parallels of his today (1980s) and it was amazing because in say around 2005 it still applied then. But my point is he was able to take a book and explain why it was timeless to his day and at the same time showed it was still timeless in my day.
Here is the problem though, to many people and organizations have made “ seeking faith “ a for profit venture and have lost the trust of many people born into faithful families much less people like me who’s families never gave two shits about religion. But what started that night for me was a 15 year journey ( and you can give me all the shit you want about how corny it sounds lol) of reading books of faith and looking for people who are educated in the historical times in which the books are written that give an accurate depiction of what the author was trying to tell you. Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all Abrahamic religions and share so many similarities that it’s insane that there’s so much strife and conflict between them. If anyone is ever interested in some of the great things I’ve found that help me find faith just hit me up in pm I’d be glad to share.
One last thing, I was not down and out, on drugs or struggling with suicide or crazy life circumstances when this started for me, it just out of the blue happened and honestly I feel like it’s the greatest achievement of my life.
cool storylol Honestly man I thought we were just fucking around with each other thunderdome style I’m sorry. Also fuck you ;D
if you found faith why are you so damn mean to me?
So I’ll start by saying that coming to a point to where I have absolute faith in an infinite deity happened pretty much by accident or chance. Long drive through west Texas ,nothing but 12 million miles of open highway and the only station I could get was one that had a daily program that took you through the Bible over the coarse of 5 years. Sounds rough right lol, this was about 15 years ago and the man who put that program together died in th mid 80s.
So I listened, his name was Dr. J Vernon McGee and he was explaining about Abraham and Lot’s flight from sodome, but at the same time he was giving some parallels of his today (1980s) and it was amazing because in say around 2005 it still applied then. But my point is he was able to take a book and explain why it was timeless to his day and at the same time showed it was still timeless in my day.
Here is the problem though, to many people and organizations have made “ seeking faith “ a for profit venture and have lost the trust of many people born into faithful families much less people like me who’s families never gave two shits about religion. But what started that night for me was a 15 year journey ( and you can give me all the shit you want about how corny it sounds lol) of reading books of faith and looking for people who are educated in the historical times in which the books are written that give an accurate depiction of what the author was trying to tell you. Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all Abrahamic religions and share so many similarities that it’s insane that there’s so much strife and conflict between them. If anyone is ever interested in some of the great things I’ve found that help me find faith just hit me up in pm I’d be glad to share.
One last thing, I was not down and out, on drugs or struggling with suicide or crazy life circumstances when this started for me, it just out of the blue happened and honestly I feel like it’s the greatest achievement of my life.
I believe that the afterlife has been consider since the begining of mankind, even before any form of religious beliefs. Hence there must be some solid validity to it.I have absolutely no doubt about an afterlife, but what it will be like I feel we are unable to comprehend in the mortal flesh. And I also believe that 99% of people will be a part of it with exception to the truly soulless or those who are completely unable to respect life, sociopaths and such.
I’m starting to believe that we are living in a simulation.
Here’s something to ponder...
What is after death you simply are reincarnated as the same person in the same time and forced to live the same life over and over again. Would you consider this a blessing or a curse?
Still a blessing I guess but to early in life to say never know what’s round the corner that would never want to go through again but would have to be pretty horrific to outdo all the good times, thinking about it I’d give almost anything to relive many years at many stages of life so I’d say blessing
Im absolutely OBSESSED with this. I obviously have no clue if there is or if we are just worm food, or in my case after, ashes in a dog park.
I read about peoples NDE experiences but just have no idea if they are real or not. I would never off myself (sorry certain members), but I look forward to the end to see if anything happens.
It's real. I had an NDE and every since I've seen and heard spirits everyday
I feel I'm like a physical medium. I'm literally touched every hour of the day by spirits. I've been attacked by a spirit that followed me home from my old job. I don't buy antiques or secondhand items because I was also haunted by an angry spirit. All my "dreams" are about dying, seeing spirits, or being attacked. Im not religious but there's something after death. I wear a cross pendant at night before bed because I'm mostly attacked or "jumped"( a spirit using my body). If you want to experience something wild, learn how to voluntary have an oobe(out of body experience).
It's real. I had an NDE and every since I've seen and heard spirits everyday
I feel I'm like a physical medium. I'm literally touched every hour of the day by spirits. I've been attacked by a spirit that followed me home from my old job. I don't buy antiques or secondhand items because I was also haunted by an angry spirit. All my "dreams" are about dying, seeing spirits, or being attacked. Im not religious but there's something after death. I wear a cross pendant at night before bed because I'm mostly attacked or "jumped"( a spirit using my body). If you want to experience something wild, learn how to voluntary have an oobe(out of body experience).
Matrix?Makes sense. Tech is going that way. What are the odds we are the civilization before we get to that tech, compared to an eternity with it. Unless we never get there and destroy ourselves first.
Life after dead = B U L L S H I T
hey we all have opinions, and no one knows who is right or wrong
yeah, Indians(Hindus)(dot not feather) also believe in reincarnation ???
What the fuck does that even mean? High school? What are you talking about?
I melt down once a year contemplatin the potential exit from life. It causes me to lose my bearings and i get scared and i go into 'mania' for a minite or 2. I have a fear of the whole life experience was just an experience and gone forever , or im trapped in the 'eternal' it makes me sick and i cant deal with it logically . I feel like exploding just talking about it
Believing in life after death is a sign of mental weakness. Inability to cope with notion of eventuality and the fact that we're not special, one step ahead of a monkey with a larger than life ego based on nothing
I’m starting to believe that we are living in a simulation.
brain injury? Im actually just reading that voluntary oob can be correlated to brain injury
There is a sense is which time is an illusion. We all exist in the now.That is all there is....no evidence of anything else.
We were all brought up in a culture that believes all manner of myths including religions. Add to this movies and we all have plenty of ideas instilled in us about life, the supernatural and science fiction.
Science has accounts for matter and the universe. I see no reason to resort to the supernatural because there is no evidence any of that is true. (http://There is no evidence that Jesus existed.) We
learn so much crap through institutions such as religion. No wonder so many end up confused about what is real and what to believe. The internet hasn't helped the multitudes.
Part of the journey of an educated persons is to get rid of all the nonsense ideas before they die. By the way, the talk about being a simulation is utter nonsense.
Interesting. I have heard many question the deity of Jesus but to say there is no evidence of His existence is really taking a stance.
One of the things that has disappointed me as a philosopher is to discover there is no evidence, other than the fabricated Bible, that he even existed.
Would people invent a religion and then give the 'deity' an earthly existence? You bet. This was done all the time in the past. You can't trust religions. This is a sad thing because those
religions still impact on most societies. We are supposed to have ideals such as honesty and integrity but religions are fabricated nonsense that some make up
for their selfish reasons. Same old control and profit.
Fair enough I have no arguement on your views on religion.
Its interesting you dont think there is evidence that Jesus existed. It's a nice story either way.
I think "Jesus" was based on someone that did exist and left a very strong imprint on those he encountered. Chances that his Palestinian drivers license read Jesus H. Christ are probably nil. I agree about the nice story part sans the brutal crucifixion. That being said, if more people read the actual teaching of Jesus, namely the beatitudes, the world would be a better place.
Agreed. As far as His existence is concerned as this article states, peasants dont normally leave archeological trails.
https://www.history.com/.amp/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence
Sorry, but the track record for Christian apologists is shameful. At the moment I am disgusted when I watch debates from these apologists.
Part of the problem is that many apologists hold positions at universities and their tenure requires support for the Jesus myth.
When historicists such as Richard Carrier write about Jesus you really end up quite sceptical about any such person having existed.
The awful truth is there are few if any surviving books or documents from the first century AD. The early Christian founders also destroyed
any literature that criticised the faith. The result is we have this manufactured bullshit of monumental proportions.
Fuck Off.
Im absolutely OBSESSED with this. I obviously have no clue if there is or if we are just worm food, or in my case after, ashes in a dog park.I thought an Iron Maiden post about one of the greatest Live Albums. :D
I read about peoples NDE experiences but just have no idea if they are real or not. I would never off myself (sorry certain members), but I look forward to the end to see if anything happens.
These things have been explained by the way the brain functions.Those things are explained by materialists who don't believe in anything else. They refuse to look at any evidence that doesn't fit their fixed beliefs.
Those things are explained by materialists who don't believe in anything else. They refuse to look at any evidence that doesn't fit their fixed beliefs.
Those things are explained by materialists who don't believe in anything else. They refuse to look at any evidence that doesn't fit their fixed beliefs.
Sorry, but the track record for Christian apologists is shameful. At the moment I am disgusted when I watch debates from these apologists.
Part of the problem is that many apologists hold positions at universities and their tenure requires support for the Jesus myth.
When historicists such as Richard Carrier write about Jesus you really end up quite sceptical about any such person having existed.
The awful truth is there are few if any surviving books or documents from the first century AD. The early Christian founders also destroyed
any literature that criticised the faith. The result is we have this manufactured bullshit of monumental proportions.
Fair enough. Someone is always an expert that knows more than other experts
Your faith is in Jesus of Nazareth never existed because of persuasive teachings, that's no different than the self righteous religious you criticize.
It's funny that so many see the Univesity system as staunch Christian while many see it as far left.
If historians can't find compelling evidence that Jesus Christ existed then that is a fact and has nothing to do with anyone being persuasive.
I criticise Christianity because if Christ was fabricated the whole religion collapses as a scam. Sad but true.
Hey and another thing, most of the great men in the faith were far, far from perfect but were considered to be particularly held close by God. Just read up on King David , this guy was literally a Getbigger before Getbig was a thing. But he himself was said to be of Gods own heart lol. You have what organizations want you to believe about faith then you have the actual account of what is written in scripture.
I’m starting to believe that we are living in a simulation.
Matrix?
I think "Jesus" was based on someone that did exist and left a very strong imprint on those he encountered. Chances that his Palestinian drivers license read Jesus H. Christ are probably nil. I agree about the nice story part sans the brutal crucifixion. That being said, if more people read the actual teaching of Jesus, namely the beatitudes, the world would be a better place.
I just farted
I just LOL'ed
It all depends on how you define "evidence". Materialists usually don't have beliefs unless there is evidence from science or observation to support them.They absolutely have beliefs and is it pervasive in their studies.
Henda,
Sounds like your life has been one of many enjoyable evenings with your mates at the pub drinking pints of ale you have a penchant for, avoiding bellends and narky, cheeky, stinking cunts [except for one notable one on Getbig who sharted and stank up the entire Arnold Classic expo convention hall, on multiple occasions].
Not to mention, many enjoyable trolly rides.
My friend invited a true Englishman over to my place once. I asked him "Speaking Canadian English, do I sound like a bum to you?"
He replied "It sounds pretty common, yes."
An Englishman's way of telling me, yes, I sound like a bum.
I'm sort of curious if we spoke in person, if you'd expect me to say "I wash muhself with a rag on a stick!" [like our stinking friend does].
I just watched an ep of Remington Steele!
when your dead your dead.Yes, your body dies.
when your dead your dead.
Waiting for Wes to confirmYou funny bastard ! LOL ;D
One of the things that has disappointed me as a philosopher is to discover there is no evidence, other than the fabricated Bible, that he even existed.
"NOT" if you are muslim , they go to paradise & get 72 virgins ;D ;D ;D
I'd rather have 12 whores. What am I going to do with 72 virgins?
"NOT" if you are muslim , they go to paradise & get 72 virgins ;D ;D ;D
I'd rather have 12 whores. What am I going to do with 72 virgins?
Yeah, but most of us think of these things in high school.
Actually, no. Young people rarely think about death and the afterlife. They think they are immortal. Some of the greatest thinkers have pondered this concept throughout all of history and have come up with various theories. This is not child's play. Whether you believe life has any transcendent meaning or just a random concussions in the universe shapes your metaphysics and ethics. After all, if it really doesn't matter if you are good or evil, Hitler and Mother Teresa share the same ultimate fate, and since it's much harder to be good in this world, then the choice is clear and life is all about what you can away with.
post on getbig?:D
Actually, no. Young people rarely think about death and the afterlife. They think they are immortal. Some of the greatest thinkers have pondered this concept throughout all of history and have come up with various theories. This is not child's play. Whether you believe life has any transcendent meaning or just a random concussions in the universe shapes your metaphysics and ethics. After all, if it really doesn't matter if you are good or evil, Hitler and Mother Teresa share the same ultimate fate, and since it's much harder to be good in this world, then the choice is clear and life is all about what you can away with.
Without wishing to be a pedant; that would make you a historian, not a philosopher.
That said, I would be intrigued to read your philosophical thesis.
unfortunately they look like this. :o
"NOT" if you are muslim , they go to paradise & get 72 virgins ;D ;D ;D
Just like a cat or dog watching someone typing on a laptop would only see fingers moving around, completely unable to comprehend what is beyond their scope - there is at least a plausible chance that part of our awareness could continue on in ways which due to our biological constraints, we just can't even fathom.
Just like a cat or dog watching someone typing on a laptop would only see fingers moving around, completely unable to comprehend what is beyond their scope - there is at least a plausible chance that part of our awareness could continue on in ways which due to our biological constraints, we just can't even fathom.
From terms of how our matter is distributed after we die this is true.Our consciousness is not contained in our biology.
However there is no biological way for us to remain in a state of consciousness or awareness.
That's the kicker, once our brain dies, there is no way for us to be aware of anything. That goes against every aspect of "life" and science.
Getbig: a panoply of pansychists, panhandlers, and pandemic-denying pansexuals. It's pandemonium!Don't forget those with Peter Pan Syndrome.
Don't forget those with Peter Pan Syndrome.Still on the fence with Michael Jackson. Michael, has the same historical relvance as Michelangelo, regardless of mediums. Humans are a fickel species.
Still on the fence with Michael Jackson. Michael, has the same historical relvance as Michelangelo, regardless of mediums. Humans are a fickel species.
We hold grudges. We tell lies. We believe lies.
We follow blindly. We get drunk. We suck a cock(s). We boast about it on get big.
I thought about it often in my youth. In retrospect, it was probably due to the amount of weed/hash/oil and hallicinogens I was doing at the time. ;D
Nothing feeds a bad trip like an existential crisis.
No, it wouldn't. Vince can elaborate if he wishes, though. I'm on a phone.
There's a Matt C joke here that I'm too lazy to put together... ;D
I'm not depressed, but there's not a moment in my life I wouldn't select being snuffed out for eternity if I could select that.
I don't think people should fear nonexistence.
lmfao
people fear death because hell is real... judgment is coming.
lmfao
people fear death because hell is real... judgment is coming.
From terms of how our matter is distributed after we die this is true.
However there is no biological way for us to remain in a state of consciousness or awareness.
That's the kicker, once our brain dies, there is no way for us to be aware of anything. That goes against every aspect of "life" and science.
Crazy that you would assume that we even have the slightest grasp on every aspect of life.
We humans have a tendency of over-trusting in things we didn't understand as well as we thought we did. Not understanding that you don't understand. Just look at physics or biology texts from a few hundred years ago.
If anything a little humility and optimism might at least give you a healthy mindset
If this is a simulation and we die we get to play again.
The assumption being the simulation is built around me therefore I assume I have the ability to restart a new game.
However if the assumption is the simulation is built around someone else or something else and I am an NPC in the game, then I am pretty fucked lol.
Who hasn’t played sim city sim city and for a bit of fun clicked on fire, tornado, earthquake, riots, plague etc for a bit of fun. Tell me 2020 wasn’t sim city with all the disasters turned on lol :)
This is the theory I absolutely believe in
Deja vu is a glitch in the simulation
But who is the main player in the Simulation?
Is it built around Mayday?
Given the pic you just posted I’d say it’s built around me lol.
If the simulation is created by us humans then at the very least we are a simulation of ourselves.
The movie Inception brings up a very good point about depth levels. In a level 1 dream they know they are in a dream but when they get to level 3 (I think) they start to forget it’s a dream.
Perhaps we are a few levels down and we forgot? If we develop a simulation then it makes it even more plausible we are already in one and probably levels down.
SO if it's a simulation, What happens when we die (we think we die) in the Simulation?
Given the pic you just posted I’d say it’s built around me lol.
If the simulation is created by us humans then at the very least we are a simulation of ourselves.
The movie Inception brings up a very good point about depth levels. In a level 1 dream they know they are in a dream but when they get to level 3 (I think) they start to forget it’s a dream.
Perhaps we are a few levels down and we forgot? If we develop a simulation then it makes it even more plausible we are already in one and probably levels down.
We wake up in real life?
We enter a ‘lobby’ waiting to join another server lol?
Or maybe not just another server but even another game/simulation?
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4fdad3f77fb73fa99ca7c12d9d2b1ef/tumblr_pk3wyoa7Wh1wwykz8o1_400.gif)
Who built the simulator?
Or maybe not just another server but even another game/simulation?
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4fdad3f77fb73fa99ca7c12d9d2b1ef/tumblr_pk3wyoa7Wh1wwykz8o1_400.gif)
Baby Jesus.The same one Rickie Bobby prays to at meals?