Do you believe in life after death?

[MuscleBuff]

If you do, tell us about what you think awaits you after your last post.

And if you don't, how do you cope with knowing you will be worm food soon?

[That_Dude]

Whether you do. Or you don't. You are right

[MuscleBuff]

Whether you do. Or you don't. You are right

Intellectually lazy, meaningless answer.

[Phantom Spunker]

I don't believe in life after death. I enjoy occasionally reading about some of the idealist's perspectives regarding consciousness as fundamental, but even they generally don't go as far as to suggest the continuation of an individual, ego-based consciousness after death.

In truth, I've suffered from existential dread for most of my life. It was crippling for a few years, but even now I am tormented by it. Literally just last night, I awoke suddenly with a racing heartbeat from the realization that I will cease to exist in the near future.

It's brutally gay, but I really just cannot tolerate the thought of eternal nothingness, my consciousness suddenly extinguishing, and the finality of it all. If I could delude myself with religion, I would. I've not lived a risk-averse life, and that surely hasn't helped, but when I'm at home and have too much time on my hands, it's even worse.

[38 returns]

this explains it to me

[obsidian]

If you do, tell us about what you think awaits you after your last post.

And if you don't, how do you cope with knowing you will be worm food soon?

Do you remember anything from before you were born? I don’t. I simply didn’t exist. It’s uncomfortable to think about, but maybe that’s exactly what happens when we die — we just stop existing. And while that’s unsettling to contemplate while we’re still alive, the truth is that once you’re gone, you won’t be there to care. The fear exists only in the living. Arnold has talked about how much he hates the idea of dying; his life is great, and he still wants to accomplish so much.

The universe itself seems built around the idea that everything has a beginning and an end. If nothing ever died, the world would be overcrowded; if nothing new were ever born, life would grow stagnant. Stars burn out or explode. Even black holes eventually evaporate. And the universe may end not with a dramatic collapse, but with a quiet fade — a deep freeze of maximum entropy where all energy is spread so thin that nothing else can happen.

[obsidian]

I don't believe in life after death. I enjoy occasionally reading about some of the idealist's perspectives regarding consciousness as fundamental, but even they generally don't go as far as to suggest the continuation of an individual, ego-based consciousness after death.

In truth, I've suffered from existential dread for most of my life. It was crippling for a few years, but even now I am tormented by it. Literally just last night, I awoke suddenly with a racing heartbeat from the realization that I will cease to exist in the near future.

It's brutally gay, but I really just cannot tolerate the thought eternal nothingness, my consciousness suddenly extinguishing, and the finality of it all. If I could delude myself with religion, I would. I've not lived a risk-averse life, and that surely hasn't helped, but when I'm at home and have too much time on my hands, it's even worse.

Every day you get closer to your death.

The Times of India is here to give us hope! Not sure if their HQ is in Dubai...

Just survive for another 5 years!!

Humans could be immortal by 2030! How advanced nanobots and  ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/125318967.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

[NaturalWonder83]

I believe in life after death. But I also believe you may need to come back to earth to reset and fix any mistakes or sadness you created. I think you choose your next life . You’ll be able to know the lessons you’ll learn that will help you. You’ll select to endure the pain that you may need to suffer in order to correct any wrongs you committed. And in order to have peace in the next life, you’ll need to resolve things that maybe you didn’t understand and that ended up hurting you in the previous life.

Once you learn from your experiences, you can then advance through different lifetimes.

[honest]

If you live a full life you will be happy one day for it to be over, feeling one self become less each year as we age helps you slowly let go, its exhausting.  Also watching the average human and the human race decline before your eyes gives you a mindset of I don't want to share the planet with these absolute brainless fuckwits gives you another reason to one day welcome the end. I don't want death but I don't fear it either and I don't want to come back and witness it for a second or third time. Im not depressed I have just lived my life to the fullest and will continue too till the day I die.

[Phantom Spunker]

Every day you get closer to your death.

The Times of India is here to give us hope! Not sure if their HQ is in Dubai...

Just survive for another 5 years!!

Humans could be immortal by 2030! How advanced nanobots and  ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/125318967.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Haha, I wish I could indulge in Kurzweil's fantasy and find some optimism. You know, I used to enjoy pondering if cryogenic freezing might have some potential for life extension, but I suspect it will always remain a science-fiction given that one's neurons begin irreversibly degrading within minutes of death, and the brain will have already been damaged before freezing. Even if future technology finds a way to repair these damaged cells, it still seems implausible that all synaptic structures would be preserved and a revival would ensure a continuation of 'me' as opposed to a new person or some sort of semi-retarded version.

That aside, I once suffered from a single episode of sleep paralysis, during which I died and found myself entombed in my own body – still conscious and aware of my death, but completely unable to move a muscle. I was sleeping in a hammock outside at the time, and when I finally became fully lucid and mobile, I was stomping around and swearing my head off in a state of distress!

I'd be too scared to do something like cryogenic freezing in case a scenario like that were possible, and my consciousness continues on some base level where electrical activity carries on but remains unmeasurable, and I'm stuck there for hundreds of years like fucking Stephen Hawking. I suspect that if I live long enough to get diagnosed with something terminal, I'll just blow my brains out and avoid any potential terrifying transit to non-existence.

[joswift]

the experience after you are dead is exactly the same as the time before you were born

[wes]

Christ I should have been dead 5 - 6 times over at least 30 to 40 years ago...........been living on borrowed time for decades.

That being said,I thank God several times a day and night, to still be here breathing his air,and to have made drastic changes from my former lifestyle.

[wes]

Some say that "you make our own heaven or hell right here on Earth".

[ThisisOverload]

the experience after you are dead is exactly the same as the time before you were born

True.

The reason I don't fear death, is that I won't even know when it happens.

We are not special; we are just a virus with shoes.

[MuscleBuff]

I don't believe in life after death. I enjoy occasionally reading about some of the idealist's perspectives regarding consciousness as fundamental, but even they generally don't go as far as to suggest the continuation of an individual, ego-based consciousness after death.

In truth, I've suffered from existential dread for most of my life. It was crippling for a few years, but even now I am tormented by it. Literally just last night, I awoke suddenly with a racing heartbeat from the realization that I will cease to exist in the near future.

It's brutally gay, but I really just cannot tolerate the thought of eternal nothingness, my consciousness suddenly extinguishing, and the finality of it all. If I could delude myself with religion, I would. I've not lived a risk-averse life, and that surely hasn't helped, but when I'm at home and have too much time on my hands, it's even worse.

Somehow glad to know I am not alone having these thoughts

[MuscleBuff]

Christ I should have been dead 5 - 6 times over at least 30 to 40 years ago...........been living on borrowed time for decades.

That being said,I thank God several times a day and night, to still be here breathing his air,and to have made drastic changes from my former lifestyle.

Respectfully, have you considered that the idea of a (personal) "God" may be complete bullshit? I have been pondering the topic for about 2 decades now and it's tilted towards bullshit rather than truth

[MuscleBuff]

True.

The reason I don't fear death, is that I won't even know when it happens.

We are not special; we are just a virus with shoes.

I beg to differ. Humans built civilizations, pyramids, submitted the animal kingdom, walked the moon, ...

No other lifeforms come close to what we have done as a species

[MuscleBuff]

I try to eat a very healthy diet in order to hopefully live longer. But sometimes you want to eat something tasty. I ate Chinese today then mourned the fact that having done so has surely taken days/weeks/monthS/years off my life

[MuscleBuff]

this explains it to me

This obese unkempt negro is not bringing anything of value to the table as usual

[BigRo]

From the "perspective" of abiding in the absolute oneness of our own Being there is no life after death because there is only life and it always has been and always will remain that way. Instead of being taught to reconnect with this "womb of wonder" from a young age we are taught to disconnect from our original home in order to be shaped to live as separate individuals who take the body and the so called external world as the only reality. Suicide is naturally frowned upon but at the same time it is expected that one suicides spiritual wisdom and liberation for obsession over outward fleeting intentions. A contracted confined self walking around living in darkness is a suicide of ones own innate glory as a soul in union with the homogenous deathless glory, the undecaying light of the eternal.

In good meditation one listens to the sounds of the birds chirping and the peaceful river flowing with ones rod out well baited and waiting but in no rush and in that hush every sound and sensation arises and passes within the feeling of an emptiness that is yet completely full and lacking nothing.

[Bevo]

Death feels like when you are in deep sleep but without any dreams

[MuscleBuff]

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[wes]

Respectfully, have you considered that the idea of a (personal) "God" may be complete bullshit? I have been pondering the topic for about 2 decades now and it's tilted towards bullshit rather than truth

I grew up going to Catholic school until they threw me out.....we were brainwashed to believe in God from an early age.

Since joining getbig over 20 years ago and reading stuff about "sky wizards and shit, I began to believe it was all pure bullshit......I became a doubting Thomas.

My recent Cancer surgery, which is the most extensive and dangerous intestinal surgery you can get, was just another incident that restored my belief in God, even though I am a total sinner.

I was on life support twice and given a 50-50 chance to live.

And this is just one of too many close scrapes, and close encounters with death in my life.

I have come to have changed my thoughts about His existence a long time ago, because as I see it,I`m just not that fucking lucky of a person to have lived through these very close scrapes with "The Grim Reaper".......something or somebody has been looking out for me in my eyes/mind.

I have no clue about reincarnation,but yes I believe fervently in God though I`m far from a "Bible thumper".......in fact,I`ve never even read it.......I just have my own path/philosophy that I try to follow. as best that I can.

I could list the the encounters but don`t feel the need to think or go dwell on back stories though I will never forget them.

You be you,and I`ll do me.

Remember,"there are no atheists in foxholes" !!!

See you in Hell bro. 

[BigRo]

Death feels like when you are in deep sleep but without any dreams

Being is aware of its own Being.

[Jess Z]

I believe in life after death. But I also believe you may need to come back to earth to reset and fix any mistakes or sadness you created. I think you choose your next life . You’ll be able to know the lessons you’ll learn that will help you. You’ll select to endure the pain that you may need to suffer in order to correct any wrongs you committed. And in order to have peace in the next life, you’ll need to resolve things that maybe you didn’t understand and that ended up hurting you in the previous life.

Once you learn from your experiences, you can then advance through different lifetimes.

this fucking peanut thinks hes living inside a super nintendo.