What happens when you die?

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Post by Sola » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:19 am

For the sake of my will to live, and live happily, I like to believe there is something more after this life.
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Post by ChronoSword » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:26 am

there is heaven and there is hell, but that does not happen till the return of Christ, in the meanwhile, we all go to Sheol and wait.
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Post by Killer-Rabbit » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:27 am

[quote="Dreamer";p="139242"]So you get snuffed out like a light? Why live then? I agree with Glue.
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My point exactly. You are uncofortable with the fact that one day you will cease to exsist. Thus, you try to find some way that you will live on.
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Post by Prospero » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:54 am

Or perhaps, as an alternate senario, you are uncomfortable with the idea of an afterlife under the control of a higher intelligence/higher nature?

When it comes down to it, no one really knows anything about anything. Therefore you cannot scientifically deduce that there may or may not be some sort of "life" after death.
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Post by Imperator Severn » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:00 am


For the sake of my will to live, and live happily, I like to believe there is something more after this life.

You mean, in order to be happy, you have to believe that you'll keep existing? What ever happened to just being happy? You worry too much about things you cannot control.
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Post by Sola » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:16 am

[quote="Imperator Severn";p="139408"]
You mean, in order to be happy, you have to believe that you'll keep existing? What ever happened to just being happy? You worry too much about things you cannot control.[/quote]

I could try to live happily and believe there is nothing after life, but I could never abandon the thought in my mind that my life is just something small and temporary that is soon to be discarded.
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Post by billf » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:18 am

Your life is small and temporary. That doesn't mean that it is part of some bigger picture.
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Post by CorruptTiki » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:25 am

One day death will be thrown down and we shall rise and cast entropy out of the universe. To deny our greatest terror its grip, to rise above it, and see it, powerless, that is what it is about. The secret of life is to deny the inevitable, to show the cruel lie for what it is.
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Post by furre » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:26 am

What you do in life, however, will leave its mark on (hundreds, thousands, an infinite amount of) generations to come. No matter how insignificant, good or bad, you have made a change.

EDIT: Also, as some smart person once said "Death brings meaning and value to people's lives".
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Post by billf » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:29 am

true enough furre. That's just the laws of physics. Everything is connected, every bit of energy you use gets transfered to something else, you cannot create or destroy it.
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Post by furre » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:31 am

I always found it to be a comforting thought...
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Post by Imperator Severn » Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:36 am

"What we do in life echoes an eternity."

Gladiator kicks so much ass.



Anyway, my beliefs are not the result of a fear of death. It's just experience that makes me lean toward certain explanations.
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Post by gravity » Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:19 am

When you die, you quit caring about how fast your internet connection is, and whther or not you'll get laid.

And you'll get to be JRR Tolkien.

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Post by billf » Thu Aug 21, 2003 6:25 am

hmmm... if I keep pestering Lith about hugs I may meet my goal of dying in little tiny pieces
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Post by Eihger » Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:04 pm

I had a very VERY exostentalist thought on the matter


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With all my thoughs going on trying to comprehend death and non exsistance, I came very close to comprehending it, what I imagined was blackness, but then I realised you would have no sight, no sight at all. even if there was blackness you are seeing the blackness, It is the fat that you are gone your contious is gone, nothing is all, all is nothing. Aftre this I blacked out for a little, so I suggest not trying to comprehend death.... it's odd
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