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Sep 20, 2014, 00:52 am
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So today i was thinking about the afterlife, trying to figure out what happens, what's there if there's really anything at all and suddenly i thought to myself "to know/understand what happens after life i have to 'remember' what was there before it", which lead me to the conclusion there's really nothing... after we die there's absolutely nothing, there's no afterlife, no reincarnation, nothing.
What do you think happens after we die?
The fact the parallelism between after and before life made sense is what sort of scared me, not because i came to the conclusion there's nothing but because its a very plausible theory and what that represent for the present.
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Sep 20, 2014, 01:08 am
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I don't know.
You're asking a question that many scholars, philosophists, and theologians are trying to find the answer for, and they're doing that for more than a million years.
All answers, however, are always refutable at every turn.
EDIT: More bullshit from me added.  Read the following as well.
I always think it's not what you live in or how long you live, it's always how you live. I have learned this from shows like Star Trek, games like Starcraft, and just thinking and counter-thinking (if there is such a word). If I was to die and my brain eaten by worms, I always hope that it's worth something; like I can save a child from being over by a train and help him continue the rest of his days as a human being.
I wish you good luck in your search for the truth.
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You live your life the way you do and then death.
Nothing, you're dead, finished a piece of rotting flesh that gets disposed of in different ways usually depending upon your religious beliefs ie; Buried or cremated.
People here on earth refer to heaven and hell to me thats all bullshit, the way your (spirit should be memories) lives on in is your loved ones hearts and being parts of conversation good and bad.
If you think of immediate family members like Mum or Dad, daughter, son, brother, sister it hurts like hell. You only live on in others hearts and memories.
Look at old photo's of someone you have lost in your family your great, great grandfather someone you never knew part of your family and bloodline yes but are you stricken by brief? Of course not.
When your body ceases to function that is it. Memories stay with your immediate family then nothing.
Thats my experience anyway. I lost my dad in 2011 and I remember him a hell of a lot but I don't cry everyday now, I think about him fondly and talk to him. But life goes on.
Just my way of looking at it. I hope that goes someway to answering the OP's question.
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Sep 20, 2014, 06:47 am
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Go watch ghost in a shell.
We have not yet defined what it means to be alive so how do you define what is means to be dead.
A fetus in the stomach of a woman is defined as not being alive (well some people do believe they are alive). It can hear sound it can response to things that happen around it... but people define it as not being alive? What is being alive? Just because when it gets older it can't remember that stage of its life? What about people who alsheimer? They can no longer remember what is going on so are they no longer alive? At what point is a computer program going to be considered alive?
I question the entire concept of time. I don't believe it exist. We are just in a state of movement. You can move forward and backward but you can't force everything in the world to move back aka no "time travel" because the world contains billions (yea i know alot more) individual things moving how they want at the same time (loosely coupled in effects).
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(Sep 20, 2014, 06:47 am)ViperScale Wrote: We have not yet defined what it means to be alive so how do you define what is means to be dead.
For this point of the argument I'm assuming we are talking about a "Clinically Dead person"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_death
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Sep 20, 2014, 07:36 am
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One of my friends was born "Clinically Dead", that being said heartbeat etc isn't what makes us alive if you can be frozen for 1 hour and still be brought back to "living". I guess by that definition being alive is as long as your brain can retain and learn new information... but does that make a computer program alive? A computer can be "frozen" for a long period of time before becoming dead.
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