What is it like after DEATH?

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

dighn

Lifer
Aug 12, 2001
22,820
4
81
Originally posted by: PCMarine
Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: PCMarine
Originally posted by: Freejack2
Well you die, and your soul goes through this light at the end of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel they wipe your memory (not unlike a quick format of a hard drive) and put you in a new body. At first it's warm and wet, then one day you plop out of your mother's womb and life starts all over again.
While your memory of your previous life is "gone" a good hypnotist (like a good hard drive unerase utility) can pull up memories of your past life.

This is another answer to your question. :)

After your soul goes through the so called "Light at the end of the tunnel,' who is "they" who transfers your soul to another body... sounds like a bs science fiction flick.

since nobody knows for sure, you can believe whatever you want.

Yes I know this, but what I don't understand is why educated and intelligent people continue to believe in age old "folk tales" regarding life after death? How could the people who wrote the bible understand what life after death was if they themselves haven't died?

i think life after death is more attractive because the notion that after you die, nothing is lef,t is a bit depressing... i'm a science kind of guy and i still lean towards there is something after death. call it wishful thinking but since we don't know for sure i'd like to have some hope.
 

Cyberian

Diamond Member
Jun 17, 2000
9,999
1
0
Originally posted by: BD2003
Death dont sound too bad to me since once youre dead, its not like you care, its the dying part that sucks.
I'd have to agree with you there.
That's why I want to die in my sleep.

 

Kalvin00

Lifer
Jan 11, 2003
12,705
5
81
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: BD2003
Death dont sound too bad to me since once youre dead, its not like you care, its the dying part that sucks.
I'd have to agree with you there.
That's why I want to die in my sleep.

Yeah. That would suck to be awake and then all of a sudden pass out and die :confused:
 

CrazyPerson

Platinum Member
Jan 15, 2003
2,161
0
0
death can be rather enjoyable....
think about it... you can only die once... so why not enjoy the experience..
 

PCMarine

Diamond Member
Oct 13, 2002
3,277
0
0
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: BD2003
Death dont sound too bad to me since once youre dead, its not like you care, its the dying part that sucks.
I'd have to agree with you there.
That's why I want to die in my sleep.

Same.
 

LunarRay

Diamond Member
Mar 2, 2003
9,993
1
76
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall...

With eternity as the criteria, I'd cover my bases though.

If you believe in God.. then you already know.. You've been told.
If you don't believe in God then you already know as well..
So why are you in doubt?
 

LunarRay

Diamond Member
Mar 2, 2003
9,993
1
76
Originally posted by: Linux23
lol....i will live forever


hehehehe

Of course you will.... well not the body... but the important part will... if you are prepared... do you golf... if not prepared.. bring sunscreen.
 

TheShiz

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
3,846
0
0
Think back to what life was like before you were born, this is obviously exactly what it will be like after you die. If there is an afterlife, (I give the chances 1 in a zillion) you will also see a lot of squid, monkeys, bugs, and animals in heaven, and no doubt many will probably not be too happy that you ate them.
 

TheShiz

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
3,846
0
0
Originally posted by: BillGates
Originally posted by: PCMarine
In my opinion, Humans are just another species of animals competing for survival. I dont believe people have souls or spirits or any other nonsense which lives on after you die. Your brain/mind is your life, and when you die, so does your brain and that's that. IMO, there is no afterlife, reincarnation, hot sex with supermodels (damn...).

Now to put that in perspective, everyone knows that living things die. When people kill a fly (which is a living thing essentially the same as humans), do people believe that those flys have an afterlife? that they are reincarnated? that they have hot sex after they are dead?

Of course not! So why should our beliefs on life after death for humans be any different?


As a side note, I believe the concept of life after death was created by primitive man who needed a way to put order into society. If society knew for a fact that once you die, that's the end, then people would do horrible things without regard. Now with religion and life after death, people are told to life virtuous lives and to strive to have a good afterlife which is pretty much a false sense of security and a big illusion.

This is what I believe as well.

life after death is actually true in a since, you and I are made up of atoms, every part of us was once inside a star, and when we die our atoms will go on to create other things, but we shall remain unaware of it along with the untold millions of others (mostly plants/bugs I would think) who have shared our atoms.
 

stormbv

Diamond Member
Dec 23, 2000
3,446
1
0
No matter how much I think that we are completely alone, with no higher power, I want to believe that there is an afterlife.

I haven't read this whole thread yet so I don't know if someone has already brought this up, but does anyone think that the universe is like what the guy in K-Pax said? He said the universe collapses upon itself or something, and that we have lived our lives the same for eternity? What if we die, and we then find ourselves coming out of our mothers womb? Maybe it's one huge cycle. Nietzche said something similar to this.
 

TheShiz

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
3,846
0
0
Originally posted by: stormbv
No matter how much I think that we are completely alone, with no higher power, I want to believe that there is an afterlife.

I haven't read this whole thread yet so I don't know if someone has already brought this up, but does anyone think that the universe is like what the guy in K-Pax said? He said the universe collapses upon itself or something, and that we have lived our lives the same for eternity? What if we die, and we then find ourselves coming out of our mothers womb? Maybe it's one huge cycle. Nietzche said something similar to this.

they have recently discovered that the universe shall expand forever, least that is what I have heard. The collapsing universe theory was pretty popular, and Stephen Hawking suggests in "A Brief History of Time" that he would bet on it, but how could he collect after "the big crunch"?, but the infinite expansion seems more likely.

another interesting fact is the universe is still accelerating, makes me wonder if it will ever hit terminal velocity, and if so at what speed? almost the speed of light maybe? who knows.
 

Alienwho

Diamond Member
Apr 22, 2001
6,766
0
76
If I would ever commit suicide, it wouldn't be because i'm depressed and hate my life. It would be because I am so curious to see what happens after you die.

I believe in an afterlife and I have absolutely no fear of dying. As long as i'm not tortured or die extremely slowly i'm actually kind of looking forward to it.
 

stormbv

Diamond Member
Dec 23, 2000
3,446
1
0
Originally posted by: TheShiz
Originally posted by: stormbv
No matter how much I think that we are completely alone, with no higher power, I want to believe that there is an afterlife.

I haven't read this whole thread yet so I don't know if someone has already brought this up, but does anyone think that the universe is like what the guy in K-Pax said? He said the universe collapses upon itself or something, and that we have lived our lives the same for eternity? What if we die, and we then find ourselves coming out of our mothers womb? Maybe it's one huge cycle. Nietzche said something similar to this.

they have recently discovered that the universe shall expand forever, least that is what I have heard. The collapsing universe theory was pretty popular, and Stephen Hawking suggests in "A Brief History of Time" that he would bet on it, but how could he collect after "the big crunch"?, but the infinite expansion seems more likely.

another interesting fact is the universe is still accelerating, makes me wonder if it will ever hit terminal velocity, and if so at what speed? almost the speed of light maybe? who knows.

I have asked myself that if there isn't a God, then how did the universe itself begin. I mean, it had to start from somewhere, right? And it had to have a source (excluding God in this instance), but how did the source get there? I guess all that is beyond human comprehension...but I want to know, dammit! :p
 

LunarRay

Diamond Member
Mar 2, 2003
9,993
1
76
Originally posted by: TheShiz
Think back to what life was like before you were born, this is obviously exactly what it will be like after you die. If there is an afterlife, (I give the chances 1 in a zillion) you will also see a lot of squid, monkeys, bugs, and animals in heaven, and no doubt many will probably not be too happy that you ate them.

If they are in heaven... they won't be upset at all... I would like to see at least enough for a foursome... but if I must I can go as a threesome... do you suppose Angels golf? hmmm

 

stormbv

Diamond Member
Dec 23, 2000
3,446
1
0
Originally posted by: Alienwho
If I would ever commit suicide, it wouldn't be because i'm depressed and hate my life. It would be because I am so curious to see what happens after you die.

I believe in an afterlife and I have absolutely no fear of dying. As long as i'm not tortured or die extremely slowly i'm actually kind of looking forward to it.

I'm the same way...finding out is just a bullet away, but I figure I'll be busy for a few more decades.
 

LunarRay

Diamond Member
Mar 2, 2003
9,993
1
76
Originally posted by: stormbv
Originally posted by: TheShiz
Originally posted by: stormbv
No matter how much I think that we are completely alone, with no higher power, I want to believe that there is an afterlife.

I haven't read this whole thread yet so I don't know if someone has already brought this up, but does anyone think that the universe is like what the guy in K-Pax said? He said the universe collapses upon itself or something, and that we have lived our lives the same for eternity? What if we die, and we then find ourselves coming out of our mothers womb? Maybe it's one huge cycle. Nietzche said something similar to this.

they have recently discovered that the universe shall expand forever, least that is what I have heard. The collapsing universe theory was pretty popular, and Stephen Hawking suggests in "A Brief History of Time" that he would bet on it, but how could he collect after "the big crunch"?, but the infinite expansion seems more likely.

another interesting fact is the universe is still accelerating, makes me wonder if it will ever hit terminal velocity, and if so at what speed? almost the speed of light maybe? who knows.

I have asked myself that if there isn't a God, then how did the universe itself begin. I mean, it had to start from somewhere, right? And it had to have a source (excluding God in this instance), but how did the source get there? I guess all that is beyond human comprehension...but I want to know, dammit! :p

Quantum physics is much easier to handle... Astro physics gets into to the beyond the beyonds... what is beyond the universe... what can be the beginning... is the universe expanding and why... it sould be contracting...
It seems to me eternity is the critera necessary to understand everything.
 

WHSLacrossekid

Diamond Member
Aug 19, 2001
6,330
0
0
Scary ....Mom once told me (b/c I didn't really want to go to New Year's 2001 in NYC) that if I die I wouldn't even know it, so it doesn't matter

:confused:
 

RyanM

Platinum Member
Feb 12, 2001
2,387
0
76
Originally posted by: CrazyPerson
What do you think it is like after death?

Why don't you come over here and I'll show you?

Or, in the immortal words of M4H:

STOP POSTING
 

LunarRay

Diamond Member
Mar 2, 2003
9,993
1
76
Originally posted by: WHSLacrossekid
Scary ....Mom once told me (b/c I didn't really want to go to New Year's 2001 in NYC) that if I die I wouldn't even know it, so it doesn't matter

:confused:

Historians agree, I think, that Jesus was a real person. Now, either he was a nut or as he said the Son of God... God OR he didn't say anything at all and every one who heard him say nothing were dreaming.
It is Ok to believe in Rocks, Astrology, Physics, Astronomy and not to believe in a diety... seems odd to me to hear that kind of logic... but, I believe that Jesus is real and is God .... if I didn't I'd have a major gap in my life... probably filled with pizza and hot fudge sundaes.. over time.

 

boyz

Senior member
Apr 4, 2001
399
0
0
ASK God, why you even ask such question, are you planning to commit suicide.