What's Your opinion on after death?
- Thread starter Zeze
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I hope to be reincarnated or something and experience a new and different life...
But that's just wishful thinking - I'm in the same boat as you as an atheist I believe we will simply cease to exist.
Edit: just to clarify, I'm an atheist-agnostic. I refuse to declare something doesn't exist that can't be disproven.
DanTMWTMP
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After seeing plenty of people go through dementia, or see Alzheimer's effects, and read about facinating things about people with various brain injuries; I'm convinced we retain nothing we experienced in life. All information we gathered in life dies once our brain dies. That's it. However, if there is some other type of existence after death, then it's something we cannot explain with our current tools of perception (human perception like sight within the "visible" spectrum, our ears tuned to certain frequencies, our nose receiving molecules and brain interpreting them based off of millions of years of evolution).
Since our human tools are unavailable, if there is such an existence, it'll be completely different. All memories are just gone. It might be just a whole other type of existence. Who knows...
Since our human tools are unavailable, if there is such an existence, it'll be completely different. All memories are just gone. It might be just a whole other type of existence. Who knows...
DigDog
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Some sort of consciousness after death could well exist but we now understand beyond reasonable doubt that the various god things and religion things are made up. Honestly i dont care anyway right now because eventually death will happen anyway so i'll see it when i see it.
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I have a somewhat inchoate belief in my continued existence, which is just a belief . . . nothing I can "prove" and certainly nothing I would attempt to argue with anyone else. I could cite multiple reasons for my belief, some very, very personal, but I'll simply cite the conservation of matter and energy and leave it at that.
Here's a lovely little song (to me) that sums up my view on these matters.
WelshBloke
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Sometimes I get these weird flashes like I've done such and such in a past life. Who knows could be my human brain screwing with me.
I'd like to believe we get reincarnated but am agnostic and don't count on anything but the actual death part.
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I'm pretty confident that once you die, you're gone, and honestly that really scares me. Even just reading this thread gives me anxiety.
Thebobo
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Mai72
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I was born Catholic, but I'm now a Buddhist. I do thank God every morning after I meditate, but that's about it.
My opinion is we all have these biological impulses that fire off in our head, as we react to our environment. And, all of this is combined with social conditioning. Your thoughts that you're so attached too are just random thoughts that other people (teachers, parents, society) put in there. So, we are just a bunch of biological impulses that react to the environment, add in social conditioning, and our thoughts. World won't even miss us when we're gone. Those thoughts that you have, those big goals. They don't really matter. Why? Because you'll be dead. My guess is when we die we won't even feel it. It won't even be darkness because darkness is a feeling. You won't feel anything.
Now, is there a God? I doubt it.
My opinion is we all have these biological impulses that fire off in our head, as we react to our environment. And, all of this is combined with social conditioning. Your thoughts that you're so attached too are just random thoughts that other people (teachers, parents, society) put in there. So, we are just a bunch of biological impulses that react to the environment, add in social conditioning, and our thoughts. World won't even miss us when we're gone. Those thoughts that you have, those big goals. They don't really matter. Why? Because you'll be dead. My guess is when we die we won't even feel it. It won't even be darkness because darkness is a feeling. You won't feel anything.
Now, is there a God? I doubt it.
lxskllr
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Yeah, to be fair though I knew what I was getting into reading this. Typically talking about it isn't the issue, it's when I start to imagine it. If this makes anyone else uncomfortable, I'm truly sorry, maybe stop reading, but just thinking about when I'm dead all my thoughts, feelings, and being are gone is really scary. My life is truly all I have, and the thought of that being gone and my consciousnesses disappearing is frightening. I hope that by talking about it more I'll come to terms, but for now it's really a tender topic.
That's very interesting. What you just described is what I'd consider factual. Is that all Buddhist teachings?
Given all the evidence of Life and the lack of evidence of an Afterlife there is very likely that after a person dies that is it. Nothing, your brain is you.
Mai72
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In regard to Buddha, there is the 4 noble truths and the eight fold path. http://www.bcc.ca/buddhism/fournobletruthsandeightfoldpath.html
A beautiful Buddha documentary on YT if you wanted to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWPFYygGPc
The Buddha, when he was riding in his chariot as a young prince saw an old man. Next day, he saw a sick man, and finally he saw a dead man. Suffering is a part of human existence. You will get old, you will become sick, you will die. Much of the suffering that we go thru in life is because of our desires. Our desire to be young forever. Our desire for world possessions. Our desire for money. It's basically our attachment to anything worldy that causes suffering because in the end we are all going to die anyway. In the end your world possessions are all going to lost. That is what creats much of the suffering. It's why meditation is so powerful. It gets you into the now, and away from past and future thoughts that crowd our thinking. Now, this doesn't mean that you want to go thru life with ZERO meaning. IMO, you need a reason to get out of bed in the morning. But, don't be attached. Be the most engaged, but the least attached. To me, that is how I live now with whatever I do. Also, Enlightenment is the highest form of presence which most people never experience. Buddhist actually believe in an afterlife. It's reincarnation.
I was just rambling for the most part. Its factual, but there are many people who would disagree with my statement. That we're all God's children, special little flowers, etc.
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