Poll of the Day > What do you think happens after you die?

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rogerskg1979 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

rogerskg1979 posted...

You experienced nothingness before you were born, and I believe you return to that same nothingness when you die.

An afterlife is highly illogical and makes no sense according to the laws of science. Reincarnation makes more sense than an afterlife does. Life is rather cyclical in nature, and reincarnation would be in keeping with that cyclical nature. Although I don't really believe in reincarnation either, but it makes more sense than an afterlife does. I believe that when we die there is nothing.

I sorta believe in reincarnation in a final fantasy 7 sense where your body gets broke down into energy and gets distributed among other things like plant life and so on. That lines up with what you said I guess but it was that game that made me first really think about it.

Well, yeah, that's not a unique concept to just FF7. Our bodies literally do return to the earth when we die. Our bodies rot and decay and eventually our molecules break down and return completely to the earth, and then new life is born from that. That's the cycle of life, and a basic rule of science is that matter can never be created nor destroyed. Every new life is born out of the matter of the old dead lives.

The real question is whether of not such a thing as a "soul" exists. We simply do not know if anything like that exists, and there is no way of actually proving it. If a soul does exist, maybe it goes on to an afterlife (heaven/hell) or maybe it is reincarnated in a new body or maybe it wanders the earth as ghost or maybe souls just don't exist period. Who knows. Nobody knows.

Yeah I mentioned 7 simply because it's what made me really think about it and this is a video game site so it felt fitting to mention it. Either way I don't think our consciousness will remain.
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kind9 posted...

VixYW posted...

If you ask me, I place my coins on the fact that our... "consciousness" (?) or what others call "soul" are actually the electrons running trough our nervous system, and it is theorized that electrons does "pop in and out of existence" all the time, though we currently lack any means to observe them to prove that. The thing is, when we die and our body is unable to hold those particles together, our consciousness could very well be carried over to that place where these electrons go, be it a 4th dimension or whatever else.

You shouldn't put your coins on some fringe hypothesis involving quantum mechanics of which our current understanding is for shit. Have you ever seen that show Through the Wormhole, narrated by Morgan Freeman? There was a whole episode about this. It is very interesting for sure, but it is not proven to be a fact as you seem to believe.

Still, that's what I believe to be the closest to an acceptable explanation.

Probably pitch black, absolutely nothing. You probably (most likely) can't even think, hear, see, feel, etc. After that, I don't know what happens.

If we have the science to revive people by completely reactivating their brain and pumping their heart, then, as all of the nothingness is skipped (as you wouldn't know it), you'll be waking up...or sleeping/dreaming for a while until you wake up as if nothing happened prior to it. But a possible symptom of being revived would be amnesia; you may not remember anything and may include the knowledge you previously learned.

But if you don't ever be revived, then probably reincarnation; you just "come back as another being', probably any random animal (or any life form) on any planet.
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AnnoyedCops posted...

I think it's probably nothing

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VixYW posted...

kind9 posted...

VixYW posted...

If you ask me, I place my coins on the fact that our... "consciousness" (?) or what others call "soul" are actually the electrons running trough our nervous system, and it is theorized that electrons does "pop in and out of existence" all the time, though we currently lack any means to observe them to prove that. The thing is, when we die and our body is unable to hold those particles together, our consciousness could very well be carried over to that place where these electrons go, be it a 4th dimension or whatever else.

You shouldn't put your coins on some fringe hypothesis involving quantum mechanics of which our current understanding is for shit. Have you ever seen that show Through the Wormhole, narrated by Morgan Freeman? There was a whole episode about this. It is very interesting for sure, but it is not proven to be a fact as you seem to believe.

Still, that's what I believe to be the closest to an acceptable explanation.

I actually kind of agree with that, but it just seemed like you wholeheartedly believed it to be the truth which to me is just as silly as believing any religious concept of afterlife.
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kind9 posted...

VixYW posted...

kind9 posted...

VixYW posted...

If you ask me, I place my coins on the fact that our... "consciousness" (?) or what others call "soul" are actually the electrons running trough our nervous system, and it is theorized that electrons does "pop in and out of existence" all the time, though we currently lack any means to observe them to prove that. The thing is, when we die and our body is unable to hold those particles together, our consciousness could very well be carried over to that place where these electrons go, be it a 4th dimension or whatever else.

You shouldn't put your coins on some fringe hypothesis involving quantum mechanics of which our current understanding is for shit. Have you ever seen that show Through the Wormhole, narrated by Morgan Freeman? There was a whole episode about this. It is very interesting for sure, but it is not proven to be a fact as you seem to believe.

Still, that's what I believe to be the closest to an acceptable explanation.

I actually kind of agree with that, but it just seemed like you wholeheartedly believed it to be the truth which to me is just as silly as believing any religious concept of afterlife.

Nah, I'm not like that. There's no truth when there's no proof. My opinion may change years from now if science advance on that area.

Absolutely nothing.
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