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Reincarnation?

If so, what would you hope/want to come back as?
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Asking what it's like after you're dead is like asking what's further north than the north pole.
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I liked that little story where every single person from the beginning of humanity is actually a single soul getting reincarnated into a different person across time and space infinite times.

Every time a person dies, the soul goes up to God and has a very brief chat with him for ten to fifteen minutes before God kicks it back to the world into a newborn baby at some random time period and location. Coincidentally, the soul always remembers nothing about its past lives so God gets a kick out of telling it about the process every time it comes back and watching its astounded reaction.
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We talk about "life after death" but it's really impossible to say whether something is real or not when we can't even define it properly

What is life after death?

We use the word "life."

What's life? We are alive now. What makes us alive?

When we go looking for "life" on other planets, we are looking for carbon-based life.

There's a whole definition in biology of what is meant by life in terms of biological process

So what is life after death? How can life exist without any physical presence? There is no matter. What is it? Energy? Light? Dark matter? Something else that exists but that no known instruments can detect?

What would the experiment of such a life be? Would you see as you see now with your eyes? Would you retain a sense of self separated from your surroundings? How can that be when you have no physical presence? Would you have a memory of your life? How can that be if memory is physically stored in the brain? How can we consider the soul to be alive but at the same time consider it to be immortal, when we consider life is something that, by definition, is not eternal?

And even beyond, what makes us us other than the physical matter composing our bodies? Our bodies change with time. Our cells transform. Matter leaves our bodies when we sweat or even breathe. We are constantly changing. Where is the precise line where "I" begin and end?

It's like God

When I try to ask myself whether I believe in God, my answer is not "yes," it's not "no," and it's not even "maybe." I'm not even an agnostic. My answer is, how can I say whether or not I believe in God when I don't even know what God is supposed to be?

Fuck I need another drink and I just noticed I finished my bottle of tequila. Fuck

Anyway yeah
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Distant_Rainbow posted...

I liked that little story where every single person from the beginning of humanity is actually a single soul getting reincarnated into a different person across time and space infinite times.

Every time a person dies, the soul goes up to God and has a very brief chat with him for ten to fifteen minutes before God kicks it back to the world into a newborn baby at some random time period and location. Coincidentally, the soul always remembers nothing about its past lives so God gets a kick out of telling it about the process every time it comes back and watching its astounded reaction.

Yea I remember that story. It's interesting. If it was true it would mean people should be nicer cause it's all just you

*poof*
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
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i stop existing

we all go to hell

When you die

They give Sinbad another tv show!
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I dunno but it seems a waste for our conscience to only exist for like 80 years and just vanish forever. Worse or better for animals.
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Literally nothing
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Forgettable posted...

You sleep a dreamless sleep forever.

Basically this, like the non existent feeling of being put under general anaesthetic.
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Pretty sure this is the concrete answer for almost everyone on Earth

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brotrrwinner posted...

Literally nothing

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frozenshock posted...

When I try to ask myself whether I believe in God, my answer is not "yes," it's not "no," and it's not even "maybe." I'm not even an agnostic. My answer is, how can I say whether or not I believe in God when I don't even know what God is supposed to be?

Fuck I need another drink and I just noticed I finished my bottle of tequila. Fuck

Anyway yeah

dude, that's exactly what an agnostic is. You're an agnostic.

anyway I agree there's no one answer to it.
Anyone who believes in just the straightforward 'nothing' isn't thinking hard enough.

you have to go really philosophical. In particular, look at the theory of mind-body dualism. If the mind is some separate entity from the body, then could the mind continue to exist after the body ceases to exist? No one knows. No one can prove it.

Nothingness. There is no afterlife (as far as I'm aware).

But if there's a universe-sized computer at the end of time capable of reconstructing the history of the universe we may all be brought back in some form then. Strange to think about really.
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BusyGettingLaid posted...

we all go to hell

i think this should be reserved for the most evil of people. the ones who "don't value other's lives".
which is why i'm pro death penalty.
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Nothing, you're dead.
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The question doesn't make sense.
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probably obliteration
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Your family has a funeral and divides up your estate
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Absolutely nothing. Your consciousness doesn't exist anymore.

The same feeling you felt before you were even born.
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the government takes away your social security and VA benefits check leaving your wife and children to struggle this month as they plan both your funeral and try to grieve and deal with christmas and pay the medical bills incurred when the paramedics came to your house to bring you to the hospital to be declared doa

or something like that
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we are all so pigheaded we think our one cosmos or universe is the only one, but there are many of them...
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On some SCP entry, you die, and there's no afterlife, reincarnation, hell or heaven. Just pain, and you can even feel what happens to your body after death.

I forgot what SCP number it is, but I hope that's not what happens.
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You rot or burn

Go back to the void I was in before being born in this body.
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I believe everytime we die we come back as a different person. We just won't have the memories of our past lives.
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kingdrake2 posted...

BusyGettingLaid posted...

we all go to hell

i think this should be reserved for the most evil of people. the ones who "don't value other's lives".
which is why i'm pro death penalty.

It's been proven that there are innocent people on death row