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We jump into another universe that's exactly like ours except we don't die and continue living
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Asherlee10 posted...

Your body decomposes. That's it.

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Heaven or hell, depending on whether you've put your faith in Jesus.
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Life goes on for every one else.
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apolloooo posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Your body decomposes. That's it.

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My best guess is simply that consciousness ends and nothing beyond that.
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I always envisioned it like...


You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
“More or less,” I said.
“Are you god?” You asked.
“Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.”
“My kids… my wife,” you said.
“What about them?”
“Will they be all right?”
“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.
“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”
“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”
“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”
“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right,”
“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.”
You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”
“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.”
“So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”
“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.
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“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
“Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way.



Just a guess.
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It's out there, but it's interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RHv_MIIT0
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Absolutely nothing.
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Atheists are wusses who don't want to consider other POVs because deep down they're afraid they might be wrong.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Your body decomposes. That's it.

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We take our place in the heavens as stars.

You are reincarnated as orange pigment in Donald Trump's face.

How orange he'll be by this time next year will stagger all scientific knowledge.
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My money is on your consciousness terminating and that's it.
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Nothingness most likely but reincarnation is probably the most likely alternative..
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cuttin_in_farm posted...

“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
“Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way.



Just a guess.

That's...pretty deep, actually. Well written.
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DevsBro posted...

Heaven or hell, depending on whether you've put your faith in Jesus.

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Most likely jump to alternate/parallel universe or something like that.
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Everything fades from your vision and you stop feeling anything at all
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

Agnostic

Same.
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I've always liked the idea of reincarnation, but I believe it's just an end of your consciousness.

Brain function ceases. Consciousness is lost forever.
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cuttin_in_farm posted...

... The Egg.

Good read. It may or may not fit with Gnostic ideas.
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What do you think happens when we die?

Well, I don't know :).

Nothing, probably. You just cease to exist. Bye bye. The End.

Bit depressing at times, sure. But you gotta think of the positives too! Do you seriously think even 3rd of us, are meant to be immortal? Universe/reality just cannot be that badly designed. And if I someday find out it is, I would have bit of an... issue with it :). "Corrections" would have to be made.

Heh heh...

Asherlee10 posted...

faizan_faizan posted...

Atheists are wusses who don't want to consider other POVs because deep down they're afraid they might be wrong.

Why did you feel the need to make a blanket attack in this topic? Everyone else posted what they think happens without insulting others, as the topic asks them to do.

Your statements say a lot about YOUR character.

Interesting that you didn't deny it.
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faizan_faizan posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

faizan_faizan posted...

Atheists are wusses who don't want to consider other POVs because deep down they're afraid they might be wrong.

Why did you feel the need to make a blanket attack in this topic? Everyone else posted what they think happens without insulting others, as the topic asks them to do.

Your statements say a lot about YOUR character.

Interesting that you didn't deny it.

Because it was dumb and she, like most everyone else, thought that was obvious.
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http://www.drodd.com/images14/black16.jpg
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Anything is just a guess. That's why humans and are so fearful, its all rooted in the fear of death.

Personally, I believe in reincarnation. Check this out- its eerie.

http://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/cases/john-gordon-and-jeffrey-keene.html
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Twin3Turbo posted...

faizan_faizan posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

faizan_faizan posted...

Atheists are wusses who don't want to consider other POVs because deep down they're afraid they might be wrong.

Why did you feel the need to make a blanket attack in this topic? Everyone else posted what they think happens without insulting others, as the topic asks them to do.

Your statements say a lot about YOUR character.

Interesting that you didn't deny it.

Because it was dumb and she, like most everyone else, thought that was obvious.

If you say so.
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FighterStreet posted...

OrtegaTron posted...

Anything is just a guess. That's why humans and are so fearful, its all rooted in the fear of death.

Personally, I believe in reincarnation. Check this out- its eerie.

http://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/cases/john-gordon-and-jeffrey-keene.html

it's not eerie, it's fucking bullshit. and if you had an education or were semi-intelligent several red flags would have stood out to you in the first paragraph alone

Such vitriol. To each their own, friend. No need for the ugly remarks.
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faizan_faizan posted...

If you say so.

Dude you went on a mini rant against the type of overly vocal smug atheists that literally weren't even present in the topic.

Youre the one who brought the generalizations and superiority complex I to this topic. Think about it.
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I always say nothing, that your body decomposes (if not already gone) and that's it, game over, but I'm fairly leaning towards reincarnation, if anything else.
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faizan_faizan posted...

Atheists are wusses who don't want to consider other POVs because deep down they're afraid they might be wrong.

How are we wusses when we have to accept that nothing happens after we die besides nothingness?
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When I was kid and hadn't learned anything pretty much, my basic instinct was always that we were reincarnated, I'm talking before I ever knew what reincarnation was. So I've always kind of believed in that just from a sense that it was like my gut instinct as a kid without any prior knowledge of anything. I think we'd all like to believe there is an afterlife or reincarnation, something other then just nothingness. Who knows though. Hopefully I don't find out for another 70 years at least.
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Judgement followed by salvation or second death.
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No matter what you believe, the experience you define as life ends. Taking in reflected light and sound waves, experiencing the flow of time and memories, all that relies on your physical body.

If there is something after, it must be radically different and unimaginable.
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byron posted...

Ilishe posted...

cuttin_in_farm posted...


That's...pretty deep, actually. Well written.

That's a short story written by someone else.

Andy Weir, to be exact. Easily one of my favorites.
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Alot of people believe in reincarnation. What do you think we come back as?

Zurkon posted...

You see a giant game over screen

Actually we respawn because life is dark souls

GotThemBarz posted...

Alot of people believe in reincarnation. What do you think we come back as?

People, for sure. Whether other animals, I don't know.
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Leanaunfurled posted...

GotThemBarz posted...

Alot of people believe in reincarnation. What do you think we come back as?

People, for sure. Whether other animals, I don't know.

I'd hope so. I'd hate to come back as a tree or something