Current Events > Are you a believer of an afterlife?

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Would be nice to have a definitive answer

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Nukazie posted...

i dont remember anything before i was born, so i doubt there will be anything after i die

people don't seem to see that

yeah that is a good argument imo

Cheese_Crackers posted...

while the end of existence almost by definition is impossible to imagine.

really? it happens to me almost every night

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How sad it would be if there were no after life

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Medussa posted...

i may have strong opinions on the subject, but i won't share them unless asked.

Please share your strong opinions on the subject with us, oh enlightened one
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skermac posted...

How sad it would be if there were no after life

I mean. How sad is life?

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dolomedes posted...

does cyanobacteria have an afterlife? and the countless extinct biotic lineages? or just humans?

I don't see why not.

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dolomedes posted...

that's what dying is.

No, as in dying as in different from being dead
I wouldn't mind hell as much as not existing
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Honestly, I'm of the opinion it doesn't matter. Even if there is a life after death, it won't be "us," at least not as we interpret things physically. Whether it's nothingness or something we still actually exist and interact in, it will have little to no relevance on who we are now so it should be taken with little consequence.

Sada_Pop posted...

I don't see why not.

i kinda agree. Don't most religious people believe that there is only a heaven for humans? and why is that?

Medussa posted...

really? it happens to me almost every night

Sleeping is not the same as ceasing to exist. Your mind is very active.

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It's weird and mindf****** that we even exist right now tbh

Cheese_Crackers posted...

Sleeping is not the same as ceasing to exist. Your mind is very active.

my consciousness isn't. i literally go from falling asleep to waking up, with absolutely nothing in between.

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no i was, actually.

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Medussa posted...

my consciousness isn't. i literally go from falling asleep to waking up, with absolutely nothing in between.

Consciousness is not a very deep understanding of the human experience even though we haven't even fully comprehended that
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Sada_Pop posted...

I don't like this argument because you can say the same thing about aliens yet we believe that they exist solely because of how fucking insanely massive (understatement) the universe is and nothing more.

My answer is still the same, until we have actual evidence my answer will be no. Without verifiable evidence, it's at most guesswork. Not to say I can't be wrong, but my answer will only change if there is viable evidence of such things.

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Medussa posted...

my consciousness isn't. i literally go from falling asleep to waking up, with absolutely nothing in between.

And my point is that you don't. Even if you don't remember your dreams, your brain is performing important tasks during sleep. I don't see how consciousness plays into it as you still have experiences while sleeping, even if they aren't "real".

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sure. but to me, the person, there is no functional difference between falling asleep and dying, beyond any uncertainty of what comes after. so, the end of my existence is not at all hard to imagine, which is what i was replying to.

fun fact. one of the very few dreams i do remember was of me dying. i literally felt the warmth drain out, and there was a moment where it seemed like my consciousness had ended. literally the void. could have been a nanosecond, could have been eternity, there was no longer a sense of time.

edit: the story isn't in any way meant to be an argument, just something relevant i thought i'd share.

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Medussa posted...

sure. but to me, the person, there is no functional difference between falling asleep and dying, beyond any uncertainty of what comes after. so, the end of my existence is not at all hard to imagine, which is what i was replying to.

fun fact. one of the very few dreams i do remember was of me dying. i literally felt the warmth drain out, and there was a moment where it seemed like my consciousness had ended. literally the void. could have been a nanosecond, could have been eternity, there was no longer a sense of time.

I had a similar dream. My most apt analogy is that I felt like a candle going out. Not necessarily unpleasant, but I was pretty scared when I woke up.

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nuclearratchet posted...

It's weird and mindf****** that we even exist right now tbh

I agree.

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i am very much so inclined to believe that for some spirits there is a realm for them to exist after their body ceases to live.

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Real things don't require my opinion to be real or not. One life at a time, thanks.

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Cheese_Crackers posted...

And my point is that you don't. Even if you don't remember your dreams, your brain is performing important tasks during sleep. I don't see how consciousness plays into it as you still have experiences while sleeping, even if they aren't "real".

If you don't remember any of it then thats functionally the same as being unconscious in the sense of there being nothing

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I think so, Im a believer that someone could trick themselves into any reality and itd basically be as real as the effort put into making it real

Merriam Webster calls it denial I guess, but Merriam Webster sucks anyways and denial is basically extended realities

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It's not edgy to believe in nothing without proof. No one looks at you funny if you say you don't have faith aliens built the pyramids, but make something a religious debate and suddenly "You're just operating at faith too! In fact, atheists are even more thick-headed than religious people! Science is the new religion!"

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It's not edgy to be atheist, it's edgy to call religion fairy tales about a Sky Daddy.

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