What do you believe happens after you die?

[iwanttodie019]

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[tannhausers]

A complete and total cessation of my self-awareness and consciousness—no observer at all; I won't even be able to realize that I've died—absolute emptiness and...

peace.

 

[Bybye]

Think about the time before you were born, that's what it'll be like after death.
A nothingness you can't even be aware of.

 

[iwanttodie019]

Think about the time before you were born, that's what it'll be like after death.
A nothingness you can't even be aware of.

HOW ARE you so sure of that?

 

[Bybye]

HOW ARE you so sure of that?

I'm not a 100% sure, just somewhere around 90% because that's where proof points to.
We live somewhere inside this fatty tissue full of neurons talking to each other, we're chemistry and electrical impulses. When that ends, I can't imagine our limited biology somehow transcending into some unknown, unobserved and unprovable form of matter/energy where we'll continue being self-aware and conscious. We'll just turn into heat, gases, bacteria food... like any other creature.

 

[iwanttodie019]

I'm not a 100% sure, just somewhere around 90% because that's where proof points to.
We live somewhere inside this fatty tissue full of neurons talking to each other, we're chemistry and electrical impulses. When that ends, I can't imagine our limited biology somehow transcending into some unknown, unobserved and unprovable form of matter/energy where we'll continue being self-aware and conscious. We'll just turn into heat, gases, bacteria food... like any other creature.

does that scare you?

 

[Bybye]

If I think too much about it, if I make my brain try to picture what ceasing to exist feels like it'll cause a fright. You can't really picture it, it's impossible, you've spent your entire life experiencing things. What do you mean you're suddenly not going to experience anything, not even the feeling of the atmosphere touching your skin, or the air entering your nostrils as you breathe? You won't have a single thought? What's that like?

It's a frightening idea for a processing machine to try to picture not being able to process anything anymore. You go crazy if you're sensory deprived. So yeah, tldr, it's scary to think about.

 

[iwanttodie019]

If I think too much about it, if I make my brain try to picture what ceasing to exist feels like it'll cause a fright. You can't really picture it, it's impossible, you've spent your entire life experiencing things. What do you mean you're suddenly not going to experience anything, not even the feeling of the atmosphere touching your skin, or the air entering your nostrils as you breathe? You won't have a single thought? What's that like?

It's a frightening idea for a processing machine to try to picture not being able to process anything anymore. You go crazy if you're sensory deprived. So yeah, tldr, it's scary to think about.

isn't it like sleeping?how is that scary?

 

[Bybye]

Nah man, you're still processing while asleep, you just don't remember it.

If I think of sleep I think of dreams. I think of the next morning. I can't think of the blip erased from memory that's not really there, just like I can't think of death.

 

[iwanttodie019]

Nah man, you're still processing while asleep, you just don't remember it.

If I think of sleep I think of dreams. I think of the next morning. I can't think of the blip erased from memory that's not really there, just like I can't think of death.

yes but non existence is like sleep without dreams,it does not scare me atll.It is like sleeping

 

[Bybye]

That's cool.
I just manage to glitch my brain into the weirdest feelings now and then. I also gave myself a spook by picturing my body growing cold as my heart stopped beating.

 

[Forveleth]

There is nothing. Brain function ceases and your existence dies with the electrical signals.

 

[iwanttodie019]

There is nothing. Brain function ceases and your existence dies with the electrical signals.

how are you so sure?

 

[Forveleth]

how are you so sure?

I just am. But how sure can any of us be about what happens after we die? You asked what I believe, I answered.

 

[iwanttodie019]

I just am. But how sure can any of us be about what happens after we die? You asked what I believe, I answered.

1)improbability of existence 2)unknown nature of reality?
you cannot be 100% sure of that

 

[Forveleth]

1)improbability of existence 2)unknown nature of reality?
you cannot be 100% sure of that

Bro, what do you want from me?

 

[iwanttodie019]

you said it is the end.I said how are you so sure?

Bro, what do you want from me

 

[Forveleth]

you said it is the end.I said how are you so sure?

I do not believe in any religion and that leaves the biological explanation. Could there be something else? Well yes. Like I said, no one can be 100% sure.

 

[iwanttodie019]

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I do not believe in any religion and that leaves the biological explanation. Could there be something else? Well yes. Like I said, no one can be 100% sure.

does that scare you?knowing that it is going to be lights out once and for all?

 

[Forveleth]

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does that scare you?knowing that it is going to be lights out once and for all?

I do not want to exist anymore so a total lights out is the dream!

 

[iwanttodie019]

I do not want to exist anymore so a total lights out is the dream!

cool.it is not the dream.but does not scare me either.it si like sleeping

 

[doener11]

As a Christian I do believe in the afterlife, and that there will be a judgement day (the main reason I didn't die years ago), yet as most religious people are, I have doubt and can't bring myself to 100% believe it, I just have faith that it's true

 

[ben_]

dreamless sleep seems to me like the perfect simulation of being dead. it's hard to grasp, but when you think about it, being alive is equally hard.

 

[iwanttodie019]

As a Christian I do believe in the afterlife, and that there will be a judgement day (the main reason I didn't die years ago), yet as most religious people are, I have doubt and can't bring myself to 100% believe it, I just have faith that it's true

hey religion sounds like manmade nonsense.Why did Jesus not show himself to India(my country)?Why does it depend on the family that you are born in?

 

[FuneralCry]

All I believe in is non-existence where this torturous, cruel and dreadful existence I just always saw as the most terrible mistake is finally all gone and forgotten which is all I hope for, all I want is to be permanently free from this existence so harmful that just tortures existing beings with no limit as to how much one can suffer, for me non-existence is just all that's positive.

For me ceasing to exist is the positive solution to find peace from the terrible suffering and torture of this existence I just always saw as a mistake, all I wish and hope for is to never suffer in this terrible, cruel existence ever again.

 

[doener11]

hey religion sounds like manmade nonsense.Why did Jesus not show himself to India(my country)?Why does it depend on the family that you are born in?

I'll do my best to answer these, but I'm no theologian. I hope it helps you understand this better!
Three things to answer here. The first point is 'religion is manmade, therefore I don't believe it'. There are a few assumptions here. The first is that God cannot use humans to communicate the truth. However we know that writing something down doesn't equal inventing it (for example with history accounts and textbooks), therefore meaning that God using humans doesn't make the message human in origin, making this assumption invalid.
A second assumption is that disproving the bible (the 'manmade' part of Christianity') therefore disproves God, or any God for that matter. God's existence is a seperate question from whether the Bible is accurate or not. This means that the assumption doesn't logically follow on from one another, a step is skipped over determining whether there is a God or not. There are many great arguments for God's existence seperate from any religion (which I'm happy to share), which means this assumption is also false.

Now the second point is 'If there is a God, why doesn't he show himself', and then more specifically to your homecountry, India (I know you put the two into one question, but I think it's easier to seperate the two first). Another few assumptions here. The first is that there is not enough evidence on Earth to prove God's existence. In Jesus's life, death and resurrection there were many testifiable truths to prove that Jesus did walk the earth (such as the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, Roman Tacitus, as well as many of his followers without a doubt existing, like Paul who met Emperor Nero), and we can also say for sure that the Romans knew how to kill people, therefore meaning that Jesus's life and death occurred (I started writing about evidence for resurrection, but it went too off-topic, so I deleted it :P). This culminates in 'If I'm not convinced by it, it must not be convincing', the issue isn't just evidence.
The second assumption here is that God should overwhelm us with undeniable proof. Now let's say God revealed himself in full, overwhelming power. By becoming Christian only after that, would you be choosing him? No, you'd be compelled by fear to be a Christian, which negates the whole point.
Third assumption here is that seeing God would automatically produce genuine belief. Now even in the Bible we can see that people seeing Jesus face to face did not automatically produce belief in all ("When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted" Matthew 28:17"). So seeing doesn't guarantee that people would become Christian. Belief is something you want to do, it's not simply a visual thing.
Now onto why He didn't show himself to India (this paragraph is getting really long now, sorry). Well the first and most simple reply to this is he did. St Thomas, one of the disciples of Jesus, went to India and spent the rest of his life there, dying and being buried in Mylapore in 72AD (his church is still standing there). India also has around 30 million Christians. Some regions are also majority Christian. Now that is just specific to India, and I understand that doesn't fully answer the question, but the main point is that Christians are in every country in the world. Jesus doesn't need to show himself to a country for it to become Christian (take the Americas, Brazil is 85% Christian yet it took 1500 years after Jesus's death to find it).

Now the third point is that religion depends on the family you are born it. To answer this simply, no it does not. For example, my dad and brother aren't Christian, and my mum hasn't practiced Catholocism in decades, I was not raised in a religious household. Practicing Christians in my country amount to only 5% last time I checked. Yes being born into a religious family can make you Christian, but it also cannot. I met a guy online who was born in a strictly Orthodox Jewish household in Israel, yet he isn't Jewish or religious at all today. So it really doesn't solely depend on the family you're brought up in, I agree it does make you more likely to stay Christian, but you cannot ignore that the opposite is also true, and I am an example of that.

I really hope this clears things up a bit, I've tried to make it as short as possible (still turning out pretty long), and I'm happy to answer any questions or counterarguments you have to these! Hope this helps

 

[Eriktf]

i think its the same noting as before we was born.

 

[fkyou]

A complete and total cessation of my self-awareness and consciousness—no observer at all; I won't even be able to realize that I've died—absolute emptiness and...

peace.

Sounds perfect to me

 

[Lamentice]

I believe in reincarnation cause it makes sense to me personally, but I hope it's honestly nothing.

Some reincarnation beliefs are that if you don't accrue enough good karma in your human life that you'll be reincarnated as an "inferior" being. I don't believe humans are superior, and frankly if this has truth then I am really crossing my fingers I get reincarnated as a spider or tarantula or bug, I love arachnids and insects, it would be very cool to me. It would even be cool to be a tree or plant, I wouldn't mind that either.

Side note: did you know that large forests with intense tree coverage have interconnected root systems that are constantly communicating as though the forest itself is one large organism together? I think being a plant in a huge, breathing forest would be peaceful and neat.

I don't want to be reincarnated as a human.

 

[ZwartHartje]

Honestly, I don't understand people who think they "are" their biology. I've always felt this human body is a thing I'm trapped in, and absolutely not what I am. I hope I'll finally be free after death.
Another thing I don't understand is the false dilemma between religion and complete materialism. Why would you need a god to have an afterlife? If there's a creator god, then who created him? Why would an afterlife be "supernatural"?
I'm very much into NDEs; yes, some people who are religious speak of having met Jesus, even a few who were not religious before the experience. But I think there's not just one "place" where everyone goes - there is all of infinity out there!
Some others talked about experiences that rang so true to me, like, "that's exactly the way it ought to be!" As in, being free of the burden of having a body, having 360 degree vision, seeing colors that are beyond the range of our physical vision. And they say it all feels so much more REAL than here!
I hope it will be like waking up from a long nightmare, and being greeted by my loved ones who were murdered.