What If? Yes.... the two words

[LukaParrot]

Since there is enough information, procedures about SN, and I have all need to CTB, like timing, I plan to depart on 10-jan, just as a last thought for my mother doesnt have problems calling funeral services in the beginning of the year, kinda, hard words.....

I believe someone of you have saw videos about afterlife, people expering seeing out of the body in the hospital when staff is trying to resurrect/save you. Some believe atheist and once gonna there is nothing, like we're "animals", but more evolved, if a dog/cat/cow dies, that's it right? They also have feeling in their way, like happy, sad, angry and dream. I had a dog that definitely dream about something.

Are you prepared to CTB thinking about these two possibilities?

Well, for me, if there is nothing after death, like, that's it, over, i'm fine with that, well, I'm that going cease to exist. If it's the other reality, some said that the despair gonna make your soul crazy and madness because now you dont have a physical way to interact and resolve your problems, for me, my problems are well defined and have no solution, studied and worked too hard, didnt find happyness, didnt find a partner'life, 45y.o. is enough of life for me, tired of studying meanless crap of IT that changes every year, dont want nothing more in life like a car, another home, too old to form a family (you get older, the odds of having special kids get higher, that's hard, sorry if offend someone), so in my head, it's fine, i've done my best, but didnt have enough luck, dont want to work anymore even if it is a totally different area. Maybe just fastforward some 20-30 years. Also, dont want to be a really old alone guy.

 

[Darkover]

When you are dead, nothing functions. I think the fact that we're even here in the first place existing as something alongside everything around us is such an insane fact that we witness everyday but never truly comprehend it. There is something rather than nothing basically.

Also, the fact that laws (immaterial forces that predetermine how something will interact with the universe around it) exist is insane. The fact that there are, in lack of better terms since relatively is a thing, constants in the universe that we can observe is beyond wild.

From what I know of consciousness, We feel things rather than being perfect analytical machines.

If your brain doesn't have electrical and or biochemical activity, at all, you are very most likely not conscious, or in a state of non-consciousness-existence

Here is what I think: This doesn't seem to be a common view but if we know it for a fact that you started to exist for some reason at the point of your birth (your consciousness, your self did), before which you didn't exist, then would it not be logical to assume that after you cease to exist (after death), out of that non-existence you will emerge again in another body? I am not talking at all about reincarnation, consciousness probably dies after death, but if the only real thing we can know for sure about consciousness is that it (seemingly) randomly appears out of non-existence, why wouldn't the same happen after you die?

This seems a lot more likely to me than "nothingness forever". You started to exist once, without any reason, why not again? Obviously you would not have memories or anything, cause that dies with the previous brain, but the baby would be you.

 

[LukaParrot]

Thanks for your point of view.

Spiritualist do this kinda of approach, some souls have the option to choose how reincarnation gonna happens, other will be forced "down" here again. To try again grown as a "soul" and the reason that you have no memories about past lifes, is a nice law for the soul to try again without the feelings, bad actions, bad decision from another life.

Really hope that's not true in some sense, if given opportunity to choose, just gonna watch and rest my soul for eternity.

 

[Terramoro]

Might not sound nice, but no one has a soul in my opinion. You are a brain (essentially a computer (you could imagine it as an AI)) which reacts to conditions based on memory and senses. I remember this having at least one good counter-argument, but I don't remember it.