Do you think something meaningful could await us on the other side?

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I've been watching videos about near death experiences recently, and they mostly all describe how at peace and loved they felt. I even remember one guy on a youtube short a while back saying how challenging it was coming to terms with being away from that peace is.

Of course, NDEs don't really prove anything. It could be chalked up to chemicals flooding the brain. But maybe theres something more to it than that, and I think I'd like to believe so even without certainty.

I'd love to hear all of your takes.

 

[badatparties]

I lean towards non existence. NDE's are too varied for them to mean anything in my opinion, everyone has a different experience. Seems like they are just things that the brain does when dying. But ultimately, i don't know.

 

[Bruce]

Everything is either chemicals flooding the brain or indoctrination or both. Those moments are extreme pressure. You'd have to be Zen to experience the truth at that moment.

 

[Chronical_Suicidal]

No, even knowing the majority of people believe - and some affirm - that there's something beyond death, perspectives largely varying to the outcome. Sometimes I think that all these people can't be delusional - or can? - but without proof, it's hard to sustain it. Anyway, the conclusion is that we know what happens with the body after death, but just speculate about the continuation of the spirit.

 

[YourLocalSadGirly]

Personally I don't believe in any of the NDEs people claim but personally I would be very disappointed if there was nothing after death. I want to see my late girlfriend again more than anything else. Also I think it'd be too cruel for the only existence to be this one which is so full of suffering and death. I don't believe in any specific religion but I think that there is some kind of creator or something like that. I feel that the universe is too unnaturally cruel to be all the cause of an accident or chance.

 

[metfan647]

Possibly. I don't think that meaningful thing has commanded any revelations to be sent down though.

 

[Alpacachino]

I don't believe anything exists after death. It's just the end.That's it.Kaput!

 

[dragon.//]

I believe it is just like before you were born, also the "peace" and "loved" feeling might be from the release of endorphins in your brain

 

[Hollowman]

No

 

[Hopeindeath!]

I believe God awaits us on the other side.

 

[bellaisdonewithlife]

I've done tons of research into this considering l haven't really wanted to be alive for a decade now. I'm in a new age spirituality group, but I personally think anything is possible whether there's an afterlife, reincarnation with an afterlife or disappearing into nothingness. I would say I lean towards there being something though.

 

[itsgone2]

I'm starting to lose hope

This world is so cruel. There's just no reason for it

 

[myriapoda]

i kinda think whatever makes us *us* is just reused again in the next batch of people entering this life. not necessarily a soul, but pretty damn similar. not all of it will be used, and most of it gets blended and scrubbed cleaned before it gets reused. it does scare me, potentially that if i ever had NDE and felt that kinda peace describe i would want to chase after it even more

 

[Alan James]

I've studied out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences a lot, and I'm 100% sure that near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences are real. This is not brain chemistry hallucinations at all. An out-of-body experience is when a soul/consciousness seems to leave a person's body while still alive, sees its body from the outside, moves around locations, and so on. And people see different things in non-corporeal experience because it seems that where they end up after death is a computer simulation, the astral plane is some kind of simulation. There is something there (AI perhaps?) that reads all a person's thoughts and builds an artificial VR simulation individually for each person.

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There is a lot of evidence that points to what is called the spiritual world, the astral, this is probably a simulation. And our physical world is also a simulation. And there are no gods, just like demons - these words are most often used to describe aliens and entities from other dimensions (the astral plane, for example). It's just that until recently people did not understand what it really was and called it the "spiritual world"; only in the 20th century did such concepts as computers and simulations appear.

And all religions lie and are instruments of control, every single one of them.

 

[Metro]

I've studied out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences a lot, and I'm 100% sure that near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences are real. This is not brain chemistry hallucinations at all. An out-of-body experience is when a soul/consciousness seems to leave a person's body while still alive, sees its body from the outside, moves around locations, and so on. And people see different things in non-corporeal experience because it seems that where they end up after death is a computer simulation, the astral plane is some kind of simulation. There is something there (AI perhaps?) that reads all a person's thoughts and builds an artificial VR simulation individually for each person.

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There is a lot of evidence that points to what is called the spiritual world, the astral, this is probably a simulation. And our physical world is also a simulation. And there are no gods, just like demons - these words are most often used to describe aliens and entities from other dimensions (the astral plane, for example). It's just that until recently people did not understand what it really was and called it the "spiritual world"; only in the 20th century did such concepts as computers and simulations appear.

And all religions lie and are instruments of control, every single one of them.

Can't say that clickbaity, sensational YouTube videos appeal as reliable sources to me.

Also David Icke is a complete nutter

 

[Captive_Mind515]

Can't say that clickbaity, sensational YouTube videos appeal as reliable sources to me.

Also David Icke is a complete nutter

David Icke is like that kid who just makes up random fantastical stories... and their parents just give them a free pass because they're just a child. Except David Icke is not a child anymore. And he has a whole army of whacky followers who think he's some sort of oracle.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, I only believe death to be true permanent peace from this dreadful, torturous and cruel existence which is all I hope for, I just want to never suffer in this existence ever again, no matter what I'll always see existence as the most terrible mistake that only ever causes harm and suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured with existing beings in agony every second.

I just see nothing meaningful about any of this, it's just dreadful suffering and the existence of life is the most devastating, cruel tragedy to me, the fact that humans choose to impose this existence that just causes harm and suffering is just so terrible to me, for me non-existence is just all that's positive, I just want to erase this existence, there's just so much evil in this existence that only ever harms and tortures existing beings.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I actually hope for nothingness because something good presumably also means there could also be something bad. Life was a disappointment- balancing good and bad- so, I don't see why that wouldn't continue in an afterlife.

I can't even imagine how they would engineer an afterlife where everyone remained themselves and yet, everyone was perfectly content. We all want different things. How can everyone have free choice and yet, also all agree? It would surely necessitate a huge dumbing/ numbing down of opinions and emotions. So- would we still even be 'us'?

Or, maybe we become the main character in many separate worlds designed entirely around us. So we are 'us' in our own world and NPC's in other people's worlds and, vice versa. Would that feel real though?

As for something profound. I'm also at a loss as to what that possibly could be. The truth I suppose. About the nature of consciousness. About our lives. But- asides from a few fascinating facts (our lifetime step count would be cool for one,) just how profound can it get?

I'm dead, I'm now in this form, in this environment. Maybe a shock to begin with but, then what? And what can be so interesting that it holds our attention for eternity? It would be good to grill God for a bit maybe. Question what the hell they thought they were doing but, I doubt they are interested.

The only totally off the wall and utterly narcissistic theory I've toyed with is that we are all training to be Gods ourselves. What other profound reason would there be to experience mortal life? Other than we were to use that experience to govern over/ maybe create other mortal life? That truly would be profound- to be faced with making those decisions.

Again though- wasted on me. Given the opportunity, I would abstain. I wouldn't put in motion new systems where sentient creatures suffered. Maybe I could create only non sentient things or, beings that couldn't suffer.

But, what profound reason could there be to live a few years as a mortal and then forever some place else? The whole thing seems so bizarre to me.

If religious afterlife is all made up, that also puzzles me too. Who loved life enough to actually want it to go on forever anyway? I can't believe many people had utopian lives. I suppose they could still imagine them though- under different circumstances perhaps.