Do you think there’s a next life or fade to black?

[6sad6grl6]

Personally I’d like to think we end up in another life, like a weird fucked up video game. Not necessarily earth and this plane of existence because of how vast the universe is and life in general, I think you could just turn into a little speck of bacteria just as much as a fly, or something completely alien. Personally I’d think if just talking something earthly id come back a porcupine cause like don’t fucking touch me. Even if it’s nothing doesn’t change my mind, in fact it just seems more peaceful. I just can’t help like I’ll be back. Anyways I’m interested to know what you guys think?

Personally I’d like to think we end up in another life, like a weird fucked up video game. Not necessarily earth and this plane of existence because of how vast the universe is and life in general, I think you could just turn into a little speck of bacteria just as much as a fly, or something completely alien. Personally I’d think if just talking something earthly id come back a porcupine cause like don’t fucking touch me. Even if it’s nothing doesn’t change my mind, in fact it just seems more peaceful. I just can’t help like I’ll be back. Anyways I’m interested to know what you guys think?

I hope if I get the choice I end up with my boyfriend again, in a plane where everything’s the same I just know better and I get to him in time, and he’s still breathing. Regardless life’s not worth living when your soulmate is dead.

 

[FuneralCry]

I very strongly believe we just cease existing after we finally leave this world, once we lose consciousness that is it, there is simply nothing, we are completely unaware and only the eternity of non-existence comforts me, I believe death to be like a dreamless, eternal sleep.

 

[stantw1ceee]

Fade to black

 

[Anon1337]

You stop existing. No darkness, blackness or whatever.

 

[pinemarten]

The same way there was nothing before coming into existence, I think it's the same nothingness afterwards from our individual perspective.

A silly thought that I had once that's kind of related and that I often come back to is that we die every time we go to sleep. If our brain is like a computer then I imagine the "us" that we experience inside our heads to be like a program that opens up on the computer in between periods of sleep. A new day dawns, we wake from sleep, and an instance of the consciousness "program" is created within the brain. This consciousness program for the day has access to the memories (literal human memories) that all previous instances of the consciousness program have previously "saved" to the brain in the past (like an instance of a web browser being able to access previously saved files) and the consciousness program can also write new memories as we go about our daily living experiencing things.

Each new day's consciousness feels like it's the same person because it has access to every single experience that all the previous instances experienced and then stored as memories. But is it the same? Like if you open a web browser while also having the Activity Monitor running, you can see the process for the web browser. Then if you close the web browser, the process disappears. Stored files still exist. The computer still exists. And if you open the browser again a new process appears in the Activity Monitor. I don't really believe it to be honest but I use it as a comforting thought sometimes on really dire days.

Basically I tell myself that the me that exists today only has to make it to the end of today because after I go to sleep that "me" will literally cease to exist. My shift was these ~18 or so waking ours that I endured that day. Then when I go to sleep, my shift is ended (forever) and all the problems of my life, old and new, become the burden of tomorrow's instance of the consciousness program. Sure that guy will feel like he's me, and he'll have access to the thoughts I had today, but he's his own person. So he deals with the problems, not me! As I said, I don't really believe it but it also have a hard time disproving it (presumably because I know fuck all about brains or computers).

 

[mediocre]

I think it will be exactly like before you were born.. you don’t exist and you are not conscious.. sounds like heaven to me!

 

[despairhangoverand]

The same way there was nothing before coming into existence, I think it's the same nothingness afterwards from our individual perspective.

A silly thought that I had once that's kind of related and that I often come back to is that we die every time we go to sleep. If our brain is like a computer then I imagine the "us" that we experience inside our heads to be like a program that opens up on the computer in between periods of sleep. A new day dawns, we wake from sleep, and an instance of the consciousness "program" is created within the brain. This consciousness program for the day has access to the memories (literal human memories) that all previous instances of the consciousness program have previously "saved" to the brain in the past (like an instance of a web browser being able to access previously saved files) and the consciousness program can also write new memories as we go about our daily living experiencing things.

Each new day's consciousness feels like it's the same person because it has access to every single experience that all the previous instances experienced and then stored as memories. But is it the same? Like if you open a web browser while also having the Activity Monitor running, you can see the process for the web browser. Then if you close the web browser, the process disappears. Stored files still exist. The computer still exists. And if you open the browser again a new process appears in the Activity Monitor. I don't really believe it to be honest but I use it as a comforting thought sometimes on really dire days.

Basically I tell myself that the me that exists today only has to make it to the end of today because after I go to sleep that "me" will literally cease to exist. My shift was these ~18 or so waking ours that I endured that day. Then when I go to sleep, my shift is ended (forever) and all the problems of my life, old and new, become the burden of tomorrow's instance of the consciousness program. Sure that guy will feel like he's me, and he'll have access to the thoughts I had today, but he's his own person. So he deals with the problems, not me! As I said, I don't really believe it but it also have a hard time disproving it (presumably because I know fuck all about brains or computers).

I really resonate with this idea. I think of it this way too. Each time we wake from sleep, we are a bit new. Each time we fall asleep (lose consciousness), we have a small death of that. Death is just another one of these, just one that you don't wake up from. We've died multiple times before. All we've done is practicing death, each night, each time we say goodbye and goodnight to our loved ones, another day of our lives die.

 

[xlostie]

Well i believe that your body and consciousness die but there is something left from us, call it soul, energy whatevs. Probably won't perceive things as we do in our human forms.
I remember reading something i think it was somehow connected to parallel universes, or at least that's how i understood it. Sometimes you die but your consciousness goes to another timeline and you don't really know that you are dead. Simply said i can shoot myself now my coworkers will assume im dead but from my perspective ill continue living without the memory of what happened. Something like that i think it's an interesting theory.

 

[Andro_USYD]

Well I'm going to disagree with the general consensus and say that it's ultimately meaningless life without an afterlife. It all depends on the question of whether God exists and for that I've encountered many arguments in favour of theism, if you'd like to hear them give me a PM or just reply. I assure U U won't be disappointed.

 

[offtoseethewizard]

Any argument for an afterlife has very flimsy and easily debunked evidence as far as I can find. I’ve done a fair amount of digging from a scientific perspective.

I’d like to believe there’s something, but my logic thus far hasn’t been able to support that conclusion.

 

[februaryangels]

i like to think of it as an eternal and comforting sleep

 

[c0rpse]

In my personal opinion and view I’d say both. It is our brains that perceive reality as we see it thanks to our senses, and once complete brain death occurs those senses will be completely gone. We will return from once we came back into the nothingness. But it is also the nothingness that we also came from so who’s to say we won’t be reborn anew again.

Well i believe that your body and consciousness die but there is something left from us, call it soul, energy whatevs. Probably won't perceive things as we do in our human forms.
I remember reading something i think it was somehow connected to parallel universes, or at least that's how i understood it. Sometimes you die but your consciousness goes to another timeline and you don't really know that you are dead. Simply said i can shoot myself now my coworkers will assume im dead but from my perspective ill continue living without the memory of what happened. Something like that i think it's an interesting theory.

Ah that’s the quantum immortality theory.

 

[I'mdone77]

I really don't want to do this shit again so hopefully fully a fade to black

 

[ifeelthelight]

Personally I’d think if just talking something earthly id come back a porcupine cause like don’t fucking touch me.

Lmao this is such a mood. I just want to live my life and not be disturbed by anybody.

 

[Immensepain]

I personally think that there will be nothingness just like before birth...