Does anyone worry about what's on the other side?

[UnwantedWhale]

I used to worry a lot, until I just don't think I mind at all as long as I don't live in this body or here anymore. I don't mind reincarnation, I don't mind afterlife, I don't mind being a spirit or anything.

 

[fedupwithlife]

it scary to try picture "nothing" after i CBT but it seems like maybe im just not ready to? i think it'll be nothing you'll take your leave and its full stop, no continue, no nothing, your just a body there and YOU as a soul as a personality are just gone. i think that's horrible i wish i believed in a god to cuddle me

Most gods wont really cuddle ctbers

 

[Viranamari]

I belive nothing is after death. It's all just blackness. I don't believe in any particular religion so I don't really believe in Heaven or Hell but many religious people might argue they exist. Religion aside, there's no real proof that such stuff or even reincarnation exists. I don't really think Hell can be any worse than this cruel world so I'm willing to take the chance of course. Either ways, both Hell and this world is a cruel place so there's no harm in trying, right? I don't belive in reincarnation either. It sounds rather silly but even if it does exists, it sounds really terrifying to live all over again even after you give up. But luckily there's no evidence in that. Like us having no consciousness before we were born, I believe afterlife will be the same. No memories. Nothing.
It sounded really terrifying to me at first but as time passed, I realised that it wasn't so bad and it was rather comforting so no, it doesn't scare me.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

No, I don't believe in an afterlife. I believe that, once we die, we cease to exist and to feel, experience, hear, touch, sense etc anything at all for the rest of eternity. I believe that, once we die, our brains cease to exist hence our consciousness ceases to exist hence we cease to exist permanently

How did humans originate? The answer is there in reading books about evolution , brain science, cell biology . This tells you what a human is .

A human is just another animal a brain. The image below shows all vertebrates have the same brain structure and parts. They are more similar than that because each brain is composed of billions of neurons. a nueron is a nerve cell and are basically the same accross species even non-vertebrates like flies, insects.

A neuron in a fly , human, mouse , fish are the same . All animals evolved from a single eukaryotic cell. I am that cell changed over 2 billion years but really the same . a cell has no soul no afterlife, no reincarnation it's just a machine. a human has no soul, no afterlife no reincarnation a human is just a machine, i every human has at least 30 trillion of these eukaryotic cells. neurons are specialized type of eukaryotic cell.

Neuron - Wikipedia

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Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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They mapped the brain of a larval fruit fly . And surprise the fly brain is uncannily similar to Ai neural networks , showing a human is neural networks = fly = ai. ai will soon surpass the weak human brain.

First Complete Map of a Fly Brain Has Uncanny Similarities to AI Neural Networks

Over 12 years, researchers mapped all of a larval fruit fly's brain, charting 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections. It's big news for neuroscience.

gizmodo.com

The neurons are connected into neural networks in the brain. The pattern and weights between connections is what creates the sentience concsiousness perception etc. Chatgpt and ai also are neural networks . the weights to chatgpt can be numbers in a spreadsheet file. ai is much smarter than humans in many areas already for example can write a good essay in a second. imo an agi or human can also be reduced to numbers / weights on a spreadsheet.

imo a human is 30 trillion cells. 86 billion cells in the brain neurons simulate the illusion that a human is one big animal when in reality is 30 trillion cells joined together . and a human is just that first eukaryotic cell with added abominations over time like a brain that can create constant unbearable pain ( but they tell us that's so beautiful)

All there is to us is our brains. Once our brains cease to exist, we cease to exist too

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

Imagine that you arrive to heaven and find out that there's no internet

 

[ImTelling]

God is you and me. God is everything.

Every molecule, particle, speck in the universe is God.

Not to be a fudder but I don't believe in that specific line of thinking.

The concept of hell first appeared after the crucifixion of Christ. At the most you just won't be "let in the club," if that's what you believe in.
See also: Romans 8:31-39 "Nothing can separate us from God's love."

If this is your cup of tea all you would have to do is ask for forgiveness and continue to live your best life.

Im just afraid of being punished and tortured for eternity. I know my dead relatives are up there in Heaven and musicians and artists I like are up there but I really do feel like I'll be tortured forever after I CTB. It makes me extremely sad.

 

[cosmic_traveler]

Not to be a fudder but I don't believe in that specific line of thinking.

We believe the universe created everything in it, we are all a part of the universe. We don't like using the term god but it's synonymous with the word universe and we feel it's more understandable.

The line we used comes from the song "God Thinks" by Voltaire.

God thinks
We should all convert to Judaism
God thinks
We must all be Christians, and
God thinks
We should all embrace Islam
God thinks
The only true religion is Hinduism
And I, I know what God thinks
God thinks you're a waste of flesh
God prefers an athiest
God, God
God thinks all people like you are hateful
God thinks all people like you are an embarassment to creation
Self righteous, judgemental
First to throw the stone
And using his name for your own protection

 

[ImTelling]

We believe the universe created everything in it, we are all a part of the universe. We don't like using the term god but it's synonymous with the word universe and we feel it's more understandable.

The line we used comes from the song "God Thinks" by Voltaire.

This isn't an attack on you but that is the most pathetic loser poem I've ever read, just hatred with no solution. If it was written by a Reddit neckbeard instead of a historical figure everyone would point and laugh.

 

[cosmic_traveler]

This isn't an attack on you but that is the most pathetic loser poem I've ever read, just hatred with no solution. If it was written by a Reddit neckbeard instead of a historical figure everyone would point and laugh.

Perhaps reading the entire lyrics or listening to the song would illuminate that it is pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming to know what God thinks. The author is a Cuban-American named Aurelio Voltaire Hernández.

 

[ImTelling]

Perhaps reading the entire lyrics or listening to the song would illuminate that it is pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming to know what God thinks. The author is a Cuban-American named Aurelio Voltaire Hernández.

"Ermmm le God hates you actually??"

That's all you need to get out of that.

 

[cosmic_traveler]

"Ermmm le God hates you actually??"

That's all you need to get out of that.

If you're not going to listen to the song or read the entire lyrics you can make any claim but it won't be very based.

Again, the song points out the hypocrisy of claiming to know what God thinks. There isn't a single line that describes God hating anything or anyone.

 

[MapleSyrupVein]

Most gods wont really cuddle ctbers

at least it makes it less scary to go?

 

[fedupwithlife]

at least it makes it less scary to go?

Id argue its the opposite

 

[lost_ange2211]

Whatever there is or is not after life i just hope i and everyone else will find their peace and can rest. I don't believe in hell or heaven. I just hope that there is darkness, a void of nothing. No thoughts, no emotions, no feelings, no nothing.

 

[bebeblu]

Nothingness

 

[WhiteRabbit]

The concepts of heaven and hell just sound so human to me. We want to think that there's a life after death where we will be in eternal bliss, even though we suffered in this life. We also want to think that the bad people in this world will be punished, even if they got away with their misdeeds in life.

It all just sounds like something humans made up to cope with the unfairness of life and the finality of death.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

They mapped the brain of a larval fruit fly . And surprise the fly brain is uncannily similar to Ai neural networks , showing a human is neural networks = fly = ai. ai will soon surpass the weak human brain.

First Complete Map of a Fly Brain Has Uncanny Similarities to AI Neural Networks

Over 12 years, researchers mapped all of a larval fruit fly's brain, charting 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections. It's big news for neuroscience.

gizmodo.com

The neurons are connected into neural networks in the brain. The pattern and weights between connections is what creates the sentience concsiousness perception etc. Chatgpt and ai also are neural networks . the weights to chatgpt can be numbers in a spreadsheet file. ai is much smarter than humans in many areas already for example can write a good essay in a second. imo an agi or human can also be reduced to numbers / weights on a spreadsheet.

imo a human is 30 trillion cells. 86 billion cells in the brain neurons simulate the illusion that a human is one big animal when in reality is 30 trillion cells joined together . and a human is just that first eukaryotic cell with added abominations over time like a brain that can create constant unbearable pain ( but they tell us that's so beautiful)

That article barely talks about AI and is mainly focused on the mapping of the flies brain. Along with that it also mentions:

When AI developers created their artificial proxies of natural information processing, they made guesses at the specifics of brain structure.

They were literally thinking about how the brain works when creating AI, hence the similarities. You are portraying this as some sort of coincidence that must mean that something when it isn't. This isn't even a new thing. A lot of our technologies take inspiration from parts of nature/biology.

 

[Leiden]

I worry about it because I just don't know for sure what's waiting and that's terrifying to me. All I want is non existence so badly though. To simply not exist, like before we were born is all I could ever want. My dreams don't ever come true so I'll probably be tortured for eternity even though I've tried to do so much good in my lifetime. Everytng seems to be so unfair. Anyway, I wish everyone the peace they so deserve AD

 

[Anhaedra]

I used to be agnostic until Ive pondered that question for years and researched biology. I can now say for certain that your organs just shutdown and you stop existing.
Its not just eternal darkness, its nothingness. Don't worry. It wont be scary. You wouldnt even be there to precieve it.

 

[cosmic_traveler]

Whatever there is or is not after life i just hope i and everyone else will find their peace and can rest. I don't believe in hell or heaven. I just hope that there is darkness, a void of nothing. No thoughts, no emotions, no feelings, no nothing.

Every single NDE we've had shared 2 similarities.
First, we forgot everything. We forgot about our niblings, our parents, our wife, even our own name.
Secondly, we did not care that we forgot, in the moment we actually felt silly and laughed at ourself for trying to remember at all.

Every single attempt to CBT shared 1 similarity.
A brief moment right before the lights went out, we felt relief.

We wish you peace. Be well on your journey.

 

[LaughingGoat]

This isn't an attack on you but that is the most pathetic loser poem I've ever read, just hatred with no solution. If it was written by a Reddit neckbeard instead of a historical figure everyone would point and laugh.

That's hilarious because I read the comment too and was thinking no way in hell Voltaire wrote that. He was part of the Enlightenment movement and had plenty of thoughts on god, but he didn't write like an edgelord. Not even throwing shade at the musician, just not comparable to one of the most talented writers in history.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

The most likely outcome besides nothingness is that we simply wake up one layer up out of a simulation. Now there's no guarantee that the world outside is better or worse than this one and also no guarantee that you're not still trapped in one afterwards.

Assuming God is real and omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent and a cool guy, then he should have already known that the traditional "Heaven and Hell" dynamic sucks as a system and could do with some reforms. Those reforms are likely to already be in place by now too.

 

[ImTelling]

That's hilarious because I read the comment too and was thinking no way in hell Voltaire wrote that. He was part of the Enlightenment movement and had plenty of thoughts on god, but he didn't write like an edgelord. Not even throwing shade at the musician, just not comparable to one of the most talented writers in history.

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[ham and potatoes]

The concept of hell first appeared after the crucifixion of Christ. At the most you just won't be "let in the club," if that's what you believe in.
See also: Romans 8:31-39 "Nothing can separate us from God's love."

If this is your cup of tea all you would have to do is ask for forgiveness and continue to live your best life.

Yup, the concept of hell wasn't introduced to Christianity until several centuries after Jesus life, and is likely based on some Greek beliefs. And most of our modern day imagery of hell came from Dantes inferno in the 14th century.
So yeah, if you are a Christian, probably shouldn't believe in something that was added centuries later

 

[voideer]

void

 

[Traveller12724]

Do you worry about where you were all those years that you were not born yet and life happened without you, just like you don't remember where you were then, you won't remember this life either when you die and go wherever or simply cease to exist.

 

[enough of this]

I think most of us worry, or at least wonder what's on the other side. And we really won't know til we get there.
But one way or another, we all will get there sooner or later.
I like to think that some of the near death experiences I've read about are what awaits us. Most of those seem like they have experiences that are full of joy, love, and happiness

That's my understanding, as well.