i really doubt there is an afterlife. if there is, god has a lot of explaining to do
This is about what happens after death (the afterlife), not God. The afterlife and God don't have to coexist for them to exist. If the afterlife exists, this doesn't automatically mean that God does as well. There are people who don't believe in God at all, yet had a positive Near Death Experience. DME results in effects similiar to NDEs, and our brain releases large amounts of DMT when we die.
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NDes exist and they vary from person to person. Some say that their NDE was peaceful, some say that it was scary, some say that it was nothing. It's different for everyone.
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A highly-cited 2018 study provided participants with low doses of the hallucinogenic drug N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in a controlled setting, then asked them to describe their experience. Their descriptions were uncannily similar to collected descriptions of NDEs. It turns out that DMT is widely present in the mammalian brain. In 2019, researchers at the University of Michigan not only found the compound in various locations in rat brains, but they also discovered neurons with the two enzymes required to make it. Moreover, the neurons seem to produce DMT at levels comparable to those of other key neurotransmitters like dopamine, which drives pleasure, and serotonin, which stabilizes mood. DMT has also been found in small amounts in human brain tissue and larger amounts in cerebrospinal fluid, a clear fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord."
DMT seemingly floods the human brain at death and causes vivid dreams and NDEs. So if death is some sort of DMT trip we don't come back from, then a afterlife could exist. So what awaits us after death is either what we believe happens (this would explain why NDEs vary from person to person), or nothingness. Even if it turns out to be nothingness, we can't experience that either way, so there is nothing to be concerned about. You would never be able to tell what's going on, it would be like sleeping without ever waking up.
I don't believe in any religion, but Near Death Experiences are real. If someone who is catholic and believes in God, thinks that they'll go to heaven after death, and sees a heaven-like place during their NDE, doesn't this mean that they manifested it? If we go by this fact and use the Law of Attraction here, this means that whatever YOU believe happens after death, will happen to YOU. You believe in nothingness? Then you'll end up in a black void. You believe in God? Then you'll end up in heaven. You believe in Narnia or whatever fictional place you want to be in? You'll end up there. That's the only logical way I can think of how all of this works.
DMT is in our brain.
DMT takes you to a different reality.
DMT reportedly activates in the brain when we die.
The energy in us cannot be destroyed so where does it go when we die.
Is that all just coincidence? Of course not.
When we die, our brain releases huge amounts of DMT. NDEs take people to all kinds of places, every near death experience is different. While one person is taken to a heaven-like place where they feel loved, the other person is taken to a black void where they feel nothing, and then there's another person who is taken to a place where they reunite with their loved ones instead. It varies from person to person. Our brain releasing DMT as we die=we go where we believe where we go. You believe there's no afterlife? You go into a black void of nothingness. A person believes they will be reunited with their loved ones? That will happen. That's again, why NDEs vary from person to person and why even people who don't believe in God can have NDEs.
To answer the question of the OP of this thread: I don't really care about "what" I become after death. I'm fine with every outcome that doesn't result in existing on this planet ever again. I'm just tired of it all. I wouldn't mind ending up in a black void of nothingness where I wouldn't have to think about anything for a couple million of years. But that's just me. So if another person believes that they will reunite with their loved ones after death then I think that will happen to them.
grass is always greener i guess.
