Food For Thought - Death And Beyond.

[skorpx1]

So lately iv'e been thinking about life and what happens when you die. I know that there is limitless possibilities to this and this is what i'm asking:

What do you think happens when we die?


My answer is that since our human bodies have died, our minds are no longer confined to the human itself. Our minds are free and we may do as we wish without any limits or restrictions. If one wishes to visit Saturn, then go to the Andromeda Galaxy in an instant one may do so. If someone wants to base jump the Empire State Building without a parachute, they can do so. No bodily harm can be done and nothing is in your way. The fact of the matter is that nobody but other "escaped minds" can see you doing this stuff and maybe this is why 90% of us wonder about it a lot.


Well its getting late where i'm at, so i'll let you all think on this and come back in the morning.

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[Tec]

What do you think happens when we die?

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, they eat your guts and spit them out.

[Ardy123]

So lately iv'e been thinking about life and what happens when you die.

I hope I make good fertilizer for the next living thing...

[coombz]

Duh...you go to heaven to be with all your loved ones

Unless you were born in some backwards country where they believe in the wrong God,of course

[MK-84]

and heres!!!!!!!   Stephen Hawkins:

A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.

In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.

Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today.

The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future.

"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark

Edit:  He is saying you're an idiot, or a teenager...

[Ack-Ack]

So lately iv'e been thinking about life and what happens when you die. I know that there is limitless possibilities to this and this is what i'm asking:

What do you think happens when we die?


My answer is that since our human bodies have died, our minds are no longer confined to the human itself. Our minds are free and we may do as we wish without any limits or restrictions. If one wishes to visit Saturn, then go to the Andromeda Galaxy in an instant one may do so. If someone wants to base jump the Empire State Building without a parachute, they can do so. No bodily harm can be done and nothing is in your way. The fact of the matter is that nobody but other "escaped minds" can see you doing this stuff and maybe this is why 90% of us wonder about it a lot.


Well its getting late where i'm at, so i'll let you all think on this and come back in the morning.

  youth.

ack-ack

[danny76]

It's INconceivable that this thread will be allowed to contINue

[Mar]

What is with the parenting these days?

[eagl]

Marcus Aurelius said in his "Meditations" that a philosopher would come "... above all things, with a meekness and a calm cheerfulness, to expect death, as being nothing else but the resolution of those elements, of which every creature is composed.  And if the elements themselves suffer nothing by this conversion of one into another, that dissolution, and alteration, which is so common unto all, why should it be feared by any?  Is not this according to nature?  But nothing that is according to nature can be evil."

We are a temporary ordering of elements that, before our individual creation, were utterly disorganized, with no form function or intent.  For a period un-noticeably brief on any scale relevant to those elements, our component elements may have a form, function, intent...  a purpose.  When we die, the elements that make us up are returned to their chaotic state, maybe to remain un-incorporated forever, maybe to become part of another new form, function, intent.

Marcus Aurelius makes a good point that simple participation in the universe, being part of such a basic natural process as life and death, no matter how mean or grand the specific details, is in itself good and never evil.  It's hard to be too worried about what happens after death if you accept that whatever happens, it's supposed to be that way.

[zack1234]

My mother died two weeks ago 

Life after death how much do they charge for that then?



Gibberish

[eagl]

My mother died two weeks ago 

Sorry to hear about that.  It's never a good time.

Life after death how much do they charge for that then?

I can't ever read that, or anything like that, without hearing it in my head spoken in that awful fake woman monty python brit accent.

[bozon]

You get to a great hall where everyone drink and fight each other with axes forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5w262XvCU

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

You are correct skorpx1, it is as simple as that.

[Plawranc]

Consciousness and being exists in the fabric of time, time itself is a continuity, your consciousness exists inside your continuity, so, your consciousness reverts to the beginning of your time.

You live your life again and again and again, your brain or spirit contains residual memory of fixed points, Deja Vu etc.

The idea of an afterlife or paradise is ludicrous, as is reincarnation, your existence in a time frame is not, if time is an entity then you will always live as such. Once you die, you start again.