What Do You Think Happens After Death?

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

Read the novel "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip José Farmer. This is what I would like to happen! Frankly, it's just as likely or unlikely as any other rendering of an afterlife.

Edited March 15, 2015 by cuteycindyhoney

[Alphys Hedge 671]

I wondered the same thing. I think either one or two things (this might get a bit religious, just a warning).

 

One: You get turned into nothingness, just floating in the universe as energy particles, but you don't know that you are a energy particle, you have no mind, no thoughts you're just floating in nothingness, and you don't even know it.

Two: Many christian people believe in Heaven and Hell, as do I. Other religions have different ways of thinking about this, like someplace that people in other religions go when they die. I have always thought, "Which religion is actually the right one?", but now I have come to the conclusion that you go to a place in the afterlife depending on what religion you believe in. For example, Muslims may go to what their afterlife is, while the christians would go to heaven or hell.

Although these are my two theories, nobody will ever know exactly what happens when we die. We'll only know when we experience it. Sounds horrible, only being able to know once you die (although, as I stated in theory number 1, you won't know it), but it's the only way to know.

[GreySentinel 157]

All the science indicates that our minds are manifestations of physical interactions in our brain, so when our brain dies our mind stops.

 

Though I do actually believe in a form of afterlife. It's pretty complicated, and it's not an afterlife in the traditional sense in that you're not conscious of it, but it's still a way of "you" carrying on after death.

 

In life our cells will die and be replaced, and every atom of our body will be shifted out and replaced too: it is not our physical existance which keeps us as coherent individual entities. The past has gone, and it will never exist again - what once existed is irrelevant beyond how it led to what exists in the present. What keeps us as a single entity is a combination of memories and the effect we have on others. Memories exist and are retained throughout our lives, and the lives of those around us who remember us as a person. The effects we have on others are similar to memories, the only difference being that the person affected will not always be aware of it, and that the effects go beyond changing the wiring of brains.

 

So considering that what keeps us as a coherent entity are the physical consequences of our actions (both within and outside the brains of others) all that is needed to continue on as this coherent entity is to have a physical consequence on others, something which all of us will have. If the effects we had on others are good, then we are perceived in a positive way, and have a good afterlife, and if we have a bad effect on others we have a negative effect, so live on as something that's hated.

 

This conclusion was inspired by many things, but the most important influences were Richard Dawkins remarking that the boy he once was is dead, and the philosophy of Grovyle in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. It's a strange source for inspiration about something so important, but it still worked, and gave a great explanation of why it is important to act morally, even if you're risking your life to do so.

 

If you're interested watch from about 17:15

 

I respect your opinion, as well the justifications you've used in your defense. 

 

(I don't plan on watching anything related to that spin-off, though. Too many heart-wrenching moments throughout all the games released. If I were part of ESRB, all Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games would be rated "T". Still fun to play, though; just beware, if you have even 0.01% of empathy. )  

[Ruddboy Olaf 10,628]

I think it's really nothing. You're mind just goes. Your eyes shut forever. 

 

It's game over. You're nothing anymore.

 

There's a possibility of coming back as a ghost,but it's only with people who died unhappy.

[speedyblupi 76]

(John 3:13) "Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven, but the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man) (that being Jesus Christ, who was originally an archangel, came to earth to live as a man, die for our sins, and go back to his rule in heaven, when all was said and done)

 

(John 3:13; 14:2, 3) Did he not pray that God’s will take place “as in heaven, also upon earth”? (Matthew 6:9, 10) In reality, one of two destinies awaits the righteous. A MINORITY will rule in heaven with Christ, but the MAJORITY will live forever on earth.

—Revelation 5:10

The Bible also says that killing a pigeon in a clay pot over a river and wiping its blood on things can be used to cleanse away leprosy, and that the city of Tyre would be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and never rebuilt, even though it was: The Bible is not a reliable source.

 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+14

[Megachangeling12 109]

Thanks. You stating that, gives me the impression that you are one of those people, too.

 

All in all, I don't care which side "wins". To me, Mankind is working together on a horrifyingly large jigsaw puzzle. We may not be even remotely close to finishing the picture, but we're damn well getting there.

 

agreed we'll be there someday but most likely not during the time you and I are alive .

[speedyblupi 76]

If I were part of ESRB, all Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games would be rated "T". Still fun to play, though; just beware, if you have even 0.01% of empathy. )  

 

Me too.

 

How a game where characters try to torture each other to death got a 3/E rating I have no idea...

 

Fun fact about PMD:

The longest pornographic novel EVER written in the English language (Brave New World) was inspired by it.

 

Edited March 15, 2015 by speedyblupi

[Mysterious Grepper 89]

It will probably be like before I was born. I won't even know I died.

As much as I wish there is an afterlife, it's just wishful thinking.

[goldfish911 42]

I'll have to agree with everybody else, that you probably just stop existing when you die. HOWEVER, I want to believe that there's an afterlife. Maybe not something as two-sided as heaven/hell, but maybe there's a spirit world where you can do whatever you want for eternity.

[GreySentinel 157]

agreed we'll be there someday but most likely not during the time you and I are alive .

 

Once more, I agree.

 

Hopefully our descendants will respect the "art", when it's finished. Too many take for granted, the great things that men and women before them sacrificed, and take it at as face value.

 

I'll stop rambling, though. My complaints are simply, just that; concerns that won't have an affect on things, in the long run.

[Megachangeling12 109]

Once more, I agree.

 

Hopefully our descendants will respect the "art", when it's finished. Too many take for granted, the great things that men and women before them sacrificed, and take it at as face value.

 

I'll stop rambling, though. My complaints are simply, just that; concerns that won't have an affect on things, in the long run.

Completely agre well said my friend see you around .

[GreySentinel 157]

Me too.

 

How a game where characters try to torture each other to death got a 3/E rating I have no idea...

 

I never knew about this, nor did It comfort me to just find out. I'm actually curious how Nintendo implemented that, in a safe-for- work and "child friendly" form.

Edited March 15, 2015 by GreySentinel

[remove p l e a s e ? 800]

You are either a good person and you get to see the ogrelord and thank him for what he's done to you.

 

Or, if you're a bad person you suffer from the punishments Farquaad gives you.

[speedyblupi 76]

I never knew about this, nor did It comfort me to just find out. I'm actually curious how Nintendo implemented that, in a safe-for- work and "child friendly" form.

 

Mostly by avoiding using the words "kill" and "die" (despite their use obviously being appropriate in the situation).

 

This is a video of the whole cutscene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgV9wGRyvI&index=49&list=PLXrmUBhH2r1RJ17xWF4uUsVKv_GSZUAVZ

[MrMoustacheBot 11]

I think that you go to your own little 'Paradise' where you can rule everything and imagine things and be who you want for eternity. If thats what happens then I would be living with Pinkie Pie and AJ in a massive minecraft house and we would rule a village full of cute things, and there would be an epic computer built by me which is crazy awesome, and all cartoons would be real and there would be no such thing as creepypasta.

So yeah, thats my synopsis of the afterlife 

[CheeryFox 23,821]

Transcendence to a new plane of existence. You'll be you, but not you. We are here to experience life, temporarily. And what remains, goes on to a place of unknown regions. 

[ThatOneComrade 1,091]

You're judged. If you were super nice, you go to heaven. If you were super mean you go to hell. If you're somewhere in between you can choose to go to limbo or you can just hang out on Earth as a ghost and mess with people.

[alexkjel 14]

i belive you end up in limbo

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

I'm not sure but I feel deep down in my heart that something will happen.

[Captial M 39]

 

So, I've been thinking recently. What happens after death? Why have I been thinking this? Because I recently began to realize that death itself is not what I'm afraid of, it's the mere fear of the unknown. So, out of that fear and curiosity, I ask you: What do you believe happens after death? It can be anything!

 

An eternity in the void.

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[Will Guide 21,360]

Yesterday, I lost my 20-something year-old cousin. I only hope my 15 years-dead mother will watch over him in heaven. I.....I............

 

Fluttershy, if you would.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmpCRBslL4

 

{Quietly cries for several minutes to this music before leaving}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ4x3rQYHbM

[Princess Oceangem 61]

I am a Christian but my ideas on what heaven/hell are like are different from most other Christians. I think heaven is filled with everything you have ever loved and is kinda just "your room" in God's palace. Hell is a never-ending flat area filled with all of your fears, mistakes and things you find unpleasant. 

[RavenholmZombie 1,330]

I believe in the idea of reincarnation. Once you die, your spirit goes on to be reborn into another Human being (or maybe a Pony in Equestria )

[AmberDust 1,118]

http://www.9novels.net/book/Discworld-4/

 

THERE IS NO JUSTICE. ONLY ME.

 

 

That's not what I believe, but I like it.

Edited March 16, 2015 by AmberDust

[GreySentinel 157]

Yesterday, I lost my 20-something year-old cousin. I only hope my 15 years-dead mother will watch over him in heaven. I.....I............

 

Fluttershy, if you would.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmpCRBslL4

 

{Quietly cries for several minutes to this music before leaving}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ4x3rQYHbM

 

I brohoofed(this word is now in my Chrome dictionary, after seeing that red line too many times.), because of the feels, by the way. I'm sorry that happened. I would never wish death on a single person.

(unless it saves multiple lives, but I'm still forcing myself into the slammer; whether, "Boris"  and his xenophobic, single-prisoner-cell-requesting self approves or not.

 

 I also hope your cousin is enjoying the afterlife, as your mother shows him the beautiful sights, that we living beings, can only fathom at the time.