what happens when you die

[Bingongie420]

i've always wondered what its like when a person dies, just for the record i dont believe in god or heaven or religion. i just dont see how something like "god" can be real without proof. well anyway, i think when you die its just like nothing, i mean what was it likebefore you were born? nothing! maybe its nothing when you die. maybe you just die and thats it, no thinking, no concept whatso ever. i also believe that you may be reincarnated (sp?), i dunno really what i believe but i certainly dont believe you go to heaven. post arguments or what have you to my thoughts. peace and love.

[TheHempress]

All I know, is that when I die, I hope it's not as crappy as being alive

[hippie john]

Originally posted by TheHempress
All I know, is that when I die, I hope it's not as crappy as being alive

haha, same here

[undrunk]

Hmm... what happens when you die...

well, you die.

[critter]

l,ll go for having the best time l can here before l die thanks,lol.

[KraziHare]

i died once, i walked through the gates of heaven and straight up to god, and he was a baloney sammich

[Zylark]

Originally posted by undrunk
Hmm... what happens when you die...

well, you die.

lol. short, to the point and correct.

i believe in a life before death

[anothersmoker]

I think there must be some sort of afterlife. The world is just too idiosycnritic for there not to be a supreme being, and why would such a being end our existence when we still feel so incomplete? Certainly this question affects our current lifestyle. As fun as it would be to become a full blown headonist, I feel an obligation to try and better the living conditions for the next generations (espescially my offspring).

[undrunk]

Originally posted by anothersmoker
The world is just too idiosycnritic for there not to be a supreme being,

That point could easily be argued both ways... I like to think of the odds of things happening sometimes. for example, what are the odds of a thing like human life EVER coming to be? Well, they're slightly larger then infinitesimal. BUT there is still a chance. The universe tumbled through existence for so long then all of a sudden the odds changed because for so long, intelligent life had not happened. the probabilities had shifted and life had begun.
A long series of chain chemical reactions that continue today.

Originally posted by anothersmoker
... I feel an obligation to try and better the living conditions for the next generations (espescially my offspring).

That's the startrek in everyone. If you may or may not recall, that is one thing i remember from the says of treking, "They did away with money to welcome a philosophy of humankind betterment," primarily for future generations.

[BuddhasPatio]

I believe in reincarnation. I think that we go through a series of stages, or several life, which start from the lowest creature, perhaps a worm, and each life we learn, and grow into the next animal, a bird. Then a cat, then dog, then possibly an ape, then all the way until we reach being a human. I think that being human may be the last stage we go through, and after than we just die. Our souls are lost, and that's the end. If this idea is correct, be kind to all animals, because you never know who is your child, or who is your daughter.


Just an idea...

[Digit]

Originally posted by BuddhasPatio
I believe in reincarnation. I think that we go through a series of stages, or several life, which start from the lowest creature, perhaps a worm, and each life we learn, and grow into the next animal, a bird. Then a cat, then dog, then possibly an ape, then all the way until we reach being a human. I think that being human may be the last stage we go through, and after than we just die. Our souls are lost, and that's the end. If this idea is correct, be kind to all animals, because you never know who is your child, or who is your daughter.


Just an idea...

this is a common beleif that humans are at the top.

but why is it so?

who is to say that an Oak Tree, or an Elephant, or a Dolphin, or a Cow isnt the highest level of sentience on this planet?

[InferiorWang]

A cow. Hinduism is based less on stages of existance and more on you will be reincarted based on how good you were. If you're real good, eventually you get to be a cow, which would suck considering how much people like meat. I think I'm going to stick with believing in Heaven.

[BeRzErKaS]

I dunno, it seems the older I get the less things seem to add up. I was raised to believe in heaven and all that stuff but it just doesn't make sense...

What would be the point of there being multiple planes of existence if you can't take what you learned in the previous "life" and apply it in the next? Why can't I remember being that earthworm, bird, or cat (see BuddhasPatio's argument)? What did I learn? Am I still making the same mistakes?

In this life anyway we are taught to learn from the past. That's what makes it worth recording in books and studying in school. I just can't see the value in a past we are not allowed to recall. It seems to me like all the other planes of existence, if they exist, would serve no purpose.

I think you're "afterlife" is a lot like your "beforelife." You didn't exist before random sperm from guy A got it on with random egg from girl B. I think death is a lot like that but in reverse.

Currently I think death is just the end.

...but I'm willing/waiting to be persuaded.

[BuddhasPatio]

"this is a common beleif that humans are at the top.

but why is it so?

who is to say that an Oak Tree, or an Elephant, or a Dolphin, or a Cow isnt the highest level of sentience on this planet?"




Whose using guns man?

[InferiorWang]

the common belief that humans are at the top is because of our advanced communication, self awareness above what is observed in other animals/objects, and the fact that we use tools and build intriquite(sp?) things.