demigod!: What Happens After You Die?

demigod! 06.03.14	obviously no one knows, and may not know til the curtain falls... but its nice to have some kind of closure til then. even if it's bullshit
BMDrummer 06.03.14	I see what you did with the album choices, but I don't know. I'll wait and see what happens.
evilford 06.03.14	nothing
demigod! 06.03.14	deep
chemicalmarriage 06.03.14	idk but I hope there's booze
NeroCorleone80 06.03.14	You die, duh
ChoccyPhilly 06.03.14	Like food after its expiration date, I go moldy and get eaten by flies
DikkoZinner 06.03.14	You get to play baseball in Iowa
Mort. 06.03.14	idk but i hope theres tits and dillinger
Judio! 06.03.14	Something I ponder all the time. Infinite nothing seems kind of terrifying to be honest but realistically I can't imagine it being anything but that.
demigod! 06.03.14	lol fair enough nero changed the list title
evilford 06.03.14	or you fly up in the sky to the pearly gates and some guy tells you if you're on the list. if you are, hey cool you're in and you live an eternity of comfort and love etc. if not, then you go to a really hot place and spend eternity being burned and ripped to shreds
Riviere 06.03.14	I don't think anything happens, but of course no one can know for sure. I think people are more afraid of not wanting the party to end than the end itself, it's probably instantaneous like how you don't remember the exact instant when you doze off to sleep. Not being born yet was never a concern, I don't think that'll change after I'm gone.
InFlamesWeThrash666 06.03.14	Valhalla awaits
Judio! 06.03.14	death fucking sucks, that's for damn sure.
Hyperion1001 06.03.14	i believe that when i die, i shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive
intotheshit 06.03.14	I anally violate your dead rotting corpse
demigod! 06.03.14	i would like to think that ill leave this mortal coil, shed my ego and go to some other plane but idk its pretty hard to logically believe love the concept though and it eliminates any fear of death so wahey
evilford 06.03.14	honestly I think it's pretty simple what happens. the electrical pulses and whatnot that sustain your autonomous consciousness and awareness cease, and thus, so does your consciousness. that's just my theory. it's not sad or scary or anything like that to me. just what I think it is
Calc 06.03.14	the world keeps on spinning. and unless you produced offspring your life biologically amounted to nothing.
demigod! 06.03.14	so you just stop existing damn. thats probably the hardest thing to comprehend in the world, complete and utter lack of perception and consciousness
Snake. 06.03.14	drop more acid and you'll know
deathschool 06.03.14	You have to go to school.
Crymsonblaze 06.03.14	Almost certainly nothing I mean, continuing to exist would be pretty cool, but it doesn't make sense to believe something so ridiculous, so meh, I'm okay with nothing
ArsMoriendi 06.03.14	A lot of things could happen, but for most people, you become fertilizer. Other things include: being part of science research (if you donate your body or by grave robbers), being a victim of necrophilia, being a victim of cannibalism, being ashes due to incineration, laying at the bottom of the Ocean, being mummified and more!
Ovrot 06.03.14	necro butt fucking
wabbit 06.03.14	it starts over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
demigod! 06.03.14	lol believe it or not i have never done lsd
Funeralopolis 06.03.14	nothing happens, I don't see why it is hard to comprehend, it is the same as before you existed.
demigod! 06.03.14	yea wabbit thats what i like to hear and believe but im such a fckn skeptic
GmemberKills 06.03.14	Remember what it was like right before you were born? It'll be just like that.
Relinquished 06.03.14	"What Happens After You Die?" I hope my body gets recovered and disposed of honorably and properly what happens WHEN you die - you get literally disconnected, nothingness awaits
ButteryBiscuitBass 06.03.14	You go to the back of the conveyor belt then whooooooo you pop out of a fanny as a fly covered and starving Ethiopian child.
demigod! 06.03.14	we have no knowledge of life before our own existence tho, who knows maybe you were a hummingbird or an ant before being conceived as human
Relinquished 06.03.14	I came back twice and it fucking sucks leaving and coming back
FearThyEvil 06.03.14	According to Jim Jefferies friend with muscular dystrophy who had died 7 time but has been resuscitated each time, nothing.
Crymsonblaze 06.03.14	"it starts over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again " How sucky would eternal reccurance be? Now THAT'S terrifying; the prospect of living the same life over and over for all eternity. I guess the plus side is that it would seem new every time. Still, though.
evilford 06.03.14	"so you just stop existing damn thats probably the hardest thing to comprehend in the world" yeah definitely hard to comprehend but honestly I kind of find comfort in believing that. for someone like myself who has had chronic anxiety for years and years, the prospect of one day being free of that, even if by the way of being "free of everything", is comforting. like fourth said, I'm def not suicidal or anything like that. it may sound strange but I find comfort in the fact that at some point, I could be free of negative things that have plagued me. that also doesn't mean that I don't want to spend my time here enjoying friends, family and the things I love, etc because I do
wabbit 06.03.14	Neitzsche really nailed it with the "infinite weight" concept
deathschool 06.03.14	Our brains are programmed to be terrified of death because it is the most important part of our evolution and survival. We fear death in life. But in death, that fear doesn't exist. Trust me, you won't care when you're dead. It just sucks to think about right now.
demigod! 06.03.14	it's better than nothing crymson
Funeralopolis 06.03.14	I was once a fat joint in another life but living for 20 minutes and being burnt to death wasn't very fun : (
deathschool 06.03.14	Ford, I'm with you all the way, man.
demigod! 06.03.14	nothingness is an impossible concept imo
Funeralopolis 06.03.14	I agree with evilford yea
Riviere 06.03.14	"How sucky would eternal reccurance be? Now THAT'S terrifying; the prospect of living the same life over and over for all eternity. I guess the plus side is that it would seem new every time. Still, though." But maybe it's happened already and you just forget your previous life each time.
demigod! 06.03.14	maybe im too optimistic, idk
Greyvy 06.03.14	dreamless sleep
deathschool 06.03.14	Alright reich. Let's put it this way, your body's energy will continue perpetuating forward forever after you die in some way or another, but what makes you "you" is gone forever. And your consciousness is no more. Make something of it while you can.
demigod! 06.03.14	always liked to think your grey matter gets absorbed into the earth and you eventually reincarnate as some other mammal, but the older i get the more ridiculous i think that sounds
BlackLlama 06.03.14	I firmly believe in re-incarnation based upon ones worldly interactions. If you're a fuck up and shit of a person, then you come back as such. If your are decent and normal, chances are you are reborn as human again. I also believe that death owns governance over time. So if you were to die today you could come back in the year 2015, or maybe 1715, hell even 3015.
Crymsonblaze 06.03.14	I feel like becoming an animal would be worse than nothing
deathschool 06.03.14	What is a fuck up of a person though? Does that mean if you make dumb decisions in this life you'll come back as something shitty and fuck up there and do it over and over forever? That sounds exhausting. I've made terrible decisions, but I try to do the right thing. How do you define "the right thing"? Fuck it. I'm in this now, I guess.
demigod! 06.03.14	karma makes absolutely no sense, i mean it's a nice ideology to follow for sure but as something that actually happens it's even more ridiculous than the theory i just posted what's wrong with being an animal
Greyvy 06.03.14	kinda unrelated, but if nothingness doesnt exist, then what is the universe expanding into? or what is outside of the expanding universe #deep
ButteryBiscuitBass 06.03.14	FourthReich 06.03.14 [Report this Post] as a catholic How can someone so you be a catholic bro?!
demigod! 06.03.14	the universe doesnt expand its just infinite and constant with no real boundaries ...i think
Relinquished 06.03.14	ask yourself that when you turn into a whale near the japanese coasts
demigod! 06.03.14	yea but ill just be a whale i wont have any fear or anything ill just float around til i get poached and become something else
Hyperion1001 06.03.14	"the universe doesnt expand its just infinite and constant with no real boundaries " wrong. they confirmed expansion theory just a few months ago http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/14/140317-big-bang-gravitational-waves-inflation-science-space/
evilford 06.03.14	"there is no such thing as nothing even in the deepest parts of space small particles are still is present, and even in area where matter ceases there is anti matter. so nothing is a totally unsatisfactory answer to me when attempting to answer this question" the answer "nothing" or "nothingness" doesn't have anything to do with the physical. it has to do with the mental and awareness. I'm not saying that your being or your soul or whatever will be reduced to "physical nothingness"; because you're right if I were saying that, that would make no sense. but what we experience will be nothing. everything we experience is dependent upon a functioning body and CNS. once those stop, so will everything we experience. our consciousness will dissipate.
Relinquished 06.03.14	"even in area where matter ceases there is anti matter. so nothing is a totally unsatisfactory answer to me when attempting to answer this question" ok but matter and consciousness are different
Relinquished 06.03.14	123 what ford said pretty much
ncguitar 06.03.14	"How can someone so you be a catholic bro?!" english please
Hyperion1001 06.03.14	"k but matter and consciousness are different" perfect
evilford 06.03.14	also I'm sorry, but the notion of any kind of justice, judgement or retribution AFTER death is completely silly to me. it's a nice idea but there's no logic there whatsoever.
AtomicShane 06.03.14	the same thing that happened before you were born
Relinquished 06.03.14	any dying star near enough can explode and force gamma rays unto us and nothing else would matter so yea nature doesn't give a fuck about you after you die
Artuma 06.03.14	such a deep thread
BlackLlama 06.03.14	In limited scope yes, human = top of the chain. So if you made it to the top and fuck up, then you go back down. Maybe you come back as a shit-fly, or a slug. Simple matter, the universe gives back what you put it.
ConorIsNotHere 06.03.14	Atomic & Relinquished nailed it
Crymsonblaze 06.03.14	But I mean how does the universe determine what's good and what's bad, especially when you're an animal not bound by any sort of conscience?
ffs 06.03.14	you turn into a skeleton and have to live in the skeleton realm (a k a the graveyard) but you are allowed to leave once a year on halloween to do some spooks
Relinquished 06.03.14	you're giving the universe an action when it's not able to act on its own like a singular force @crymson
evilford 06.03.14	"i didn't consciously experience anything in the womb either" ok so how is that different from the idea of your consciousness dissipating when you die? in either scenario you have no experiences that you can reflect on or realize
Crymsonblaze 06.03.14	"you're giving the universe an action when it's not able to act on its own like a singular force @crymson" Oh I'm well aware, I'm just asking llama because reincarnation makes no sense.
Relinquished 06.03.14	lots of explanations with hopes of what will happen after this life and that we will continue on as one form or another when NOPE
Relinquished 06.03.14	"i certainly existed" you existed but "You" didn't exist
deathschool 06.03.14	Just because karma is justice, doesn't mean it exists.
Trebor. 06.03.14	I think the idea of a god is plausible, but the idea of an afterlife is laughable I bet god is fucking pissed, like I gave you this whole fucking universe and an existence, and you want more after? for fucking ever? you ungrateful cunts
Calc 06.03.14	I'm pretty sure science has proved the universe is expanding.
jimmykidd 06.03.14	actually a lot of things happen after you die, just none of them include you. cause you're not anything anymore. but there's all kinds of shit - theres the superbowl every year... a dog catching a frisbee...
wabbit 06.03.14	I AM GOD
evilford 06.03.14	your body will exist after you die too (I guess depending on how you die) but that doesn't mean you will be able to experience anything. we don't turn into a fetus when we die. we turn into a dead body with none of the biological functions that were present in life that allowed us to experience life subjectively
deathschool 06.03.14	Trebor is hard on point. The idea of an afterlife basically amounts to human greed at the basest of levels.
Relinquished 06.03.14	thread's question is to ask what happens after, not before but imo that in the before, your body functions and while the physical and chemical interactions occur and develop far along enough where we develop the stage of consciousness. your body still functions, albeit as long as it can, after you die.
AtomicShane 06.03.14	B.I.B.L.E. - GZA
TheGreatQ 06.03.14	According to my uncle, when we die we will be reborn on our home planet and give our species the tales of our experiences as humans.
evilford 06.03.14	well if you buy into the idea of the existence of some all-powerful magical being that pulled the universe out of his ass, then I wouldn't think the idea of an afterlife would be too far of a stretch.
ResidentNihilist 06.03.14	building on what trebor said I wonder how many people use an afterlife as an excuse to feel greedy without feeling like they're going against there morality/too deluded to know they're being greedy.
wabbit 06.03.14	real talk: most likely you just wake up in some arcade in 2187 Tokyo with some douchebag friend looking over you go " OH MAN YOU TOTALLY BELIEVED IT"
ResidentNihilist 06.03.14	hey relinquished just wondering how do you see the idea of consciousness overall?
evilford 06.03.14	I'm assuming nothingness after I die will be for me exactly how it was from the beginning of time up to the time I was conceived.
deathschool 06.03.14	A lot of the time, I believe wabbit's philosophy. But in mine, you wake up in the back of a truck, with your head in someone's lap, and when you look up at them they say something like, "you were out for like two hours, man."
Trebor. 06.03.14	nice Louis C.K. reference itt
emester 06.03.14	Bowel evacuation
Relinquished 06.03.14	I think that the more we try to give meaning to everything, the more pointless the endeavor becomes. nothing is perfect, and nor will our explanations. @resident: in my early horrible experiences, all I care to see it as is something that can be taken away at any time and anywhere. as long as I have it, I will want to utilize it as I can and will.
avonbarksdale221 06.03.14	The same thing that happened before you were born. Check out the short story The Egg, really thought provoking piece on this topic
demigod! 06.03.14	i like believing in spirits but its prob just wishful thinking. but honestly, who knows for sure, science can't prove everything and it's been disproved time and time again...
avonbarksdale221 06.03.14	"God is the sensation of profound beauty and awe that we experience in such a personal and abstract way that the only method by which we can relate it to one another is through religion and metaphor"
ZombieParty 06.03.14	when i die i want to be a grim reaper :D
wacknizzle 06.03.14	You either just die and that's it or the soul lives on and eventually becomes re-carnated and slowly transcends to a higher level of being through each lifetime.
Relinquished 06.03.14	"science can't prove everything and it's been disproved time and time again" yea science can only describe not explain, truly. but beliefs and opinions are even worse at aiming towards the bulleyes
KriegdemKriege 06.03.14	"You either just die and that's it or the soul lives on and eventually becomes re-carnated and slowly transcends to a higher level of being through each lifetime." Lol Those are the only two options?
wacknizzle 06.03.14	Yep
jtswope 06.03.14	"Lots of things happen after you die. It's just that none of them involve you" - Louis CK
Trebor. 06.03.14	you were the dull sound of sharp math when you were alive no one's gonna play the harp when you die and if I had a nickel for every damn dime I'd have half the time do you mind?
Relinquished 06.03.14	yes I do trebor stop quoting shit
YoYoMancuso 06.03.14	personally i believe in 3 laugh at me all you want
Relinquished 06.03.14	nah it's aight, everyone is entitled to their beliefs I believe in having a soul for convenient purposes
demigod! 06.03.14	yeah spirituality is super comforting
wacknizzle 06.03.14	spirituality > religion
Trebor. 06.03.14	would I be less depressed/anxious if I had faith? Maybe I don't fucking know
demigod! 06.03.14	maybe if you were less depressed/anxious you'd have faith
Relinquished 06.03.14	it's all about learning, experiencing, and changing outlooks along the path
ConorIsNotHere 06.03.14	Don't jinx it man
hikingmetalpunk 06.03.14	god listens to atheist
demigod! 06.03.14	yeah i like how this thread turned out gj guys, no lambs no lakes only level headed bros
Verm 06.03.14	U become a table if you djent before your death, lolo0lolololololololololololololol
Relinquished 06.03.14	hype and I are night-end-day he's the intellectual cybergeek robot, and I'm the primal jockasshole wolfe
Hyperion1001 06.04.14	lol
YoYoMancuso 06.04.14	"would I be less depressed/anxious if I had faith?" it saved me from suicide so it might be worth a try
Crymsonblaze 06.04.14	i wish i could have faith, i really do but it makes no sense to me
Lord(e)Po)))ts 06.04.14	read the tibetan and egyptian books of the dead also overdose on ketamine
demigod! 06.04.14	well i plan on reading the books at least
Relinquished 06.04.14	"but it makes no sense to me" have faith in hope at least
PitchforkArms 06.04.14	im pretty Epicurian when it comes to the issue. I feel like there is nothing after we die, but that is why we should live our lives in pursuit of true happiness. “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
PitchforkArms 06.04.14	Demi this was an amazing thread actually and im sad i missed it
demigod! 06.04.14	yeah im sad you and potsy weren't here as it unfolded good times had by all
Thibs 06.04.14	Though likely in the minority, I do believe in a creator/designer (not the 'the earth is 8000 years old story'). I can't accept that we come from nothing, and life/physics/nature, though evolved, is too calculated and functional to not have been designed imo. It would take more "faith" to believe otherwise, personally. From that I question, why were we created? My guess is it's for relationship (it's why I've bothered to have a child)... or some strange experiment. My hope and faith is that our non-physical self (soul and mind) continue to exist to gain better understanding of our creator and live in a state of peace and contentment outside of this physical world that man has made imperfect, but this may just be wishful thinking. Maybe those who do nothing for the betterment of life on this earth (or in fact do the opposite) do cease to exist eternally (seperation from God)? Maybe we all do fade away into nothingness? We'll never know for sure obviously but it's def interesting to give it some thought
PitchforkArms 06.04.14	Evolution is the most evidentially supported theory in the history of man.
Rowan5215 06.04.14	Damn this seems like one hell of a thread
Thibs 06.04.14	pitch, Evidentially isn't a word, and I'm not sure how to take that statement. Is there more evidence for evolution than the law of gravity? wtv there is enough evidence for it, doesn't matter. Anyway, I believe humans/animals/ the earth have evolved to their current physical state (as science/understanding is continually evolving), but this does nothing to disprove a creator. Specific genesis Biblical interpretations of creation, sure
LambsBread 06.04.14	"yeah i like how this thread turned out gj guys, no lambs no lakes only level headed bros" Why are you talking about me? really creepy
Uranium 06.04.14	i feel bad for e. coli who live in your butt for as few days then die r.i.p.
tommygun 06.04.14	what ffs said
LambsBread 06.04.14	What happens after YOU die? YOU will go to hell Demi, because you are a bitter ass mofo. For the rest of us it is possible we will awaken and see that our reality was nothing but a matrix-like illusion. Or perhaps we will be born in an alternate reality. After all, if the universe is infinite, doesn't that mean everything will happen eventually in an alternate reality (IE one lightyears away from here)?
CrimsonLies 06.04.14	I like to believe there is more than just nothingness after death but I doubt we'll ever know
deathschool 06.04.14	Lambs is calling Demi bitter. Just pointing that out.
deathschool 06.04.14	We want to believe there is more than nothing, but it's not like the universe ends. WE end. The universe is fine.
Thibs 06.04.14	true, the vastness of the universe doesn't really speak to what happens after our death
demigod! 06.04.14	what do i have to be bitter over lambs
LambsBread 06.04.14	Deathschool is pointing out that Lambs is calling Demi Bitter. Just pointing that out.
climactic 06.04.14	i think about this all the time. answer i most lean towards is rot in the ground/nothing. tough concept to grasp, but think about all the time before your birth (you cant)....... you were nothing before that, would make sense to be nothing after....... THAT BEING SAID my old house was almost definitely haunted so i really dont fucking know!
LambsBread 06.04.14	"what do i have to be bitter over lambs" Got Fired 6/20/13
demigod! 06.04.14	the hell are you talking about
demigod! 06.04.14	ooh yay i love ghost stories clim
climactic 06.04.14	ive told you the stories in plug before im 90% certain
Rowan5215 06.04.14	Omg tell me clim please
demigod! 06.04.14	yea i dont remember any details though but mostly this will prob spark more ghost stories which is cool
tommygun 06.04.14	coldplay - ghost stories
Thibs 06.04.14	fuck ya, ghost stories, no BS and not remembering anything or being "nothing" before we were born doesn't really help answer/understand if we might have a soul or spiritual self that goes on after death...
NorthernSkylark 06.04.14	Other chemical processes, and I'm just fine with that.
climactic 06.04.14	ugh fine guys FINE so one night maybe 4 years agoin my old house my mom was sleeping (parents slept in different rooms, this was near when they got divorced) and says that she woke up in the middle of the night for whatever reason. the blankets were like halfway fallen off at the end of the bed, so she goes to pull them up and feels some resistance. pulls harder and, as she tells it, there is something pulling back from the ground at the end of the bed, like HARD. fighting her for the blanket as she pulls. like they definitely werent caught on the bed or something. she said she was basically paralyzed with fear and was so scared she couldnt scream so she tells me this and im like ehhhh. skeptical. i figure she was like, half dreaming or something but then a few months later my little bro's friend sleeps over (they were like 13 at the time)..my brother and i shared a room at the time so his friend slept in the basement on the pullout couch. sprints up the stairs in the middle of the night SCREAMING and says that the EXACT SAME thing happened to him. my mom never told him, or anyone, what happened to her except me, but apparently the same thing happened to my bro's friend with the blankets being pulled off of him in the middle of the night and him fighting for them so yea idk man
climactic 06.04.14	"and not remembering anything or being "nothing" before we were born doesn't really help answer/understand if we might have a soul or spiritual self that goes on after death..." yeah i know, but a lot of people have a hard time grasping the idea of nothingness/absence of consciousness. myself included
Rowan5215 06.04.14	Damn some freaky shit dude
demigod! 06.04.14	only "paranormal" experience ive had happened a couple years ago on a beach in my home town (which is apparently haunted as fuck, has a pretty rich history of milling, slavery, 200 years worth of gang crime, and wars against the native tribes) me and a couple friends were sitting on a bench at like 2am, just chillin, smoking a joint (one reason why i dont truly believe we saw anything lol). i was looking around behind me (sort of felt that "being watched" feeling, though it was pretty subtle), when like 25-30 ft away just outside an old ass building (used to be a milling area) i saw some kind of shadowy, robed, humanoid figure, just standing there under a streetlight. i thought it was perplexing, so i told my friends and they saw it as well, giving the same description. and like we shouted at it and all it did was turn a bit, look at us, turn back and just keep staring at the lake. creepy as shit. eventually we just left to sit somewhere else, felt uncomfortable i guess it's most likely we were just baked as fuck but idk, it was such a strange experience... ive been high as fuck at night many many times but that was the only time i actually felt like i saw some kind of spirit. i'm not saying i actually believe in ghosts, but im also not saying i don't...
demigod! 06.04.14	damn clim how old is your house?
beefshoes 06.04.14	Absolutely nothing, or at least realistically speaking. It might be a similar feeling (or lack-of feeling) that is akin to being subjected to Anaesthesia for a surgery. If that is the case, then it'll be nothing in the most literal sense. And since one cannot feel or experience anything whatsoever, there will thus be absolutely no sense of time or space either. It's pretty cool to think about, and even motivational.
demigod! 06.04.14	well, im not sure if "legally" dead is the same thing as "dead dead", yknow. it just seems like a really extreme form of unconsciousness
climactic 06.04.14	that house was built in the 1930s i think i dont know what i believe either. never had anything nearly as crazy as that happen to me in that house. we moved there when i was like 10 so i'd definitely remember some shit like that. that story in particular really makes me question what i believe, if it was 1 incident it'd be like ehhh but it was 2 unrelated ones
demigod! 06.04.14	yeah dude and you hear about shit like that all the time. like (another story) a friend of mine said he talked to a ghost child when he was really young, just like a regular conversation. he didn't remember it til years later though when his mom was recounting a story of the family who used to live there, apparently they had a son who had died playing with a washing machine. he saw the kid in the laundry room btw weird shit
mandan 06.04.14	I believe our energy is simply transferred elsewhere. Sort of in the vein of the "circle of life" expressed in The Lion King. Energy can't be destroyed, so in a sense you'll still live, but outside your body. Maybe your energy will be in rats, trees, bacteria, ants, there are many possibilities.
TronaldDump 06.04.14	when james hetfield dies, he becomes a table
Rowan5215 06.04.14	Yeah I dunno if I believe in ghosts or not but I love ghost stories and a lot of my friends have some great stories so who knows
titanslayer 06.04.14	Easy, you find out what happens when you die
climactic 06.04.14	im skeptical still, always will be until i experience something firsthand
CrimsonLies 06.04.14
Crymsonblaze 06.04.14	i personally don't believe in ghosts and won't until i have an experience of my own, but man am i a sucker for ghost stories
Rowan5215 06.04.14	"im skeptical still, always will be until i experience something firsthand" "i personally don't believe in ghosts and won't until i have an experience of my own, but man am i a sucker for ghost stories" both nailed it
CrimsonLies 06.04.14	We are the universe though, so even if the human race dies, our composition will be a part of the cosmos dance. We are essentially recycled matter, up to 7000 trillion, trillion atoms that form the human body and we, the universe, is experiencing itself. So in a way we are eternal (at least until the universe comes to an end, assuming there is an end), because everything around us is us. But we will be detached from consciousness to no longer experience it. However, despite our search for coherence and importance, we really know and are next to nothing. Our intuition is based on our experience, and human beings tap into only a small part that constitutes reality. We build our entire world around our limited understanding of scale (mass, length and speed), with a limited sense on the totality of reality. Our understanding of cosmology is vastly limited; in fact our basic understanding of nature is grossly oversimplified and misunderstood. Consider the largest thing in the universe, a celestial structure made up of 73 quasars, inconceivably spanning up to 4 billion light years long, was thought to be impossible to exist, yet every day we find more and more evidence that only leaves us with more questions than we began. The reality is that we are literally just a speck of dust in search of significance, but as frightening as it may be, it gives us a sense of awe to be a part of something on a much grander scale.
climactic 06.04.14	on one hand i want to experience something ghost-related because I WANT TO BELIEVE, but on the other hand FUCK THAT SHIT
beefshoes 06.04.14	This is why I love majoring in philosophy. A good fifth of the material deals with metaphysical questions of this magnitude. The shear variety of recorded responses over the course of the last 3,000 years or so also never fail to blow me away.
climactic 06.04.14	really reich, didnt peg you for the religious type, care to elaborate?
Rowan5215 06.04.14	Agreed clim when people tell badass ghost stories I always think man I wish that would happen to me, then I'm home alone for one day and hear a strange noise and fuck it I'm out of there
acorncheese 06.04.14	"what happened before i was born? idk, idk what happened to me until i stated remembering things and that didnt start until later on, so does that mean i didnt exist when i was a baby? as a catholic this has always been THE question that shakes my beliefs or really confirms them. heaven makes no sense, but then the idea of nothing makes even less sense, so im suck in the middle and that satisfies me for now until i get more answers which no one on here certainly have." i c what u did there. moronic logic to dismiss the fact that there was no you or me before we were born.
LambsBread 06.04.14	"everyone's my friend man i just try to be like jesus he wouldnt have given a shit about abortions just love everyone" You don't see how 'loving everyone' and 'killing babies' are at odds with each other?
Necrotica 06.04.14	You get reincarnated as a celebrity scrotum. I've got John Goodman, so hopefully his stomach fat doesn't crush me as he's taking a dump
beefshoes 06.04.14	The notion of a spiritual life after death isn't complete nonsense , but there is a fairly large amount of data that leans towards the notion of consciousness being nothing more than a series of complex chemical and biological arrangements that every living organism abides by. The notion of an afterlife or a before-life just isn't that probable when set aside empirical data conducted by some of the world's leading neuroscientists. That obviously doesn't mean it's a fact or anything, and I don't see science ever getting to that level. It's essentially just a matter of what's more plausible vs what's less plausible. That's the beauty of metaphysics. If religion provides comfort however, that's perfectly fine. The notion of an absolute state of nothingness after the physical death is most definitely one of the most intimidating concepts known to man, and that's exactly why man created religion (well one of the reasons anyway).
ConorIsNotHere 06.04.14	"You don't see how 'loving everyone' and 'killing babies' are at odds with each other?" I personally see it less as 'killing babies' & more 'setting up a nice gourmet meal'
Ricochet 06.04.14	nothing happens. life is the opposite of death. what happens to light when a room gets dark?
Relinquished 06.04.14	"im not sure if "legally" dead is the same thing as "dead dead"," it is. why do you think they have those machines to make sure?
Relinquished 06.04.14	"what happens to light when a room gets dark?" darkness is just the absence of light, that's totally different. light doesn't die.
osmark86 06.04.14	if you claim you know what happens you clearly wouldn't be able to type up a summary of that experience on an online forum.
Relinquished 06.04.14	surviving is possible. also I only claim my experience, of When not After.
MO 06.04.14	you enter the great sleep
osmark86 06.04.14	I meant that comment lightly in direct reference to the title of the thread. with emphasis on the "after". didn't know you "died" and came back Relinquished. accident?
Relinquished 06.04.14	one accident, another one not
osmark86 06.04.14	I see
Relinquished 06.04.14	i guess its all the same though, when its within your control turns out of your control
guitarded_chuck 06.04.14	into the void
evilford 06.04.14	yeah what I said is just what I believe. everyone should have their own beliefs ultimately I respect what other people choose to believe, I'm just an ass sometimes. but I also love this: "you turn into a skeleton and have to live in the skeleton realm (a k a the graveyard) but you are allowed to leave once a year on halloween to do some spooks"
TalonsOfFire 06.04.14	I could live with that
Ricochet 06.04.14	death is the absence of life dark is the absence of light
Relinquished 06.04.14	again matter/energy =/= consciousness
betray 06.04.14	when ur dead ur done ur dead u dieeeeee aaaaannndd life goeesss onnnn
Ricochet 06.04.14	i believe we will always be alive wherever there is conciousness, death is like a void between different conciousness kind of like reincarnation but not really
evilford 06.04.14	let us know what it's like when you get there, I'm curious
chemicalmarriage 06.04.14	hard to believe i'm the only one round here that wants booze after death
evilford 06.04.14	i want an eternal bj
DikkoZinner 06.04.14	The blue meanies come to get ya
Relinquished 06.04.14	"i want an eternal bj" and get high all day every day in forever day hell yea
evilford 06.04.14	@fourth & wolfe - sounds like tha afterlife
Relinquished 06.04.14	praise odin
ShitsofRain 06.04.14	nothing happens
evilford 06.04.14	yes we established that 200 posts ago
ButteryBiscuitBass 06.04.14	I'm down with snatch diving.
evilford 06.04.14	lol
LambsBread 06.04.14	This is a lame ass question and thread don't kid yourselves and act like you are dropping deep philosophy.this whole convo is people repeating "I dunno, but scienz!"
evilford 06.04.14	thank god you were here to clear that up
zaruyache 06.04.14	You poop yourself, your body shuts down, and then you begin to decay.
menawati 06.04.14	but maybe one day some of your molecules may end up as a herpes sore on the penis of a big sweaty fat dude
evilford 06.04.14	some day in the distant future, the decayed remains of my putrid organs will compost into soil and feed an apple tree and then everyone who eats those apples will unknowingly become cannibals
menawati 06.04.14	yup, reincarnation is real
SirDrumsalot 06.04.14	When you die you're dead.
Ricochet 06.04.14	when you die you arent lol at philosophy on sputnik
PitchforkArms 06.04.14	@ thibs gravity is not a theory, it is a law of science because it we can observe it. Evolution is a theory, but has plenty enough evidence to be turned into much more, but people who argue against it (with little-no evidence) are the reason it will never be accepted.
evilford 06.04.14	why don't you believe jesus?
menawati 06.04.14	no, gravity is a theory, no one knows how it really works, einstein had a go with general relativity but that breaks down at the quantum level
ShadowRemains 06.04.14	i'd be down with haunting a place
Mort. 06.04.14	" Evolution is a theory, but has plenty enough evidence to be turned into much more, but people who argue against it (with little-no evidence) are the reason it will never be accepted." yeah but theory in science doesnt mean the same thing as theory is common talk. Evolution is often said to be both a theory and a fact. Also there is the theory of gravity and gravity as a law. google it, its interesting
CrimsonLies 06.04.14	Yes evolution is a theory, just like gravity. It's almost impossible to prove anything 100%, no matter how many observations and direct/indirect experiments have been done. Just like the nature of light being constant is a theory. Even though there are literally piles upon piles of evidence that suggests light cannot be altered, and that Einstein's theories still holds true; there's always a chance of unexpected evidence that suggests otherwise. But that's the excitement of science, to be part of the revolution of understanding something no other human being has discovered
zaruyache 06.04.14	Yeah man, light decay is real.
LambsBread 06.05.14	How do you know you aren't dreaming right now? You don't
someguest 06.05.14	You join Sputnik. Oh, you thought you were alive?
LambsBread 06.05.14	When you think about it sputnik is hell.
Kman418 06.05.14	going to become a skeleton and be cool
SPRFanOf5H 06.05.14	I do wonder about this all the time, it would suck if it was all indeed just nothing. Pretty terrifying when you think about it.
zaruyache 06.05.14	How do you know that you'll ever wake up again when you close your eyes and go to sleep? You don't, you really don't. Death is the same thing, when you simply fade off to somewhere from whence you can't come back.
MaskAtTheMasquerade 06.05.14	God was just wondering the same thing http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-wonders-what-happens-to-humans-after-they-die,36199/
zaruyache 06.05.14	I was meaning to read that but forgot. Thanks! The title alone gave me a good chuckle when I first saw it.
flalafell 06.05.14	i'm sort of split, i want to believe that something happens after death but at the same time i can see the argument of nothing (although nothingness is an extremely difficult concept to prove)
zaruyache 06.05.14	If there's absolutely no reason to believe that anything else happens, you don't have to "prove" in the nothingness of death; due to a lack of contradictory evidence it should be implied.
Thibs 06.12.14	i kind of hope this happens: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=163612