• Philosophy and Spirituality
    Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Threads of Note Socialize
  • P&S Moderators: JackARoe | Cheshire_Kat

The afterlife...

When i was a young kid (under 10) I often used to stare up into the night sky, pondering the mysteries of the universe and wondering if when we die, all our questions will be answered. I thought about this so much that I kind of looked forward to getting life over and done with just to find out.

So, many years later, I tried it (unintentionally).

It was shit.

I flatlined 3 times in quick succession from an overdose and all I can say is that it was fuck all like the film. When they brought me back it was just like I'd been asleep. No revelatory NDE, not even an OOBE. Zilch.

Total death must be the biggest anticlimax going...
 
Last edited:
I believe (not with certainty but as more likely than not) that when we die we reincarnate for lack of a better word. I don't believe in past lives so to speak, as in I don't think any life can be remembered from any other life.

What I believe though is that the universe is probably infinite. If it is, then every possible version of life can and does exist with enormous variation. As a consequence of this, whatever it is that makes us... Us. As opposed to someone else, experiences every possible life an infinite number of times.

In other words, you die, and you live another life. How different that life will be could range from exactly the same as your previous life, to every way it might have been different, to not even what you'd previously consider 'you' at all.

Or maybe you just die and that's it, you're gone. Seeing as either possibility means this life is effectively over, I'm not sure it matters too much.

But there certainly are questions that seem impossible to answer yet impossible not to have an answer. Why is our perception of now.. Now? Why are you, you? Why aren't I you and you I? Still with the same lives, but with the experience of being 'you' on a continuous basis as someone else.

I continually feel like English doesn't have accurate words to convey what I'm trying to say when I talk about this kinda stuff.
 
I kind of believe in a universal cosmic consciousness of which life is analogous to mushrooms. Perhaps we are merely the fruiting bodies of the great mycelial network, and once our purpose of reproduction is fulfilled, we are absorbed as nutrients back into the whole organism in order to fuel the cycle yet again...
 
Nothing dies because nothing was born.

All appearances arise as a hologram that isn't real, but it is generated by the only thing that's real. What's real is not experiencing anything.

Birth is consciousness identifying with a body-mind. Death is consciousness disidentifying with a body-mind. The one true reality never changes.
 
^^Succinctly put, I like it.

F.U.B.A.R. said:
I kind of believe in a universal cosmic consciousness of which life is analogous to mushrooms. Perhaps we are merely the fruiting bodies of the great mycelial network, and once our purpose of reproduction is fulfilled, we are absorbed as nutrients back into the whole organism in order to fuel the cycle yet again...
Click to expand...

Well, fungus does cover the Earth basically in a giant mycelium network that resembles animal brains. If you affect one part of it, everything around it will adjust to deal with the threat. It seems interesting to me that the fruiting bodes of one of the fungus species (well, several specifies) allows you to access a trip that feels more intimately connected to the life, the world, and the universe than anything else.
 
I have been clinically dead, as i have said in previous threads. I have been in coma, where i saw very deep hallucinations and realized that only human i trust is my father. There is no afterlife. Fun question is - Do people believe in god, because of they fear death, or do they not fear death, because of their believing in god? Why do we as a humans know about our eventually coming death?
 
alasdairm said:
why wouldn't we know?

alasdair
Click to expand...
I don't know. That's kind of "You can't prove god doesn't exist answer" that you gave, but it is my pleasure to accept it.
Not knowing about incoming death would make life easier, according to pessimist philosophy. Our survival instincts make us act irrational.
You think you are in love? No, you're just another organism obeying the will of the species

"Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard."
-Schopenhauer
 
Something that occurred to me the other day...

If you take the Bible as truth, you gotta think that God's threat to Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil "you will surely die" would have meant nothing.

How could either of them have any understanding of what it would mean to die? They were immortal until they sinned. They'd have had no experience.

Just a thought I had. :)
 
Who knows? Ive seen shit when I died and came back but too me they were just dreams because I can't prove shit. I do know we're all.interconnected and that energy can be created and not destoryed so somehow I believe their might be more but I don't care particularly one way or the other....
 
alasdairm said:
maybe. but that's not really relevant to the question you asked.

alasdair
Click to expand...
Maybe, just had to mention it. i don't ask a questions that i already know answers without having dark motives.
Eventually someobody you know, would die, so you would get to know death anyways, in regards to my question.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Reasons people believe in an afterlife:

1. Because they're scared of dying
2. Because they want to see their loved ones again
3. Because their religion tells them to
 
Useful energy can definitely be destroyed. :D

Total loss of energy you can use to do work is apparently inevitably.
 
alasdairm said:
right. so you have an answer to your own question.

:)

alasdair
Click to expand...
Not really. I meant understanding the concept of death and that it will eventually come to us. I would think that animal would just think one of his species is just "gone". I read some information about animals and death, and i understood that some species accept it as part of natural process. Normal people know when it's coming, when they're getting old, or when they're sick. We junkies never know when one of us is dead once again.
I am not scared of death. Are you? I spoke about this with a family member and he told me that i might start appreciating life more, when i get older, but i don't know.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top