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Do you belive in life after death?

Do I believe in LIFE after death? No, of course not, that's to paradoxical for me(or maybe oxymoronic is the word i'm looking for?). Do I believe that the energy produced by my body and brain goes somewhere after my physcial body ceases to exist? Yes. As far as what actually goes on I think it's uncomprehensive, so I won't even try to explain.

Sometimes I think that I belive that because it's an easy way to avoid the question, but when I really do think about it, i can never agree with myself so whatever.
 
I believe that there is consciousness after death.

A week after my Mom died, I had a very vivid dream.

The dream took place in the house that I grew up in. I was in the basement near the staircase. The door opened at the top of the staircase and a bright light appeared. I followed the light to the top of the stairs and I found my mother. She gave me a big hug and we started to slow dance. She looked me right in the eye (I never see faces in my dreams, but i did see her face in this dream), and she comforted me and told me "everything will be O.K."

I woke up crying...the dream was so vivid and real. I was able to "smell" my mother when I woke.

I never believed in an "after life" before this dream, but now I am convinced.

A hallucination? maybe...but it was soooooo real.

Note: I didn't take any hallucinogens before this experience. The dream could have been triggered by intense sorrow. Whatever triggered the dream, it made me be believe in an "after-life".
 
I believe in other people’s lives after my death (I mean that sincerely). Experience, at least the kind comprehensible to humans, becomes everyone else’s experience (all experiencers only aware of what happens inside their own heads). In Derek Parfit’s, Reasons and Persons, he uses a thought experiment to demonstrate that there is no such thing as personal identity, at least not in any traditional sense. If there is no identity, there is nothing to “go on” after death. The extremely abridged version of his thought experiment goes as follows:

There are people who have suffered strokes who lose nearly an entire hemisphere of their brain yet retain their essential characters and memories. Though most people have asymmetrical brains, a minority of people have more symmetrical brains, and so a perfectly symmetrical brain, with the same memories and character traits encoded on each side, is possible. Therefore, given advanced technology, it is within the realm of possibility to transfer one hemisphere of a symmetrical-brained person into an exact clone of that person’s body while retaining the essential character and memories of the person in BOTH. Traditionally the soul contributes something to character, and cannot be 'split', it is an "all-or-none" entity.

So which one did the soul go into and why? Both emerging entities are essentially the same at the level of experience (which is what matters) and appearance. Each would have one continuous memory of an operation taking place, opening their eyes, and feeling as though nothing had changed. If one of the pair dies, nothing changes. Put them back together after a few years and the resulting entity will have the memories and experiences of both! When you die your unique experience is gone, unless your exact brain state is somehow replicated/resurrected. It doesn’t matter that much though because "you" never existed in the first place and experience continues.
 
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i dont believe in death, so to asnwer your question id have to write
N/A
einstien tells you that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it is, therefor einstien proved extatentialism to some degree, small part of it, but defined energy scientifically.
 
Definitely. I believe that the harshness of life is a kind of proving ground for the spirit, and how well we deal with it determines how much we learn, and how much we learn determines whether we choose to come back. I say choose, because I believe that we choose our lives--even our relatives, and the people who will become our friends--based on what we need to experience or overcome.
 
Sort of. Not exactly.

I think that when you die, all things, seen and unseen, that make you you are redistributed around the great organism that is the earth and reabsorbed by all living things. The memes that make up a person's personality certainly live on in what Jung called the Collective Unconscious -- the combined mental space of all living people. Some parts of you -- certain energies -- might appear to the living in extraordinary ways, giving the impression that your whole consciousness is intact somewhere. But I don't think it is.

I do believe in reincarnation, but I don't think it's an immediate thing by a long shot. If all the things that make you who you are could come together once, why couldn't they all come together once more, in a distant region of the multiverse? I think it's very possible that you and I have lived and died many times over the history of all space-time, albeit with eons and light years in between incarnations.
 
life after death make no sense, except if you are talking about reincarnation
if you mean "something" after death, that could make sense
from the outside when you die its over for them, exept for the part of you that was in them (thats a life after death... but i dont think we are talking about that)
from the inside my view is that dying is like a acid trip, you see all kind of things that makes so much sense, you understand everything and everyone, you meet your own concept of god and you are one in everything for ever and ever, you are now back in "heaven" (you might as well have the bad trip of your life and "burn in hell")
when your consciousness is not define by spacetime "you" really dont need to "go" anywhere, you are eternity, infinity, and you can do "all you ever dream of" cause you are dead. :)
this seems like a flip of a instant, but really it can last forever...
(cause acid told me so....:) )

so no there is nothing after death in my point of view, the real deal is in dying
 
ninjadanslarbretabar said:
when your consciousness is not define by spacetime "you" really dont need to "go" anywhere, you are eternity, infinity, and you can do "all you ever dream of" cause you are dead. :)
this seems like a flip of a instant, but really it can last forever...
(cause acid told me so....:) )

so no there is nothing after death in my point of view, the real deal is in dying
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^Kind of like watching your life on the event horizon of a black hole? I like the idea, it’s beautiful, but don’t you think consciousness requires brain activity? While it may be that physical processes do not wholly determine certain aspects of “mind”, that the brain is necessary but that its fully functional activity creates or accesses something transcendent, it seems clear that consciousness itself is divided in the physical divide of split-brain cases; this suggests a fundemental connection between the brain and subjective awareness. Without a certain rate and organization of synaptic impulses—unattainable in the general shutting down of a dying brain—to create thoughts of ‘heaven’, how would these thoughts assemble? If they could assemble entirely outside the brain, why have a brain? I don’t think death is just disassociation from the body and physical world, it is disassociation from the self, then all experience, and on into nothingness.

On the related note of our subjective sense of time, the protracted sense of time in dreams has recently been shown to be an illusion i.e. it is not that we sense that a long time is passing in the dream itself due to the sheer volume of experienced content, but that we remember certain aspects of the dream that in order to make sense to us, we mistakenly conclude must have taken place over a long time (we might also create false memories of more things happening in the dream than actually did to justify it). It is this mistaken assumption that manifests itself as a sense of protracted time in remembered dreams. Sorry I don’t have a reference, I think it was something about real time/dream time congruity or something.
 
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^Basically what kittyinthedark said...I don't believe in any continuation. I believe the mind is the product of the brain, and if the brain dies, the the product (mind) ceases to exist.

Anything could be possible...but nothing seems as probable logically to me. Not a spiritual person myself, at all. Man of science.
 
I'm not sure really, i sort of want to believe and sort of don't want to believe. How boring would it get after a while? Living forever scares me...
 
Of course I believe in life after death!

Look: My grandpa died, yet I and the rest of the world lives on; that is, life goes on. It's still here. It's still happening.

Don't look for a life outside the universe or outside possibility. That is the pervasive and misconception of "after life" that has characterized mythological thinking from the beginning.

Truth is not ultimately out of sight or incomprehensible. Its obverse is manifest. Every inside has an outside. Everything has two sides.

*There is no life outside of life.* Meditate on that.
 
kittyinthedark said:
No. When you die, your brain shuts off. The end.
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"Brain shuts off." Very well. Now tell me what that means. Tell me what that experience is and what it feels like. Who remains present afterwards to have been shut off?
 
psood0nym said:
but don’t you think consciousness requires brain activity?
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yes
im saying when your dead your dead
when "your brain shuts off" your dead
but from your subjective point of view
that instant (dying) seems to last forever
and it does, cause at that point thats all you are and will ever be

-1-your own concept of time is dying (at the same time as you)
so the whole universe of your "dream" can happen at once
but you feel it like a eternity (because of -1-)

oh i said "like a acid trip", but we have dmt in our brain...
"the theory that the human brain is a quantum device that can receive information from beyond spacetime"
i dont feel that its interesting to believe that after 13.7 billion freaking year, the universe did not create a possibility for that kind of last god-trip
and if we dont know what will happen, whats the point in believing in something boring

Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_Order

dmt (Dimethyltryptamine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine

(your relation with dream was good)
 
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Does a Death end it all? Hmm . . . I don't think so.

Sometimes (especially easy while trippin') I have felt a Universal Consciousness.
It's like I am a part of a Whole (whatever that might be).

Based on my perception, I say that there is "something else" out there, waiting for me to stop breathing a few minutes.

Don't get me wrong . . . I am not in HURRY to get there.

And, if I'm wrong, it won't matter anyway; I will just stop; peace at last.

Either way, it feels better to think that my Consciousness will "live on."
If I'm deluded, at least I will die happy.
I would rather have that delusion, than thinking I am Santa Claus.
 
^but you are the freakin santa claus...
you know De'nile is not just a river in Uranus

a funny thing is that i once was depress and thinking about killing myself...
and one thing that was pissing me off is that acid made me change my view of death
i didn't want a "after life" i wanted it to be over, and that was the strong belief i had before acid... (that "When you die, your brain shuts off. The end.")
but no,no,no, acid fuckt it up, i could no longer believe i could close the light so "easily"
 
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