• Theories of what death is like?
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[QUOTE=acds;15068988]I think it is either: The electricity in your brain disperses, therefore everything ends, but you won't even notice it. Or The electricity in your brain disperses, but in that last moment you immagine yourself something else or somewhere else, and since our brain can make one second seem endless to us, we remain there forever (at least that is what we think, in reality not even one second). I believe the first one. [B]Edit:[/B] Also we won't really "end" since we are the electricity in our brains (neurons and electrical charges are our toughts) we "disperse" and mix with other stuff, so we don't end, but for our consciousness it's more or less the same thing.[/QUOTE] Cells in the human brain have electrical fields that are stronger than those in lightning bolts. So who knows what that power is capable of?
To be honest, I'm hoping for reincarnation.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;15069365]Another mad-cap idea is that when you die, you begin a new life as a foetus in the womb, starting a new life, with a new family. You have no knowledge of your previous lives, just a neverending cycle.[/QUOTE] But when you think about it, it wouldn't be a "new" life and for some reason (I can't think how to explain it) I don't feel you would be "conscious" of it.... I know that's hard to understand but give it some thought.
We'll got to purgatory, work off our wrong doings and then go to heaven.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;15069835]Cells in the human brain have electrical fields that are stronger than those in lightning bolts. So who knows what that power is capable of?[/QUOTE] quote a source because if that was true we should be seeing arcs of electricity jumping from our heads
[QUOTE=Rexen;15069744]You go to the same place you were in before you were born.[/QUOTE] The Scrotum?
[QUOTE=ImBill;15069895]quote a source because if that was true we should be seeing arcs of electricity jumping from our heads[/QUOTE] No we wouldn't, they are incredibly powerful, but extemely small. Pleasure: [url]http://www.colinandrews.net/Consciousness-Article03.html[/url] [url]http://io9.com/332058/electricity-in-brain-cells-stronger-than-lightning[/url]
It's like before you were born. I don't like the idea of reincarnation because it gives me the feeling of life not being as of much value as it would be if you only "lived once".
death may be alot like having to listen to St. anger over and over and over and over. And you cant turn it off.
Being dead is like being asleep without any dreams, everything black, no thoughts, NOTHING....
I'm already dead and you're figments of my imagination to keep me amused.
Someone dies, body rots, nutrients are returned to the earth which end up in your salad
hay guise! Where a file goes when it's completely deleted?
You die, your consiousness disappears and you'll be gone forever. No magic reincarnation, no ghosts, no heaven, just nothigness for all eternity. It sucks.
I think you are stil conscious when you are dead, so I want my head to sit in an interesting spot to spectate the world around me. preferably infront of a television.
I think death is pretty much a "cycle" where you die, your mind gets erased, and then you are born again, pretty much reincarnation but you don't know anything. It's either that or it's pretty much like before you were born.
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;15070033]I think death is pretty much a "cycle" where you die, your mind gets erased, and then you are born again, pretty much reincarnation but you don't know anything. It's either that or it's pretty much like before you were born.[/QUOTE] What leads you to believe this?
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;15070033]I think death is pretty much a "cycle" where you die, your mind gets erased, and then you are born again, pretty much reincarnation but you don't know anything. It's either that or it's pretty much like before you were born.[/QUOTE] Yes I have that kinda feeling. But as I said when you think about it, it wouldn't really be you at all so really it does just end into nothingness. Good Fun!
I have no reason to believe there is anything at all. So i'd go with nothing as there is no brain activity left when worms already ate your brain. If you think there HAS to be something, then what was there before you were born? It will be just like before your dad started doing your mom. Or when he masturbated :v:
You're dead. Worm food. Reality permanently ceases to exist for all time.
This is all just an alien mmorpg game. When we die we comeback as an alien. XD
[QUOTE=kakiepiroi;15070021]hay guise! Where a file goes when it's completely deleted?[/QUOTE] Recycle bin So, all humans end up in the recycle bin.
[QUOTE=Spaztastik;15068989]i believe in reincarnation but not the same way as what most believers of reincarnation believe. Energy can never be destroyed, it can just change shape, form or whatever. so i guess that could apply to all other things sooo we could be reincarnated into anything. air, water, people again[/QUOTE] It depends how you look at it. I look at us as very complex computers, as really, that is what we are. When you die, electrical signals in your brain cease to happen and you no longer think. Seeing conciousness as a type of energy which will be conserved is like thinking that Microsoft Windows will continue to run in thin air without the computer hardware there. And I don't understand why people dislike the "cease to think" theory. You won't be concious to give a shit that you are dead, there is no nothingness because there is no thought to recognise it.
If you die, you do not exist anymore. It's hard to think about and yep it sucks. Religion was created to solve the problem of the fear of death, weak minded life forms cling to problem solvers that don't actually solve the problem. Eventually the cure for death (cure for aging included) will be invented, you could survive long enough to get an age extension and then the cure for death or you could die a cold mortal death in a rural ditch and have rabid bears eat your feet. I wouldn't go doing something dangerous as the cure for death is within our reach.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;15069365]Another mad-cap idea is that when you die, you begin a new life as a foetus in the womb, starting a new life, with a new family. You have no knowledge of your previous lives, just a neverending cycle.[/QUOTE] I used to believe in this, but I also have another theory, (I'm an Atheist btw) but we could all be God's who started out as humans but evolved to a point where we want to have mortal lives again and send ourselves down with no memory to relive the past.
Your subconscious floats freely around time and space with no connection to your previous human instincts and desires
Personally, I think it's like an endless sleep, without the dream, but hopefully there'll be some type of after life to take care of me afterwards, atleast I hope there is. :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=The Pro;15070484]I wouldn't go doing something dangerous as the cure for death is within our reach.[/QUOTE] Yeah, like that will work, our population is growing as it is and you think that they would actually release this cure for aging? Unless you are joking, in which case not funny. [editline]03:23PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Egg On Toast;15070528]Personally, I think it's like an endless sleep, without the dream, but hopefully there'll be some type of after life to take care of me afterwards, atleast I hope there is. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] Why hope? When you are dead you will not be concious to care about whether there is an afterlife or not. I don't see why people try and avoid the inevitable, I don't want there to be an afterlife.
Being dead is like not being born in the first place.
[QUOTE=Jallen;15070543]Yeah, like that will work, our population is growing as it is and you think that they would actually release this cure for aging?[/QUOTE] Space Colonization. I'm sure a large amount of people would trade breeding for the cure for death until we get the ball rolling with a large scale mars colony, I do not want to have children. If you want the cure, you must agree not to breed. [QUOTE=Jallen;15070543]Unless you are joking, in which case not funny.[/QUOTE] I do not "joke" about serious things such as this. [QUOTE=Jallen;15070543] Why hope? When you are dead you will not be concious to care about whether there is an afterlife or not. I don't see why people try and avoid the inevitable, I don't want there to be an afterlife.[/QUOTE] If everyone was like you we would never get anywhere
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