I think afterlive would be terrible after awhile. Imagine the entire time you've been alive (probably 12 years or so for most of you). Imagine that again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. If you're 20 years old thats still only 180 years and you've lived your lifetime 9 times total. Imagine doing that over and over and over, spending millennia in the afterlife. Imagine doing that again and again and again and again... millions of years would pass, but the afterlife would last forever. Billions, trillions of years would pass, but you still have an infinity of afterlife to experience. You don't think that it would get old after awhile? Everything conceivable is finite, so unless the world is infinitely more than we think it is, or some sort of god could manipulate your emotions so that you are forever entertained, I think the afterlife would get boring as hell before too long (literally boring as hell, as I think hell would be pretty damn boring too)
We can discuss this all we like but for all intents and purposes we have absolutely no fucking clue what happens after you die.
You could get raped by satan for an eternity or reincarnated as a tree, who knows.
[QUOTE=Sir Tristan;27533629]I think afterlive would be terrible after awhile. Imagine the entire time you've been alive (probably 12 years or so for most of you). Imagine that again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. If you're 20 years old thats still only 180 years and you've lived your lifetime 9 times total. Imagine doing that over and over and over, spending millennia in the afterlife. Imagine doing that again and again and again and again... millions of years would pass, but the afterlife would last forever. Billions, trillions of years would pass, but you still have an infinity of afterlife to experience. You don't think that it would get old after awhile? Everything conceivable is finite, so unless the world is infinitely more than we think it is, or some sort of god could manipulate your emotions so that you are forever entertained, I think the afterlife would get boring as hell before too long (literally boring as hell, as I think hell would be pretty damn boring too)[/QUOTE]
Because living longer means that you relive the same thing? What?
I want to live forever so I can become the best gamer of all time! haha, I'm sure after a few hundred years I'd get tired of being immortal.
Yes, i want to live forever because standing in an exhausted universe is better than...nothing.
I dunno, i just can't imagine my consciousness not existing. Even when sleeping, it persists in dreams, but in death it's just nothing. I'm not part of the equation anymore. and that terrifies me.
Besides, living forever gives you the opportunity to see the rise of a new universe, a new form of life...
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;27533692]We can discuss this all we like but for all intents and purposes we have absolutely no fucking clue what happens after you die.
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Lets kill OP and wait for him to post from heaven.
[QUOTE=Mr. Massacre;27533797]Yes, i want to live forever because standing in an exhausted universe is better than...nothing.
I dunno, i just can't imagine my consciousness not existing. Even when sleeping, it persists in dreams, but in death it's just nothing. I'm not part of the equation anymore. and that terrifies me.
Besides, living forever gives you the opportunity to see the rise of a new universe, a new form of life...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but at least when you're dead you won't know you are dead. I look at being dead like the way I look at myself before I was born.
People are not perfect, we have instincts that tell us not to die, so death is probably pretty bad. Death may be the flaw of life, death might not be perfected. Although almost impossible, and highly highly improbable, imagine death being like closing your eyes and then staying that way forever. Although this kind of stuff seems impossible without a brain, YOU NEVER KNOW.
I hope some one figures out what death is like before I die.
I like how the OP talks as if he knows everything about the universe and how it works.
[QUOTE=Unreal4life;27533836]Yeah, but at least when you're dead you won't know you are dead. I look at being dead like the way I look at myself before I was born.[/QUOTE]
the whole existing-then-not-existing thing is what terrifies me. I just can't quite wrap my mind around it. I want this body to die, but my consciousness to keep existing and eventually get put in a new one.
[QUOTE=fenwick;27533711]Because living longer means that you relive the same thing? What?[/QUOTE]
Uhh, if you lived for an infinite amount of time, you would run out of things to see/do is my point, which you apparently completely missed
If we assume that while in the afterlife one has access to the universe of the living, here is my plan:
Learn. Fucking. [b][i]EVERYTHING.[/I][/B]
I'm immortal and I'm havin' a blast. Dunno' what you're talking about.
[QUOTE=fenwick;27532823]I watched "All Dogs Go To Heaven", too.[/QUOTE]
Hey, those are great movies, man.
being reborn sounds cool to me
i mean you wouldn't even know you were reborn
Well, Dreams are better than life.
Why wouldn't be the afterlife too?
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Also, heaven can never get boring, as it's a perfect place of happiness, so even if your happiness involves masochistic self mutilation, you'll still be filled with the pleasure of infinite simultaneous orgasms. (Or at least, this is what religion claims)
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what a shitty way to live
you would basically not be "you" if you were constantly happy, especially if you still had knowledge of human suffering or loved ones in hell(assuming there is a hellish counterpart to "heaven").
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[QUOTE=B!N4RY;27532956]No one knows for sure what would happen to one's mind/soul after death. Who knows if you will reincarnate, go to heaven or hell, or float around as an invisible ghost and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
well, your brain is where all conscious thought is contained and that stops working after you die, so it's reasonable to assume nothing happens
I want to live another life but forget everything of last one when i die, I wouldn't realize it but I technically would have immortality. If you forgot every new life it would be ok.
I'm not saying my conscious will move to another, I'm saying a new conscious will me made and i will take control of it.
But what if when we die, everything restarted all over again and you lost every knowledge and experience and identity. What if we are our own universe
no offense, but eternal nothingness is twice as boring.
I want life to be like a video game - once you beat the game, you're done with it for the time being, then a while later you can come back to it and start a new save, play through the main campaign again.
I am from the afterlife, and It sucks dick trust me. The only thing I can do is jelq.
[QUOTE=lavacano;27535128]no offense, but eternal nothingness is twice as boring.
I want life to be like a video game - once you beat the game, you're done with it for the time being, then a while later you can come back to it and start a new save, play through the main campaign again.[/QUOTE]
What if when you die you unlock "Free-Ride Extreme"? Holy...
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Post uninspired subjective bullshit without any regards to innovative thought.
Seriously guys, if you're going to post wisdom, make it unique.
Lving forever would be better then dieing. even if life gets repetitive its better then having no impute at all and over time you should forget things making things seem new again.
Immortality would be nice if it was with someone you loved.
I have an idea guys! How about we get someone to die and save them just a little bit afterward and then ask how it was... Sounds like a perfectly good plan!
I wouldn't want an afterlife unless I was able to communicate with the living, and be able to bear some words of wisdom, and stop people from doing stupid shit.
I wouldn't want to be immortal because I would think about people,pets,and other things I lost in my life which I would rather meet the same fate with.
[QUOTE=Cl0cK;27535818]I have an idea guys! How about we get someone to die and save them just a little bit afterward and then ask how it was... Sounds like a perfectly good plan![/QUOTE]
Large dose of endorphins to the brain causing a glorified hallucination before death doesn't make a very reliable witness.
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