Just the title. Heavens? Hells? Purgatory? Nothing? Become one with the universe? Reincarnation?
Bonus question: If you could design the system of your choice, what would you want?
Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.
Your parents fucking is a weird way to envision the afterlife.
Just you having to watch a HHHHHD full immersion gif of the moments of your father’s final strokes as he pumps his cock into your mom.
The only thing more embarrassing than watching my birth video was watching the conception video
That video paid for your diapers.
Good think it’s blocked behind an OF paywall
I just hope I get to hug my dog again
Fucking real
Me too.
I know the ones who love us will miss us.
Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.
Hell was also invented much later by Dante.
I don’t think there’s an afterlife, but I can hope that there is one. Just being a specter and getting to explore the universe until the end of time would be cool. Realistically, it’s probably just nothingness, unless somehow our brains are capable of creating an infinite dream for us.
Don’t know, probably nothing. Whatever happens but with a score screen in the end. Times taken a piss, hours slept, right/wrong ratio when arguing on the Internet.
Nothing.
Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.
I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.
Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.
Have you ever been knocked out before? Instant time travel into the future. Probably something like that without the ringing sound in your head from whatever hit you. Oh, and also that you never wake up.
I like the idea of reincarnation, but maybe it’s my antitheist limited brain, transitioning to a creature with vastly different intelligence or central nervous system seems like the me I am still ceases to exist. Same vibes doesn’t even really check out when folks with brain ailments go through massive personality changes and I wouldn’t ever expect someone to “maintain their vibe” through that change.
Realistically, what’s the difference between what happened to you when you were born and what will happen to someone who is born after you’re dead?
God welcoming me with open arms and tears in his eyes and I keep ragebaiting him to see what happens
If I were to meet God, thereby proving its existence to me, the only morally defensible action would be to try my hardest to destroy it.
This guy gets it
The only people who know for sure can’t tell us, but realistically it’s probably a cessation of consciousness.
You put down the alien equivalent of the salvia pipe and all your alien friends are there asking how it was
“When?” I think you mean, “If.”
I’m becoming increasingly convinced of the raw utilitarian nature of consciousness, it being nothing more than an emergent property of a complex enough neural structure.
The body dies, the brain shuts down, the consciousness just ceases to be. The consciousness that is now “me” comes back into existence in another newly formed neural structure. But it’s not me. It’s new, and the only reason “I” am in there is because I’m not in this brain anymore.
You can call reincarnation if you like, but to me that implies the consciousness carrying lessons from its previous lives for some greater purpose. I don’t believe that. When I die, everything I know dies with me and I pop back into existence a blank slate with no knowledge or care of what I once was. Maybe as a giraffe, or a sugar glider, or some hyper intelligent amorphous blob on a planet in a galaxy we can’t even see from here.
Really believe in reincarnation? What part of “you/i” is carried over? Soul? Energy? When your meat is gone, the emergent consciousness is too.
What I think happens: unfortunately, nothing, your consciousness simply ceases, you go back to the state you were in before you existed
What I hope happens: it feels like being asleep for eternity, shifting in and out of dreams and enjoying memories of life
Other ideas I like: becoming one with a universal consciousness, or a system where we’re punished for our sins and then go to paradise, or this life is a dream and you wake up in another reality barely remembering this life
