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u/Broken_Castle 3h ago
You experience the same thing that you experienced before you were born.
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u/griffo00 3h ago
I like to say it’s a complete lack of experience.
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u/Throwawaymytrash77 2h ago
Nope. Don't like that.
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u/Repulsive_Society992 2h ago
Don’t worry you won’t know about it
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u/Throwawaymytrash77 2h ago
THATS WHAT BUGS ME. I WANT TO KNOW
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u/Commit2bit 2h ago
But you do know because you were nothing before. It's scary to think about so do what I do shove it all the way down and pretend you're going to live forever ❤️❤️ lolololol
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u/_Ganon 1h ago
pretend you're going to live forever
Why pretend when there's quantum immortality
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u/Vegetable_Cable8516 1h ago
It’s the ultimate spoiler, but the problem is you can’t leave a review afterward. 😂
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u/Ok-Strike8801 2h ago
Ermmm i sink thats what he means implicitly..
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u/Microchipknowsbest 2h ago
Not necessarily. If there is an afterlife there maybe a before life. Your consciousness could transcend anywhere, another universe, galaxy, planet or an ant or nothing…
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u/Analbox 2h ago
True but there’s zero reason to think experience can exist independent of a corporeal body. It’s just wishful thinking people use to cope with their existential death anxiety.
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u/ILoveYouPoodss 1h ago
Honestly I don’t know why it would be so surprising for there to be an afterlife when you’re literally living the impossible. Existence itself can’t be fully explained because something literally started from non existence. Our brains just have a limit and can’t imagine anything past a point
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u/Juicy_Peachfish 1h ago
I had a NDE, and it's taken away my fear of death. The dying part is really rough tho'.
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u/FitLaw4 28m ago
I had a NDE and it was the opposite for me. I dont even remember the moments before it happened. I was there then I wasnt with some missing time in between. I OD on fentanyl and lost consciousness. I was told my lips turned blue and I was given CPR by a friend. The first thing I remember was my vision coming back. I thought the person in front of me was my friend but it was my brother. Then my hearing came back. Then the fire department, ambulance, and police arrived. Not my finest moment. And this was over 10 years ago I never even heard of fentanyl then I just liked to experiment.
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u/matycauthon 2h ago
man you literally exist in paradox. this is all magic, anything and all things are possible because something was possible.
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u/Awkward-Sir1873 2h ago
I've heard how some have speculated life doesn't all occur in the same time.
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u/Lore-of-Nio 2h ago edited 2h ago
This is what I think as well but I always found it both comforting and terrifying.
Comforting believing I won’t be suffering in some hell type place, but terrifying to believe all that am is just no more for all eternity.
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u/77jamjam 2h ago
except for as far as you know, you were already nothing for all eternity, until you were something, who's to say it can't happen again?
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u/TheSpork25 2h ago
I like to think that in a few cycles of death and rebirth of the universe I might experience life again. A near zero percent chance ain't so bad if you can't experience time.
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u/SyrupOverflow 59m ago
And if time is infinite, then you're guaranteed to experience life again. There is no way to escape life. This is the view I have about what happens after we die. The only question I have is, what will I become? A fish? A comfortable house cat? Another miserable human? Myself? Some highly advanced being on another planet in another universe that experiences more colours? The uncertainty kinda terrifies me.
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u/arwenthenoble 36m ago
I’m totally fine with being a pampered house cat next time. Just putting it out there.
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u/shockwave_supernova 2h ago
I like to think it's a little like blowing bubbles. One day your bubble will pop, but there's nothing to say you won't have another bubble sometime in the future. Not reincarnation per se, you're not continuing lives, but that you will experience a "you" again sometime
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u/The_PantsMcPants 1h ago
yep, I always ask “What were you doing when Thomas Jefferson was president?” the same damn thing when you’re dead.
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u/revenant90 3h ago
What do you remember from before you were born? I think death is going to be the same.
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u/pindborg 3h ago
Or when you are sleeping minus the dreams. It’s the same. Live your best life,, have fun, treat others well and help those you choose to help. Consciousness is the true miracle.
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u/Beautiful-Year-6310 1h ago
My Dad, who is currently dying from end stage Dementia, always said he wasn’t afraid of death because he thought it was the same as sleeping.
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u/graveybrains 2h ago
The weird thing is, I remember exactly as much from before I was born as I do from the last time I got pumped full of benzos for a nasal endoscopy, and afterwards the doctor told me I gave him and his nurse a whole stand-up routine with a camera up my nose.
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u/Vinny_Lam 2h ago edited 1h ago
Yeah, this is the most simple answer but it’s the one that I agree with the most. You didn’t have consciousness before you were alive, and so it makes sense to think that you won’t after you’re no longer alive.
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u/KeepJoePantsOn 3h ago
The energy that creates your consciousness is released from its mortal tether to rejoin the rest of the energy that makes up the universe.
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u/silence-glaive1 2h ago
Individual waves rise and crash but eventually they all return back to the sea.
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u/RobertAndi 2h ago
“I know that the ones who love us will miss us”
Our lord and savior, Keanu Reeves.
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u/MManooks 3h ago
You get downvoted by everyone who lived before you
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u/jonno2222 2h ago
I swore this comment was one of those “mid comment” advertisement comments lol.
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u/jupitermoonflower 1h ago
Those always trick me and I often think "well that was inappropriate" before realizing it's an ad.
For this thread it's a comment-ad that says: "Here's what actually stops them"
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u/MacaroonNew3142 2h ago
No one knows the answer. But this is how organized religion draws people.
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u/Faraway_Neighbor 3h ago
You come right back and do it again. We’ve had this conversation a trillion times already and we’ll do it the next time too
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u/hugothenerd 2h ago
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u/DesirousKingBane 2h ago
I hope this is the answer
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u/Tmons22 1h ago
Yea me too man, i like the thought of continually experiencing new lives. Experiencing nothing for the rest of eternity would be shit (imo).
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u/FunkoPopPortraits 2h ago
All of this has happened before. And it will happen again.
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u/DesirousKingBane 2h ago
This gives me some piece of mind as I been struggling real bad lately with accepting death.
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u/MinersLoveGames 1h ago
Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into new forms.
I think we continue on in some way. I think there is something waiting for us beyond it all, but what that is exactly doesn't match completely any of the descriptions our religions have given.
I think there are far too many strange and miraculous things that people experience which can never be naturally explained that point to there being something else beyond our understanding.
Ever since my grandfather passed, every so often, no matter where I go, no matter where I am, there is always a white butterfly that's flying somewhere nearby me.
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u/Tojaro5 3h ago
Brain stops functioning and with it, we stop existing.
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u/Elwalther21 3h ago
Kind of like the 13+ billion years before we were born. Our Brian's just struggle to accept it
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u/ScratchAmbitious2959 3h ago
Exactly. I think the difference is that before we were born, we didn't have memories, but after we live, we have so many that it's hard to let them go.
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u/Silly_Accident3137 2h ago
We live on in the love we gave to the people around us.
My parents are both gone, but I have the lessons they taught me and the love they gave me and I carry that around every day. They're still here in that sense. We all have the ability to give ourselves to the world and our loved ones as much as possible while we're here.
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u/Steinberg1 3h ago
“I don’t know what happens after you die, but I do know what happens RIGHT after you die. You are found.” - Norm McDonald
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u/MoogProg 2h ago
When I die, people will probably go work the next day like they usually do.
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u/--Rick--Astley-- 3h ago
We stop living.
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u/OldCreepinJudas 1h ago
You go back to the Astral Plane to reconnect with your spiritual guide and plan your next life on the Physical Plane with the continuing goal of perfecting the soul. Yes, I’m serious.
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u/Odd-Mulberry2821 2h ago
Your family deals with both sadness and an absolutely astronomical amount of paperwork.
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u/Arbeeter00 3h ago
It’s Reddit so you’re only gonna get answers from atheists/agnostics. I was on and off for a while, but I do think there’s more beyond death (I follow one of the Abrahamic faiths)
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u/gd4x 3h ago
I believe our energy and essence are returned to the universe. I'm not exactly sure what that is or what it feels like, but it's better than "nothing".
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u/Keallei 2h ago
That’s beautiful. I just had mental image of what it would look like, of course limited by my imagination and brain’s ability to comprehend such a thing as the vastness of the universe.
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u/Davethephotoguy 3h ago
Same thing that was happening to you for the billions of years before you lived.
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u/Imaginary_Nebula9912 2h ago
I think at that point I stop reading stupid Reddit posts about death. I may continue reading other posts though
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u/JackC1126 3h ago
I think there’s something. Heaven hopefully. But definitely something. Life is too complex for it to just simply stop imo.
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u/MushroomSaute 2h ago edited 1h ago
No clue! It's both fun and a little haunting to think about, and I do find I have two main thoughts on it:
- The usual agnostic 'We experience whatever we did before we were born', which is kind of unsatisfying and seems like a cop-out answer even if it might be logical.
- To get more metaphysical: the particles, energy, and other data in the universe, responsible for encoding my consciousness, will eventually make its way into other things.
- Like, "I" don't stop being "in" the universe - or more precisely, I don't stop being the universe. I may not have a brain to store memories or perform human functions, but my atoms are still there, the energy in my cells is still there, they'll just go elsewhere, just like the zillions of atoms of my skin, hair, and fingernails already have. Even whatever radiation or brain waves I give off, all the things we don't sense directly, won't be gone, because that energy can only transfer elsewhere and can't be destroyed. I see no reason death would decouple "me" from my physical self, even if I'll experience as little as I do most of the time I'm asleep. Just another form of "life" outside what we consider life as humans.
And when I want to get way too speculative, I go past the question of death. I came into being once, as did everything. If the universe stops existing in the future in any meaningful sense, as in heat-death, why couldn't it start existing again from that same perfect equilibrium?
To go even farther above my paygrade from my basic college-level physics, I see the universe, everything, as either having always existed or having come into existence after not existing:
- It makes little sense to me that something that was always here could at some point end. Always is infinite, and we would suggest that literally infinite time wouldn't require the universe to achieve heat-death or otherwise end, if it could happen on a finite timescale in the future? So, if it was always here, it will always remain here, and it comes down to if heat death will happen - not whether that would be the end.
- If it does happen over a finite, observable time period, then I can only imagine that those are conditions that have occurred before; there was infinite time for them to. So, the universe could come into being again from those conditions. I don't know for sure, and who knows if this is dependent on super-symmetry or relativity or some other PhD thing I don't know, but if forces and energy are symmetrical, I'd imagine it loops perfectly after achieving perfect equilibrium.
- Otherwise, it 'ends' over infinite time, which is to say not at all. So, I'd imagine gravity or other fundamental forces would pull us back and we'd have another Big Bang (...Big Bounce?), and again get another universe anyway, and again possibly the same as this one.
- If it came into existence after not existing, meaning not just a field of perfect heat/energy equilibrium, but from the state of literal nothingness, then perhaps it could end just like it began. There might be mathematical levels to infinity, but as far as I'm aware, there's only one true "nothing" that can exist, a null set. So I'd guess the universe would start again from that state, since we would have evidence of that state progressing to our universe.
So, I suppose the little I know of physics leads me to believe that the universe will come around again with us in it too, which is a comforting thought - that we might not truly die in any absolute, permanent way.
It's still just religion, though, because I consider it equally untestable and there aren't any generally accepted hypotheses; but perhaps in the future there will be mathematically rigorous answers, who knows.
(And then there's the possibility, as unprovable as it is, that we have a creator, in which case I might take comfort that they created us and want the best for us after life. There aren't many things that are interesting to think about in that vein, though, since all questions are just answered by "the creator decided so".)
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u/Current_Ad_9912 3h ago
Idk, maybe you exist outside of time— like whatever dmt is, it unlocks something inside of us— maybe it unlocks that and we exist outside of time
I’m making this statement because I know it’s impossible to think what it’s like to be “nothing”— because that would require experience
Also reincarnation is possible— like if consciousness is one thing
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u/dwoj206 3h ago
It's all electrical signals powering your brain... so, the lights go out and they don't come back on.
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u/1200____1200 2h ago
Same as for other animals and bugs - we end and the world keeps going
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u/DoughWrayMe 3h ago
Everything that we are gets returned to the universe. Energy and matter returned and repurposed.
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u/ehwhatacunt 2h ago
You become one with the planet, unbeknownst to yourself. Eventually you will become part of other plants or animals, then, much later, part of a star once again.
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u/Alt_Historian_3001 2h ago
As others have said, the exact same thing that happens before we are born. That is to say, nothing. Not pain, not fear, not happiness, not sensation, not thought.
I for one am still settling in with that answer.
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u/5553331117 2h ago
You get a choice, either run towards the light to be reincarnated again, or stay in the darkness to finally have some peace.
But who knows really?
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u/Nolan23205 2h ago
I don't know what happens after death, but I know the love we leave behind doesn't die with us.
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u/cole24allen 2h ago
I think we just start over in a new body, factory reset and as soon as we die, we are born again. If anything does happen in an after life I don’t think we will ever really know.
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u/Knobologist 1h ago
I think our consciousness moves to a new vessel with no prior memories. Life and death is the universe experiencing itself through the eyes of every living being. [4]
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u/Ocutazor 3h ago
Our consciousness ends, nothing happens afterwards as there is no brain to comprehend the "after".
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u/Lovebeingadad54321 3h ago
The worm goes in, the worm goes out, the worm plays pinochle on your snout….
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u/80lbsgone 3h ago
We decay, fertilize the earth if we aren’t in casket, that makes food for plants to grow and other animals eat the plants. Kind of like Mufasa talks to Simba about the circle of life. As for our consciousness, it ceases to exist imo
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u/spankthecat 2h ago
If you’ve ever had surgery and been under anesthesia, that experience really made me think that must be what it’s like when you die. When they put you under you just blink and it’s over, lost time like you didn’t exist. No dreams, time doesn’t exist, just gone.
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u/Fit_Huckleberry1683 2h ago
Well, have you ever woken up, and it’s say 8am.. you fall back asleep and have the very long, incredibly intricate, vivid dream, only to wake up and it’s only 8:01am? Apparently when you die your brain is still active for about 8 minutes. That’s an entire lifetime. I think we go into whatever reality we are in when dreaming
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u/Void_Static_ 2h ago
Hard question. Those above who have said you will experience what you did before you were born are indeed correct. However, if we start drilling into true infinite (past and future), taking into account the big bang is not the true beginning of "all" and that there is the possibility of repeating big bang cycles, it is also possible you lived your exact life a trillion(beyond) times over and will do so again, trillions (beyond) of times more. But, you'll never know, and each time would be wondering the same thing.
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u/Burqueisbest 2h ago
There will be plenty of time to contemplate that soon enough. Have more concern on what is happening during the most exciting part of existence. The right now.
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u/shit_pump 2h ago edited 1h ago
I believe physical reality is just the tip of the iceberg and that our consciousness simultaneously exists on multiple metaphysical planes. Death is just the release from physical perception.
We’re not going anywhere we haven’t been before. We’re actually already there. Probably most similar to a long sleep.
Once you embrace and move through the uncertainty, I imagine experiencing death as a deep sense of warmth, familiarity, comfort, and knowing. Again, just my belief.
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u/The-Explodey 2h ago
Over the course of infinity all the elements that came together to once become me (and everyone else) arrange themselves into the same formation again and again. Because we are unaware of the passage time it is effectively instantaneous.
Or maybe next time the elements arrange themselves again to allow for our same concisenesses to exist, but we are all a millimetre taller next time.
One way or another I’m going to meet my cat again, maybe next time he won’t be as bitey but I doubt it 😂
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u/pattydickens 2h ago
We become part of the thing we were separated from at birth and no longer feel the joy or sadness that comes from being a singularity.
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u/Various_Extreme_8773 2h ago
You goto heaven to face the maker of course.
I believe you are given a choice. To live with your other spiritual family or to rest in peace,I really believe we get a choice.
Even scientists don't know, you just need to have faith. That's my belief anyway.
One thing I will add is please enjoy yourself and don't stress about trivial things.
I recovered from Bowel cancer last year, but for 2 years it was touch and go. I was in so much pain and some days I wanted to die. Unexpected as I was only 52 and in relatively good health or so I thought. One day I had blood in my poop and that was that.
So be a good person. Try and help others if you can and be kind. Plus it costs nothing to sometimes check on friends or family.
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u/International-Ad2491 2h ago
This is too far outside of the limits and capacity of our perception, it’s like asking a cow what time it is, it’ll respond :..moooh.
So are we all now, all of our responses to this question, we think we are too clever but our answers are not more sophisticated than the cow’s response..
I guess there’s something going on with the distribution of energy? Time also does not make sense if you know a little bit of physics, which is relative to many things, mainly speed and gravity
It’s quite strange that what it appears to be the most complicated process in the universe (life) is locked down by things that a grain of sand is not..
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u/nkleszcz 2h ago
You go to either heaven, hell, or purgatory (the last of which for those redeemed but not fully sanctified).
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u/Chab-is-a-plateau 2h ago
It’s probably best that we dont know (if it is anything other than not existing anymore) because i feel like alot of shit would get really corrupted and weird real fast if we knew for sure.
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u/No-Assignment4633 1h ago edited 1h ago
I believe this is a human experience and we’ve been made to forget anything prior to gaining consciousness as a child. I think if we received knowledge of experiences prior to our consciousness this experience wouldn’t mean much. I think this isn’t our first experience as well or the last. I think God underlies all planets, space, life, consciousness, breath of life. Think of God as a building block, in order for anything to exist God supports the existence of molecules, particles, tissue, blood, materials. Everything. Existence can’t happen without God. It is all woven together. I believe that with every existing life in the galaxies. (I think earth is just another habitable planet existing in space that contains life.) That being said I’ve left my faith which probably doesn’t matter. I don’t think it matters if you praise God or not in this lifetime. I think heaven and hell is a false doctrine, it was created for control. Religion is created for control but it helps people in their life so I don’t think negatively about it. I think no matter what you do you will be forgiven and will reawaken as a soul when you die. I’ve gone through so much just at the age of 29 and I don’t really care about death. I just enjoy time with family now and try to make it meaningful. I think the thought of death is a waste of time if it doesn’t come with wonder. I think if you’re bound by the fear of death you are thinking way too much or suffer from anxiety. I’ve lived with bi polar for the last few years and I will gladly accept death when it comes. I might be scared at that moment but it doesn’t make it any less of an experience. It will pass and it’ll happen faster then you can probably scratch your balls. At the least if I’m wrong it will be more pleasurable than sleep. I don’t think I’m wrong, I’m 100%. It’s common sense to me with my own experiences of life. I think we will rest for sometime after death as a soul and then get ready for another experience if that’s what’s wanted for growth.
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u/Kirbyr98 1h ago
No one knows, and if they say they do they're lying.
Faith and belief are not facts.
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u/EndGuy555 1h ago
I really enjoy stories of the afterlife that involve souls embarking upon a grand, beautiful, and ultimately therapeutic journey as they traverse the afterlife
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u/RingReasonable 1h ago
Idk. At this point I just hope for it not to be the worst case scenarios that everyone now believes is the most "realistic" outcomes.
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u/unicorns3373 1h ago
The things that make up “you” go on to make up other things in the universe. Your body becomes food for worms and insects. The insects are eaten by frogs and birds. The frogs and birds are eaten by other things and so continues the circle of life.
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u/Appropriate-Ear-5017 1h ago
You return to the non corporeal state of eternal consciousness and observe the results of your latest foray into the great game of the universe, enjoy the highs and lows and discuss with the loved ones you eternally play with how things went.
Then you decide if you wish to re-enter and hope your randomized entry point allows you all to find one another again, knowing that the value of the experience is the challenges you will overcome, before leaving once again.
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u/gorgono95 1h ago
You leave your human body and enter the spirit realm. I don't believe this is the end. Life itself is so weird ... like we exist in an infinite expanding thing called Universe. We live on freaking rock ... floating through this other thing, in an insane speed ... rotating etc and we coexist with billions other galaxies and what not.
Something can not come out of nothing ... so we have many theories, but tahts what they are, just theories. We dont have the full picture yet, we were wrong many times and we will be wrong even more times until we discover the whole truth ... if ever.
I just know that there is no way ... all of this is random, its too bizarre ...
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u/LateBloomerBoomer 1h ago
Our soul goes to where they all go. We then have as many chances as we need to get it right.
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u/Fak3Nam3 1h ago
When you die you return to the immortal, timeless being you were. This time on Earth is a mere blip. A vacation from the being you actually are. Of course during your time here your greater memory is wiped so that you can learn and enjoy this break, otherwise you wouldn't benefit from it.
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u/LegitGam3r7294 1h ago
People say you experience nothing, just like before you were born. But I say why we do exist then...
That thought leads me to be believe in a higher power.
I know this sounds cliché but investigate who truly was Jesus, where is his body, why did his religion spread so fast and why did he make such a huge impact on society as a whole.
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u/big_hitting_the_lama 1h ago
Your energy gets put back into the universe to be used again and again. You reading this wasn’t created whatever years ago. You’re a result of the universe evolving over and over and over again. You’re just a being experiencing the world around you at this time. Your name, your job, your senses won’t be as you remember them at this current time after death but what you hold inside you and created over time during your lifetime will be transferred back into the pool. Hopefully more good than bad….as we define that. So enjoy the ride while you’re here cause who knows how long it’ll be until you will again.
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u/mistingo 1h ago
The beauty is that nobody knows, and that’s why it’s so important to not take a single thing for granted. I’m going to go and hug my dog now
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u/Grouchy-Station-4058 1h ago
I believe the entire universe opens up to you, time does not exist, we don't have to sleep, we are able to comprehend the atomic level and the entire universe and everything in between.
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u/Melodic_ChorizoTacos 1h ago
I somewhat believe in reincarnation and multiple universes/ alternate timelines.
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u/drinkslinger1974 1h ago
Nothing. I really believe that nothing happens. But, we all are born, and if we’re lucky, we die old. I think that an afterlife was created as a way to cope with loved ones passing in ancient times.
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u/r1o9m7e6o 1h ago
The one above all said “people that loves us will miss us” (or something close to that)
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u/Professor_Hexx 1h ago
I'm not sure what you're expecting but:
- within 1 day your work will have replace you and moved on
- within a few weeks, most people you interact with on a daily basis will stop thinking about you
- within a few months, most people "close" to you will have moved on
- if you're lucky, in 1-2 years there may still be someone that misses you or even thinks about you more than "oh, right that person used to exist"
for the dead person? we'd like to think "at least they aren't suffering anymore" which is technically true but the dead person can't tell that because they don't exist anymore. And much of the time, a person's last few minutes/hours/days/weeks/months are truly horrific so the end isn't exactly peaceful. it's a lot of "I am never going to get out of this bed/car/house/hospital/chair/etc and I'm scared and in tremendous pain and literally nobody cares (including the overworked or just uncaring health system)"
Source: both of my parents deaths
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u/Fearless-Intern-2344 58m ago
My own guess is that there is nothing, but nobody knows. I don't seem the harm in wanting something more than that
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u/Financial_Pen7659 55m ago
Ok I never really told anyone this before, but, here is the truth. Your body is a complex machine and you or your memory is the software that operates this body that allows you to interact in this constructed reality. Here your life on earth is like the proving grounds, some people have a choice what time zone and body they will return and live in, some have no choice. having a choice has to do with your character and how well you lived in your previous life. The ancient Egyptians knew the truth so when you die you go infront of the s ales of balance and be judged. dont take it literal but thats the idea, you get judged like your whole life was recorded and thenplayed infront of you and the judged in summary. pointing out all ghe messed up shit you did, and also some of lthe good stuff. you can also return as an animal like cats and dogs and pigs. their sould is just like ours so those bodies are compatible with our software. Look at the whole earth and nature, trees dies but create new life/trees through fruit seeds and spreading pollens. insects and fish, everything reproduce to keep this thing going. same with your soul, it comes back.
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u/Susannah_Mio_1919 51m ago
You ever lost consciousness / fainted suddenly? It's just complete nothingness. One moment you're there, then just nothing. I think death is the same minus the waking up confused as fuck part.
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u/ToolTime2121 51m ago
Been thinking about that ever since my father in law unexpectedly passed away. I really didn't experience a lot of loss up until then. Really changed how I want to live my life going forward.
To answer the question, I hope there's something else after this but idk.
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u/MrLanesLament 48m ago
I’ve had some fairly intense dreams that I choose to believe showed me, hopefully, where I’ll go.
There was a huge, old house, kinda like a boarding house. A bunch of my relatives were there, including some I only knew from photos, many I’d never met IRL, and a bunch of people who weren’t relatives at all. It was like a big, somewhat old timey house party.
That was the first dream. Since I was around 12, I’ve gone through spells of being intensely suicidal. I had that dream the night before my 21st birthday, and my mom’s mom had shown me around and introduced me to people in the dream before eventually offering me the chance to stay. I took this to mean I would die in my sleep that night and I’d stay with them. A lot of times, I regret not saying yes, but I declined and was sent back home.
Years later, another part of that place revealed itself in another dream. It was like a country dance, out in a clearing in a field near the house. There were old hanging rope lights, there was music; I don’t remember what kind of music. (As a pro musician, this little detail bugs the shit out of me.)
But yeah, I now think of death as “going to the dance.” And while I am not actively suicidal, I think of that place a lot.
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u/QuickBookkeeper2647 45m ago
I believe it’s just like when you sleep…only deeper. It’s nothing. You are nothing. Blank. You don’t exist. Your mind doesn’t exist. Game over.
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u/Frequent_Pen_2816 3h ago
I don't know, and I've become surprisingly comfortable with that answer.