What if there was _absolutely_ nothing once your brain is dead? What will happen to those who believed firmly that there was some kind of after-life?

"I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER! Everybody told me that there was an after-life, and there's nothing! I want refund!"

Do humans have the need to believe in an after-life to make them better? Do we created ourself an after-life because our race is pretencious and think that it would be an horrible waste if there wasn't something after death??

Sorry for the meta-physic questions tonight, but that's what is running in my mind right now...

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This message has been edited by blanalex on March 05, 2001 at 09:17 PM

I don't think that the afterlife is somehow a preventative of suicide, IMO at least. I mean, to me it's sort of separated from me killing myself or not. Granted, there are people who won't commit suicide only because they think their god would be pissed off at them, but who knows if that's true?
So, yeah. I guess I believe in the afterlife, although sometimes I would much rather welcome the thought of death being final. I can see the argument either way, really. From one POV, you'd get to see your relatives and everyone again, from another, a complete death would just end everything nicely.
Maybe what happens to you is that which you believe to be true?

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I almost forgot. Blanalex, you make it sound as though you KNOW the answer. If you believe that you do aren't you assuming just as much as those that believe there is an afterlife?

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damage@detonate.net

"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero."
-Narrator 'Fight Club.'

This message has been edited by damage on March 06, 2001 at 08:37 AM

Now, if we just assume that a human is simply an organic structure that lives and then dies, we must assume that all memory, thoughts, and feelings cease. I, personally, have a very hard time with that, and I'd bet that most of the population of Earth share my feelings on this. Therefore, I like to believe that while my body may die and rot and become plant food, my "spirit" will remain in some form. This feeling is not pretention--it is grasping at a hope that all of this staggering about in this bag of bones is not all there is to Life.

Furthermore, I find no fault in this belief, since it gives me (and those around me) an incentive to act in a good an honorable fashion, as well as a goal (of sorts) to work towards. And what if I'm wrong? Well, so what? I am well aware that I may be deluding myself with my beliefs, but it's a healthy delusion--it keeps me sane in an insane world.

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I used to be a kleptomaniac, but then I took something for it.

Heheh.

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damage@detonate.net

"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anyone drops to zero."
-Narrator 'Fight Club.'

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Originally posted by damage:
Blanalex, you make it sound as though you KNOW the answer.

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You have a good point there. I don't know, AFAIK i've never been there yet. But my personnal belief is there's no after-life or something along the lines of a eternal sleep, without the dreams.

also its been proven in pyscological tests that you're consciousness has virtually no control over any of your actions rather its just a resultant of what you most powerful sub-concious thoughts are so it might be considered that we are just here to observe what life is in some forom of conscious experience and we have to learn what lifes all about but the whole things gods way of taking the piss cos no one can really prove anything which in its own way i think is kinda cool cos theres always something for you to think about then