what do you belive happens when you die? Page 3

Started by AuraAshley June 4th, 2009 7:51 PM
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if theres a god, put someone on this earth who is cant make friends, is heavy and not thin like everyone else and has a family that hates them?
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Your gone, there's nothing, everything ends, your experiences and knowledge die with you...

I guess it sounds a little dark, but as an Atheist it is only pointing out the obvious. And it also provides incentive to live your life to the fullest.
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This is to prove to people that Cristians aren't Shuckles with 700 base HP.
I think that if Christianity is true, (based on proof and popularity, about 70%) You probably get to choose to: (become a spirit and hang with people as a ghost, lol) (Get transported in time to the Great White Judgement) or ( are Reincarnated over and over again until Armageddon.
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What the hell is wrong with you? Seriously?

Anyways back on topic, nothing happens. It's just the same thing that happens before you were born, you felt nothing because you didn't exist. Like someone already said, it's an eternal sleep, you don't feel anything at all.

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I love the idea of reincarnation but I don't think I can bring myself to believe in it. As depressing as it sounds, I guess I believe absolutely nothing happens when you die.

I haven't thought about this much. I've never seen the point because there's no way whatsoever of knowing if you're right until you're dead anyway.


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I'd like to think that reincarnation exists but it really wouldn't change a thing because I'd only like it if I remembered anything of my past life/lives. To be honest, I have no idea what happens when you die, nor do I really care. You die. You're gonna face what happens after you die, and there's no way for you to let anyone living to know what happens, so everyone's just gonna have to wait until they die to find out. XD Honestly.. these are one of the things you just can't be sure of. Saying you know what happens when someone dies is complete bullcrap. I don't care what your religion states.

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My mind usually goes to reincarnation on these matters, but I really don't know. I'd like to think that we could end up as another being (not necessarily a person), but something just doesn't feel right about that. I can't really say that there's a heaven or hell either, as I'm not particularly religious. I'm more, uh, ignorant than atheist.

But for now, I don't really care. I'm alive and well, and that's all that really matters.. for now, at least.

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I HOPE for reincarnation.

Unfortunately, I also doubt it, so I'm gonna go with nothing. Like as in NOTHING. It sounds kinda boring, but if you think about it, there's no boredom so...it would just be...nothing XD

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I don't know and to be honest, I really could care less at this point.

I try not to think of things like that. It's a waste of time, imo. People have been trying to figure out what the afterlife would be like since human existence. Some people fall back on the belief of an organized religion, some believe in reincarnation...I don't worry about it. I'll be dead eventually anyways, so I'll wait until then to figure it all out. I'd like to think that there's something after all of this, but to be honest, I kind of find the idea of a "Heaven" or "Hell" to be a bit...ridiculous.
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On a serious note, I do believe in the Afterlife. Reincarnation isn't really something that I believe in, partly because, if your reincarnated after you die, what's the point of living or accomplishing anything when your going to be reincarnated anyways, lol. Or I guess you could keep committing suicide until your reincarnated as a rabbit.

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Your gone, there's nothing, everything ends, your experiences and knowledge die with you...

I guess it sounds a little dark, but as an Atheist it is only pointing out the obvious. And it also provides incentive to live your life to the fullest.
I second that notion. People need to stop worrying about what happens to you when you die. If you're not dead or dying, you shouldn't worry about it. Get out there and live your life.

When it's over, you'll find out and we'll see who was right and who was wrong.

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There's going to be a big game over screen. With a retry button with a Buddhism/Hindu symbol; a high scores with a picture of Abraham; and finally a quit game symbol with the A from the atheist out campaign.


On a serious note, it will probably be very similar to what it was like before we were born.

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I think there's definitely some sort of life after death, because I can't grasp the idea that after you die, its all over. I think that you live in spiritual form somewhere seperate from the Earth, which you have left. After your death, you are reunited with loved ones that you had been seperated from by death. I could probably go on and on. But technically, the dead just exist in spiritual form in a world seperate from the living.
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I think that once a person dies, he/she gets reincarnated and starts all over again, without a single drop of memory of his/her last life. How a dead person is able to do such thing, however, is too hard to explain.
For all the people that believe this... how do you explain the exponentially increasing population? All the new people being born outweigh the number of dead people (i.e. souls that can be formatted and recycled).
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For all the people that believe this... how do you explain the exponentially increasing population? All the new people being born outweigh the number of dead people (i.e. souls that can be formatted and recycled).
think about this. how come we have so many people? every time a person dies, someone is born. so when a person dies, their spirit goes into that of a new born child without any memories of the past life

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think about this. how come we have so many people? every time a person dies, someone is born. so when a person dies, their spirit goes into that of a new born child without any memories of the past life
What he means is that the earth's population is increasing. In other words, you start with ten people, they have fifteen kids. Where'd the extra five souls come from?

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What he means is that the earth's population is increasing. In other words, you start with ten people, they have fifteen kids. Where'd the extra five souls come from?
Exactly. Imagine the early Earth. There is a population of 1000 (500 male, 500 female). Each pairing has 2 children. The population before the parents die is 2000.

2000 > 1000.

It's a crude example, but that's what's happening in modern times. More people are being born than dying, hence the increasing human population curve. If number of deaths equaled number of births, the human population would be static.

Edit: ckret2 caught a mistake.
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I believe that no one can grasp the reality of what happens after death until they experience it first hand.
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@ people arguing about not enough souls for all the people in the world:

Aren't people reincarnated as animals sometimes? :| I thought that was part of what karma was about or something, idk. Maybe it's all the souls of endangered and extinct animals that're ending up as new humans.


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Aren't people reincarnated as animals sometimes? :| I thought that was part of what karma was about or something, idk. Maybe it's all the souls of endangered and extinct animals that're ending up as new humans.
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Exactly. Imagine the early Earth. There is a population of 1000 (500 male, 500 female). Each pairing has 2 children. The population after the parents die is 2000.

2000 > 1000.

It's a crude example, but that's what's happening in modern times. More people are being born than dying, hence the increasing human population curve. If number of deaths equaled number of births, the human population would be static.
Not getting into the debate, but just posting on the math fail.

If there are 1000 people consisting of 500 males and 500 females, there would NOT be 1000 "pairings." Assuming one male + one female makes a single pairing (it takes 2 people to make a pairing), there would be 500 pairings consisting of 2 people each. So if each pairing had 2 children, that would be 1000 children.

1000 = 1000.

If every couple in the world had exactly 2 children who both lived long enough to have children of their own, the world population would be the SAME, not increased. The issue is that a lot of families have way more than two children, particularly in poorer parts of the world where more children = more help on the farm, or where most children previously wouldn't live to adulthood but modern medicine means they would.

As for reincarnation, not all reincarnations are said to occur on the human level, or even among animals. Really good people are reincarnated as sorta demigodly figures above the physical plane we live on, and really bad people are reincarnated in some kind of a hell. So an increasing population could mean that more souls in hell are becoming good enough to join the human plane and/or more demigodly souls are being bad enough to be reincarnated as humans.

It's not my personal belief, but if someone's going "reincarnation is impossible due to the increased population," then according to the beliefs of religions that include reincarnation, no, the increased population does not make it impossible.

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Not getting into the debate, but just posting on the math fail.

If there are 1000 people consisting of 500 males and 500 females, there would NOT be 1000 "pairings." Assuming one male + one female makes a single pairing (it takes 2 people to make a pairing), there would be 500 pairings consisting of 2 people each. So if each pairing had 2 children, that would be 1000 children.

1000 = 1000.

If every couple in the world had exactly 2 children who both lived long enough to have children of their own, the world population would be the SAME, not increased. The issue is that a lot of families have way more than two children, particularly in poorer parts of the world where more children = more help on the farm, or where most children previously wouldn't live to adulthood but modern medicine means they would.

As for reincarnation, not all reincarnations are said to occur on the human level, or even among animals. Really good people are reincarnated as sorta demigodly figures above the physical plane we live on, and really bad people are reincarnated in some kind of a hell. So an increasing population could mean that more souls in hell are becoming good enough to join the human plane and/or more demigodly souls are being bad enough to be reincarnated as humans.

It's not my personal belief, but if someone's going "reincarnation is impossible due to the increased population," then according to the beliefs of religions that include reincarnation, no, the increased population does not make it impossible.
Oh, good catch. I meant before the parents die. The edit acknowledges this.

@ people arguing about not enough souls for all the people in the world:

Aren't people reincarnated as animals sometimes? :| I thought that was part of what karma was about or something, idk. Maybe it's all the souls of endangered and extinct animals that're ending up as new humans.
Yes and no, the belief of dharma/karma is that people can be reincarnated as an animal as punishment for their misdeeds, and as a person of a higher caste (and possibly even a holy person) if they were morally good. Nowhere does it say that animal souls can become humans. Such a thing would be considered perverse.

The confusion arises when people take a term (reincarnation, karma) out of its context. Hindu reincarnation isn't simply "soul recycling", it is a reward/punishment system for life, similar to the Judeo-Christian beliefs in heaven/hell. The Buddhist concept of reincarnation is similar, but includes "enlightenment", which represents breaking free of and transcending the worldly rebirth cycle.

Regardless, the growth curve is so steep now that it's approaching the point where the amount of people being born annually outweigh the number of people that have died in all of human history.

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