What happens after death?

[Josie]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

 

[Luce]

Well, it's like this. You're born as a blank slate, and you either become evil or you become good, as a sum total. Thing of it as populating a black circuit board with your acts.

When you die, you go to the appropriate place, to participate in the endless heaven/hell tractor pull as a spare part when an older soul burns out.

So essentially, we're fuses.

 

[PirateMk1]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

Welp whatever happens I doubt the dead will be worried seeing how they be dead and all.

As for my silly opinion. When you die, that's it. Game over. In this particular universe anywho.

 

[calamity]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

Good question. I'm sure we all have our ideas.

On a high level, I want to say I suspect we'll follow something along the lines of Heisenberg and Pauli. In short, one says nothing can be determined with certainty, and the other, that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. I guess my interpretation of that as parlayed onto death would be we move on to places unknown.

I'm not sure I believe it as in "believe" it, but I like the idea enough to hope it's real.

 

[Daisy]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

You/your soul dies, only when/if God resurrects you, will you live again...even Job recognized that fact and placed his hope in the resurrection...Job 14...

10 But a man dies and lies powerless;
When a human expires, where is he?

11 Waters disappear from the sea,
And a river drains away and dries up.

12 Man also lies down and does not get up.
Until heaven is no more, they will not wake up,
Nor will they be aroused from their sleep.

13 O that in the Grave you would conceal me,
That you would hide me until your anger passes by,
That you would set a time limit for me and remember me!

14 If a man dies, can he live again?
I will wait all the days of my compulsory service
Until my relief comes.

 

[Overitall]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

I consider it to be much like sleep. One feature of it is that there is no awareness of time. From the moment you fall asleep to when you awake you have no awareness of how much time has elapsed without the aid of time keeper. The body eventually will get absorbed into the elements it's composed of -- "from dust thou are, unto dust you shall return". I consider the "soul" being the mind which is imo related to sleep. In death, so it's said, there is no more remembrance. Where it is is a mystery. I tend to think it's in the "mind of God". Waiting to be placed into a new created "body".

 

[Dragonfly]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

Nothing. You're dead.

Those you leave behind when you die will carry memories of you around until they die.
Heaven is when those people remember you fondly.
Hell is when those people carry around some not-so-happy memories.

But in terms of what you personally will experience?
Nothing.
An eternity of dreamless sleep. (sounds rather pleasant to me actually - peaceful)
Just like the eternity of time leading up to your birth. Nothing.

 

[Rexedgar]

I think of it as a “fade to black.”


I was exposed to the Episcopalian version of organized religion growing up. Somewhere during catechism class I left and never returned. I have heard people say that they will see their relatives who have pre-deceased them when they also pass. I have often wondered how they will recognize those relatives.

Let’s use someone’s grandmother as an example; you knew her at the latter stages of her earthly life. Will she present herself as that older woman? She had many stages of her life and many people that she interacted with when she was alive. How will all the people that knew her recognize her?

 

[Slartibartfast]

I hope to arise on a healed earth with a new body at some point in the future.

 

[bluesmoke]

Nothing happens. If you've ever been under anesthesia for an operation, when the operation may have lasted a couple of hrs, but you don't remember a thing, that's what death is like. As if those hrs were a minute, after going unconscious with nurses and docs all around you, hanging over you, you wake up with just a couple of people nearby disconnecting and wheeling you away. Except, in death, you never regain consciousness. Never come out from under. No dreaming. No nothing. That's death. Unimaginable. Not even a thought of darkness. Or, you go to heaven, strum a harp on a cloud, meet again all your past relatives and loved ones in charming replete and graze in the nourishing grass of God and Christ your savior. Jews, Muslims, et al need not apply.

 

[Overitall]

I think of it as a “fade to black.”


I was exposed to the Episcopalian version of organized religion growing up. Somewhere during catechism class I left and never returned. I have heard people say that they will see their relatives who have pre-deceased them when they also pass. I have often wondered how they will recognize those relatives.

Let’s use someone’s grandmother as an example; you knew her at the latter stages of her earthly life. Will she present herself as that older woman? She had many stages of her life and many people that she interacted with when she was alive. How will all the people that knew her recognize her?

I read somewhere that when Jesus appeared to some women after his resurrection they didn't know who he was until he "revealed" himself to them. Perhaps, everyone will only see the ones they loved as they remembered them best. Or how they wish to remember them. Doesn't make much sense to be resurrected into a body that was crippled or deformed.

 

[Dragonfly]

Nothing happens. If you've ever been under anesthesia for an operation, when the operation may have lasted a couple of hrs, but you don't remember a thing, that's what death is like. As if those hrs were a minute, after going unconscious with nurses and docs all around you, hanging over you, you wake up with just a couple of people nearby disconnecting and wheeling you away. Except, in death, you never regain consciousness. Never come out from under. No dreaming. No nothing. That's death. Unimaginable. Not even a thought of darkness. Or, you go to heaven, strum a harp on a cloud, meet again all your past relatives and loved ones in charming replete and graze in the nourishing grass of God and Christ your savior. Jews, Muslims, et al need not apply.

Those are the only two options?

What about 72 virgins?
Or reincarnation as a sea-slug?
Or perhaps just a re-birth in one of the many multi-verses we're unaware of?
Not to mention having some serious one-on-one time with Satan?

 

[Overitall]

Those are the only two options?

What about 72 virgins?
Or reincarnation as a sea-slug?
Or perhaps just a re-birth in one of the many multi-verses we're unaware of?
Not to mention having some serious one-on-one time with Satan?

I suppose those are all options which people of different beliefs could espouse. But each person participating in this discussion can only give their own opinion of what happens.

 

[Dragonfly]

I suppose those are all options which people of different beliefs could espouse. But each person participating in this discussion can only give their own opinion of what happens.

To be fair he added this part:

Jews, Muslims, et al need not apply.

after I'd quoted him, but before I'd posted my part.

 

[Yasureoktoo]

The worms go in
the worms go out
the worms play pinochle on your snout

 

[Dragonfly]

The worms go in
the worms go out
the worms play pinochle on your snout

Hilarious song!!!

 

[Yasureoktoo]

the worms crawl in,
the worms crawl out
the worms play pinochle up your snout.
They eat your eyes they eat your nose,
they eat the cheese between your toes.
Your stomach turns a gooshy green and pus runs out like whipping cream,
you sop it up with a piece of bread and that’s what you eat when you are dead.

 

[Peter King]

I'm just curious of what you all think about what happens after death. Nothing? Your soul departs your body and goes somewhere? Your soul is reincarnated in another human body? What do you think?

Nothing happens, absolutely nothing. Dead means the end, bye bye nothing more to experience.

 

[Overitall]

To be fair he added this part:



after I'd quoted him, but before I'd posted my part.

Yea, I noted that also but I just chose to ignore it. It didn’t deserve a response imho.

 

[Mulefoot]

There is no soul, at least no eternal soul. Some sort of judgment, death for non-believers, eternal life for those who have put their faith in Christ.

 

[Josie]

There is no soul, at least no eternal soul. Some sort of judgment, death for non-believers, eternal life for those who have put their faith in Christ.

Hmmm.... so your human body will live eternally?

 

[Peter King]

There is no soul, at least no eternal soul. Some sort of judgment, death for non-believers, eternal life for those who have put their faith in Christ.

So this non-existent god and his non-existent son would be so petty to deny "heaven" (which also does not exist) based on them not believing in christ? So the most peaceful/kind/most generous/life saving/saint like figure that lives in a country would be denied based on some doctrine? Sounds totally nonsense.

In this the Egyptians had it easier, you were collected by Osiris, your heart/soul would be weighed against a feather (pure and good heart) and if your heart/soul was as heavy or less heavy than the feather you would be allowed to the afterlife, if you failed you would be devoured by crocodile like creature and that would be your end, no afterlife, no hell. But it gave everybody the same chance of getting into the afterlife (according to their fantasy death cult views that is).

 

[calamity]

Nothing happens. If you've ever been under anesthesia for an operation, when the operation may have lasted a couple of hrs, but you don't remember a thing, that's what death is like. As if those hrs were a minute, after going unconscious with nurses and docs all around you, hanging over you, you wake up with just a couple of people nearby disconnecting and wheeling you away. Except, in death, you never regain consciousness. Never come out from under. No dreaming. No nothing. That's death. Unimaginable. Not even a thought of darkness. Or, you go to heaven, strum a harp on a cloud, meet again all your past relatives and loved ones in charming replete and graze in the nourishing grass of God and Christ your savior. Jews, Muslims, et al need not apply.

Likely true but BORING!

 

[beancounter]

When you die, the body becomes worm food, and the bio chemical electricity bouncing around your skull that is consciousness stops, and perhaps disperses as heat, but otherwise doesn't go anywhere as a cohesive unit.

 

[Mulefoot]

Hmmm.... so your human body will live eternally?

I think Biblically conditionalism (eternal existence is conditional on faith in Christ) is the most accurate. Complete death death and destruction, unless one takes the free gift of immortality offered freely.