What do you think happens after death?

Hobbit's picture

I guess this would make a good polling question, but I wanted to see if anyone had some crazy theories?

Personaly, I think it would be cool if after we died we went to another world were everyone would have already lived one life and was a little wiser because of it. This would happen many times over,time we would be someone different and learn something new, but remember our old lives. That way we could begin to understand the universe over many life times, and eventualy we would end up somewhere kind of like heaven except a thousand times more exciting.

The other version is that me and most of the interesting people I know are going to be partying in hell, as my friends and I say "at least we're going to hell in good company"

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that your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?
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hellonwheels's picture

ash to ash, dust to dust...

Personally, I think when you die, you die...I mean think about it, people are natural life forms right? I think your theory sounds a little bit like bhudism, where you are re-incarnated into a different life.

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ally_hawk1ns's picture

interresting theories!!

hmm...i dunno,i kind of believe in something like reincarnation..because energy can neither be created or destroyed,where does it go?thats what bothers me..hmm...i'll have to think on this one.i'll post back later..

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oldfoxbob's picture

Well this is not my first life on earth

I believe in reincarnation. I can remember parts
of my past lives. I was a roman citizen,
A greek citizen and military fighter.
A french trooper in the late 1600's and killed in battle
I fought in the revolutionary war.
I was a Civil war trooper on the southern side.
I died in WWII as a german submariner.
and now me as I am.
Life is strange at times. And I lived thru the
times that were strange.
Oldfoxbob
you are loved.

EGLolita's picture

Sometimes I wonder if souls r

Sometimes I wonder if souls really are recylced, but then other times I wonder if the so called 'heaven' isn't just a place a lot like this... Maybe when we die it's just one never ending dream from there on... or there's always that possibility that all this right here is a dream and when we 'wake up' is really when we die.

~My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly, my friend~ Queen

Adam A's picture

this life is but a bridge to

this life is but a bridge to the next

Morgan's picture

Existence After Transition

According to the Baghavad Gita, you get what you anticipate, after you are done here. I believe in everything, so I can go anywhere, and do anything. I'm also NOT coming back. I see no further use of Physical Existence. To me, living here is like a jail. It's so limiting. Low density existence rocks. So does the concept of Truth, and life here is a bunch of speculative hooey.

I mean, how do we know the history books are right? I mean the news is sure a crock of doo-doo. Government controlled media isn't even worth absorbing.

Panic Motion's picture

Lady and the tramp too.

All dogs go to heaven.

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Adam A's picture

is that you this time panic m

is that you this time panic motion?! coz if tis u'r hot! just gotta get rid of that facial hair it's feral

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LOL. It might be me, it depends no how well you play your cards...and how much you pay ;P

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the ghost's picture

I think you continue on much

I think you continue on much as you did in this life.If your a good person you will continue along the same path,if your bad you continue down that road.

Shenlong the Arcane's picture

Reincarnation. Simple enough,

Reincarnation. Simple enough, right?

commander147's picture

nuttin... you get one chance

nuttin... you get one chance to do it right, and thats all you get... "i shall pass this way but once, and so I shall do what good I can now, for I shall never pass this way again."

I R Eddyoucaytered

King David's picture

Rein... To the definite

U definitely get reincarnated... I've had people tell me that I know to much about the Greeks and WW2 to have been here only 1ce so it only makes sense to go on into a different life

“Someday, after we master the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, then we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for a second time in history, man will have discovered fire.

BryceW331's picture

Yeah!!!

I have one word for you guys: Thanatopsis.

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SilentBlue's picture

Pretty much nothing

I think that when we die we just get recycled as energy.

booboo's picture

2 opts

heaven or hell

"you're not finish if you loose, but
you're finish if you quit"

raining men's picture

After

After I die everyone I know will throw a really big party to celebrate the fact they don't have to talk to me anymore. Lucky bastards - I'll be stuck with me for the rest of eternity

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ing"

Adam A's picture

oooh u'r so cute! bury me wit

oooh u'r so cute! bury me with you!

TheSohoSai's picture

What happens after we die? H

What happens after we die? Hopefully, we go to the morgue.

In a more spiritual sense, I believe in reincarnation.

Come on and stand/Come on now, stand/Come on and stand/Plant your sword in the sand/In this age of unreason/There's a time and a season for love/Stand.
--The Kennedys

utter_insanity's picture

Crazy theory

I don't really believe in much of a religion or anything, but I like to think that we all go to our own little heavens. Scientists go to a place where they can figure out all the secrets of the universe, writers go to a place where they can write all the time, couch potatoes go to a place where they can always watch TV, etc. And we can all visit each other in all of the different heavens, so we can still be with our loved ones, too. :)

~~Gay And Here To Stay~~

help_me_god's picture

I'm in love with you... :P

I'm in love with you... :P I love this view... Lets start our own religion! Actually, This is kinda what I believe too... I hope its true!

Book_Freak's picture

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What a kewl way to look at it! Actually, that kinda reminds me of the show, Ghost Whisperer. Where after you die you just kinda head toward your own light....

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"There's a fine line between love and hate
And I don't mind
Just let me say that I like that
I like that"

the mouse that roared's picture

well

With my head, I don't really believe that people live on as conscious beings after they die. However, my spiritual view of the world is that people are connected through webs of energy, that the air is full of spirit-waves and not just sound or light ones. Everyone's inner nature affects and influences everyone else's and I think this happens on a gut level, not just a physical or lighter emotional one.

When my friend was so sick he could have died, we came up with this lovely little athiest intellectual proof:

1. Life is change.
2. People affect each other's lives through ripples of change.
3. After you die, those ripples continue, but they change with the people that remember them.
4. Because memories of you/your influence are changing, your essence is changing, and thus you are still alive, at least in the most basic of ways.

Are you hanging on to something useless just because you think it's beautiful?
--William Zinsser

Shenlong the Arcane's picture

Reincarnation. Either into an

Reincarnation. Either into another life here or on a different plane of existence.

erik's picture

either heaven, ie being able

either heaven, ie being able to do whatever you like-be reborn or go sit on a cloud somewhere with a harp or whatever you fancy, having passed the test which this life is...or hell, where you failed the test and either you failed so miserably that you dont get another chance and wander forever in oblivion with no one to talk to but your fellowed damned who arent that talkative, or you get another shot at the test which is this relatively unpreditable earth we currently inhabit.

stupid enough's picture

I don't know... My family's C

I don't know... My family's Catholic so I got the heaven hell thing raised into me. Then all my friends are just like, "You die and that's it." I mean, that's a scary thought for me so I guess it would make a person hope for something other than a dead end. That makes me question anything is after death and think that maybe people just make up these things as a comfort. I don't know. I suppose... comfort is better than being afraid? Still I can't have faith in this or that.

Riku's picture

Nothing. I think everything j

Nothing. I think everything just stops and that's it. No more. Not exactly the most optimistic veiw in the world. In fact, at times, I hate it. (Actually, I often hate it.) But I don't think I could bring myself to belive anything else at this point.

I think, humans are just really complicated machines, which are made up of tons of smaller machines that work together. (And these machines are made up of even smaller machines. Heh.) And when the machines stop then that's it. But. That's just my veiw on the subject.

peanut_gallery's picture

I agree completely. It's sad,

I agree completely. It's sad, though.

darla07's picture

I think it kinda stops...

I think that after death everyone and everything for that person kinda stops,and holds for a moment then they are expelled from their body and reincarnated spiritually and put into a different time,place,and being to continue life with only memories of there past life! I don't know...all I know is that I have been a saint so far.Death isn't something we should fear,we should welcome it,that doesn't mean go run in front of a car mind you,it just means its a part of life,or at least thats what my sociology teacher says!

"I am no more than human than anyone else"
"You should stand back and take a good look around"

QuakerOats's picture

My friend says that after you

My friend says that after you die there's just closeness-- closeness to everybody you love, except your bodies and life and crap dont' get in the way. I add a bit of unity with God in there, and that's what I think.

Inkblot's picture

Hm...

That's interesting. I think you phrased rather well what I think. Right on.

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black_sheep's picture

I am the owner of the strange theory

I believe you become apart of everything. My idea of God is everything and the fabric of the very universe, not an outside force. I don't believe in Hell either. I always thought eternal damnation was harsh. I think that there are only lessons and a chance to start over. So in my afterlife, everyone and everything is connected. You become apart of what is God. I also believe in reincarnation.

People are strange when you're a stranger...

ally_hawk1ns's picture

....hm. "To hide from

....hm.

"To hide from true love is to hide from life."

whateversexual_llama's picture

I believe in belief

I believe that if you believe in reincarnation, you will be reincarnated, if you believe in hevan and hell, you go to one of those, if you believe that there's another world after this one, then you go to that world. The only problem with t his theory is it doesn't leave me with anywhere to go...

Be yourself. Because if you're busy being someone else, then who's gonna be you?

lost_in_wonderland's picture

i'm just trying to get this l

i'm just trying to get this life....i don't wanna have to think about the next. to be honest, i really don't think about what happens in the afterlife. the most i know is that we die...that's it...

"Yes! No! Oh, damn!"

corcra-carraig's picture

nothing

nothing

ForeverEndedToday's picture

you get eaten by worms.

you get eaten by worms.

She said live young and leave a wake of beauty,
it's all I ever could have asked
should have asked from you,
and I wont forget to write you
when I get there soon
cause you'll be lying dead from dreaming (nightmares)

Hobbit's picture

yay, my post got resurrected!

yay, my post got resurrected! for anyone who like this kind of random philosophy stuff, i definitely reccomend the book Jonathon Livingston seagull.

ooohhh, and i am totaly for starting personal religions. my friends and i made one in middle school where we prayed to ours school's vending machine. another time my friend proposed a religion where we worshiped a picture of some pasta. we were very cool, btw.

hugs, luck, and peace

So when you're asked to fight a war thats over nothing
Its best to join the side thats gonna win
No ones sure how all of this got started
But we're gonna make 'em God damn certain how its gonna end

unslept_soul's picture

good question

when you die your soul is recycled. I choose not ot believe in hell.

"We are god's unwanted children, so be it!" -Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

UnReal31337's picture

I think our conciousness leav

I think our conciousness leaves our body and goes to a higher realm where all over conciousness lies.

Sway's picture

I don't believe in heaven or

I don't believe in heaven or hell and I don't want to believe that there's nothing after we die. So, I'd have to say that our soul becomes one with nature or we get reborn. Would make sense, don't you think? I believe in NDE and memories from past lives, so that gives me some hope.

Though, I've found the thought that there's nothing after death can be quite motivating for me to do all the things I want but I'm afraid to. I mean, think about it: when will I get another chance to?

-Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?
-Uh, you know I meant to, and then I just got really busy.

juggala with a mind's picture

understand me people

when you die pple say you sit in the best part of you life over and over i say your mind creates a world you imaganed yor whole life and puts you there to live eternally