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You know what's scary to think of?

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  • 20-10-2014 12:26am
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    PizzamanIRL
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    No, this isn't a religious belief thread.

    When you die, does everything stop forever or do you live on forever in some after life? I mean, picture a circle and pick a starting point on that circle. When you live your life, you have gone around that circle fully. Then what? That's it? Everything stops completely? Or you keep looping in some other life forever?

    I can picture it in my head better than I explain it in words. It's weird to think about. It makes you really want to live your life to the fullest instead of just going through the process of life until it's over.
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    Witcher
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    Liv evry day lik its ur last hun


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I think there is an afterlife.


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    Senna
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    Nope, once you're gone you're gone.


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    Macavity.
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    When you die, that's it. Anything else would be terrifying to me.


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    DazMarz
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    I want to be reincarnated as a bra


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    Captain Chaos
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    Being dead forever. Scary to think about but good thing you won't know anything about it when it happens. What else is scary is you were dead for 14 billion years before you were born. Have good long think about that and your head will start to hurt.


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    KERSPLAT!
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    When you die, that's it IMO. It's nothing, just like before you were born. But in reality, who knows?


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    Kevin McCloud
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    Its game over i say.


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    endacl
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I think there is an afterlife.

    Of course there is. You won't be in it though.


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    NIMAN
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    No-one knows, end of.

    And when you die you will find out ...... or else you won't.


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    Captain Chaos
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    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    When you die, that's it IMO. It's nothing, just like before you were born. But in reality, who knows?

    Logical reasoning. The only part of the bible that's true "from ashes to ashes, dust to dust"


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    Son Of A Vidic
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    DazMarz wrote: »
    I want to be reincarnated as a bra

    Be careful what you wish for. With obesity levels increasing worldwide, you might very well end up as a bra supporting some man boobs.


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    kneemos
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    Would modern man interact with Neanderthals?
    What about animals?It would be
    presumptuous to think we are the only ones with a soul.


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    BBDBB
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    There can be only one!


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    Kevin McCloud
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    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    Logical reasoning. The only part of the bible that's true "from ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

    Is the bible available on kindle do you know, it could be my next book.


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    Squeedily Spooch
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    Being eternally aware of yourself sounds awful. I like the idea we all have only a limited time here, make the best of it and don't worry about what happens at the end as nothing you can do will change it. This idea that there's pearly gates and nice man with a beard up there forever is just nonsense peddled to sell bibles.


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    Squeedily Spooch
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    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Is the bible available on kindle do you know, it could be my next book.

    It is and it's free, several versions of it too. I'd recommend everyone reads it, it was what finally turned me off believing in God. If more Christians read their bibles there'd be a lot less Christians. There's some horrific stuff in there.


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    kryogen
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    Everlasting life is the thing that has scared me most ever since I was a pre teen I think.

    When you're dead your dead. I hope.


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    mikeyjames9
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    It never bothered me 'til I became a parent


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    kneemos
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    Squeedily Spooch wrote: »
    Being eternally aware of yourself sounds awful. I like the idea we all have only a limited time here, make the best of it and don't worry about what happens at the end as nothing you can do will change it. This idea that there's pearly gates and nice man with a beard up there forever is just nonsense peddled to sell bibles.


    Good to be open to possibilities is it not?


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    The_Kew_Tour
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    Personally I hope there is no afterlife.

    If there was is it better be good.


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    Squeedily Spooch
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Good to be open to possibilities is it not?

    The possibility that we await eternal worship of a tyrannical god is absolutely terrifying to me.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Squeedily Spooch wrote: »
    The possibility that we await eternal worship of a tyrannical god is absolutely terrifying to me.

    Well if your sure that's what happens.


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    The_Kew_Tour
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    And who is to say God is the lovey dovey fella some portray him to be.

    If there is a God he could be a Nazi loving, Pol Pot worshipping man or woman(or both) for all we know.


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    Calibos
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Would modern man interact with Neanderthals?
    What about animals?It would be
    presumptuous to think we are the only ones with a soul.

    In fairness, its pretty presumptuous to think we have a soul never mind neanderthals :)

    I can assure you though that your Iphone has a soul.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6YnAqPv4w


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    Squeedily Spooch
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Well if your sure that's what happens.

    If you're a Christian that's exactly what happens. Love me or burn in hell.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Nobody Knows :pac:

    I'd be of the belief that when you're gone, you're gone. Humans can't comprehend the concept of "nothing" so it's very hard for us to imagine it. When we think of "nothing" we think of darkness, but even darkness is something.


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    shuffles88
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    I wish there was an afterlife so that I'd see people that I loved who had passed away again. But the logical side of me I doesn't believe that there is. I'd hope that in its dying moments that my brain creates a 'heaven' so I don't realise I'm going nowhere like how you often hear of people on their deathbeds 'seeing' their deceased loved ones in their dying moments.

    But the thing I like to think of when I get a case of the deep thinkies about life and death is the Carl Sagan quote "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." It brings me comfort to think that my make up is aeons old already.


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    Squeedily Spooch
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    The idea we just turn back into what we came from is far more comforting to me than spending eternity in as Christopher Hitchens put it, "a celestial North Korea". Don't question the leader or he'll send you to hell.


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    kneemos
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    Squeedily Spooch wrote: »
    If you're a Christian that's exactly what happens. Love me or burn in hell.

    Don't think they're doing hell anymore,just a tactic to scare the masses.
    Don't believe religion has much to do with God.If he has anything to do with Catholicism I think I'd opt for eternal blackness.


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