What Happens When We Die?

Hank_Jones · 24-01-2010 09:29AM #1

Just thought I'd go all philosophical, feel like working through some of my thoughts about what I think happens after we die.

Personally I always thought that when we die, we end up in a big long queue, in somewhere similar to the dole office.
Of course the line is never going anywhere because it's a public run office, as opossed to private.
So the remainder of existence is spent in pretty much the same spot, looking around and complaining about how the line is not going anywhere.

Must remember to bring a book...

So people, what are your thoughts on the beginning of the end?

Or should that be the end of the end...

SoupyNorman · 24-01-2010 09:31AM

Nothing, you'll be dead. What do you remember before you were born? Nothing!

Your body will rot in the ground, that will happen.

Spiritoftheseventies · 24-01-2010 09:32AM

someone else gets your username AFAIK

Super-Rush · 24-01-2010 09:37AM

I become you mwahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

TanG411 · 24-01-2010 09:57AM

We stop living.

Ickle Magoo · 24-01-2010 10:02AM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

Your body will rot in the ground, that will happen.

Unless he gets cremated....:pac:

Sharpshooter · 24-01-2010 10:06AM

You go on up to the spirit in the sky.

rednik · 24-01-2010 10:08AM

The worms come out to play.:eek:

Sharpshooter · 24-01-2010 10:10AM

rednik wrote: »

The worms come out to play.:eek:

Are they as good as the Beatles? :pac:

WalterMitty · 24-01-2010 10:11AM

rednik wrote: »

The worms come out to play.:eek:

Put that away!!!!!!

WalterMitty · 24-01-2010 10:14AM

Maybe we can exist outside of the temporal spacial constraints of this universe.

rednik · 24-01-2010 10:14AM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Are they as good as the Beatles? :pac:

Slightly different style to the Beatles, not as good but they have been around forever.;)

Joey the lips · 24-01-2010 10:15AM

That moaney oul cow you have been living with gets a whole lot of money to go out and get p1ssed.....O and you get a new suit. Never understand why you get new shoes though. Its not like your going to need them.

CreepingDeath · 24-01-2010 10:16AM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Personally I always thought that when we die, we end up in a big long queue, in somewhere similar to the dole office.

That's the film Beetlejuice you're thinking of.

We're in a very privileged position on earth, top of the food chain.
If there is life after death, then there's probably an entire food chain of life after death and no guarantees we're at the top there. We could be the equivalent of a blade of grass.

Karl Hungus · 24-01-2010 10:23AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc

Naikon · 24-01-2010 10:55AM

It's a bit like before you were born. Nothing. You won't have any awareness of the fact that you are dead. You basically rot in the ground. Death = The End.

suitseir · 24-01-2010 11:09AM

Maybe this is how it happens.....

If you believe that, you die, that's it, end of the story, then that's what is going to happen to you.

But maybe if you believe that there is something else, like re-incarnation, a spiritual after life, then perhaps that is what will happen to those who believe in an after life.......

It is FASHIONABLE to believe in nothing..........

Ickle Magoo · 24-01-2010 11:17AM

suitseir wrote: »

It is FASHIONABLE to believe in nothing..........

Eh, I don't think fashion can force people to believe in nothing - they clearly didn't really believe it in the first place if a fad can shift their faith.

Joey the lips · 24-01-2010 11:19AM

Carefull..... they are wakeing up......

Naikon · 24-01-2010 11:21AM

suitseir wrote: »

Maybe this is how it happens.....

If you believe that, you die, that's it, end of the story, then that's what is going to happen to you.

But maybe if you believe that there is something else, like re-incarnation, a spiritual after life, then perhaps that is what will happen to those who believe in an after life.......

It is FASHIONABLE to believe in nothing..........

Wanting something to be true does not make it true.
Logic ftw!

kowloon · 24-01-2010 11:52AM

suitseir wrote: »

It is FASHIONABLE to believe in nothing..........

I thought it was fashionable to be an extremist.
Nobody tells me these things and I end up looking like I'm not up with the cool kids. Must make a point of catching Exposes religion and philosophy segment, apparently skinny jeans and Hegel are in this season.

Hank_Jones · 24-01-2010 11:58AM

At the risk of showing how completely uncool I am...

Wtf is Hegel?

Prof.Badass · 24-01-2010 12:00PM

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mulching

Bluetonic · 24-01-2010 12:10PM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

You go on up to the spirit in the sky.

That's where I'm gonna go when I die.

plein de force · 24-01-2010 12:10PM

you rot in the ground or get reduced to ashes

Spiritoftheseventies · 24-01-2010 12:24PM

a lot of non believers on this thread.

robby^5 · 24-01-2010 12:28PM

Well you die and then it's probably a lot like before you were born.

Hank_Jones · 24-01-2010 12:52PM

vinylmesh wrote: »

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mulching

Not my kind of thing but whatever floats your boat.

Sicko.

Wibbs · 24-01-2010 12:52PM

I dont think the "it'll be the same as before you were born" holds that much logical water.

One could easily argue the difference between before you were born and after you die, is that unique information came together to give rise to you and your particular consciousness. That didnt exist before. It's a forward moving thing. Otherwise why aren't you a baby, or a 9 year old?

Now that information may well dissipate and that's it. But if consciousness is an emergent quantum vibe then its possible that some of that info, "you" may survive. Of course it may require the complexity of the brain to sustain that and when that falls apart then so does the info. What interests me is how long after official "death" does this happen? It's at least imaginable that some part of "you" continues or is reabsorbed back into the universe, just like the components of you go back to the worms etc. It will not be consciousness as we know it though.

I always liked the notion espoused by some religions that you become one with the "God head". Maybe you become one with the universe in a very profound way. We are part of the universe, like a blood cell is part of you, so maybe.... It would also solve a lot of the issues around the simple immortality of the soul thought of by many.

24-01-2010 12:55PM

Lots of people you don't know or can't stand turn up for a feed.

Seriously I had a near death experience. I know you will all mock. So I know there is something after death.

Hank_Jones · 24-01-2010 01:05PM

magnumlady wrote: »

Lots of people you don't know or can't stand turn up for a feed.

Seriously I had a near death experience. I know you will all mock. So I know there is something after death.

I think the closest that I came to a near death experience was...

I was 18 and on a bus. I was fairly hammered and I ring the bell for the bus to stop, bus driver opens the door while the bus is still moving.
Me being the feckin eejit that I am thought that the bus was stopped, the driver is hardly going to open the door when the bus is moving surely.
So I hop off the bus and vmmmpp my legs go from under me and I do several rolls along the ground.
Nothing worse than a few scratches but it could have gone a lot worse, could have gone under the bus.

Ugghh kind of shudder thinking about it.

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