What do you believe happens when we die

I think that when we die we just continue whatever dream we are in. Hope mine is not a nightmare though.

It's fun to speculate but let's not mistake speculation with what actually happens based on the evidence. As far as the evidence goes, what we actually know is that absolutely nothing happens after we die. As far as we know consciousness emerges from the brain and when we die the brain dies, consciousness and everythingelse the body does, stops. We cease to exist and our body decomposes. That's all we know according to the evidence.

Let's say your next door neighbours are annoying, but they're substantially older than you. Some day they'll move out, or get put into a home... but no! Now they're immortal, like cancer cells, and you're stuck with them forever.

Youth, growth, maturity, ageing and death are a fundamental part of human existence (and the existence of every other fúcking thing too, from stars to galaxies to plants to animals to fungi) so if immortality is a thing, at which point in the cycle do we get stuck? Do we get to choose? If you marry more than once, which spouse are you stuck with? If half your limbs are blown off in an unfortunate accident at age 40, in which state are you preserved?

Motivation on a grey Monday morning can be hard to find, what's the motivation when you know that you are stuck in an infinite cycle and everything goes on unchanging forever (you can't even kill yourself) - the ultimate Groundhog Day?

It's fúcking stupid. Nonsense for thick people.

Sure. We don't know if the eastern religions invented the notion of reincarnation.

Whoever invented it, as far as we can tell, they didn't do it based on evidence.

When you think of the comforts people enjoy relative to those who preceded us a hundred years ago, the Jesus-bound storytelling is less attractive than the scientific, if abstruse concepts about space-time. I think of my grandmother who had nine children, two of which died in infancy, the idealized, immaterial comfort of reuniting with "loved ones" in an afterlife seemed logical.

We are now way past a world where people poked only 25clicks from their place of birth and simple domestication. The middling classes can save enough to hop on a plane to far-flung places and gather different points of view at a glance, which to my father, in the early 1930s via Christian brothers education, were presented as barbaric, or deficient when compared to Western Christian tradition.

Bottom line is that nobody knows and we will never know as we are not as clever as they think we are.

Personally, the end is the end. Yeah, sure it's nice to think there is an afterlife where we can have the craic with the lads for all eternity but IMO **** ain't like that unfortunately.

Have no idea but don't have any doubt God exists.

Was she around during the Holocaust?

Like, oddly both omnipotent and impotent, simultaneously and for all time.

I believe she might want to be known as "they".

I chose other.

All we are is molecules and atoms. When we die. The universe just absorbs us back. They might become lots of different things.

I like to think this as it makes it easier when a loved one dies. Specially when explain to kids.