Obviously nobody has died (completely) who can tell us the answer to this question, but what do you guys think it’s like to die? Do we completely cease to exist as we know it, or do we stop perceiving but continue to live on in our memories? What do you think?
This is what it is LIKE:
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Discuss.
Oh, now I understand! Reading that reply was a waste of 2 seconds, and probably an attempt on your part to up your number of posts.
WW, though Satyr might not have been as explicit as he might, he was probably indicating by giving a empty wasteful reply that your chosen topic was pretty much devoid of any substance itself.
I’m inclined to agree. No meaningful discussion can be made about pure speculation, especially since you bring so little to the discussion by way of opinion yourself.
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I don’t think its useless at all. Do you wish to say that religion is devoid of any substance as well? My question is an attempt to find out what people believe. Some might say they will go to heaven, some might say nothing will happen at all. My question differs very slighly from the thread on “who is your favorite philosopher?”
Discussions about religious belief between believers are indeed devoid of substance. What exactly can they use to support their position?
At least with discussing “who is your favourite philosopher” there can be a comparison about some verifiable facts other than “this is what i believe, so ner”.
A thread where people simply state their opinion is a poll, not a discussion. There is no meaningful interaction.
If you want to know which of think there is an afterlife and which don’t then make a poll. Even if a discussion was formulated from this thread it would most probably simply become religion vs. secularism.
You people are so annoying.
WW,
I read the post and didn’t know what you meant. How coould we know what it’s like to be dead?
Are you asking us to imagine it or what?
I think I offered a representation of what I think it is like to be dead.
Notice the words, denoting activity, comprehension, conception, hypothesis, followed by brackets denoting an absence of words, a void, a nothing:
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That’s death.
“What cannot be spoken about must be passed over in silence.â€
Who said that?
At the risk of giving the impression of having ignored another current thread, I’d like to slip in this quote from Schopenhauer: “After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
In a lady’s tummy?
good ole ludwig. yeah, what he said.
Perhaps rephrasing the original question might help out here. If I may WW.
What is death? Is it end of all knowledge, then if it be so why gain knowledge just to lose it. In death do we lose all or do we gain. Does death begin or end or perhaps another step.
It would be hard to concieve that all knowledge gained over a lifetime is lost due to our body’s function ending. A soul when released must do something for energy does not stop, it changes form. So what perhaps becomes of the energy that was us?
- Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.
epicurus.net/en/principal.html
Yeah, what Ludwig said…
Nonsense… I died once.
It’s just ego death, your consciousness lives on… but you are without a body. You can’t think about anything in particular, or with any point of view. You simply think.
When you’re born (again) your body blocks out almost everything you really know at some level… until you learn it again. Plato was pretty close, but we have no souls… we all just go back to that panpsychistic place where every possibility for the existence of matter exists at a singularity. We’re always both alive and dead, it’s like there is a cable in the back of my mind connecting to the singularity/death. When I’m there… there is also a ‘cable’ connecting to my live self in the different possibilities for my existence within matter.
That’s right… we all know each other’s deepest secrets in the back of our minds, we all know everything, that’s why all of us have the potential to interact with matter at the genius level, even if for some people it’s an obsolete ability like… picking up thumbtacks really fast, or something.
Through drugs you can come pretty close to this state, while not completely. The only difference is that when you die… you don’t slowly come resume where you left off - you start back at the beginning.
Game over.
its like sleeping. i was strangled almost to death once. its fun!
i suppose being burned to death would be a bit different though.
Did you have an orgasm?
quite a few.
actually i cried because i was young and i got my ass kicked while unconscious. when i woke up needless to say i was in pain.
thanks for being sensitive though.
So, you’re into getting strangled to orgasm?
no