Your choice of afterlife

do i domininate the forum with my inteligence

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Assume there is a discovery that proves beyond any doubt that there is an afterlife, and the answer is in an envelope, and before you open you have to guess:

Which one do you consider to be the most plausible?
 
None of the above.

The nearest thing would be random reincarnation....

But why not a state undefinable to what we're accustomed to thinking about?

Could be we simply stop "being" and carry on as gods in our own little universes... if we ever get around to doing anything or wither away from there, who knows?

Then there's always the possibility we live on briefly before being devoured by something like Cthulhu.

Or whatever "leaves" rapidly dissipates into nothingness.

I could enumerate options all night, each a little more bizarre than the last.

Lotharg, the deity of blargh judges you for the quantity and quality of flatulence in your life, and then farts in your face accordingly.

Then maybe every bug you ever squashed gets to turn the table on you. And every animal who ever died to feed you gets a taste. And every human you ever met with gets a chance to kick you in the teeth. Every bacteria that ever got squished by your immune system gets to squish you back.

Could be every living thing is the SAME being reincarnating again and again. Then everything's auto-karma, since whatever you dish out, you eventually receive (or have received). This nearly fits a model that I prefer to use, rather than believe in as 'fact'. It makes you think about things in a balanced way.
 
Lotharg, the deity of blargh judges you for the quantity and quality of flatulence in your life, and then farts in your face accordingly.
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That warrants this philosophical question:
When you fart very loudly in a crowded room and smell up the place, is it considered a good fart or a bad fart (believe me, a fart like that is not considered to be both good and bad, either one or the other)?

The best fart I ever did set off the smoke alarms.
The worst one killed a mouse.
 
If ever there was a poll which needs a planet X option, it's this one.
 
reprise said:
If ever there was a poll which needs a planet X option, it's this one.
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I was very temped to put in the planet X option plus a few others. Perhaps it is a bit too close the random reincarnation.
 
I was not satisfied with any of those,but starting from the position that I do need to pick one,I did go for 5.
 
Yahweh said:

That warrants this philosophical question:
When you fart very loudly in a crowded room and smell up the place, is it considered a good fart or a bad fart (believe me, a fart like that is not considered to be both good and bad, either one or the other)?

The best fart I ever did set off the smoke alarms.
The worst one killed a mouse.
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I'm sure there will be holy wars aplenty to decide which.

When a trillion gallons of blood have been spilled over the issue, Noogah the god of holy wars will judge.
 
But (running the risk of throwing cold water on the thread), what if there isn't anything after this? What if, when you die, it is like going to sleep, and not waking up? In other words, I'm not too sure as to which would be the most plausable.

On a somewhat related note, has anyone here had (or know of someone who has had) a Near-Death experience?
 
crocodile deathroll said:
Assume there is a discovery that proves beyond any doubt that there is an afterlife, and the answer is in an envelope, and before you open you have to guess:


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My answer is,

"Open the envelope."
 
Temporal Renegade said:
But (running the risk of throwing cold water on the thread), what if there isn't anything after this? What if, when you die, it is like going to sleep, and not waking up? In other words, I'm not too sure as to which would be the most plausable.
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This is my belief - dreamless sleep, never to awake. One of my friends asked me if I wouldn't feel sad with this type of death. How? During life, I LIVE. After life, as in my billions of years before I lived, I felt nothing, knew nothing.

Now, if I had my choice, in the afterlife I would realize that there IS no afterlife, just a series of schools. When we are dead, we are in school. When we are alive is when we are taking that semester's finals. If we pass the finals then we go on to the next level of school in the afterlife, and awake to live the next test!

Of course the school would be of the best sort, with one-on-one instruction, no boring subjects, and the best props and demonstrations in the multiverse.

This would explain SO MUCH, 'cause I've met a lot of people in my life who have obviously been 'held back' a few semesters!
 
It's like when people attend a funeral--usually of a relative-- and wail & moan & rend their garments, saying how much they'll miss the deceased...when, in life, they didn't call, didn't visit, didn't send cards, nothing.
And then, ask, 'when's the reading of the will?'

For those people, Hell's not a bad idea.
 
I tend to go with the John Lennon belief, "It's like changing taxi's"

I'm not sure what that means, but hey if JOhn Lennon said it it's cool.

Really, on my death bed, if nothing happens I'm not going to be surprised. But a part of me likes to think of evangelical types going, "Hey, where are my virgins???"

"Hey, they let the Catholics in here!"

"Hey, I was supposed to come back as Tom Cruise this time!"

"Hey, God is Black!!!"

or simply just, "Hey..........."
 
The reality that hits home with me is how the non-mind skips though the most unimaginable periods of time like time does not exist. For example there is about 14 billion years between the big bang and your birth and did that seem like 14 billion years to you?

But if no mind ever emerged then this godless universe would be like a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it.
It is as though the universe in the absence of a god stumbled across the mind as the only means it can perceive itself.

I find the second last easily the most plausible as for this universe to preserve this constancy would switch you on somewhere else. Maybe planet X, who knows, as the universe is only perceiving itself through the eyes of you at the moment. The universe only needs one set of eyes to perceive itself at any one time.
 
None of the above.

Who would want to live forever? With all the fundy's? NAAAA
 
How about, "you exist as freestanding memes which are capable of being absorbed by other humans."

In other words, your ideas and the things you have said survive to influence and mold people you will never meet. Of course, this happens while you are alive too.

In the words of Edgar Lee Masters,
Immortality is not a gift. Immortality is an achievement;And only those who strive mightly shall possess it.
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c4ts said:
I want the ancient Egyptian afterlife.
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You have to stick a flaming hot metal needle up your nose, scramble your brains around untill they liquify, and let it drip out into a canopic jar first.

Also, when your entombed along with all your servants and food and plants and weapons and tools and food and writing materials and food such, that's ALL YOU GET, and then your out. Better make it last.
 
None of the above. I want to be able to travel the universe after I die, so I can continue to learn until there is nothing left to learn!
 
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