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answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?



*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *

1) You get eaten by the giant fish of Zarglon 6.
2) I've seen it happen.

Dude, did you really have to do this...?

We have lunch...

1. I have no clue, but I can say for certain our bodies will rot in the ground
2. everyone's body decays, unless your covered in 40 gallons of embalming fluid like Lenin

Dude, did you really have to do this...?
i want to see the religious debate fly :P

thought it might be fun just before i go to bed (is it sad i'm on NS just before i got to bed :confused: )

1) You get eaten by the giant fish of Zarglon 6.
2) I've seen it happen.
http://media.hormel.com/images/refimages/museum%20press%20kit/Amazing%20but%20true%20web.jpg

how did you know?! :eek:

:p

2. everyone's body decays, unless your covered in 40 gallons of embalming fluid like Lenin

Mine will be covered in lemon meringue, so that the giant fish of Zarglon 6 may enjoy feasting upon me and forgive my sins.

1. I'm not sure, but I think this thread will be able to tell us soon.
2. It's just a hunch.

thought it might be fun just before i go to bed (is it sad i'm on NS just before i got to bed :confused: )

I can't think of anything more exciting to do right before bed.

we will get to meet Elvis .

1.) I get reincarted as the headmaster of the "Reform School for Wayward Playboy Bunny Cheerleader Nurses" in Tahititi, with a small Swedish Scientific Bikini team present to wait on me hand & foot through eternity.

2.) I read it on a Forum somewhere - the 'net don't lie, my friends.

~FLG

1. If you have excepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savoir, you go to heaven, a place of eternal joy and happiness. You also go there if you are below the age of accountability or lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend the Good News. Everyone else goes to Hell, a place of pain, suffering and eternal separation from God.

2. Faith. Can’t explain it to a non-believer. It would be like explaining sight to a man who has been blind his whole life. Only God can do that. Perhaps he would use a believer to tell the Good News to one, perhaps he would use a book, a song or even nature.

Heaven or hell
I know

The faithful go to the french laundry, and the kafrs go to the kafrteria.

Cmon valhalla cmon valhalla. Daddy needs a new pair of random fights each day.

1. If you have excepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savoir, you go to heaven, a place of eternal joy and happiness. You also go there if you are below the age of accountability or lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend the Good News. Everyone else goes to Hell, a place of pain, suffering and eternal separation from God.

2. Faith. Can’t explain it to a non-believer. It would be like explaining sight to a man who has been blind his whole life. Only God can do that. Perhaps he would use a believer to tell the Good News to one, perhaps he would use a book, a song or even nature.

What is heaven without shotguns, porn, or casinos?
And what is hell without money, Air Conditioning, or television

I'd rather stay on Earth, thank you very much!

bah, i'm making my own heaven... with hookers! and blackjack!
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1. We just decay. We don't know because we would be dead. There is no god or anything like that. I defy rhetoric like what undelia uses (it seems to me the blind are ultra-religious people, not non-religious people). No such thing as heaven or hell. Just two human invented terms. I'm on terms that this is the only life we have and we should live it to its fullest. I also accept death as a normal cycle. I don't fear it.

2. I just know.

bah, i'm making my own heaven... with hookers! and blackjack!
[/bender] ;)

Actually, forget the heaven. ;)

We get reincarnated. This I know because my mother told me so. No, actually my mother said that when I was three and four I would recount to her horridly vivid details of watching my family starve to death around me in India.

I also am with a man who shared a past life with me. I didn't realize it until a conversation we had. I have always had this "vision" of a certain place with detailed people and I knew the layout of the town very well. I was telling him about it one day and he seemed perplexed. He mentioned a description of one person and it was identical to one of the people I envisioned. It turns out he knew exactly what I was talking about, but we've never actually been there (at least in this life).

bah, i'm making my own heaven... with hookers! and blackjack!
[/bender] ;)

Now THAT would be paradise!

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?



*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *

Damnit all-i was going to make the smartass retort, "you get buried...worms crawl through your entrails...desentegrate"
-but alas and alack-
there is a wide array of possibilities...so many that i can't even choose one because my basis for each is as hypothetical as the next
-short answer-i've no bloody clue

We get reincarnated. This I know because my mother told me so. No, actually my mother said that when I was three and four I would recount to her horridly vivid details of watching my family starve to death around me in India.

I also am with a man who shared a past life with me. I didn't realize it until a conversation we had. I have always had this "vision" of a certain place with detailed people and I knew the layout of the town very well. I was telling him about it one day and he seemed perplexed. He mentioned a description of one person and it was identical to one of the people I envisioned. It turns out he knew exactly what I was talking about, but we've never actually been there (at least in this life).

If you can verify this stuff, you could be in line for $1,000,000 from the James Randi Educational Foundation. Here's the link:

http://www.randi.org

Lol, another impossible reward.

Mine will be covered in lemon meringue, so that the giant fish of Zarglon 6 may enjoy feasting upon me and forgive my sins.

So will mine. But only because of the incident that will cause my death. :p

If you can verify this stuff, you could be in line for $1,000,000 from the James Randi Educational Foundation. Here's the link:

http://www.randi.org

How does remembering a past life count as having super powers? It wouldn't fall under the guidlines of the contest as being able to demonstrate occult powers. I don't have telekinesis even though my name is Carrie. :(

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?

*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *

1) Hordes of rabid Mogwai utilise the gooey eyesockets of our decayed skulls to satisfy their sick, twisted Mogwai appetites...

2) It said so in the Apocrypha to the Second Book of Nebettnibott.

Personally, I believe that at the moment of our death, our perceptions detach from external stimuli and turn internal. As the mere moments of neural activity that remain stretch toward infinity, our minds create the 'afterlife' in which we will spend our eternity. This afterlife will be based on our own hopes, fears, self-value and percieved shortcomings and can be as blissful or nightmarish as we believe we deserve to experience.

I base this theory on a hidden message in a 'Bazooka Joe' comic strip that came with my bubble gum. :)

1) Hordes of rabid Mogwai utilise the gooey eyesockets of our decayed skulls to satisfy their sick, twisted Mogwai appetites...

2) It said so in the Apocrypha to the Second Book of Nebettnibott.

patently false. the invisible pink unicorn, naturally, would save the most faithful from such fates. if you say please. and give pizza in thanks.

1. I have no clue, but I can say for certain our bodies will rot in the ground
2. everyone's body decays, unless your covered in 40 gallons of embalming fluid like Lenin

No, not everyone

http://www.livingmiracles.net/Incorrupt.html

patently false. the invisible pink unicorn, naturally, would save the most faithful from such fates. if you say please. and give pizza in thanks.

I think it said the Invisible Pink Unicorn will save your 'soul' from such ravages... but it looks like the gooey eyesockets still get brutally explored.

Mmmmm, Pizza.

So - I can sacrifice my Pizza, to save my eyesockets... or I can suffer an eternity of Mogwai-pillaging, but eat my pizza now?

Is there Pepperoni?

1) We eat your corpse
2) I ate one once.

I think it said the Invisible Pink Unicorn will save your 'soul' from such ravages... but it looks like the gooey eyesockets still get brutally explored.

Mmmmm, Pizza.

So - I can sacrifice my Pizza, to save my eyesockets... or I can suffer an eternity of Mogwai-pillaging, but eat my pizza now?

Is there Pepperoni?

I shall answer you paragraph for paragraph

paragraph one: lies. perhaps the invisible pink unicorn will have such a fate for you, as your price for lack of faith.

paragraph 2: it's not for you.

paragraph 3:As said above, regardless of your pizza giving status, the invisible pink unicorn, inbetween messing about with carbon dating, screwing around with animals to "look" like evolution and moving the tectonic plates, all for the sole purpose of bewildering scientists, will consign you to Mogwai eye pillaging of the worst order. if it's a 18" pizza, it might only be 3/4 of an eternity.

paragraph 4: in unicorn heaven, I will gaze down at you with disdain with my pepperoni pizza. You will only have 4 week old anchovie pizza. and sore eye sockets.

2. everyone's body decays, unless your covered in 40 gallons of embalming fluid like Lenin

Thanks for the tip - I have the embalming fluid on order.

I shall answer you paragraph for paragraph

paragraph one: lies. perhaps the invisible pink unicorn will have such a fate for you, as your price for lack of faith.

paragraph 2: it's not for you.

paragraph 3:As said above, regardless of your pizza giving status, the invisible pink unicorn, inbetween messing about with carbon dating, screwing around with animals to "look" like evolution and moving the tectonic plates, all for the sole purpose of bewildering scientists, will consign you to Mogwai eye pillaging of the worst order. if it's a 18" pizza, it might only be 3/4 of an eternity.

paragraph 4: in unicorn heaven, I will gaze down at you with disdain with my pepperoni pizza. You will only have 4 week old anchovie pizza. and sore eye sockets.

Please, NO!

The eye-pillaging is not the problem... I mean, what's new, eh?

And the three-quarter damnation... well, hell - who hasn't done that?

But .... ANCHOVIES!!!!

I DO believe in Pink Unicorns! I DO believe in Pink Unicorns. I do, I do, I do, I do, I do....

1. If you have excepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savoir, you go to heaven, a place of eternal joy and happiness.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Presumably you mean 'accepted' not 'excepted', or this sentence means completely the opposite of what you intend it to say...

1. Your souls go to me, fueling me with power until I can sunder my accursed prison, and bring oblivion to your wretched world.
2. I am Death Incarnate.

1) If you die unfulfilled, your psyche will linger in the afterlife, vainly attempting to "complete" your life. If you die fulfilled, or have given up on trying to fullfill it, you'll enter oblivion.

2) White Wolf doesnt lie !

/tinfoilhat

No, not everyone

http://www.livingmiracles.net/Incorrupt.html

Alright, so they didn't mummify or embalm these people, they but them in glass cases filled with special gases that eliminate the bacteria that causes decay, take them out and slowly but surely watch their skin decay.

It's pretty simple what happens after you die. Remember what it was like before you were born? Well, it's just like that.

It's pretty simple what happens after you die. Remember what it was like before you were born? Well, it's just like that.

Actually before we were born we can be considered "living" just not sentient, therefor, we weren't technically "alive"

When you die, you are niether of the two, so, your just another piece of junk in the ground, like old beer cans, and dirty pennies.

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?



*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *

You get out into the ground...

and then you rot.

Thats pretty much it.

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?



*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *


I think that your energy/spirt/soul go somewhere-maybe not heaven but a higher form of consiousness.

either that or you become the main course for a party of worms :p

I think that your energy/spirt/soul go somewhere-maybe not heaven but a higher form of consiousness.

either that or you become the main course for a party of worms :p

Hmmm, I haven't seen many people on NS who believe in Trancendense...but that does create an intereresting thought.

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die? (minus the obvious answer of 'you get buried' or similar :rolleyes: )
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?



*sits back, hopes/expects this to get good in a bit :D *

1. You, that is the consciouse being, ceases to exist. The matter that was once the body your brain influenced then becomes something else (like dirt or grass).

2. With god, the soul, and the supernatural having been disproved and the Physical World recognized as the only world, there is no other possible outcome.

1. A necrophiliac hunts you down.
2. Oh...I KNOW. :eek:

Actually before we were born we can be considered "living" just not sentient, therefor, we weren't technically "alive"

When you die, you are niether of the two, so, your just another piece of junk in the ground, like old beer cans, and dirty pennies.

I think you misunderstood me. By before you were born I don't mean your experience as a fetus. I meant before you were concieved. Essentially, from whence you came, so shall you return. That of course leaves open the question of what is it that you arose from and thus will return too. Which of course is a question that can only be awnsered by the individual contemplating the question.

I'm really hoping for reincarnation, but I'm betting on a void of non-existance. :(

1. I hope for sweet oblivion, because being incarnated again and again or existing forever in some paradise or hell seems to be quite boring. Well, maybe not hell, but I'm not to eager to see for my own.
2. I just hope

patently false. the invisible pink unicorn, naturally, would save the most faithful from such fates. if you say please. and give pizza in thanks.
all hail the IPU!

If the Cubs win the World Series before I die, I go to a magical and happy place.. but if they don't, my soul wanders the Earth until they do.. then I shall be at peace. Either way, I aint leaving the earth until it happens, that's a fact.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Presumably you mean 'accepted' not 'excepted', or this sentence means completely the opposite of what you intend it to say...
I can’t spell and spell check can’t spot a misused word. :p

Well. When you say die you mean the body. You know for (almost) certain that IT dies. But does the mind? That is not shown in any way. So my thinking is thus: our mind is given perception (life) through a body, when this dies (haven't quite figured out why it dies- maybe because perception must be rules to be understood- so death is another rule) the mind simply "picks up" another. There is an infinite abundance of perception which the existing mind uses. This gives existence (the mind) a purpose ("life"), and it seems pretty plausable to me.

and so on. i think it depends on a man's beliefs. :mp5:
a buddhist will be reincarnated. :sniper:
a christian will go to hell. :gundge:
atheist will someday think about it and create something for himself.
and so on.

I think it should be a non-question. If our earthly lives have been used to the greatest extent, what happens next isn't important; if anything, it'll be either a pleasant surprise or a justified Righteous Indignation.

After you die you see a film of your life passing in 50 seconds and then your spirt guide will tell you the bad things you have done in your life if you understand if that what you did is bad you go see your family members in Heaven if you dont understand the bad things you done will happen to you in your next life on earth. This is all true I had a near Death experience like this.

i think it depends on a man's beliefs.
a buddhist will be reincarnated.
a christian will go to hell.
atheist will someday think about it and create something for himself.
and so on.

I think you're right on the money. Whatever archetypes hold sway over your psyche, those will dictate what happens to your essence in the afterlife. I'd like to think there's a certain amount of conscious control over these archetypes, but that just might be down to individual will or determination.

Although technically, Thonthang, Christians do stand a (lopsided) chance of making it into Heaven - or Limbo if you're Catholic, even.

After you die you see a film of your life passing in 50 seconds and then your spirt guide will tell you the bad things you have done in your life if you understand if that what you did is bad you go see your family members in Heaven if you dont understand the bad things you done will happen to you in your next life on earth. This is all true I had a Death experience like this.

Was it a near death experience or an acid trip?

Hmm

Was it a near death experience or an acid trip?

Could've been 'shrooming. Never count out the power of the 'shroom.

Amen

After the film of understanding happens What I also have to say is that there will be to all a very very Bright light as everyone gets to speak with God. God will ask you to stay in heaven for as long as you want too. because the soul lives ON!!!!!!

After you die you see a film of your life passing in 50 seconds and then your spirt guide will tell you the bad things you have done in your life if you understand if that what you did is bad you go see your family members in Heaven if you dont understand the bad things you done will happen to you in your next life on earth. This is all true I had a near Death experience like this.
Unfortunatly nobody knows for sure if near death experiences are a glimpse at an afterlive or just an hallucination of a dying mind. So what happens after death is still just believing.

Unfortunatly nobody knows for sure if near death experiences are a glimpse at an afterlive or just an hallucination of a dying mind. So what happens after death is still just believing.
I must agree to that you have alot of sense to what you said.

Nothing more happens to us, it's the end of the line.
I don't know, it's just what I believe.

answer me two questions:
1. what do you think or believe happens to us after we die?
2. what is the basis of this - how do you know?
Yo! PM. S'up?

1. There seems to be a considerable amount of anecdotal evidence for reincarnation, as well as considerable evidence that something remains after death.

2. There is only, as I said, anecdotal evidence, so I know of no way of knowing if there is an existence after death. If there is, and if there's any way to send a message back, I'll be letting you know in a few years. :D

Your memory lives on briefly, but every day, it fades away.

As things should be.

My second thing that can happen is that your body dies but you dont even know you die and you live life forever

to the person that put in the articles about 'inncorruptables'
I asked an "expert" on the topic. His answers:
A lot of people in european graveyards don't decompose - it's not uncommon becuase;
- the fat in the body fat turn to an alkaline compound, conserving the body
- the high lead amount (often used as sealant) in the sarcophargus
kills germs that would otherwise decompose the body
- temperature and humidity in crypts are very constant, stopping the
decay (low humidity)
- most sarcophargus are air tight and after a while, the oxygen needed
for further decomposition runs out
sounds convincing to me.

1) i have a metaphor that i use for my faith cause i dont think that any human can really comprehend any form(s) of 'devine deity' i take the view that there is some kind of 'devine entity' or a 'multiversal conciousness' which i try to a metaphor by describing it as a diamond where the judeo-christian version of God is just one faset, Allah is another faset, Bramah (Braman Bramin ect) + Shiva, Vishnu, Buddah, Yahwey, Gaea ect is another faset, and all of the worlds 'gods + godesses' are just another faset, this all creates one 'mulitversal consciouness' which we all come from and return to, why we have phyiscal form, why we are here ect i dont know, after we die, i think we become part of this 'mulitversal consciouness', which means that i think that ever person has an essence of something divine in us (a 'soul' if you want to call it that-altho i dont)

2) i dont know, this is my personal oppinion, anyone thats 100% sure is either a crackpot, uneducated or far to gullible