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What do you think happens after death?

What do you think happens after death?

  • Nothing. We just die.

    Votes: 126 77.8%
  • We get reincarnated.

    Votes: 5 3.1%
  • We go to heaven or hell.

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • We become part of a wider consciousness.

    Votes: 20 12.3%
  • Other, if so, what?

    Votes: 7 4.3%

  • Total voters
    162
Consciousness just another word for being, or the universe, or existance. And its undefinable in a fendemental way, so therefore space-time descriptions cannot describe it fully. You hit the void.

The point is that the whatever it is, IT grows us, and our conciousness is itself exploring itself.

The context in which the smallest particle exists is worth thinking about when it comes to death.

I still think "no births, no deaths" gets to the heart of the matter better than some niave simplistic materialist position.
 
That’s not what define means, though. Things need to exist before we can define them. Just as people weren’t floating erratically before Newton defined gravity.

How'd you like them apples?


But, yeah. That's the point - space time, gravity, they don't need us to frame/verify them. They just are. We frame/verify them to gain ownership over them. Imho, obviously.

It's very vain.
 
Consciousness just another word for being, or the universe, or existance.
Things exist without consciousness. The universe 'existed' before consciousness perceived it, else where/how did consciousness form, other than in previously unconscious matter? Not that I can say I know the answer to either of those questions, but afaik nor does anybody else. Do you?
 
Things exist without consciousness. The universe 'existed' before consciousness perceived it, else where/how did consciousness form, other than in previously unconscious matter? Not that I can say I know the answer to either of those questions, but afaik nor dies anybody else. Do you?
Forget our consciousness.

Consciousness instead as being. And that being giving us our consciousness. Giving us brains and bodies.
 
You're definitely talking about God though. Call it what you want (or say it can't be named, that has pedigree) but it's that thing, that you're talking about.
 
That's a name for it. There are other names, as well as traditions where it can or mustn't be named.
 
That's a name for it. There are other names, as well as traditions where it can or mustn't be named.
The important thing is is not to miss it. Which we are trained to do from birth.

I still think Heideggers quote captures it very well:

"We don't come to thought.
Thoguht comes to us."

Subjectivity, and with it birth and death, in my view can vanish if that quote is fully grasped.

Still means we are essentially worm food and we are "selves" but that's not all we are.
 
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