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Post by amyghost on Nov 2, 2020 16:38:25 GMT
If death is truly eternal oblivion, you may feel some fear or panic at the very end. I've sometimes wondered if some of these 'near-death' experiences (almost invariably described as pleasant) could be the brain secreting endorphin-like chemicals that help neutralize and tranquilize the dying, making the process easier to endure. After that momentary panic there would be literally nothing, fear included, so why go through life in terror of an experience that will at most likely last only a moment or two?
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Post by Raimo47 on Nov 2, 2020 16:43:30 GMT
No. I believe that the individual consciousness (soul, spirit, psyche etc.) will never die.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Nov 2, 2020 17:44:57 GMT
As long as there is no reincarnation and thus having to go through this all over again, no. Some near death experiences suggest this Asse9 I pray I don't have to come back. Lol
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Post by Panther on Nov 2, 2020 17:53:33 GMT
As long as there is no reincarnation and thus having to go through this all over again, no. Reincarnation would be worse than nothingness.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Nov 2, 2020 19:46:55 GMT
There is also the idea that everything just keeps repeating over and over for eternity. That once you die, you will be reborn as yourself again once everything is rebooted so to speak and you will live the same exact life again. I certainly hope that doesn't happen. I don't hate my life or anything, but I certainly hope and believe I could have had a better one.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Nov 2, 2020 19:49:41 GMT
No. I believe that the individual consciousness (soul, spirit, psyche etc.) will never die. But then A) what happens to it, and B) why do believe that?
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Post by Huxley on Nov 2, 2020 19:55:27 GMT
Why should it? Death is a natural event for every one. Leaving loved ones behind would be that hard part.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 2, 2020 20:46:34 GMT
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 2, 2020 21:23:48 GMT
As long as there is no reincarnation and thus having to go through this all over again, no. Reincarnation would be worse than nothingness. Why do you say that?
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Post by Archelaus on Nov 3, 2020 3:55:45 GMT
Yes, it frightens me, but I'm more worried about dying too soon.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 3, 2020 17:04:22 GMT
Truly intriguing! I'm about as far from being a neuroscientist as it's possible to be, but these articles really gibe with some of the ideas I had thought about regarding how the brain might react in the face of oncoming death.
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Post by Raimo47 on Nov 3, 2020 17:26:17 GMT
No. I believe that the individual consciousness (soul, spirit, psyche etc.) will never die. But then A) what happens to it, and B) why do believe that?
A) It depends on the individual. Most of us will probably be reunited with our deceased relatives.
B) Because of my own experiences and the evidence from psychical research.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 3, 2020 19:33:40 GMT
Not at all, because the reverse in a sense before my birth is nothingness to me also. I have been knocked out before (fell backwards into metal shelving), a long 2 seconds, & it was just literally nothing.
I believe the living's sense of imagination drives most of our fears, including death... when in fact reality often proves how overblown that is. I'm not a fatalist, but I'm not afraid of being dead I guess.
I am afraid of certain ways of dying of course lols. Don't drop an ICBM over my roof & please don't leave me locked in a burning house k thx.
Apples & oranges - I sometimes ponder how our sense of life & death would alter if we had human life expectancies of 999 years instead of about 79, including criminal consequences. How could we populate the finite planet Earth if we lived so many hundreds of years? Would there be enough food on Earth?? What would we do to murderers who offed a 12yr old with 900yrs stolen? Are we talking sci-fi horror punishments? lols That's the stuff where I realize we are literally Earthlings & that this planetary evolved existence of ours is evolutionary circumstance. Maybe we'd not even last 100,000yrs if we'd started out living that long.
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 3, 2020 19:57:19 GMT
Then why get your undies in a twist about it? My undies aren't in a twist about anything. I am just interested in what other people think. Herald told you what he thought. And then you replied "everybody already knows that".... Why bother to ask at all if you're going to be adding conditions to your questions along the way?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Nov 3, 2020 20:00:56 GMT
My undies aren't in a twist about anything. I am just interested in what other people think. Herald told you what he thought. And then you replied "everybody already knows that".... Why bother to ask at all if you're going to be adding conditions to your questions along the way? I guess it was just a "failure to communicate."
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 3, 2020 20:01:53 GMT
Not the process of dying, but the state of no longer existing? This is even for people who believe in an afterlife. If it was proved that there is no such thing as an afterlife and that death is that you simply cease to exist in every way, does that frighten you? How could such a thing ever be proven? Especially for those who do believe in something after the expiration of physical life. I think your question only works for atheists really. Because Good material for an episode of "The Twlight Zone", though. (But the original, b&w show only, PLEASE!)
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 3, 2020 20:02:48 GMT
Herald told you what he thought. And then you replied "everybody already knows that".... Why bother to ask at all if you're going to be adding conditions to your questions along the way? I guess it was just a "failure to communicate." Okay, Strother!
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 3, 2020 20:08:50 GMT
Not the process of dying, but the state of no longer existing? This is even for people who believe in an afterlife. If it was proved that there is no such thing as an afterlife and that death is that you simply cease to exist in every way, does that frighten you? How could such a thing ever be proven? Especially for those who do believe in something after the expiration of physical life. I think your question only works for atheists really. Because Good material for an episode of "The Twlight Zone", though. (But the original, b&w show only, PLEASE!) Have you ever heard of a hypothetical? Are you so lacking in imagination that you can't imagine there being nothing after death? I think my question only works for people who aren't stubborn. I can answer any hypothetical question you can ask me.
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 3, 2020 20:14:08 GMT
How could such a thing ever be proven? Especially for those who do believe in something after the expiration of physical life. I think your question only works for atheists really. Because Good material for an episode of "The Twlight Zone", though. (But the original, b&w show only, PLEASE!) Have you ever heard of a hypothetical? Are you so lacking in imagination that you can't imagine there being nothing after death? I think my question only works for people who aren't stubborn. I can answer any hypothetical question you can ask me. Okay, fine. My imagination is stupefying in its hugeness (check my signature) and contemplating the eternal void terrifies me. As a matter of fact, my imagination is bigger than Norma Stitz' brassiere!
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 3, 2020 20:16:58 GMT
My undies aren't in a twist about anything. I am just interested in what other people think. Herald told you what he thought. And then you replied "everybody already knows that".... Why bother to ask at all if you're going to be adding conditions to your questions along the way? That was a jab at the obviousness of the second part, which isn't an answer at all imo. Have you even talked to anyone who thinks their human existence on this Earth is forever? I assume he means "stay" in the sense that his spirit/soul will go on after his moral death, but the word "stay" can be applied very broadly.
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