Doesn’t matter to me, as I’m not ever going to die.
Short answer. No one knows. No one has been there and returned to tell us. Everything you read in this thread is nothing but that person’s opinion.
When I was a teenager, I started getting into quantum physics. Some of the books I was reading were a little bit on the woo side.
Anyway, I came up with, what I thought at the time was a brilliant theory. Every conscience has a set existence. For example 1970 to 2059. The thing is, our conscience will exist at one moment in aug 4th 2013 and the very next moment it could be April 3rd 1981. The observer is completely unaware of this as they can only see time as linear. This goes on in perpetuity.
I’ve wised up since then. I don’t actually believe that. But what strikes me as funny about all this is, a few years ago I was listening to Coast to Coast AM. (I enjoy the nutters) And some so called “Doctor of such-n-such” was on the show. And he was describing a theory pretty much exactly like mine!
I got a kick out of that.
I’ve said for most of my life that my goal is to live forever, or die trying.
It makes sense if you think about it. Folks who are afraid of death will look for reasons to believe there is an afterlife.
Same here. Who’s going to prove me wrong?
Now, while I’m living, my body is fueled by (among other things) beer and Twinkies. This fuel is converted into the energy to run my brain (and other bits) by various physiological processes. If I’m not living or eating, how am i getting fuel to power my “soul”? I liken it to what others have said; when I pull the lamp’s cord out of the outlet, the bulb ceases to glow.
I like to think that rebirth (as in the Buddha’s teachings) is real, and I live my life as though it were. But I can’t resolve that my soul will no longer have a supply of power, so how could it continue?
soul is what makes our bodies run. we could feed nutrients to a dead body through blood, but it will remain dead because it doesn’t have soul.
Lack of certainty does not make all possibilities equally likely.
That’s my plan too. So far so good!
Yes - and in the future death will be nature’s way of telling you that you didn’t back yourself up well enough.
“We’re all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.” ~~Prent Ritter
As long as there’s a Silicon Heaven… If not, where would all the calculators go?
Virgins…lots of virgins.
What powers this soul that you speak of… what is its power source? Is it not powered by the body?
I’ve never understood why this is considered a good thing. Is there something special about awkward not-that-good sex I don’t get?
As for the op, when you die the pain stops.