Five Kinds of Afterlife

[maurile]

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<font color="blue">If the human brain were just a receiver, and the real center of your conscious experience exists somewhere else (as in Poker, Gaming, and Life), then you could not affect your conscious experience by doing things to your brain -- like exposing it to LSD or a jackhammer or whatever.
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I don't understand why this is true. Try poking holes in your woofers or tweaters or damaging the transistor and/or antenna on an old TV or radio. This will definitely affect the quality of what the transceiver receives. Much in the same way LSD or a jackhanner would affect the brain. ??

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No. When you drink a bunch of alcohol, you can't do math very well. It's not that your thinking process is still working fine but it just can't receive/trasmit the signals properly -- your thinking process itself is messed up.

[pooh74]

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How about pre-life, doesn't anyone talk of this state?

carlo

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It was long and slow...

[West]

I'll go with not 1 or 5

[sdunsmb]

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i have been thinking about this a great deal the last couple days...i really don't know what the answer is...i have hopes that it is not number 5, and i am 21 yrs old

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I think about it all the time, and I also strongly hope it is not number 5. I am 18.

However, there is a lot of science that kind of does support number 5, whereas the other theories are kind of less reilable.

I would like to think that any of 1,3 or 4 are possible.

Maybe it depends on type of person you are.

[behemoth2006]

I personally hope for a kind of variation of the "receiver" theory. I would hope that my "I" will live on, disembodied, able to commune with the souls of the other dead.

Just hanging around eternally, talking with the other dead.

Would be great!

[carlo]

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How about pre-life, doesn't anyone talk of this state?

carlo



It was long and slow..

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carlo

[NuklearWinter]

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For myself of course, I know it is #1, while many of you hope it's not #1, and some of you had better PRAY it's not #1 (or change your life).

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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -Albert Einstein

[Matt Ruff]

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1. The standard religious variety.

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That's kind of like saying, "The standard response to a pre-flop raise."

[Silent A]

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1. The standard religious variety.

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That's kind of like saying, "The standard response to a pre-flop raise."

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OH, I don't think so. The SRV of the afterlife is some kind of paradise for the "good" and torment for the "bad". The only significant difference of opinion is over how bad the torment will/won't be.

[Silent A]

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I think about it all the time, and I also strongly hope it is not number 5. I am 18

However, there is a lot of science that kind of does support number 5, whereas the other theories are kind of less reilable.

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Not really. Science only suggests that there's no reason to expect any specific afterlife (and the more specific the less likely).

Personally, I fully expect 5 and wouldn't mind the others with the exception of 1 if it entails the traditional "Lake of Fire" for those who commit the "sin" of not thinking "correctly".

But I'm not worried about it in the least. If a just god exists, I'm as safe as I can be (I have far less to explain than he/she/they/it does). If an un-just god exists it's all a crap-shoot anyways.