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JakeAssBeatClap
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When you die? I basically am just curious I'm sure there is plenty of different thoughts on NS about it. No hate or religious hating just be cool voice what you think happens.

Personally I think you die and enter a whole new level of consciousness. If there is one thing I have learned through my life is that there is way more to people and life that we can see. Energy is real and we are all connected. If you enter a room with a bunch of people mourning you will feel sad even if you don't know why they are mourning. Our bodies are not who we are, My body is what a Jake Schoonmaker looks like, but my mind my consciousness is what a Jake Schoonmaker is. I think when I die i will be infinitely knowledgable I will go back and view my family throughout their lives before i was born and memories i have of them when i was alive. A state of pure happiness. You will see the wrongs you committed and have strong emotion for them. But at the end of this experience you will be in another connected plane. A plane with everyone else who is dead. every one is happy. Everyone is all knowing. Everyone is happy because they realize as they die the most important thing in life is to be happy. Nothing else matters. I think we will be able to be with our deceased friends and family and we will be able to spiritually connect with our living friends and family. Maybe we enter our friends minds in their dreams and connect with them. Maybe when they are riding on a bus thinking about us we are the ones who go down and put that little smile on their face. My aunt passed away recently and when i think of her I smile and have the best memory of being a little kid and her putting wayy too much peanut butter on my pb&j. such a small memory but it makes me laugh. I just know there is more to living than our human shells. I believe our human shells are learning devices to teach our consciousness lessons and when we pass on all of our mistakes and faults are revealed and we have an Aha! moment where it makes sense. Idk I'm not a religious guy but i believe the better you are the better your dying experience will be. The worse you are the worse your dying experience will be. But i believe once you get past that experience you are on a plane of conscious being where even hitler experienced his wrongs and people will be consoled and all knowing even though a dead jewish man died from what hitler had created they know it was falters. That now its just peace and unity and love. Hitler would have gone through a horrific death experience seeing everyone that died because of his choices. He will feel all of their emotions and it will be a personal hell. The jewish man will feel the happiness of seeing an image of his son being born, helping out an old maid when he was a young man, he will feel the pain of breaking a girls heart in 8th grade. But once that experience is over. Everything will be right and ok and everyone dead wont hate on hitler because they will have known what he went through in his experience and they will be all knowing and peaceful and happy.

sparknotes: souls will go through all the pain they put on others, all the happiness on others, see their life and feel those feelings again. everyone will meet up in a tangible place of pure happiness all knowing and peace


so what do you all think?
Jun 28 2011 3:49AM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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I was debating making a thread about this the other day, but then I decided against it because some people really don't like to think about death, myself included. Almost every night I lay awake in bed and then the idea creeps up on me, and then overwhelms me to the point where i jump up and just say "fuck". It's really a touchy subject for me, I hope, I really hope that we go to heaven or experience some sort of after life. Dammit, now you got me started thinking about it again, are there other people who are just as scared/caught up on the thought of death as me? Literally every night it's in my head and I can't get it out, I'm terrified of not knowing, and of not "being".
Jun 28 2011 4:33AM
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[evan]
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Really?

I'm the complete opposite, I love thinking about death, it's such an interesting subject. I feel like it relaxes me aswell, the only type of death I ever imagine is a peaceful one however. Violent deaths don't really bother me, it's more of an annoyance. Where's a relaxing death such as sleeping or drowning calms me.
Jun 28 2011 4:39AM
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feihlination
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i wish there is some sort of existence, but then i am not sure if our mind can actually survive without our brain and the blood and oxygen running through it.

science is also not too sure about it. i am not gonna go deeper here in either way.

when you hear these stories about people having near-death experiences, you think, 'great, there is something afterwards...'. but you need to realize that they are socially and culturally influenced. people in india see an old man with a book while 'we' see the legendary long empty tunnel with light shining from the end. what i mean by that, if there was something after death, i guess it should be universal somehow for all people, and having nothing to do with religion imo. because in the other case there would need to be 1000000 heavens for every small group that believes another bullshit. so the absence of a universal near-death phenomenon is to me a sign that they are just some weird function in our brain and of no indication whats happening next. they dont rule it out, but they are no evidence either.

i just think that its black and empty, just like before you were born. surely a state that is not at all scary. and remember, whatever it is, your friends and family will also be there, regardless of the level of existence and consciousness. seriously, that is helping me somehow
Jun 28 2011 5:06AM
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I_Am_Mod
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a better question would be:
"What happens if you eat yourself?"
Do you become twice as big?
Or do you disappear entirely ?
Jun 28 2011 5:25AM
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TEPUKE573
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considering at the exact moment we die we become roughly 3/4 of an ounce lighter, id say theres a high chance our mind/spirit/consiousness goes somewhere to live on. for me i find it hard to believe that a lifetime of emotions and experiences can cease to exist with a snap of the fingers..it all has to go somewhere, right? i think the most realistic part of religion for me is the concept of heaven, pretty exciting if you think about it.
Jun 28 2011 5:34AM
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TEPUKE573
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and to the original post, very interesting idea
Jun 28 2011 5:38AM
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disastertourism
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I kind of believe that everything in life is a dream.
I have no proof that anything really exists in a way, like I might not even be real, and when you die, you wake up being born in another dream and it continues.
Jun 28 2011 6:56AM
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I_Am_Mod
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like inception ?
Jun 28 2011 7:00AM
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CAPITA-DEVOURS
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you think of drowning as a relaxing death? have you ever seen or heard someone drown? its not fucking relaxing bud. but i was surprised at your grammar and such. like comparing that to my 13 year old brother i was suprised.. but i disagree with that up there..
Jun 28 2011 8:38AM
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sk-nnn
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For me I dont really worry about this stuff.

I dont want to cause any hate, everybody is entitled to his/her own opinion.

I believe there is a heaven and that only by believing in Jesus Christ and  how he has died for our sins, can you be saved from death into eternal life in heaven. I cant really grasp eternity and there is still so much I dont understand but thats what I believe.

Jun 28 2011 9:02AM
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disastertourism
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Kind of, but I had the idea long before the film came out.
Jun 28 2011 9:29AM
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*geezer*
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Interesting ideas being shared especially SCHOON's -well said and thought provoking Let's keep it respectful NS because otherwise around page 2 prepare for the remnants of the shit storm
Jun 28 2011 11:01AM
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flooz.
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i think about stuff like this a lot. what if everything we're familiar with is just something created by someone else's semiconscious mind? our whole lives could just be a part of a dream that ends when the dreamer wakes up, and a new existence is created when they begin dreaming again.
Jun 28 2011 11:04AM
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maximiliaan
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what would happen if I cut off my hands and put the right hand on the left and my left hand on the right? will i still be right handed on the left or will i be left handed on the right?
Jun 28 2011 11:05AM
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THAT-GUY
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I personally believe that when you die, it is exactly that.

Blackness/nothing. However after thinking about it, you won't care that you are dead.

I think of my brain as a computer, and when the electrical impulses stop it is off, it doesn't know it is off. There is no soul floating over it waiting for the electrical impulses to start again.

Live it up, because I seriously believe the after live is a way for people to cope with the fear of death
Jun 28 2011 11:08AM
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SPskier543
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looking at and thinking about people painted in pictures kind of freaks me out

Jun 28 2011 11:09AM
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chuck_testa
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I always think and kinda dream about that when you die you relive your greatest memory of your childhood. Then you get swept away to a peaceful life of the things you enjoy.
Jun 28 2011 11:12AM
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ohmythugaim
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Hey guize remember what it was like before you were conceived?
Jun 28 2011 11:14AM
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Rossberger
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Reincarnation, as in your soul goes to a newborn. I know this isn't true because the death rate is much lower than the birth rate, but I still like to believe in it.
Jun 28 2011 11:17AM
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mommy
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what happens happens, only one way to find out, so fuck off
Jun 28 2011 11:25AM
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cultrara
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I am honestly unsure. There is no way of knowing so I dont buy into any religion
Jun 28 2011 11:46AM
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Bodhisattva_
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I just don't worry about it. I feel like when I die, I'm dead. Either I enter some sort of new consciousness, or I'm just gone. But either way I won't remember this life and this life doesn't matter anymore. So fuck it, when I die, I'm dead.
Jun 28 2011 3:56PM
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B-WASS
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i am religious and believe in heaven, but one of my scariest thoughts is just being gone forever, not dreaming, not conscious or anything, not even just seeming darkness and thinkning to yourself, absolutely nothing. just think about it
Jun 28 2011 4:16PM
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Bodhisattva_
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I don't find that scary because you are exactly that, gone forever. You won't be scared or lonely or anything because you are simply no more.
Jun 28 2011 4:20PM
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JIBpsy^^
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Do you honestly think that something such as science can quantify the mind? something cannot fully understand itself. For it to be fully understood there has to be something more complex and advanced. Do you think an animal understands its own mind even though it is quite simple? no we don't even fully understand the simple minds of animals so how could we ever hope to understand our own minds? I believe that there is an afterlife. I fell like the mind is not acctualy part of the brain. the brain is just a vessel that creates a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.
Jun 28 2011 4:39PM
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saranac_tortex
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I think of it like the matrix. There is a real world, but we are just in a dream or something
Jun 28 2011 4:39PM
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wait.what
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My death thread?
Jun 28 2011 4:53PM
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PJS.
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when you get there, pm me
Jun 28 2011 4:58PM
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feihlination
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i am not saying that its def not like that. but i think that its not safe to say that we have an existence outside of our brain/body.

Jun 29 2011 6:56AM
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feihlination
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i am not saying that its def not like that. but i think that its not safe to say that we have an existence outside of our brain/body.

Jun 29 2011 6:56AM
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ohmythugaim
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Yes.

We are just beginning to understand basic parts of the brain. We understand how very basic organisms' brains work... there have been experiments where scientists have been able to control a beetles movement with a remote control, or make mice no longer feel fear etc (could look stuff like this up for you if you so desire).

Stating that we will never be able to quantify the mind is quite silly. You sound like the people who 100 or so years ago said we could never fly. Or that we could never go into space/land on the moon/have a computer the size of a fingernail etc. etc.
Technology is progressing at an exponential rate. We are just at the start of the upward curve now, in the next 50-100 years we will see things we couldn't possibly imagine.

Given how technology in MRIs/brain scans etc. is improving, it is not farfetched to suggest that soon we will be able to reverse engineer the brain.



I understand that you like to think that there is something more to this world that the physical reality. But the thing is, its just that we don't understand the physical reality well enough yet. There is no mind/body gap. There is no soul. The brain creates conciousness, and we will find out how one day.
Jun 29 2011 9:16AM
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simplesteezy
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This is kind of on a different note, but have you ever thought that nothing exists outside of what you see? Like if you are in your room at night nothing exists outside of it until you go outside which that then exists... and wherever you go your brain makes images up.
Jun 29 2011 9:49AM
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theabortionator
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Wanted to say that i totally called "when you die" being the first words of the thread.

As for what happens, i don't really know. I have some cool fucking ideas on what i think might actually happen and some cool things I hope will happen
Jun 29 2011 10:04AM
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[hamnuts]
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death in itself doesn't frighten me, but it does make me curious.The thing that does make me a little nervous is whether or not I'll be pleased with the end result of my life.
Jun 29 2011 10:09AM
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theJones
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life begins and ends, it's not continuous. Before someone is born, their "soul" isn't alive looking down on the world. Why would that change when you die.
Jun 29 2011 10:11AM
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GayWolf420
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This may sound fucking wack but this is what I think happens.

Maybe your life is one long-ass dream and when you die, you wake up from your sleep and boom. You start a new life.
Jun 29 2011 10:17AM
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Jonny7
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threads, dont have time right now
Jun 29 2011 10:19AM
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disastertourism
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I think pretty much exactly that.
but at the same time I dunnoo what to believe
Jun 29 2011 10:20AM
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GayWolf420
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Either way, Its truly eye opening shit when you think about it. No one really knows, really. Its just one of those things you have to expierience yourself, ya feels me?
Jun 29 2011 10:21AM
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disastertourism
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ya. I think its crazy that it really is something you can never know, but then you're dead and you cant share the knowledge with the world.
Sometimes in a way if I think about it too much it makes me go crazy in my brain.
Jun 29 2011 10:28AM
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RIP_leos_shack
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I think that we will be reincarnated in some form. But not necessarily on earth. Just think of how many stars there are in the universe and how many must have planets that support life in some form. But the thing is we won't know it because we'll be dead. Take some salvia and maybe you'll get some ideas.
Jun 29 2011 10:51AM
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ohmythugaim
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>implying you can experience anything when you're dead.
Jun 29 2011 2:19PM
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HitTheJim
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Why can't we all just believe in science? It has gotten humanity to this point and religions/belief systems have, for the most part, just held us back.
Jun 29 2011 2:34PM
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Dwarftosser1
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If you can doubt your own existence then you must be real.
Jun 29 2011 2:40PM
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AWALLRUS.
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you're either reincarnated or your rot in the ground.

or maybe its like in my name is earl when he goes into a coma, you just go into another reality.
Jun 29 2011 2:47PM
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MothaHucker
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I think when its my time to die, i will be curious and maybe even a little excited to see what happens next, i mean, its like starting a big adventure or exploring a new world
Jun 29 2011 5:13PM
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HitTheJim
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Or you just get buried and rot in the fucking ground or, if your family has any respect for you, you are set on fire until you are a pile of ashes.
Jun 29 2011 5:19PM
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[evan]
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Well not so much the actual act of your lungs being depleted of oxygen, but the environment of being surrounded by water. Have you seen Sanctum? It's a good way to see in a visual what I'm trying to explain.

Please don't bring my age into this, I don't want you or anybody else disregarding what I say because I'm younger.

Also your brother is probably perfectly capable of typing coherently and using proper grammar, he just doesn't feel the need to because he's not talking about a serious subject. I feel like I should be proper when I want people to take me seriously. As for vocabulary, well that's a whole different story, you can't be taught words, you have to discover them.
Jun 29 2011 5:27PM
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