The Afterlife

[Devvo Mate]

Please don't project your self-loathing onto the rest of us.

The universe doesn't care if we think we deserve to have an afterlife. All the evidence points to there being none.

Are you replying to the wrong post?

[Mavorpen]

I do like how the OP is pretending like my post that dismantled his OP and demonstrated his claims that there's scientific support for an afterlife is nonsense doesn't exist.

[Sanctissima]

From all I've gathered about human nature in my life, I think it would be quite to the contrary. Man tends to want to live eternally. I think there's few who would yearn for nothingness.

Fuuuuuck that, the idea of eternal existence is far more horrifying than eternal nonexistence.

I believe you'd be in the minority of opinion on this matter.

But, yes, I can see how certain afterlife scenarios could be frightening.

[Sanctissima]

I do like how the OP is pretending like my post that dismantled his OP and demonstrated his claims that there's scientific support for an afterlife is nonsense doesn't exist.

I have to take a shit. If you really want my attention, I'll reply to your post after I've had my daily bowel movement.

[Great Nepal]

From all I've gathered about human nature in my life, I think it would be quite to the contrary. Man tends to want to live eternally. I think there's few who would yearn for nothingness.

Fuuuuuck that, the idea of eternal existence is far more horrifying than eternal nonexistence.

I think anyone who wants eternal existence without caveats such as amnesia or suicide when you want, hasn't really given much thought to how long eternal actually is.

[Devvo Mate]

I believe you'd be in the minority of opinion on this matter.

But, yes, I can see how certain afterlife scenarios could be frightening.

Not even certain situations like Hell or whatever, the idea of an unbroken continuous existence for endless aeons horrifies me.

[Ostroeuropa]

Fuuuuuck that, the idea of eternal existence is far more horrifying than eternal nonexistence.

I think anyone who wants eternal existence without caveats such as amnesia or suicide when you want, hasn't really given much thought to how long eternal actually is.

We already forget stuff over time. It'd probably be ok. Maybe.

[Mavorpen]

I do like how the OP is pretending like my post that dismantled his OP and demonstrated his claims that there's scientific support for an afterlife is nonsense doesn't exist.

I have to take a shit. If you really want my attention, I'll reply to your post after I've had my daily bowel movement.

How convenient.

I won't hold my breath.

[Vazdaria]

Fuuuuuck that, the idea of eternal existence is far more horrifying than eternal nonexistence.

I think anyone who wants eternal existence without caveats such as amnesia or suicide when you want, hasn't really given much thought to how long eternal actually is.

Well I suspect time would appear to flow normally for the first few hundred years but would soon "pick up speed" and after some time, thousands of years would seem like hundreds...eventually millions and billions of years would seem like hundreds...and so on.

[Vazdaria]

I have to take a shit. If you really want my attention, I'll reply to your post after I've had my daily bowel movement.

How convenient.

I won't hold my breath.

I would.

my humor is childish today.

[Devvo Mate]

Well I suspect time would appear to flow normally for the first few hundred years but would soon "pick up speed" and after some time, thousands of years would seem like hundreds...eventually millions and billions of years would seem like hundreds...and so on.

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

[Vazdaria]

Well I suspect time would appear to flow normally for the first few hundred years but would soon "pick up speed" and after some time, thousands of years would seem like hundreds...eventually millions and billions of years would seem like hundreds...and so on.

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

If you had the ability to feel that way.

[Ostroeuropa]

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

If you had the ability to feel that way.

So heaven is a lobotomy special.
Sounds darling.

[Vazdaria]

If you had the ability to feel that way.

So heaven is a lobotomy special.
Sounds darling.

1 lobotomy special coming right up.

[Sun Wukong]

Well I suspect time would appear to flow normally for the first few hundred years but would soon "pick up speed" and after some time, thousands of years would seem like hundreds...eventually millions and billions of years would seem like hundreds...and so on.

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

[Vazdaria]

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

well now you sounds like a Mormon..... they believe in procreation after death, you know.

[Ostroeuropa]

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

I dunno. Depends on your personality. Some people are happy rehashing the same visceral things over and over and over.
I like to mix things up, but repetition has it's charms.
For instance, I usually have my dinners on rotation for about a year then switch them around to avoid feeling boring, but I suspect if people didnt judge me for it i'd just keep the same rotation going because it's annoying to calculate a new diet.

With sex that'd be the repitition of a few old favorites and reliving the same perfect days over and over.
Every million years or so, switch it up. Nothing says you can't go back to an old routine after a while once it'll feel fresher.

[Sun Wukong]

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

well now you sounds like a Mormon..... they believe in procreation after death, you know.

If there isn't then what's the point?

We should all beg for oblivion.

[The Grey Wolf]

Right but after ten quadrillion years I think you'd just get sick of everything.

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

This is personally why I prefer Nirvana/Moksha. So much simpler and less hedonistic.

[Great Nepal]

We already forget stuff over time. It'd probably be ok. Maybe.

We do forget details but we trend to remember that it occurred - for instance people can identify if they have seen the picture before, what is more difficult is what someone said when they saw that picture. Obviously we still dont understand lot about how memory works, but given research indicating we do remember occurrences, over eternal time you would remember that you went around that joyride several times and doing it again is simply boring.

Well I suspect time would appear to flow normally for the first few hundred years but would soon "pick up speed" and after some time, thousands of years would seem like hundreds...eventually millions and billions of years would seem like hundreds...and so on.

Yes but no matter how much it picks up speed, you are going to experience eternal time - its like counting to infinity, no matter how fast you count or how many numbers in middle you miss out, you are never going to reach infinity.

[Ostroeuropa]

I mean... just think of the escalation in sexual matters alone.

I don't know about you, but I start looking to spice things up after just a few weeks. After a hundred million years? There wouldn't be anything left that was kinky enough to get you off. Not even in Japan.

I dunno. Depends on your personality. Some people are happy rehashing the same visceral things over and over and over.
I like to mix things up, but repetition has it's charms.
For instance, I usually have my dinners on rotation for about a year then switch them around to avoid feeling boring, but I suspect if people didnt judge me for it i'd just keep the same rotation going because it's annoying to calculate a new diet.

With sex that'd be the repitition of a few old favorites and reliving the same perfect days over and over.
Every million years or so, switch it up. Nothing says you can't go back to an old routine after a while once it'll feel fresher.

Couple this with constant escalation of skill and you have some real fun.
Just imagine what the 9 billionth starcraft tournament will look like.
Or the 10 trillionth civil war re-enactment with real muskets and who cares, lets have a war, not like we'll actually die. Armies full of supersoldiers.

[Conscentia]

So, Mr. Wolf, are you not answering mine question?

Well, I'm kind of torn between reincarnation and Rene Guenon's view of the afterlife, but yes, I would say that I believe in a form of existence after death.

Why would you believe that?

[The Grey Wolf]

So, Mr. Wolf,

Totally sigging this.

are you not answering mine question?

Why would you believe that?

No, I'm simply thinking of a way to respond to it. Unless you prefer a quick one-liner to a detailed, well thought out post.

[Kelinfort]

I'll get back to you when I have my answer.

[Murkwood]

Damn, Atheists are sad. You think more of them would be depressed.