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The Samuelopalian Empire
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Postby The Samuelopalian Empire » Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:52 pm

When we die, there's a menu. It reads:

You died.

Then there are 2 boxes. They read:

Respawn or Don't respawn


When you respawn, you pick what species you are, and then respawn and loose your memory.

Dats what happens.
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Postby Shaggai » Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:15 pm

Ayreonia wrote:
Shaggai wrote:No. Have you read the beginning of Ezekiel(which is an awesome name by itself)?

Besides, wouldn't Good Omens be even cooler than Revelation?

Remind me.

Ezekiel or Good Omens?
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Postby Tritanope World » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:06 pm

I don't believe in an afterlife, but technically we don't cease to exist. Law of Conservation of Mass (I think?), First Law of Thermodynamics and all that, you know, stuff doesn't just disappear.
I always thought of it this way, the stuff we're made of was here since the beginning of time, just in different forms. Not to mention the fact that when we don't "exist" (before we were born for example), we don't care. Therefore:
1. You will still exist, just in a different form
2. You won't give half a crap either way.

Also, this.
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Postby Shaggai » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:37 pm

Tritanope World wrote:I don't believe in an afterlife, but technically we don't cease to exist. Law of Conservation of Mass (I think?), First Law of Thermodynamics and all that, you know, stuff doesn't just disappear.
I always thought of it this way, the stuff we're made of was here since the beginning of time, just in different forms. Not to mention the fact that when we don't "exist" (before we were born for example), we don't care. Therefore:
1. You will still exist, just in a different form
2. You won't give half a crap either way.

Also, this.

You are a pattern. When you die, the pattern is lost.
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Postby Tritanope World » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:45 pm

Shaggai wrote:
Tritanope World wrote:I don't believe in an afterlife, but technically we don't cease to exist. Law of Conservation of Mass (I think?), First Law of Thermodynamics and all that, you know, stuff doesn't just disappear.
I always thought of it this way, the stuff we're made of was here since the beginning of time, just in different forms. Not to mention the fact that when we don't "exist" (before we were born for example), we don't care. Therefore:
1. You will still exist, just in a different form
2. You won't give half a crap either way.

Also, this.

You are a pattern. When you die, the pattern is lost.

That's a pretty good way to put it actually.
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Postby Wilfordium » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:49 pm

We float, we all float!
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Postby Galborg » Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:13 pm

It's worse than that, we are dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead.
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Postby Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic » Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:15 pm

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Postby Popular Union of Tucson-Arizona » Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:12 pm

When you die, you die! Nothing more.

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Postby The Scandinavian AlThing » Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:24 pm

NOBODY can really know! ANYONE who tries to tell you otherwise is selling you something!
Buyer Beware!

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Postby Purpelia » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:02 pm

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Postby Shaggai » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:00 pm

The Scandinavian AlThing wrote:NOBODY can really know! ANYONE who tries to tell you otherwise is selling you something!
Buyer Beware!

One can, on the other hand, fin the most plausible and supported hypothesis for an explanation, as with anything else.
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Postby Mavorpen » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:01 pm

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Postby Wytenigistan » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:06 pm

Hathradic States wrote:I really don't want to know.

And you never will.
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Postby The Scandinavian AlThing » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:47 pm

Shaggai wrote:
The Scandinavian AlThing wrote:NOBODY can really know! ANYONE who tries to tell you otherwise is selling you something!
Buyer Beware!

One can, on the other hand, fin the most plausible and supported hypothesis for an explanation, as with anything else.


HOW CAN ONE?!!! Have you died and come back to "enlightened" us??? (Ya Right!) If so Prove it either Empirically or at least logically.
As for the most plausible hypothesis (despite an illogically enthusiastically supported [supposed] hypothesis {which by definition the term still demands something close to proof}, that you have not provided.); I must reiterate for those in the back row...
... NOBODY CAN KNOW UNLESS THEY HAVE DIED AND HAVE COME BACK WITH PROOF!!!
Otherwise we must take it on faith ; WHAT OTHERS (WHO CANT REALLY KNOW) INSIST!

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Postby The Black Forrest » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:49 pm

Why worry about it?

You either won't know or you can't tell anybody.
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Postby Tlaceceyaya » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:51 pm

The Scandinavian AlThing wrote:
Shaggai wrote:One can, on the other hand, fin the most plausible and supported hypothesis for an explanation, as with anything else.


HOW CAN ONE?!!! Have you died and come back to "enlightened" us??? (Ya Right!) If so Prove it either Empirically or at least logically.
As for the most plausible hypothesis (despite an illogically enthusiastically supported [supposed] hypothesis {which by definition the term still demands something close to proof}, that you have not provided.); I must reiterate for those in the back row...
... NOBODY CAN KNOW UNLESS THEY HAVE DIED AND HAVE COME BACK WITH PROOF!!!
Otherwise we must take it on faith ; WHAT OTHERS (WHO CANT REALLY KNOW) INSIST!

The brain is what our mind is contained within.
We can explain which parts of the brain affect which parts of the mind.
When someone's heart is restarted after several minutes, they will have suffered brain damage. Their mind will have decayed, in a sense.
So if the brain is destroyed, the mind is destroyed.
To suggest anything further (The soul flies up to Heaven!) is to add unnecessary, unprovable things to this.

As a side note, why must you type in such an obnoxious manner?
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Postby The Scandinavian AlThing » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:06 pm

Tlaceceyaya wrote:
The Scandinavian AlThing wrote:
HOW CAN ONE?!!! Have you died and come back to "enlightened" us??? (Ya Right!) If so Prove it either Empirically or at least logically.
As for the most plausible hypothesis (despite an illogically enthusiastically supported [supposed] hypothesis {which by definition the term still demands something close to proof}, that you have not provided.); I must reiterate for those in the back row...
... NOBODY CAN KNOW UNLESS THEY HAVE DIED AND HAVE COME BACK WITH PROOF!!!
Otherwise we must take it on faith ; WHAT OTHERS (WHO CANT REALLY KNOW) INSIST!

The brain is what our mind is contained within.
We can explain which parts of the brain affect which parts of the mind.
When someone's heart is restarted after several minutes, they will have suffered brain damage. Their mind will have decayed, in a sense.
So if the brain is destroyed, the mind is destroyed.
To suggest anything further (The soul flies up to Heaven!) is to add unnecessary, unprovable things to this.

As a side note, why must you type in such an obnoxious manner?


According to my stated position on the matter I cant disagree with you as you are (more likely than many others... Right).
AS to my "Obnoxious manner"; I AM an Ornery & Obnoxious Bastard; my only saving grace is that Im honest! I call it as I see it!
Further more if you can PROVE me wrong I will (at least grudgingly) admit it!
If you want to give me etiquette lessons ill be open to listening; send me a telegram.

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Postby Cu Math » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:09 pm

"you" just..cease.
But what makes up you becomes more life, more Earth, more star stuff. and eventually, part of the incredible light and energy of the big crunch
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Postby Siaos » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:10 pm

You either go to heaven or hell depending on whether you are a mass-murder/rapist or not.
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Postby Blasveck » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:12 pm

Siaos wrote:You either go to heaven or hell depending on whether you are a mass-murder/rapist or not.


Or you die, get buried in the ground, and in 200 years nobody will ever remember you again.
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Postby Siaos » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:12 pm

Blasveck wrote:
Siaos wrote:You either go to heaven or hell depending on whether you are a mass-murder/rapist or not.


Or you die, get buried in the ground, and in 200 years nobody will ever remember you again.

Or that, but the religious versions are much nicer.
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Postby With Teeth » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:18 pm

You go to Baba Booeyland.
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Postby Blasveck » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:20 pm

Siaos wrote:
Blasveck wrote:
Or you die, get buried in the ground, and in 200 years nobody will ever remember you again.

Or that, but the religious versions are much nicer.


Depending on which religion, no they're not.

Eternity will eventually become hell.
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Postby With Teeth » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:23 pm

Blasveck wrote:
Siaos wrote:Or that, but the religious versions are much nicer.


Depending on which religion, no they're not.

Eternity will eventually become hell.


I don't see how.
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