What Happens When we die?

[New Carloso]

The ponies claim our souls.

"One step closer to our return."

[Madenia]

You either go to Heaven or to Hell, there are no other choices and it is totally up to you where you go.

What about Purgatory and Limbo?

[Farnhamia]

You either go to Heaven or to Hell, there are no other choices and it is totally up to you where you go.

What about Purgatory and Limbo?

Limbo is not official doctrine in any Christian sect. Purgatory, it depends on who you ask.

[Kormanthor]

You figure it out

An extremely old book written in a time when situations were completely different and we weren't nearly as advanced as we are now?

What Book?

[Ayreonia]

ahahaha
dark souls

If the world were like Dark Souls...I'd rather stay dead.

Hey... there's a reason why every single character in that game is at least partially insane.

[Pravengria]

I have sat down and thought about this for hours on end with no conclusion. I am an atheist but it is hard for my brain to register that all humans completely cease to exist when they die. It is easy to believe that when you die, you go to some magical world but I think that is a illogical way of thinking and understanding things. It is very unknown whether or not such a place exists and I think that is what scares me. I don't think anyone has a good understanding of what happens when a person dies, but I am going to throw it out there for NSG to discuss.

What happens after you die? Is there some sort of after life or do you completely cease to exist forever? Do you reincarnate into another living thing? Are scared to die?

Physically speaking we don't necessarily cease to exist completely. People have the tendency to assume that just because the body is no longer well the shape or form of a body anymore that we are indeed having ceased to exist. I use to be troubled by what happens when you die as well, and probably rather hilarious but I watched a documentary one day talking about stars and it was actually really comforting in a strange way. We are made up of atoms, on the atomic level we don't really just cease existing, the documentary talked about how stars were formed and how they practically created most of what we see in the universe, and in that we are as humans basically made up of atoms that most likely existed in a star some billions of years ago.

Physically speaking, it was comforting in the fact that all though our bodies after a century or so will definitely not be bodies [dust or if that for that matter] the very atoms that make up our structure will continue to live in the planet and the universe. [Til it ceases to actually exist... if that happens I should say, scientists bickering are always entertaining, I digress though.] Now, it then comes to whether or not a ''soul'' exist in a human being and what happens to it. Spiritually or Philosophically thinking can really decide how you view this ''soul''--Especially since taking the former route, then there is some kind of afterlife, where the latter can be afterlife or some kind of harmonic and optimistic way at looking at the end of your life.

Me personally, I don't believe in the afterlife in the way that we would be conscious of such [we're dead] what makes us who we are following the scientific route rests in the brain, and the brain like every other organ indeed dies eventually. Consciousness in ourselves will cease to exist as our brain begins to wind down, though it is very possible that in those few seconds or so, you could relive your entire life, or see some kinda light and go into a dream state before it finally shuts down. So essentially, you wouldn't know you were dead or about to be dead in those quick seconds [or even microseconds]

As per afterlife for me, I'll cease to exist within a hundred years, having ran out at the end of my time, but I know in physical terms everything that makes up me is recycled back into the fabric of the universe, while the memories of me will still live on in my children's children's children or what not, and that's what I find comforting as strange as that probably sounds.

[Lord Chandler]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

[Ayreonia]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

There's an alternative to living while you're alive? Nobody told me.

[Pravengria]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

There's an alternative to living while you're alive? Nobody told me.

Personally I like the phrase, ''Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent''

[The IASM]

I do like to think that life does reincarnated itself again we will eventually stop that circle anyway.

[Madenia]

What about Purgatory and Limbo?

Limbo is not official doctrine in any Christian sect. Purgatory, it depends on who you ask.

I'm a catholic. I was always taught about limbo being a waiting place until the afterlife by the church.

[Pravengria]

Limbo is not official doctrine in any Christian sect. Purgatory, it depends on who you ask.

I'm a catholic. I was always taught about limbo being a waiting place until the afterlife by the church.

Well, if I was catholic and let's say Dante's Inferno is indeed a fact. And God gave me the choice to go to heaven or not, I'd like to be in Limbo. Sit down and talk with Aristotle, Plato and the ruff, I would love that for eternity.

[Ayreonia]

There's an alternative to living while you're alive? Nobody told me.

Personally I like the phrase, ''Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent''

I like "Immortal until proven otherwise" myself.

[Farnhamia]

Personally I like the phrase, ''Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent''

I like "Immortal until proven otherwise" myself.

Live forever or die trying.

[Kormanthor]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

Only those who enter hell will be in darkness forever.

[TaQud]

is this thread gravedigged (or gravedug whatever you prefer)? Because i remember the last post in this thread being August 16th or 17th or 18th

[The Truth and Light]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

Only those who enter hell will be in darkness forever.

Ummmmmmmmmm?

Do you have proof of this?

[Mavorpen]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

Only those who enter hell will be in darkness forever.

In other words, no one.

[Mavorpen]

Only those who enter hell will be in darkness forever.

Ummmmmmmmmm?

Do you have proof of this?

Of course hell is in darkness. It doesn't exist.

[Threlizdun]

We enter a void of darkness forever. So live while you can

Stating that we would be in darkness is a misnomer, as it implies that we would still be in existence and conscious of darkness. As for

Only those who enter hell will be in darkness forever.

No

[Ayreonia]

I like "Immortal until proven otherwise" myself.

Live forever or die trying.

Words to live by.

[Benuty]

Ummmmmmmmmm?

Do you have proof of this?

Of course hell is in darkness. It doesn't exist.

Well no its more likely a translation error.

[Neutraligon]

Of course hell is in darkness. It doesn't exist.

Well no its more likely a translation error.

From what?

[The Silence of Night]

Well no its more likely a translation error.

From what?

Jewish religious texts, assumedly.

[The Parkus Empire]

An endless dreamless sleep

Absolutely boring.

Only for people who have lead boring lives. For those of us who haven't, shit sounds relaxing as fuck.