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What do you think happens when we die?

We go to heaven, hell, or purgatory.
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We go to heaven or hell, forever. No purgatory or redemption of any sort once we have passed on.
23
10%
We reincarnate as some being in the world, regardless of whether the creature we are reborn as is human or not, until something breaks the cycle.
11
5%
We reincarnate as some being in the world, regardless of whether the creature we are reborn as is human or not, on an infinite cycle.
10
4%
We reincarnate as any newborn human in the world, until something breaks the cycle. Non-human animals have their own reincarnation cycle or do not have souls.
6
3%
We reincarnate as any newborn human in the world, on an infinite cycle. Non-human animals have their own reincarnation cycle or do not have souls.
5
2%
There is nothing after death; that's it. Zip. Zada. Nothing.
135
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Postby Dyakovo » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:14 am

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Prussia-Steinbach wrote:Oh, thank fuck. Finally, someone that has proof.

So, please, elaborate. How do you know the Roman Catholic afterlife is the real one?

I can tell you why I know, but you would not believe me, because it's anecdotal evidence that you would have to take my word for.

So, in other words, you don't know, you believe.
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Postby Wallenburg » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:32 am

The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:
Prussia-Steinbach wrote:Oh, thank fuck. Finally, someone that has proof.

So, please, elaborate. How do you know the Roman Catholic afterlife is the real one?

I can tell you why I know, but you would not believe me, because it's anecdotal evidence that you would have to take my word for.

That's a paradox. I can't say, "the center of the earth is a ball of cheese" and then say you should take my word for it without proving it, and still call it evidence.
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Postby The United Neptumousian Empire » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:29 am

Dyakovo wrote:
The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:I can tell you why I know, but you would not believe me, because it's anecdotal evidence that you would have to take my word for.

So, in other words, you don't know, you believe.

No, I know. Anecdotal evidence can be proof to the person that it's coming from. If you got abducted by aliens, you know aliens are real. But it doesn't prove to anyone else that they're real.

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Postby New Skaaneland » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:33 am

I don't believe anything comes after, but I also don't believe that I'm dead yet.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:38 am

The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:So, in other words, you don't know, you believe.

No, I know. Anecdotal evidence can be proof to the person that it's coming from. If you got abducted by aliens, you know aliens are real. But it doesn't prove to anyone else that they're real.

Experiencing something first hand isn't anecdotal evidence.
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Postby The Wolven League » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:01 pm

Ifreann wrote:
The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:No, I know. Anecdotal evidence can be proof to the person that it's coming from. If you got abducted by aliens, you know aliens are real. But it doesn't prove to anyone else that they're real.

Experiencing something first hand isn't anecdotal evidence.

Indeed.
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Postby Dyakovo » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:03 pm

The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:So, in other words, you don't know, you believe.

No, I know. Anecdotal evidence can be proof to the person that it's coming from. If you got abducted by aliens, you know aliens are real. But it doesn't prove to anyone else that they're real.

So you don't know what either "proof" or "anecdotal evidence" means. Got it.
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Postby Benuty » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:11 pm

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Postby Pandeeria » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:13 pm

No one most likely will ever know what is after death. When you die, you can no longer perceive your surroundings since you literally do not exist anymore.

Therefore, when we die, none of us will actually know that we're dead. Just as a rock cannot realize that it's but a mere rock, forever just sitting on the ground as a rock, we to cannot realize that we are stuck in mere non-existence.
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Postby The Krogan » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:13 pm

Whatever you want to happen when you die.
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Postby Benuty » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:17 pm

New Skaaneland wrote:I don't believe anything comes after, but I also don't believe that I'm dead yet.

You could be dead. After all walking corpse syndrome is a thing.
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Postby New Skaaneland » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:24 pm

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Postby Ava Ire » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:37 pm

Heaven. Or Hell.
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Postby Genivaria » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:40 pm

Dyakovo wrote:
The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:No, I know. Anecdotal evidence can be proof to the person that it's coming from. If you got abducted by aliens, you know aliens are real. But it doesn't prove to anyone else that they're real.

So you don't know what either "proof" or "anecdotal evidence" means. Got it.

To be fair Thomas Paine made the same basic argument that Revelation is only valid when seen 1st hand and anyone else should disbelieve.

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Postby Papal Republics » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:16 pm

I'm still debating this issue in my head right now, but I'm compelled to believe in a Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.
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Postby Esheaun Stroakuss » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:43 pm

Nothing.

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Postby Meryuma » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:45 pm

Probably nothing. There's also the possibility of continuation of consciousness in a new mind, but it's kinda unlikely.
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Postby Egoman » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:47 pm

We all go to a planet full of kush.

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Postby Saint Kitten » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:54 pm

Nothing. Your body rots and that's it.
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Postby The Wolven League » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:44 am

Saint Kitten wrote:Nothing. Your body rots and that's it.

I agree, unfortuantely enough.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:45 am

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Postby Zanera » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:53 am

I am hoping for Valhalla. Then I get to kick giant butt during Ragnarok.
If the Christian thing is real, I will try to get a job at the front desk of Purgatory. Boring place, but you see all kinds of new people.
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Postby Minoa » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:02 am

For me, there is nothing after death: that would be the end of me.
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Postby The Flutterlands » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:06 am

I believe that I'll most likely end up in Purgatory for a finite amount of time before entering Heaven.

Still, if there is nothing after death, then does that mean the Universe for an individual begins upon birth and ends upon death? There's a lot of philosophical thinking about that...
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Postby Napkiraly » Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:43 am

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