RE: What happens to you when you die?
June 9, 2010 at 1:18 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2010 at 1:24 am by rax.)
Ok, I think Loki_999 and I are close to being on the same page when he quoted Terry Pratchett.
"You go where you believe you will go. I think this would be especially ironic for the Christians who would spend eternity singing the praises of Yahweh... suckers! I'm off to Valhalla to drink mead every night served by Norse maidens with cleavages you could ski down. "
I think Matt barely touches on what I'm getting at, at 7:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8veRgvXw8
I think the main word that I'm using here is 'hope'. I mean, imagine you are on a game show, and there is a wall with a big curtain over it. The host tells you whatever is behind the curtain, if anything, is yours, except for any parts of the building. So, the question is, "What do you hope is behind the curtain, a billion dollars, naked women and a billion dollars, a yacht and a billion dollars, gold bars, what is your hope?"
This is the same concept that I'm applying to my death. What would I want to happen, what do I hope happens? I do not want to cease to be, even as much as I will more than likely cease to be, I do not want nor hope to cease to be. I hope that when I die there is a continuation of 'myself'.
I'm simply using my imagination to conjure up what I would want to happen when I die. You honestly don't do the same? Sometimes I also day-dream about what it would be like to have certain super powers or if I were rich. How is this any different? I wish there is another life after this and I wish I were a multi-millionaire right now.
Hoping, wanting and wishing doesn't make it any more or less possible, but it is possible right? Or are most of the people that responded here strong-aLifeAfterDeathists (a play on strong atheism), and refuse or are in capable of such fantastical thinking?
So when I get grilled about an atheist's view on death, I answer that I don't know, and that we very well might cease to be, (and go into the circle of life, and star death, physics, yada yada...) but that I hope that there is an afterworld...etc
The responses on here were kind of surprising, but maybe I'm phrasing the question wrong.
---> How about this: Do you hope/want/wish there is an afterlife... of some kind... or no? If so, what do you think of? If not... why?
"You go where you believe you will go. I think this would be especially ironic for the Christians who would spend eternity singing the praises of Yahweh... suckers! I'm off to Valhalla to drink mead every night served by Norse maidens with cleavages you could ski down. "
I think Matt barely touches on what I'm getting at, at 7:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8veRgvXw8
I think the main word that I'm using here is 'hope'. I mean, imagine you are on a game show, and there is a wall with a big curtain over it. The host tells you whatever is behind the curtain, if anything, is yours, except for any parts of the building. So, the question is, "What do you hope is behind the curtain, a billion dollars, naked women and a billion dollars, a yacht and a billion dollars, gold bars, what is your hope?"
This is the same concept that I'm applying to my death. What would I want to happen, what do I hope happens? I do not want to cease to be, even as much as I will more than likely cease to be, I do not want nor hope to cease to be. I hope that when I die there is a continuation of 'myself'.
I'm simply using my imagination to conjure up what I would want to happen when I die. You honestly don't do the same? Sometimes I also day-dream about what it would be like to have certain super powers or if I were rich. How is this any different? I wish there is another life after this and I wish I were a multi-millionaire right now.
Hoping, wanting and wishing doesn't make it any more or less possible, but it is possible right? Or are most of the people that responded here strong-aLifeAfterDeathists (a play on strong atheism), and refuse or are in capable of such fantastical thinking?
So when I get grilled about an atheist's view on death, I answer that I don't know, and that we very well might cease to be, (and go into the circle of life, and star death, physics, yada yada...) but that I hope that there is an afterworld...etc
The responses on here were kind of surprising, but maybe I'm phrasing the question wrong.
---> How about this: Do you hope/want/wish there is an afterlife... of some kind... or no? If so, what do you think of? If not... why?
