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Old 05-12-2012, 06:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I do hope that there is something beyond death, that the rest of time won't just spin out into total darkness.
I don't believe we experience anything after death and it really doesn't concern me at all. I think trying to imagine what it is like being dead is a bit like trying to imagine what you felt like in those billions of years the universe existed before you were born. Of course you didn't feel like anything because you didn't exist, just like I believe you won't after you die.

With my limited imagination, I imagine that "me" existing temporarily and then ceasing to exist is better than "me" existing infinitely.
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Old 05-15-2012, 03:16 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I don't believe we experience anything after death and it really doesn't concern me at all. I think trying to imagine what it is like being dead is a bit like trying to imagine what you felt like in those billions of years the universe existed before you were born. Of course you didn't feel like anything because you didn't exist, just like I believe you won't after you die.

With my limited imagination, I imagine that "me" existing temporarily and then ceasing to exist is better than "me" existing infinitely.
I think this is a very interesting point, and one that has passed my mind before. I completely agree with you, it doesn't matter in the end whether or not we experience anything after death. Whatever happens, it won't be any different that what happened to every other person on this planet that lived and died. I think that believing in something after death isn't necessarily a state of denial though, I don't believe everything ends at death. We have no memory of what came before us, we will probably have no memory of our life in this physical form after our death ( if you think there is something after death ). Although this kind of compounds the sense of redundancy that comes with the " afterlife ", I think it is quite compelling as well as slightly precarious, I am not sure we are really able to comprehend what happens when we die. I don't think I have really concluded this comment, mainly because of how conflicted I am about the subject matter.
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