What happens after we die? I'm afraid of just disappearing!

This is the biggest and most important question in human life, but most people don't seem to think too much about it.

>>81592692 (OP)
well, i think people prefer focusing on every day things

>>81592692 (OP)
There is cake!

>>81592692 (OP)
based off the available evidence, absolutely nothing happens, your brain contains everything that you believe to be you, after it dies you are gone. it will be just like before you were born and should be something you look forward to. you never have to think about anything ever again, you are completely and utterly gone.

>>81592692 (OP)
You don't have infinite memories going backwards towards the past, do you?
At some finite point in time your experience of life began and at some finite point of time in the future it will end.

I think we relive the same life eternally and have already all done this an infinite amount of times. I really hope it's not true.

>>81592692 (OP)
I've mourned my own death and it got easier.

>>81592764
You cant even remember your childhood so get real

could reincarnation be true?

>>81592692 (OP)
Depends on your religion.
An atheist would say that we dont even really exist in our current state. There is no you, per se, just a clump of atoms that go through changes, no different from the eroding of a rock.

A Christian would say that you will be judged guilty of evil by God, and only by accepting his offer of forgiveness can you achieve eternal life.

A Muslim would say that Allah judges us by our works, but some Christians and Jews will be sent to take the place of sinful Muslims in hell.

A Buddhist or Hindu says we reincarnate unless we can break the cycle.

>>81592692 (OP)
Eventually you come to terms with it and realize the alternatives are mostly worse.

>>81592791
Yeah, well, clearly there's a limit and it isn't like you have infinite memories from before you were born. There's nothing hard to understand about minds having beginnings and ends. No need to posit an afterlife since it makes enough sense to just accept minds track with brains.

ive been completely dibilitated over the fact im gonna die for months now. i keep having panic attacks over it.

>>81592909
I think I remember your thread if it is you, Just keep calm

>>81592922
i guess i must just have an anxiety disorder or something, because i cant calm down or enjoy anything. i forget if i made a thread.

>>81592796
It's not only true, but we're locked in with no escape. Just as the void birthed your current consciousness, it will happen again. Unconsciousness can't be experienced, so regardless of the duration- the second your current consciousness snuffs out you'll experience consciousness elsewhere. In another body, in another place and time. It's not really "reincarnation" because "you" don't really exist as an entity to begin with. Only an endlessly changing wave of aggregates, eternally conscious

Death is impossible, you are the universe

>>81592796
>could reincarnation be true?
Maybe it's something even deeper
>>81592850
How do we know our previous memories aren't covered up by all our child abuse?

>>81592938
Just mourn your death. You do know how to mourn right?

>>81592692 (OP)
Some day, Christian Nationalist billionaires will send nanobots to exhume your bones and re-animate them using artificial sinews. Your personality will be re-created from a default model and parameterized using all known information about you. You will be held accountable for your actions in life and forced to suffer in a tiny jar if you are judged unworthy. I speak from a scientific perspective.

>>81592938
idk, but death is scary I agree, what I use to suppress the fear is that it's a lot like sleep and when you sleep you don't care

>>81592692 (OP)
You will live the same life that you live now over and over and over again. Better make it a good one! :)

>>81592692 (OP)
>most people don't seem to think too much about it
It is clear that you are a retard because there's a tremendously large volume of literature from the entirety of recorded history addressing this question. Prehistoric burial sites and the like suggest that it was under heavy consideration even then. You're also a retard because most people have considered this long ago and come up with an answer that is acceptable to them, be that religious or something else.

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>>81593062
So people who are horribly deformed will be deformed over and over, and billionaires will be billionaires over and over? It makes no sense.

>>81593026
Christians dont believe in science so that doesn't sound plausible

>>81593434
I'm not talking about other people, I'm talking about YOU! You MUST live the most beautiful life you possibly can starting today. Be a man of action, be explosive, ecstatic, full of untamed energy! Surge forward and claim your destiny! If you're fated to live it all again, why not make it as wonderful as you can?Amor fati, anon! Don't waste this opportunity! ;)

>>81593498
NTA I like your message but at the same time it made me want to vomit, maybe because I'm so jaded

>>81592692 (OP)
Nothing, your consciousness, therefore you as a person, will cease to exist as soon as neurotransmitters in your brain are no longer capable of transmitting signals. It won't even be blackness, it will be the complete lack of any experience as you no longer have an organ to experience anything with.

>>81593511
That's just the energy you're feeling inside anon, swirling around and around. It wants to be used for great things. I promise it's never too late!

>>81592723
>>81593545
but our consciousness cannot be themselves the chemical reactions inside the brain, thus the hard problem of consciousness.

>>81593466
Christians helped create the scientific method, and the big bang theory was developed by a priest.

>>81592723
>>81593545
Do not listen to these evil life-deniers, anons! Consciousness will exist even after your body is fully decomposed! You can and will live again!

>>81593600
Why am I evil? Why is it evil to accept reality as it is?
>>81593580
>but our consciousness cannot be themselves the chemical reactions inside the brain
Why not? All measurable experiences map to specific physical states in the brain. Anything you experience is the result of electric and chemical signals.

>>81593580
Why? You're just asserting that. Literally source I made it the fuck up.

>>81592692 (OP)
Something can't return to nothing. Something can only be transformed. Oblivion can't be contemplated by humans. After death you will return, in one form, in another form. You will not experience the billions of years it will take for you to reform, but you will. Once we are born we are immortal.

>>81592692 (OP)
Most people don't think about it because there is nothing you can do about it. Live long if you can but long life or short you are going to die.
Seek God or remain lost.

you will turn into a ghost but be completely immune to the earths gravity and fall right off the side, floating in space forever dark and alone