Thread: Do you believe in a 'Afterlife'?

Originally Posted by Conkt

One could say that the spreading of false information is trolling, Xedan.

One could say that, but it hasn't been proven false. And it has WAY more accounts to back it up than the spaghetti monster example you were going to use if I hadn't added this last sentence to the post.

Originally Posted by Xedan

One could say that, but it hasn't been proven false.

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I was going to answer this question but then I realized I have no idea what the fuck an 'afterlife' really is.

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

I was going to answer this question but then I realized I have no idea what the fuck an 'afterlife' really is.

That's why it's a silly question. In most people's minds they just think of it as "not really" dying when you die. So in fact keeping living. Basically people seeing death, getting cold feet and trying to find a way for death not to be death. Which is absurd by definition.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

That's why it's a silly question. In most people's minds they just think of it as "not really" dying when you die. So in fact keeping living. Basically people seeing death, getting cold feet and trying to find a way for death not to be death. Which is absurd by definition.

Indeed it is. I admit that question was half-serious. I understand what was meant with 'afterlife' (being, what you just said), and to which I'd say 'No' only because if who "I" am can be completely altered by one traumatic blow to the cranium, then it likely suggests that everything that is me exists because of some wrinkles on a 3 pound mass of fat resting in my skull. And once that starts to decay, you can rest assured that this Czech will be canceled (I know, I know, I couldn't resist)

Of course, I don't even know what it means to be, let alone what it means to be human or even what it means to be Me.

As I said in another thread, I'm still kind of grappling with, "Holy fucking shit I and everything around me is condensed fucking light."

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

you can rest assured that this Czech will be canceled (I know, I know, I couldn't resist)

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

Of course, I don't even know what it means to be, let alone what it means to be human or even what it means to be Me.

Don't begin to slide down the road of considering "you" as a thing. Like a thing in your mind or whatever. The only reason we have the idea of there being a "you" in the same way there might be a table somewhere, as a thing that exists in the world, is because our language uses words like "you" in the same way as it uses "table" or "duck". It's confusing.

I think as far as we CAN put a definition on these things, "you" are your interactions with the world. Don't be taken in by people saying things like "you carry on" or "if you were in another body". It's a confusion of how we use language.


We only try to define "you" because we have the word, and find it fits oddly into certain sentences [see: "you carry on after death"]. In such a sentence it seems to make grammatical sense, and so we try to get our heads around this when in fact it is a misuese of language. We don't stop to think the word may simply be a weird phenomena in language which doesn't apply to something in the same way other words do. Maybe you is a verb, not a noun, as people usually take it. Either way, don't come to strong conclusions.

We just use it like a noun, and I feel that is where an awful lot of confusions such as ideas of souls come from.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Don't begin to slide down the road of considering "you" as a thing. Like a thing in your mind or whatever. The only reason we have the idea of there being a "you" in the same way there might be a table somewhere, as a thing that exists in the world, is because our language uses words like "you" in the same way as it uses "table" or "duck". It's confusing.

I think as far as we CAN put a definition on these things, "you" are your interactions with the world. Don't be taken in by people saying things like "you carry on" or "if you were in another body". It's a confusion of how we use language.


We only try to define "you" because we have the word, and find it fits oddly into certain sentences [see: "you carry on after death"]. In such a sentence it seems to make grammatical sense, and so we try to get our heads around this when in fact it is a misuese of language. We don't stop to think the word may simply be a weird phenomena in language which doesn't apply to something in the same way other words do. Maybe you is a verb, not a noun, as people usually take it. Either way, don't come to strong conclusions.

We just use it like a noun, and I feel that is where an awful lot of confusions such as ideas of souls come from.

I don't think you could have said this any better, especially considering your audience. While I'm not saying I disagree, I have to say I don't think I agree 100%. Regardless, this is a really good way to look at it, and I will get a lot of use out of it.