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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: What do you think happens when we die? |
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What do you think happens when we die?
Blackness? Reunited with the ones we loved? Endless piano music or eternal flames? Are some of us doomed to play out eternal ghost story roles?
Talk to me stranger. |
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coldcrush
Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:01 am Post subject: |
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something that involves breeeeeasts, i'd wager. |
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hypnotist

Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Like those old TVs, when the off button is pushed everything will reduce to a little white dot in the centre of the screen.. and then vanish.
Blip. |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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hypnotist wrote: |
Like those old TVs, when the off button is pushed everything will reduce to a little white dot in the centre of the screen.. and then vanish.
Blip. |
Sum Ting Wong here |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Honestly?
Well, I don't talk about this very much, but since you asked...
I think that those people who recognized God and spent their lives trying to know Him and love Him will spent forever with Him. I don't really see people walking on clouds and strumming harps. What I read in the Bible tells me that I'll be spending a lot of time actually worshipping God. I suspect that I'll be there with a lot of loved ones, but I don't know if I'll relate to them in a recognizable way. I know that we'll have bodies that don't wear out, and probably minds that are a hell of a lot clearer. An admittedly peculiar choice of words, but I'll let it stand.
As for those people who weren't really concerned about God, hated Him or claimed He didn't exist, I think those people wouldn't be very happy in "heaven". I don't believe they will be tortured eternally-- I tend to think that either their lives just end, or they maybe they find out what life is really like without God. I don't know if that's a fixed fate-- the Bible hints that there might be some wiggle room after death, but I don't know.
Hopefully Rowan Atkinson got it wrong:
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Hello, nice to see you all again.
As the more perceptive of you have probably realised by now - this is hell, and I am the Devil. Goodevening. You can call me Toby, if you like - we try and keep things informal down here, as well as infernal.
Now, you're all here for eternity, which I hardly need tell you is a sod of a long time, so you get to know everyone pretty well by the end, but for now I'll have to split you up into groups.
Are there any questions?
No, I'm afraid we don't have any toilets, if you'd read your bible you would have seen that it was damnation without relief. So, I'm afraid if you didn't go before you came then you're not going to enjoy yourself very much, but then, I believe that's the general idea.
Right, let's split you up then.
Can you all hear me?
CAN YOU HEAR ME AT THE RACK?
Off we go...
Murderers, over here. Looters and pillagers - over there please, thieves if you could join them, and bank managers.
Fornicators, if you could step forward - My God there are a lot of you. Could I split you up into adulterers and the rest? Adulterers if you could just form a line in front of that small guillotine there.
AMERICANS, are you here? I'm sorry about this, apparently God had some fracas with your founding fathers and damned the entire race into perpetuity. He sends particular condolences to the Mormans who He realises put in a lot of work. The Iranians, I'm afraid, couldn't be with us - someone's been holding them in purgatory for the last nine months.
Sodomites, over there against the wall.
Atheists, over here please. You must be feeling a right bunch of charlies.
Christians, ah yes, I'm afraid the Jews were right.
Moonies, maniacs, marmite eaters, male models, masochists, mass murderers and masseurs, if you could take a pew at the back - with the Methodists that is.
Now, you're the lot who used to kill whales, is that right? Ah, yes, I must remember - I've got some strips to tear off you bastards later.
Everyone who saw Monty Pythons' "Life Of Brian", I'm afraid He can't take a joke after all.
Alright now, one final thing - we're trying to implement some sort of exchange scheme with the Lord God Almighty, or Cliff as we know him. Some of you will spend a decade in heaven and we're having some angels down here. Now, I hardly need tell you that you will be expected to behave in an exemplary manner, so, I hope you will do the exact opposite - tear off their wings, use their haloes for frisbee practice, that sort of thing.
Well, I have to go now, but Beelzebub here will show you the ropes
chains,
and electrodes. |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Cmon people, I want essays. |
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hypnotist

Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Kermo, your comments reminded me of an ITV mini-series called "The Second Coming" ( http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/ ). Ever heard of it?
If not, I recommend it very highly. I'm not sure if it's floating around the internet but it was released on DVD in the UK. |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Astro Travel. |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: |
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The MORMONS think they get their own planet when they die ...woo boy are they in for a big dissapointment. |
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Harin

Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: |
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i believe life after death. when i die, i believe that i will recarnate into another person or animal. this is why i am not afraid of death. |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:48 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I wanna come back as a doberman or a Rottie. I'm sick n tired of being a black lab...everyone is so gdam racist, no respect, etc. |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:45 am Post subject: |
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All of the organs of your body stop working. This means that the synapses in your brain stop firing off at each other, and everything you knew, felt, thought, and believed was going to happen at this point cease to exit. Decay starts to set in, and unless you go through an elaborate mumification process, you get eaten.
If you're lucky, something might happen to fossilize your bones just in case another species randomly evolves intelligence (because homo sapience is not eternal) digs you up and puts you on display somewhere. of course, these are just impressions of your bones, the real things vanished long ago. So that which was you is gone. I suppose there is comfort in the idea that you've left an impression.
Ha! I'm funny.
But even then, those fossils will be destroyed somehow: Fire, earthquake, lack of funding, future species society collapses, the sun expands vaporizing the earth, the universe loses all energy and atoms stop binding together.
So really, everything comes to an end. It's an unpleasant thought for creatures so used to being well aware of what it means to be alive. That's why we believe in invisible men in the sky: A mental placebo. |
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Emu Bitter
Joined: 27 May 2004 Location: Bundang
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:51 am Post subject: |
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You get buried or cremated, preferably cremated. No afterlife though. |
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drgoo
Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Location: Home, sweet home
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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SuperFly wrote: |
The MORMONS think they get their own planet when they die ...woo boy are they in for a big dissapointment. |
Ackchooley, they get to become gods themselves, and create their own universes. I think that's a quaint idea.
I'm of the view that it matters not what happens when I'm dead. I'll be dead. It is quite like sitting around here, now, wondering what something other than here, now, is like. Why not just enjoy here, now. When dead, why not just be dead?
Bye now,
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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God says, like Santa, 'ok, you've been good, I'll let you give it another shot...so what do ya wanna do this time?'.
'Ride a unicycle through France, stopping along the pretty coastal places to drink wine, eat cheese, and admire the scenery...'.
God says, 'ok, you've earned it just by not killing anybody...next'.
Seriously, how the heck should I know? Like you (if one believes in reincarnation) I've died heaps of time but draw a blank on what happened, any of it.
I've heard that the the human is made of many bodies...there's the physical, soul body, emotional body, ....apprently one physical body with variations of 'ethereal bodies', 4.
At death the physical body eats dirt, falls away to be worm food, and the ethereal bodies go different directions.
Like Tiger beer said (astral travel) there's no limit to how far, in time, space, these can go to end up part of a reassembly some place, at some time.
So 'you go to pieces'. |
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