What its like after death

[dcalling]

In our current understanding, brain is the center of thoughts, and once it dies we die. But if you think of ourselves as computers, and the thoughts as computer programs and data, even if the computer dies, we can still copy the program and data and bring them back to life. So this is a short answer

 

[Joshua260]

I know that Christians believe in a heaven and hell and they might also feel like there needs to be something after we die... how could we simply stop existing? What would not existing be like?

I have begun to think that after I die I will go back to the way I was before I was born. That is to say that the way I was before being born is the way I will be after I die. This makes not existing understandable to me. This makes it easier for me to comprehend what I think not existing means.

How do you guys feel about the idea that we don't really need and afterlife, there doesn't have to be anything, we don't need to continue existing because we didn't need these things before we were born either?

I thought I might try to answer again because maybe I answered to harsh at first. I've floated my own ideas out before and they were not recvd as well as I had hoped also, so I'm trying to understand where you're coming from.
So I think what may be throwing me off is that you say that you have begun to think that you will go back to the way you were before you were born after you die. In this statement you are presupposing an atheistic belief. So if I were to start with that also, I guess I might come to the same conclusion that our brain just dies and so on and so forth.
So if I can try to be as polite as I can in responding to that idea, the reason why I would not agree with your conclusion is because I have reason to disagree with your premise. And I've already explained that so I won't repeat myself.
So is this answer more of what you were looking for?

If I offended you, I sincerely apologize. Maybe this answer explains why I answered as I did earlier. Our conclusions would be based on our premise. Your premise was that after you die, you would go back to the way you were before you were born, and as I said, I have reason not to agree with that premise and that's where we part ways conceptually. Does this make more sense?

 

[aiki]

I haven't disrespected anyone. I tried and tried and told you over and over that I just didn't want to talk to you about those two topics and you wouldn't listen.

I didn't say you had disrespected anyone. I said another poster had done so.

If you didn't want to talk about certain topics, you should not have made assertions relating to them. I only inquired after statements you made.

If you were as condescending and inconsiderate and unrelenting to that other person as you are to me I can see why you had problems.

Why the personal attack? I am now the third person in this thread with whom you have taken personal issue. Is it really everyone else who is the problem? You are the common denominator in each instance where you take offense. Perhaps, then, the problem is not entirely with us. Just a thought.

I am not condescending, or inconsiderate - though I may at times be unrelenting. I have very good reason for believing what I do and do not, therefore, shrink from confronting those who would mischaracterize my faith, or suggest being a Christian is irrational and unreasonable. There is no condescension or discourtesy in my posts but there is confidence and a determination that false statements and poor thinking will not go unchallenged.

If you'd accepted a simple "thank you but I don't want to talk about that because that's normally a really hard subject to communicate" things might be different.

You did more than defer from talking about subjects; you made clear statements concerning them for which you refused to offer proper justification. That's simply dishonest. As I said, if you didn't want to to talk about such things, you should not have created a discussion that brought you into discussion of them.

Selah.

 

[Kiritsugu Emiyah]

Aiki

Well I see where this is going, thanks for answering my original question.

 

[Kiritsugu Emiyah]

In our current understanding, brain is the center of thoughts, and once it dies we die. But if you think of ourselves as computers, and the thoughts as computer programs and data, even if the computer dies, we can still copy the program and data and bring them back to life. So this is a short answer

Cool, thanks for sharing

 

[MissRowy]

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