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What happens when we die?
- Thread starter sweetsstuff2007
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I'd imagine its like counting backwards from 10 when your going under for surgery coupled with any sensations you may receive from whatever has caused you to die. (Failing organs, gun shot... whatever.)
After that you are no longer conscious or subconscious of anything. (Once the brain actually dies)
tomspug
Absorbant
Eh...
A better question is whether a fear of death is something to be admired or despised.
Jehovah's Witness
New Member
We die and that's it. The bible doesn't say we have an eternal soul, we are the soul, if you look up the hebrew and greek translations of SOUL, it means Life, in Genesis it said that Adam was A SOUL, not had a soul, also, it said "Souls" refering to Animals. In Ezequial(if i spelt it right) 18:4 it says that every soul who sins will die! We all sin! All our souls/lives will vanish, of course in Symbolical terms, God can keep our soul in the sense that he can return it to someone who has died. There's 9 accounts in the Bible about resurrections and not one was happy because they were taken away from Hell, or none speak about a Heaven, simply they were "sleeping" in
death!
death!
tomspug
Absorbant
That makes sense. That whole part in the Bible that talks about eternal life after death was just a distraction. If we just use the ENGLISH language to explain texts written in Greek and Hebrew, it all makes sense!
Muffled
Jesus in me
Do I sense sarcasm in your answer?
I don't suppose you could count Jesus as a case in point who went to sheol to give the dead there the good news because Jesus as God in the flesh could be considered a special case. On the other hand, it is not inconceivable that many of the things God can do we can do also.
Then we have Jesus saying to the thief on the cross that he would be with Jesus in Paradise that day. Funny thing that Jesus didn't say that he would be sleeping with Jesus in Paradise.
Then there is the passage where Jesus is answeing a question about Heaven and saying that people are like the angels there. Does that mean the angels are sleeping? They seem awake enough to me when they visit people.
I like the old African American spiritual: "I'll walk around Heaven all day."
Scott C.
Just one guy
Some may be interested in this link. When we talk about LDS revelation, we talk a lot about Joseph Smith. But, this link is a revelation that was received by Joseph F. Smith (not Joseph Smith) who was church president in 1918. Joseph F. Smith was reading the Bible and meditating on certain verses when he had this heavenly vision of life in the hereafter.
Doctrine and Covenants 138
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sweetsstuff2007
New Member
Change how exactly?
sweetsstuff2007
New Member
I believe everything is made up of energy. When we die that energy is released and we can be re-incarneted into a new body or move to a different astral plane and learn and let our souls grow and become more enlightened. If you die a violent or unexpected death, though, your soul doesn't realize that it's dead, so it gets stuck in limbo here on earth. If you look at the tons of haunting cases around the world you can see evidence of this. Most of the time when people notice paranormal phenomenon (sp? spell checker won't work
) the history often shows someone who was murdered or died a horrible death. You can also find proof of re-incarnation in children who know or remember things that they can't possibly remember. I have heard about small children who swear that they died once, or recognize someone that they have never met before, because they have experienced it in a past life. I feel that signs of a continuing soul are all around us but most of us won't or can't see them, mostly because we are taught from early on that stuff isn't real.
) the history often shows someone who was murdered or died a horrible death. You can also find proof of re-incarnation in children who know or remember things that they can't possibly remember. I have heard about small children who swear that they died once, or recognize someone that they have never met before, because they have experienced it in a past life. I feel that signs of a continuing soul are all around us but most of us won't or can't see them, mostly because we are taught from early on that stuff isn't real.
UnityNow101
Well-Known Member
Certainly despised. How can you fear the unknown? Death is either a new beginning, or the absolute end of life, two polar opposites. Either way, it is all good. If there is life after death, fine. If not, than it will be like it was before you were even born. You just will not know that you have ever left. I am ready for anything. Come Reincarnation,heaven/hell, or nothing, I shall be alright. There will be good people in heaven and hell and I look forward to chillin' with you all on whichever side I should happen to fall.:group: And if there is nothing, I will return to the understanding that I had before I was conceived...
logician
Well-Known Member
You do realize that hell is defined to be a place of eternal suffering? I don't think you'd be "chillin" out there.
Well, we bring upon our own sufferings, according to Buddha. So, whatever Hell has in store for us nonbelievers, we'd get used to it unless God can control what we feel.
logician
Well-Known Member
All that there is after death is nonexistence, but that's all we had before we were born, so we should be used to it.
You don't know that for sure, nor can you know that, unless you've died and seen it for yourself, which would be impossible.
None of us remember what it was like before we were born. You say it was nothingness. But we also don't remember the first year of our lives. Was that nothingness too? Just because our feeble little human minds cannot comprehend it, does that make it nothingness? Our bodies didn't exist, of course. But is that all we are? Don't forget the basic scientific principle of energy, that it can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only change forms. So where did the energy that makes us alive come from? Our parents didn't make it for us the way they made our bodies. You might say it was in the sperm or the egg. But that's not enough. Where did that come from? It must've come from somewhere. After all, it wasn't created by humans.
So tell me, Spock, where did it come from?
logician
Well-Known Member
Sorry, there is much more evidence suporting my postiion than yours, nonexistence awaits us all.
BucephalusBB
ABACABB
When we die we are dead. gone.. Get over it
.lava
Veteran Member
When we die we are dead. gone.. Get over it
if time is able to go forward, what makes you think it could not reverse?
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BucephalusBB
ABACABB
Nothing. If it is reversed as well it will be exactly reversed. With that I mean is that I won't notice a difference between this life and the reversed one. And this one again as the reversed one will also be reversed.
So for my thoughts, there will always be only one life. The one I am in now..