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[Ben]

Olam Haba

Are you a J00 too?

Yeap. Very j00.

[Amichai Řezník]

Olam Haba

Are you a J00 too?

Yeap. Very j00.

That's nice

[Ben]

Olam Haba

Are you a J00 too?

Yeap. Very j00.

That's nice

כן

[Connor MacLeod]

Here, there and everywhere.

[bern004]

The only plausible idea I can think of is that the Ego will cease to exist and our consciousness will evaporate back into the Source Consciousness. I know it sounds like hippie speak but I find that after studying lots of religion and spiritual works, as well as the effects of psychedelic drugs, trance, meditation and Near Death Experiences, it's the only thing that makes sense.

Once in the Source Consciousness--where time and space do not exist--the entire universe resets itself and you may reincarnate into anything.

I believe you could reincarnate into any conscious entity of this universe at any point in time (because Time is not linear, we only perceive it to be linear). For example, you COULD theoretically reincarnate as not only a human being or other form of life in the future, but you could also reincarnate as your own father, mother, ancient ancestor. This is because, like I said, Consciousness without a physical
"space-time" vessel to contain it is both spacially and temporally formless.

You could reincarnate as a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Cambrian or Jurassic era. There is really no limit to what or WHEN you could reincarnate, because The Other Side (of Death) does not exist temporally or even spacially. It is a place of total eternity.

I'm not sure if you could reincarnate into another universe entirely (for instance as a purple cephalopod with 69 tentacles, 3 eyes, and lives in a universe where stars are shaped like triangles) but I suppose it's theoretically possible.

Who knows, I could be dead wrong and going to burn in Hell forever, but that's what makes most sense to me.

Edited by bern004, 21 July 2013 - 09:49 PM.

[empedocles]

I expect nothing, i will be dead, by definition i will be nothing.

I hold on to the notion that technological advances will keep me living a long time, alas reality does not reflect this notion, which is but a hope. Unless the post-human/life extension movement becomes more militant and driven nothing will come of it.. but words on a page.

[Lazarus Long]

I've avoided answering this article for the longest time. I find the question too ambiguous in English. If you are asking about "after I die" then I haven't a clue other than I would be like a regretful songsmith; decomposing. That is if I wasn't successfully in suspension somehow.

I would prefer to address the more obvious understanding of the question: Where would you physically be when you die?

Not necessarily how would you die, but where?

Considering how I've thought about things like volunteering for a one way migration to Mars, such ideas intrigue me.

A hospital bed is by far the most likely but a car crash or other type of accident is also sadly a high probability.

Acceptable risk far trumps existential risk when analyzed objectively. I don't have to drive my motorcycle to drive but with or without a car driving is an automatic risk. As are other activities I engage in like flying when I can cycling, and sailing, etc. Though to my way of thinking engaging in extreme sport would be to capture and colonize a large NEO asteroid.

I suspect from the answers you provide that this is not what you mean to ask with the question but ironically it is what you are actually asking about.

So if I had to mark "other" I would but instead I defer from actually picking a provided option and leave this missive instead.