Well first, when you die, in the modern era, its usually in a hospital. So when you keel over, you'll end up usually in the morgue in the basement. Then if the cause of your death is known, they will ship your body out to a funeral home, where the funeral director (the undertaker of the modern age) will either embalm your body, preserving your "life" or cremate you, making disposal of your body very simple. Then your close family and friends will host a funeral for you, of varying types of ceremonies, some religious and even some secular, and your body will either 1) end up buried in the ground, 2) scattered on the cemetaries' "scattering grounds," 3) end up on a mantle piece or 4) if your wishes include your ashes to be scattered somewhere else, they will be taken by your family and placed where you specify.
That is what happens to us when we die. Whether or not there is some form of the body that "continues" on after the death of a person is pure speculation.
I don't know. And neither does anyone else. Which is why I choose not to believe another person when they tell me what happens when we die. It's terrifying to think about dying but going to religion just for the comfort it brings lets people think that they have the answers when they really don't. And since more people have died in the name of religion than anything else in the history of mankind shows that this can be very dangerous for people.
hmm i aways wondered this myself. i dont believe in god, i dont believe in heaven or hell, but it intrigues me what happens after death. its weird i mean, where do your mind goes, your conscience that know that you are you, that you exist. you have to go somewhere, i mean its weird thinking that you dont exist. oh god lol this is so hard to explain, especially in english. but ill try. you know that you are here, right now. after you die what happens to your coscience that knows that you are you. ( oh god its hard to explain) where were you before you born?? when does it started for you to think that you exist, to be coscient that you exist. i dont remember being a baby for example. but when does you get that thing, that makes you exist. lets call it a soul. when do you get your soul. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whatever.
There is simply nothing, the whole idea of you going "somewhere" after death is quite honestly stupid. Once you are dead that is it, it defies all logic to have something occur after death. :|
if you just cease to exist then thers no point in fear death. its not going to be boring or anything, its going to be nothing. thats why i dont fear death, i just fear not being able to live anymore.
if you just cease to exist then thers no point in fear death. its not going to be boring or anything, its going to be nothing. thats why i dont fear death, i just fear not being able to live anymore.Hope_Estheim
Yea its going to suck not being alive even though your not going to know your not alive because your not alive.
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"] Heaven if you're a Christian. Hell if you're not.......foxhound_fox
Christians can go to Hell too. Just because you believe in Jesus doesn't make you safe from fire and brimstone. OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
You get burried, and you just die. You see a black screen like your dreaming or in a coma, but you dont Know it, Like when you were in the Womb. Remember that?Of Course you dont :lol: Thats like death, Except were not waiting for anything, Lifes Goes on, and they say R.I.P.
OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.Lansdowne5
yep, look at those damned Catholics, I mean, they're so corrupt, anything associated with them must be wrong. *ignores that Catholics translated and kept the Bible for 1400 years*
OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
Lansdowne5
So wait... born again Christians can't sin? They can't fall like anyone else and be sent to Hell? Your being able to "judge" what makes a "Christian" seems very un-Christian to me.
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"] OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
foxhound_fox
So wait... born again Christians can't sin? They can't fall like anyone else and be sent to Hell? Your being able to "judge" what makes a "Christian" seems very un-Christian to me.
And this thread was for atheists. A born-again Christian is saved. Period. Oh, and this thread for atheists was in off-topic which is a forum for all.
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"] OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
foxhound_fox
Your being able to "judge" what makes a "Christian" seems very un-Christian to me.
And this thread was for atheists.
no, thats very Christian, actually.
however, it is very un-dude. he is being very unnn-duuuuude
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"]OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.Hewkii
yep, look at those damned Catholics, I mean, they're so corrupt, anything associated with them must be wrong. *ignores that Catholics translated and kept the Bible for 1400 years* I don't think I mentioned Catholicism....
A born-again Christian is saved. Period. Oh, and this thread for atheists was in off-topic which is a forum for all.
Lansdowne5
So anyone who is "born again" can freely break all the Commandments and laws of the Bible and not worry about retribution for their actions? Sweet, where do I sign up?
Doesn't mean you can't be off-topic in an off-topic thread. That's why we have "topics" in off-topic. Just because your point might relate to the topic, doesn't mean it is productive to mention.
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"] I repeat: I don't think I mentioned Catholicism. you apparently don't consider a Catholic being a part of 'true' Christianity. unless you happen to be one of those 'whore of babylon' types, which just reinforces my point.
[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"] I know this is off-topic but do you go to The Foreign Grounds? nope, I've been lurking Something Awful for about a year, that's about it.
[QUOTE="Lansdowne5"] Heaven if you're a Christian. Hell if you're not.......Lansdowne5
Christians can go to Hell too. Just because you believe in Jesus doesn't make you safe from fire and brimstone. OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
I'm sorry but your post is wrong. A BORN-AGAIN Christian can absolutely go to hell. Your judgement makes me question if you really have any knowledge of christianity.
Christians can go to Hell too. Just because you believe in Jesus doesn't make you safe from fire and brimstone.
Blazerdt47
OK. I'll be clearer. BORN-AGAIN Christians cannot go to hell. To be honest, though, I don't consider a "Christian" who is not born-again truly a Christian anyway.
I'm sorry but your post is wrong. A BORN-AGAIN Christian can absolutely go to hell. Your judgement makes me question if you really have any knowledge of christianity.
Indeed. Just because you're "saved" now, doesn't mean you'll remain saved. Anyone can turn their back on god even while "Born Again", and still go to hell, as the belief goes.
To answer the TC, if god doesn't exist, then there's no afterlife, so no hell 8)
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