Reincarnation?

[The Bison King]

When you die your energy will live on and on for ever and be recycled into many new life forms. If you consider that reincarnation then yes, but if you expect to wake up in a new body with the same conciseness then No.

Because this:

Yes. Our consciousness is just the summation of our brain activity, the synaptic happenings that occur there. Everything about our consciousness begins and ends with the brain. The idea that these patterns are somehow transferred somewhere else is, as you said nietzche, a desperate attempt by ourselves to rationalize our deaths. Once the brain dies, so does our consciousness, our "self". The other energy that is used by our bodies does not contain some "life essence", just plain ol' run-of-the-mill energy.

Is totally true.


I used to be terrified of the idea that once you die you are nothingness. You are no longer anything, you have no ability to analyze the fact that you are not a thing at all. I try not to think about it now, but I have a hard time believe that there can be any other explanation. I can only take comfort in the fact that it has been a privileged to be anything at all.


God... This is some heavy shit to think about.

[Timminz]

The Apocalypse of Peter

I think I saw a porno with that title.

[InsomniaRed]

it's BS, like heaven a the 42 virgins. 42?

But 42 is the answer to everything....

[KoE_Sirius]

it's BS, like heaven a the 42 virgins. 42?

But 42 is the answer to everything....

Great book,but its fiction lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_fr ... the_Galaxy

[Barramundi Dan]

Consiousness is the product of the physical brain. Its the ability to detect stimulus for the purpose of survival. When death occures the mechanisms that control the electrical circuitry that is our consiusness ceases to fuction.

Infants are born with brains that drive their new consiosness.

The brain only services 1 living human at a time therefore one brain relates to 1 consiosness only.

[PLAYER57832]

I mean, who would ever think of starting a war with whales??? Hmmm?

You got me there.

-TG

Japan, Norway and the Inuit?

[PLAYER57832]

it's BS, like heaven a the 42 virgins. 42?

But 42 is the answer to everything....

I thought the answer was 2?
(according to Thanks for all the Fish?)

... or was that just the answer to Earth?

[rdsrds2120]

it's BS, like heaven a the 42 virgins. 42?

But 42 is the answer to everything....

I thought the answer was 2?
(according to Adams?)

... or was that just the answer to Earth?

The answer to everything is obviously 42.

How many places can I be in at once? - 42
How many fingers does everyone really have? -42
How many times will I be reincarnated? -42

Source: A hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

-rd

[tzor]

I mean, who would ever think of starting a war with whales??? Hmmm?

On another game board which I frequent, there would be plenty of people who would easily start a war gainst whales. Mind you, they have been listening to the one sided rants of those foul mouthed dopins who curse far worse than the average sailor. As the motto of The Limited Liability Company of WhaleCo Global LLC goes; “Whale - It's What's For Dinner”

[Lionz]

Saved from what?

I might have at least been hinting at spiritual death, but how about hell or spiritual death? I'm not sure what will happen to anyone.