<p>I believe that when we all die…we’re just returning back to God/Allah. Death is basically like a greater sleep…except for the fact that you wont ever wake up again. So when you die this angel visits you and takes away your soul. (angel of death?). So your soul leaves your body.</p>
<p>So…your soul follows your body to the grave & when you’re in your grave i think you should be pretty conscious of what’s going around because you’re probably gonna have 2 angels sent down to interrogate you to ask you three questions:1) who’s your God? 2) who’s your prophet? 3) what’s your religion?</p>
<p>For some ppl if they did something really bad they get punished severely in the grave…But basically God will weigh all of your deeds and depending on what happens…which is really completely up to God…you either go to Heaven or Hell…or your grave is a window of heaven or hell until the day of judgment comes…[now that i think about this sounds almost purely mathematical…]</p>
<p>However, in Islam it is believed that atheists can never, ever, ever come out of hell :/</p>
<p>My mom showed me this dvd a few months ago. It was recorded like a home video by a Buddhist monk for posterity. It was recorded in 2007, I believe. The Buddhist monk met with this girl and her family after a woman who knew the family talked to him. </p>
<p>(summary)</p>
<p>This little girl, who’s about 4 years old, she met this older lady and said something like “I know you, you’re my mom”. I think they were neighbors or something, I’m not sure exactly how they met.</p>
<p>That lady had a daughter back in Vietnam who was murdered. She died about twenty years ago. The little girl could recall all these things about her past life and both the families of the little girl and the neighbor lady are convinced that she’s the reincarnation of that daughter.</p>
<p>I remember the monk asked the little girl if she knew where her murderer is now (he was her ex boyfriend in the past life, and was also sentenced to death).</p>
<p>She said “He was a bad man, now he is an elephant”</p>
<p>I think that when we die, we go to a place where everyone gets their own mansion. All your friends, and the ones you loved, and everyone that’s ever loved you will be there. And there will be free ice cream for everyone, day and night, in any flavor you can imagine. This is all only if you do less than three (3) bad things. If you do more, you go to the terrible place. </p>
<p>Ricky Gervais said that’s what happens, so it must be true.</p>
<p>Hopefully something good like heaven or spiritual oneness with a higher being. reincarnation wouldn’t be half bad as long as i didn’t come back as a hairless cat or something.</p>
<p>No one will ever know. To me, there are 2 possibilities; the moment right before you die, your mind will someone allow you to live through your life infinite times again. So, your mind will not actually reach the moment of death. </p>
<p>Not being able to feel anything, to not even think unconsciously, is not intuitive, but it’s definitely the most plausible explanation. When you die, nothing happens. Your “soul” goes nowhere (I don’t believe in souls) and you’re just an inorganic matter just like the rest of the universe.</p>
<p>i’m interested in hearing what you guys think about the paranormal… and NDE’s as well, not just “holy crap i almost fell out that window” but actual near-death extra-sensory experiences.</p>
<p>I don’t believe in the paranormal, and I think most NDE reports can be easily explained. For example, I would probably discount something like “I felt at ease, saw a bright tunnel, and I saw the nurses and doctors operating around my table” as more of a self-fulfilling prophecy resulting because the patient expected these kinds of things due to both a culture and media which promotes such ideas as well as an expectation of what would happen should one be rushed to the ER. </p>
<p>Now, if the patient could recall specific events and memories that occurred while declared brain dead (bonus points if also clinically dead), or report specifically on unique occurrences that happened outside of his field of perception (a technical conversation between a doctor and another patient in another wing about a rare disease as opposed to “I saw mom crying and dad trying to look stoic while driving to the hospital”), then that might be worth looking into.</p>
<p>Jesus said that death is like sleeping. So i would say that when you die, you don’t know anything, it’s like a long sleep with no dreams. Then you stay like this until the ressurection of the dead. </p>
<p>I think you have to observe nature and what is going on around you. If you look carefully, you can see an intelligent design in all creatures and in plant life. I don’t think these designs came from nothing, it has intelligence behind it. Is that intelligence what we call God? I don’t know. I believe our existence on earth is just a part of our total existance and that we will evolve(part of the design) into another form of existance.</p>
<p>Speaking scientifically, I believe that when you die, you don’t. True, the organic body in which you resided shuts down and reverts to inanimate matter, but you still exist. Theologians rage over what happens at that point, but nobody really knows… Or at least if anyone does they can’t prove it.</p>
<p>Speaking religiously, if you ever chose to do wrong, you’re cooked. Unless you are willing to accept the free gift of not being cooked.</p>
Such a controversial thing, but I’ve always kind of hoped that one still existed. Ever since I first new of death the fact that someone just turned to nothing (except the body breaking down and becoming soil etc.) was shocking.</p>