Nothing, not even darkness. When you die, you just don't exist.
All the rest is superstition and wishful thinking.
2007-04-12 00:37:41
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answer #1
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answered by nondescript 7
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I honestly don't know. From a purely scientific standpoint, after death is probably no experience at all. There are no organs working in your body that would report to your non-functional (dead) brain to give you any kind of experience. I am not saying that it would be "nothing" because how would you know "nothing" if you were dead? I guess what I am trying to say is that even if there is something after death, you wouldn't know the difference, you'd be dead and your experiences are caused by simply being alive.
I am personally not afraid of death, but I can see why people are afraid of it. You can't stand the thought of losing your ego, which you associate with you particular individuality. I have found that the ego is a fluke and is only a symbol of your identity. Kind of like your name is just a word that people say, you aren't that particular vocalization, and that symbol can't ever completely describe the real you.
2007-04-12 01:20:21
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answer #2
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answered by hrld_sleeper 5
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Death And Darkness
2016-12-14 17:47:04
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answer #3
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answered by ? 4
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The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: “The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, “he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4.
So the dead are unconscious, inactive. When pronouncing sentence upon Adam, God stated: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life, Adam did not exist. When he died, Adam returned to that state. His punishment was death—not a transfer to another realm.
The Soul Can Die
When Adam died, what happened to his soul? Well, remember that in the Bible the word “soul” often simply refers to a person. So when we say that Adam died, we are saying that the soul named Adam died. This might sound unusual to a person who believes in the immortality of the soul. However, the Bible states: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) Leviticus 21:1 speaks of “a deceased soul” (a “corpse,” Jerusalem Bible). And Nazirites were told not to come near “any dead soul” (“a dead body,” Lamsa).—Numbers 6:6.
A similar reference to the soul is found at 1 Kings 19:4. A severely distressed Elijah “began to ask that his soul might die.” Likewise, Jonah “kept asking that his soul might die, and he repeatedly said: ‘My dying off is better than my being alive.’” (Jonah 4:8) And Jesus used the phrase “to kill a soul,” which The Bible in Basic English renders “to put to death.” (Mark 3:4) So the death of the soul simply means the death of the person.
“He Will Rise”
The word “resurrection” is translated from the Greek word a·na′sta·sis, which literally means “a standing up again.” Hebrew translators of the Greek have rendered a·na′sta·sis with the Hebrew words techi·yath′ ham·me·thim′, meaning “revival of the dead.” Thus, resurrection involves raising the person from the lifeless condition of death—reactivating the life pattern of the individual.
Being infinite in wisdom and perfect in memory, Jehovah God can easily resurrect a person. Remembering the life pattern of dead ones—their personality traits, their personal history, and all the details of their identity—is not a problem for him. (Job 12:13; compare Isaiah 40:26.) Jehovah is also the Originator of life. Hence, he can readily bring back to life the same person, giving him or her the same personality in a newly formed body. Moreover, as the experience of Lazarus indicates, Jesus Christ is both willing and able to resurrect the dead.—Compare Luke 7:11-17; 8:40-56.
The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.
Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection.
2007-04-17 17:06:51
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answer #4
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answered by Free Bible Study 1
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I have always felt at peace with this question, mostly because I feel so connected to an inner faith that I had instilled in me when I was young. If we die and that's it well you can't do much about that now can you. So don't worry about the things you cannot change and find a way to focus on the things you can control: Like how kind we are to others; oh how this world could be like heaven. Good luck and hold on to that faith. You know there is more to this world than what you can see.
2007-04-19 18:15:07
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answer #5
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answered by s01psb 3
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i think there is an afterlife and re-incarnation think of it this way people say the brain provides conciousness and allows you to feel think and most of all, see. but why do you see from that body that you look at every morning? why werent you born half way around the world from another family? The soul in you chose it. and if your soul can choose a specific body doesnt that mean your soul can think... if your soul can think then it wouldn t be nothingness or darkness and who knows what else the soul can do maybe you can see and maybe there just is another adventure... just because we dont know any memories of before we were born doesn t mean to say we didnt live before maybe when the body dies the soul gathers some information from that past life (the major events such as being murdered). and that would explain why a 3 year old child had a deadly fear of knives which came from nowhere because he had remembered that he had been stabbed to death in his previous life 250 miles outside in his town he even named the town though he had never been outside his town in his life if that isnt proof then idk what is
2015-11-20 11:43:01
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answer #6
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answered by C 1
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If you have repented of your sins and have excepted Jesus Christ in your heart, you are saved. The death of a Christian will be a Blessed advent. In Heaven there is no darkness.
If you are not saved you are gonna have an adventure alright that I'm positive of & you are not going to like. But it will be to late there is no turning back.
Hell is real, Hell is hot and Hell is never, never over!
I almost died during a drowning. I had an experience of total calmness, complete peace and light, this was no dream!
If you will read Revelation Chapter 21 and 22. You will have a better understanding.
2007-04-19 18:56:18
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answer #7
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answered by NJ 6
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after you die, you go to either heaven or hell, correct, i dont believe in reincarnation because its pretty much pointless, keep going through lives, what if you get bored???
on the day of judgment, everyone will be judged and if you have more good deeds, heaven it is for you, more bad than good, to hell you go. i guess you can call it an adventure, i mean i like it a lot better than to dissappear into nothingness
and remember that the next life is the real one, silly, but doesnt it seem like sometimes if your talkin about like death how silly and unimportant this world seems?? i am a muslim and i think that adventure would be the word for it.
2007-04-19 16:49:36
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answered by riaz4918 3
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So what happens after death? Well, ok you seem like a nice person so I will tell you but it is a secret and you can't tell anyone else.
After you die. Your family ships your body to a morgue, where a guy will drain all of your body fluids out of you and if your unlucky he may rape your dead cold body. After that a family member will bring som clothes that they would like you to wear. Then the dude that rape you will get you dressed and sew your eyelids and mouth shut. Next you will be placed in a overpriced box. Then the big day comes and all your friends and family show up and say nice things about you. For the day they will even forget about that really stupid thing you did when you were drunk.
After they are done saying nice things about you they will pack you up in a limo for dead people and drive you to the freshly dug hole. Once again they will say some nice things about you and then stick you in the ground. Now your family and friends will leave and go to a party in your honor. The dudes that are putting you in the ground will make sure you don't have any valuable stuff in there with you. Then they will put the dirt back over you and the hole.
If a few weeks or months most people who showed up to say nice things about you will slowly begin to forget about you. In a few years you will just be a memory. After 50 years no one will even know who the hell you were but there is good news in a few thousand years if you are lucky some person may take an iterest in your bones that they dig up.
Well that pretty much sums it up any questions?
2007-04-12 00:49:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Some things I tell you may shake the foundation of your Catholic beliefs but the adventures of Soul, the real you that is the image of God, continue when your body is tired and drops off to sleep. Like God, Soul is immortal; Its adventures continue after the death of the physical body, on other worlds (or planes) of God (remember: "In my Father's house, there are many mansions.") The mansions refer to the various heavens.
Reincarnation is a fact of life. Even the bible mentions where Jesus said that John The Baptist was Elijah reincarnated.
You are better off finding Truth by yourself. The link below will not require that you change your faith. You may download the interesting but short book "Is Life a Random Walk?" and find answers to many other questions. Happy reading.
2007-04-18 23:02:51
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answered by RAFIU 4
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If I am understanding your question correctly, I have had many OBE's, they are very different from dreams. I believe in the continuation of the spirit apart from the physical self. I was raised Catholic myself..... I personally believe in another adventure on the other side, and that we can speculate about it all we want to, the truth is we just can't know until we get there.
I also believe in reincarnation, and that we are allowed to experience and grow in many ways before ascending to the wholeness, and that we do so as extensions of the energy we call "God", in much the same way as fingers are extensions of the hand, that "God" sends it's energy out, and it takes shape as us, and what we learn an experience here, or on other planes, goes back to "God" and shapes it further, expands it...
2007-04-12 00:57:02
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answered by beatlefan 7
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