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theres a what I think and what I'd like there to be.
What I think - nothing, just lights out thats it but youre not aware of it.
What I'd like there to be (based on some sort of physics knowledge I picked up somewhere rather than religious stuff) - our conscious energy is born in a different dimension and we go through life again from baby to death. Some dimensions are closer to ours (current one) so thats why people have visions of past lives and possibly explains ghosts.
Bit weird for a Friday morning but here we are. |
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"I think there’s something just not sure what it is . X  "
No one knows for certain if there’s an afterlife — it remains one of life’s great mysteries.
Some (I do) find comfort in stories like “The Egg” by Andy Weir, which imagines a single soul living all lives, suggesting we’re all one being experiencing itself from every angle. That idea resonates with what Val Kilmer expressed — in his film Val and autobiography I’m Your Huckleberry — where, even facing death, he wasn’t afraid, believing we’re all connected, all part of the same source.
It's a perspective both humbling and strangely comforting. |
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By *vaRoseWoman 2 weeks ago
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I don’t believe in an afterlife in the religious sense. But science offers something just as meaningful.
According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. It only changes form.
So when we die, the energy that powered every heartbeat, every thought, doesn’t disappear. It’s transferred. The heat of the body moves into the air. The chemical energy returns to the earth. The atoms that made us are recycled into other systems, maybe even other lives.
You don’t vanish. You just stop being arranged in the same way.
That’s not fantasy or faith. That’s physics. And I find real comfort in that.
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"I don’t believe in an afterlife in the religious sense. But science offers something just as meaningful.
According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. It only changes form.
So when we die, the energy that powered every heartbeat, every thought, doesn’t disappear. It’s transferred. The heat of the body moves into the air. The chemical energy returns to the earth. The atoms that made us are recycled into other systems, maybe even other lives.
You don’t vanish. You just stop being arranged in the same way.
That’s not fantasy or faith. That’s physics. And I find real comfort in that.
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We came from stars. We will go back to stars. The bit in the middle - that’s for Fab. |
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"Nope.
Think how packed it would be if everyone that's ever existed was there?
The queues at the supermarkets would be massive! 🤔"
you see things in black and white lol . I don’t think we would need to eat . X |
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As I have gotten older I have kind of become a bit more spiritual so whilst I don’t believe in god or heaven and hell I do believe that there is a place where we all go where we can look down on those that come after us. And our ancestors watch over us….i know it’s a little weird to some but it’s what I believe lol |
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Nope.
...and picking up from Eva's wise words, I point you to a great Eulogy from Physicist – Aaron Freeman.
A beautiful ‘alternative’ reading for a funeral for all you other 'Nope' folk;
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.”
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Most people live on in people's memories for a generation or two. My dad talks about family members who were born in the 1850s and I have passed their story on to our children. So they will have lived for 200 years in a sense. |
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By *bi HaiveMan 2 weeks ago
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"Nope.
Think how packed it would be if everyone that's ever existed was there?
The queues at the supermarkets would be massive! 🤔 you see things in black and white lol . I don’t think we would need to eat . X"
😮😮😮😮
No more Krispy Kreme?
No hash browns?
And if there's no coffee......nah, I'll pass. 🤷♂️😂😂 |
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By *ohn 66Man 2 weeks ago
South Birmingham |
"I don’t believe in an afterlife in the religious sense. But science offers something just as meaningful.
According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. It only changes form.
So when we die, the energy that powered every heartbeat, every thought, doesn’t disappear. It’s transferred. The heat of the body moves into the air. The chemical energy returns to the earth. The atoms that made us are recycled into other systems, maybe even other lives.
You don’t vanish. You just stop being arranged in the same way.
That’s not fantasy or faith. That’s physics. And I find real comfort in that.
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Like most really profound questions, it's been answered by religion or, and this is my preferred belief system, in a 3 minute pop song...
Have a listen to "One Foot Before The Other", by Frank Turner.
Anyone else have another song which explains it all to them? |
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By *vaRoseWoman 2 weeks ago
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"Nope.
...and picking up from Eva's wise words, I point you to a great Eulogy from Physicist – Aaron Freeman.
A beautiful ‘alternative’ reading for a funeral for all you other 'Nope' folk;
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.”
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One of my favourite poems
That and this were read at my mums funeral, and they make me smile
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When I die
my atoms will come undone
and I will become space dust
once again.
.
The wind will carry me;
scatter me everywhere;
like dandelions in spring time.
.
I'll visit worlds and alien moons.
It will be so damn poetic
until I land on your sandwich.
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By *og-ManMan 2 weeks ago
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No....think when you die that's it
Religion uses God( all God's) as a threat to keep people under their control and to keep the money flowing into their accounts
The Catholic religion uses it as a hunting ground for the old men who are priests |
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"Not sure just hard to imagine nothing at all"
Isn't it! It's like infinity, I start thinking about it and my mind just goes so far and stops, then I move on to the expanding universe and what was here before it existed and I'm like 🤯 |
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"Nope.
Think how packed it would be if everyone that's ever existed was there?
The queues at the supermarkets would be massive! 🤔
Car parking would be a nightmare."
Online shopping is the way to go.  |
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"theres a what I think and what I'd like there to be.
What I think - nothing, just lights out thats it but youre not aware of it.
What I'd like there to be (based on some sort of physics knowledge I picked up somewhere rather than religious stuff) - our conscious energy is born in a different dimension and we go through life again from baby to death. Some dimensions are closer to ours (current one) so thats why people have visions of past lives and possibly explains ghosts.
Bit weird for a Friday morning but here we are. "
And does the same happen to dogs, and spiders and crocodiles and flamingoes ? |
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By *ty31Man 2 weeks ago
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Yes, I believe that there's something after death. I don't necessarily believe in the typical angle wings/clouds/fire/brimstone depictions but I do believe there is a final judgement and a reward for living a good life and a punishment for being evil |
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"Nope.
Think how packed it would be if everyone that's ever existed was there?
The queues at the supermarkets would be massive! 🤔
Car parking would be a nightmare."
Don't be stupid you two. Dead people shop after hours. |
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By *bi HaiveMan 2 weeks ago
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"Nope.
Think how packed it would be if everyone that's ever existed was there?
The queues at the supermarkets would be massive! 🤔
Car parking would be a nightmare.
Don't be stupid you two. Dead people shop after hours. "
Bet they don't use bags for life....🤔🤔 |
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"theres a what I think and what I'd like there to be.
What I think - nothing, just lights out thats it but youre not aware of it.
What I'd like there to be (based on some sort of physics knowledge I picked up somewhere rather than religious stuff) - our conscious energy is born in a different dimension and we go through life again from baby to death. Some dimensions are closer to ours (current one) so thats why people have visions of past lives and possibly explains ghosts.
Bit weird for a Friday morning but here we are.
And does the same happen to dogs, and spiders and crocodiles and flamingoes ?"
My dad (a minister) often said that if heaven didnt allow cats in, he wasnt going. Animals have a soul (or whatever it is) as much as we do I reckon so why couldnt they be "reborn" somewhere else? |
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"So no but!
If physics stayts energy can not be created or distorted.
And if a person is an energy something must happen. NO"
A person is not energy alone. A person is made of very many components.
The physics findings are correct with regard to matter and energy but the person who once lived , lives no more, not in any way shape or form.
If it comforts some to hold that there loved one is floating around somewhere in energy form , let them believe that.
All the other matter that made up that person before they departed no longer exists |
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"I think there’s something just not sure what it is . X
What makes you think there is 'something?' I have had some very strange experiences so I know don’t rule it out. I just don’t know . X"
Well it's good to keep an open mind Jo x |
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Over the last few months, reading some philosophical literature has had me question a purely physicalist explanation of the world. So I think there is something after death, not in terms of me loitering as a ghost in this world but something outside of it. |
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"As I have gotten older I have kind of become a bit more spiritual so whilst I don’t believe in god or heaven and hell I do believe that there is a place where we all go where we can look down on those that come after us. And our ancestors watch over us….i know it’s a little weird to some but it’s what I believe lol "
I believe that too!! I know there are people watching over me! Xx |
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You either have Faith or you don't have Faith.
I personally think it's better to believe in something, than believe in nothing.
If there's nothing afterwards,what have you lost? Nothing!
If there is something...well...
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