Re: How likely is it that there is an 'afterlife'?

by **Quinny** » Wed 18 Mar 2015, 16:31:40

There is no 'afterlife'.

Immortality is just the influence you have on future generations and the trees that grow from you remains. Nothing to do with supernatural mumbo jumbo.

by **Pops** » Wed 18 Mar 2015, 16:51:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'T')here is no 'afterlife'.

Immortality is just the influence you have on future generations and the trees that grow from you remains. Nothing to do with supernatural mumbo jumbo.

by **AgentR11** » Wed 18 Mar 2015, 17:11:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'B')uddhists don't believe in god.

by **Pops** » Wed 18 Mar 2015, 18:12:35

Stumbled across this story on near death experience in the Atlantic. It is fairly long ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... es/386231/

by **Quinny** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 04:46:11

I had a near death experience in the Pacific. Broke my neck and was quadraplegic under the sea, so legs and arms didn't respond when I tried to swim. I was very calm & thought ' Am I dead?' , but as I choked breathing in seawater realised I wasn't. I was very lucky to survive. I remember a 'dream'/apparition while I was submerged that I was in front of an endless bank of black & white TV screens, I was in front of every TV at the same time, and every screen was flashing images of the faces of all the people I know. I didn't feel any pain or fear. I suppose it was my brains interpretation of my life flashing before my eyes.

by **SeaGypsy** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 10:27:32

Death is the ultimate destiny of absolutely falling in absolute love with the absolute self. True love is sharing this absolute reality absolutely, as I hope this is clear. Maybe one has to be absolutely ready for either total death or total self annihilation through love, essentially the mirror of death, absolutely without fear or prejudice, to actually get "there" (where you have always really essentially been) or perhaps such a state may be virtually stumbled upon. But yes, there is an afterlife, in the sense that the true self is as timeless as the UniverseS are infinite. Wrap your pumpernickel around that & you are home & hosed.

by **Timo** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 14:10:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '&')quot;memory" is a biological artifact of consciousness;

by **Timo** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 14:14:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'D')eath is the ultimate destiny of absolutely falling in absolute love with the absolute self. True love is sharing this absolute reality absolutely, as I hope this is clear. Maybe one has to be absolutely ready for either total death or total self annihilation through love, essentially the mirror of death, absolutely without fear or prejudice, to actually get "there" (where you have always really essentially been) or perhaps such a state may be virtually stumbled upon. But yes, there is an afterlife, in the sense that the true self is as timeless as the UniverseS are infinite. Wrap your pumpernickel around that & you are home & hosed.

by **Timo** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 14:18:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'I') had a near death experience in the Pacific. Broke my neck and was quadraplegic under the sea, so legs and arms didn't respond when I tried to swim. I was very calm & thought ' Am I dead?' , but as I choked breathing in seawater realised I wasn't. I was very lucky to survive. I remember a 'dream'/apparition while I was submerged that I was in front of an endless bank of black & white TV screens, I was in front of every TV at the same time, and every screen was flashing images of the faces of all the people I know. I didn't feel any pain or fear. I suppose it was my brains interpretation of my life flashing before my eyes.

by **Pops** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 14:57:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'I') had a near death experience in the Pacific.

by **Quinny** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 16:09:39

Pops - Video tape?

Timo - I was shuffling along [50m/hour] in about 6 weeks. Now fully recovered, but wake up to no use of arm. After 10mi OK. Made me welcome every day, Bit weird for a doomer

by **Pops** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 16:56:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'P')ops - Video tape?

by **Quinny** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 19:15:43

If I had one it wouldn't be on my play list! Flying back to Toronto from LAX, the in-flight movie was City of Angels!! I was dozing when it came on and nearly jumped out of the f&£king plane when I saw the surfers!!

by **Timo** » Fri 20 Mar 2015, 15:49:58

As for my own near-death experience (some of you may remember me mentioning this before), I honestly don't know how near death it actually was. I was unconscious for a while, with a broken skull from the bridge of my nose to my spinal cord. No broken skin, so no external blood loss. I heard afterward that my left eye did get a tad bloody, though. Apparently, the 3mm split in my skull was enough to accommodate the swelling of my brain. Either that, or my brain simply can't get any bigger than it is already. Regardless, no surgery to open new holes in my skull to make room for swelling. I spent a bit over 3 weeks in ICU, and 4 years seeking some viable rehab to solve the mystery of 24/7 motion sickness on steroids (or peyote - take your pick). Turns out that the ligaments bonding my skull to my cervical spine are stretched a bit too much, so my brain stem doesn't fit down into C1, C2 , and C3 like it should. Too much slack.

Anyway, my entire memory of that entire year is gone, so i can't personally say how close to death i really was. My heart didn't stop. My brain continued to function, but the damage done is still debatable. As a matter of fact, when i finally regained consciousness (TMI alert!), my wife came back into the ER to check on me, and the only word that i could barely mutter was "Crotch!" WTF??? I had a broken head and all i could say was "Crotch!" ??? No one could figure out what the hell i was talking about. Finally, after about 15 minutes or so, my wife noticed that i was pulling on a tube underneath the sheet over me, and again, i complained "Crotch!" A-ha!!! Adding insult to injury, the hospital staff stuck a tube up my dick and inflated it clear up in my bladder. To hell with my broken skull! I wanted that catheter outta there, pronto! I can only imagine that felt about as close to death as i've ever been. Who knows?! Maybe this is my afterlife, here and now. Sometimes it sure feels like Purgatory. :twisted:

I do have a headache.

by **Outcast_Searcher** » Sun 22 Mar 2015, 00:45:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'M')y question is, what were 7 billion souls doing when there were only a few million occupied in corporeal form here on earth?

by **Keith_McClary** » Sun 22 Mar 2015, 01:28:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Repent', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y question is, what were 7 billion souls doing when there were only a few million occupied in corporeal form here on earth?