deathknight928 wrote:Call it a consciousness after death then.
This doesn't solve any problems. Consciousness exists within the brain, and when that dies, where's consciousness? If you want to argue for the existence of incorporeal consciousness, where's your evidence?
The whole idea that when we die is that we simply cease to be seems like none sense and terrifying! What is the point of living if all we face is oblivion in the end regardless of how we live our lives? Eternity in any form scares the hell out of me. I like how in one Cracked article the author wrote that hell and heaven would wind up being the same. After a billion years to you think you will even remember what being alive was like? You can't tell comfort from pain if you only experience one.
The facts do not change based on our feelings about them.
I have a theory that when I die the universe dies with me. I mean anybody else can die but if I do then it's all over. That means my "self" is not constrained by time and can be reborn in another universe. I have thought long and hard on what death could be like and all I come up with is "life". This existence is all I know and all I can conceive. So I hope when I die i get to live again. Try new things and hope my life comes out better.
Call me crazy but I believe I remember vividly the day I became conscious for the first time. It was feeling similar to when I awoke after fainting once. The feeling of flying and small lights shooting past but being completely unable to think. After that I saw my family and I knew who they were and who I was. Like I had just be put into that body at that time. Weird I know.
I believe we are more than just highly evolved monkeys. And when we die part of us lives on. That more awaits us in death than just oblivion.
Do you have any evidence for this hypothesis? If not, why do you hold it to be true? Also, a word of advice: posts are substantially easier to read if you put a blank line between paragraphs.