BF2S Forums Death thread, continued.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

My imagination of Nirvana would be a place that you get to "configure" when you get there; basically whatever you have wished life to be like, it'd be like. Not 72 virgins or angels playing harp in the clouds, but every man (Or woman) has his own little heaven.

Last edited by Gawwad (2007-11-24 09:46:13)

Freezer7Pro wrote:

The Death Thread from temp. It mustn't die Here's my initial OP:

Death, is it just your body dying, destructing, getting incapable of maintaining neccesary functions? Or is it something beyond that? Is there a soul? Then what is the soul? Is there a Nirvana, or...?

What are your thoughts of death? What do ou think will happen when you die?

I'm not really sure about what to think, and I'm sure lots of other people aren't sure either. Death is simply something our brains are incapable of imagining. We mammals are simply incapable of that. That's the cause of many bad things, and in a large bit of religion is based around death.

I've been a fan of reincarnation for many years, but lately I've started thinking that there maybe is a Nirvana of some kind. My imagination of Nirvana would be a place that you get to "configure" when you get there; basically whatever you have wished life to be like, it'd be like. Not 72 virgins or angels playing harp in the clouds, but every man (Or woman) has his own little heaven.

So, you?

Keep on arguing.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Lai wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

The Death Thread from temp. It mustn't die Here's my initial OP:

Death, is it just your body dying, destructing, getting incapable of maintaining neccesary functions? Or is it something beyond that? Is there a soul? Then what is the soul? Is there a Nirvana, or...?

What are your thoughts of death? What do ou think will happen when you die?

I'm not really sure about what to think, and I'm sure lots of other people aren't sure either. Death is simply something our brains are incapable of imagining. We mammals are simply incapable of that. That's the cause of many bad things, and in a large bit of religion is based around death.

I've been a fan of reincarnation for many years, but lately I've started thinking that there maybe is a Nirvana of some kind. My imagination of Nirvana would be a place that you get to "configure" when you get there; basically whatever you have wished life to be like, it'd be like. Not 72 virgins or angels playing harp in the clouds, but every man (Or woman) has his own little heaven.

So, you?

Keep on arguing.

3. I sure hope that you're wrong because if everyone would have his or her own personal heaven, it would be pretty damn lonely.

Yes, I forgot to put that in. You'd be able to get characters there too. Like, clones. Kinda hard to explain, but you get the point.

Lai wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Lai wrote:

3. I sure hope that you're wrong because if everyone would have his or her own personal heaven, it would be pretty damn lonely.

Yes, I forgot to put that in. You'd be able to get characters there too. Like, clones. Kinda hard to explain, but you get the point.

Lol, I got that, but my point is, if it's your individual heaven, even with these spawns one would ultimately feel lonely. As long as there is no interaction between the different entities (e.g. you with your heaven and I with mine*), they're just your spawns and nothing more. It may be a ridicilously flat and earthly metaphore, but you'll get the idea. Would you have these personal heavens linked by a "grand Nirvana" or something in that style? There is interaction between different entities in life so, assuming that there is anything beyond at all, would there not be any interaction between these entities in death?




*= This is just an example, don't take it personal. Don't take this personal either: even in when bored to/in death there are other people with whom I would prefer having celestial interaction with

Last edited by xBlackPantherx (2007-11-24 23:26:55)

Lai wrote:

xBlackPantherx wrote:

By "your little heaven" he means something that you own, something to make yours, but not necessarily secluded from others. Think about it like a house or apartment, you make it your home, but there are still other houses around you or apartments in the building.

EDIT: On a side note, I think reincarnation is possible...just look at Gibs!

Hmmm,.. but the necessity of the presence of clones/spawns does imply that others are secluded.

Sarrk wrote:

I'd just want Heaven to have an internet connection to earth.

I_SUCK_999 wrote:

TuataraDude wrote:

Sarrk wrote:

I'd just want Heaven to have an internet connection to earth.

Just don't use the internet providers from NZ. The lag and ping would be terrible. Actually, now I think of it a little more, our Telcos will probably provide the connection for those in hell, lol.


As for the question. Hard to say. There may be an afterlife. There may be either a heaven/hell (can't have one without the other I'm afraid) or there may be a reckoning of what you did throughout your life and then a chance to redo things to hopefully do a better job (reincarnation). Although how you can improve if you don't get to remember where you messed up last time is a bit of a downer. Imagine being told you did a worse job the second (or third, or forth, or sixteenth) time round. It might also be that as sentient mammals, we need something to keep us going. Religion is what kept the masses subdued and generally well behaved for several thousand years. It also has caused a lot of grief in the world, and if there is an afterlife, and a God, I suspect He will be very sad about how humans have interpreted, or misrepresented, His expectations for their own gains.

Well there is a Heaven and there is a Hell - unfortunately only the ones that God says so can go to Heaven - U choose where U wanna go and God decides.

confused ?

U decide where U go by what U do with His Son Jesus Christ - remember the dude 2000 odd years ago that got crucified by the Romans - cause He claimed to be God. Well He didn't stay dead (according to more than 500 eye witnesses).

Basically death is when your body dies and the afterlife is what happens to your soul which is immortal and cannot die.

flame away. LOL