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Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
ok combat zone adjudicator here break it up break it up

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Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Mozi posted:

ok combat zone adjudicator here break it up break it up

*puts down board with nail in it*

Pfft, fine.

Inverted Icon
Apr 8, 2020

by Athanatos
Cien anos de moderacion

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018

Inverted Icon posted:

Cien anos de moderacion

Many probes later, as he faced QCS, Moderator HugeGrossBurrito was to remember that distant afternoon when the admins took him to discover the report forum.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Internetjack
Sep 15, 2007

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computers
Top Cop

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I've said since I was a young kid getting beaten by my dad (the Christian) that when I die, if God is real, I'm punching Him in His face for this hosed up poo poo. I assume He knows already and is cool with it.

That'd be a great feature for heaven, signups to get to punch God in the face once a week if you want, like every Tuesday at 1 o'clock. There's a pile of brass knuckles, crowbars, boxing gloves if you want them; and God is really good natured about it. "Yeah I was a total dick, haha. Sorry about existence, my fault. Hey Jim! It's you! sorry about your sucky life. I totally ignored your prayer that one time." And then you get one shot to lay into him. He heals up in a few seconds and the next person steps up. You move onto the water slides, endless BBQ/beer/ice cream. Maybe you get a gag t-shirt, "I Punched God in the Face, and all I got was this T-shirt". There is also a sweet disco dance floor.

Hell though, God comes and punches you in the face once a week, and you don't heal up. It really hurts and your face is all bruised, and then you realize he is coming back in a week to punch you again. There are water slides but no water. The BBQ is just burnt burgers and buns with no condiments. There is beer but it is only Natty Ice. There is a disco dance floor but no electricity and half the mirror tiles on the disco ball have fallen out.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
It's the afterlife but for some reason everyone gets your name wrong. Each person you meet in this ghostly realm keeps calling you Eric and you're like, "Seriously I've told you like eighty times my name is Adrian."

toggle
Nov 7, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgCRdAzizxY

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
I sincerely hope there's no such thing as reincarnation. I don't want to be reborn into some hosed up overbearing weird family that makes me feel guilty for masturbating or something.

As far as other types of afterlives go, I want to be cremated & scattered somewhere, because I have this worry that if I get embalmed & buried in a coffin, I won't be able to decompose properly and my body will be "stuck" forever.

Heaven seems like it's probably just the idea of never having a worry again. It would be cool to go to a super special place where everything is fun & awesome, but when I actually die I won't care either way. :) (edit: If for some reason I found out that there really was a Christian god, I would be forced to assume that I was already in hell.)

TheMostFrench posted:

I've collapsed and needed CPR because of epileptic fits before. Id say I've come pretty close to dying or maybe been saved from the brink of death. There was no white light or guiding figure, I think you just die and that's the end.

IME Having epilepsy is closer to what people describe when they talk about death and going to heaven or another existence. There are lots of out of body experiences and physical disassociation, I can think of times where I felt like I could see my own eye balls from inside my head, like I was standing inside myself. This sometimes triggers a seizure, then you might wake up somewhere else.

I've had two convulsive seizures, and I never really thought of it as a possibility for a death model. They just sort of happened. The first time, I had an intense sense of deja vu about nothing in particular, when I tried to tell my boss that something was amiss I couldn't speak, then -- [SCENE MISSING] -- I was in an ambulance. Maybe other seizure-havers think of the [SCENE MISSING] as death, but I don't really think so.

YarPirate posted:

I died last november for a bit and the best way I can describe it is imagine how it felt 2 years before you were born.

Why two and not one? Or even zero? It's not like people have womb/infant memories.

Star Me Kitten posted:

Dude, I was just thinking about this. I want to do DMT as well, but I would be v particular about the who/what/where of it all.

The only reason I've never tried a drug harder than marijuana is because I want the circumstances to be more perfect than is probably possible. After freaking out on weed, I got extra careful -- TOO careful, maybe.

edit2:

TheMostFrench posted:

This is very relevant to my epilepsy, because I experience a thing called 'absence' which is basically uncontrolled daydreaming. During these states you will zone out - you might not be able to see, hear, or speak properly, and will probably have no memory of the absent period (it might last anywhere from less than a second to 20 seconds, and can happen multiple times in a row), but people in this state are still capable of doing things and attempting to respond to people automatically. I came home one night, and as I walked up my driveway I had an absence, then suddenly I was standing in my room. I had to unlock the door to my house with keys to let myself in, but I had no memory of it happening. There's a gap in my own recollection of time. These things (the door being unlocked, me entering the house) definitely happened, but like the 'if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it' question, did they have to happen? Or do I feel that they had to have happened because I expect that they would have?

This has happened to me before too, once while I was on the phone with my mom. She freaked out. During the most recent one, I laid out my clothes, showered, brushed my teeth, and dressed myself. When I snapped out of it, I felt all clean & nice, without having any recollection of doing anything. It was much more pleasant than the time I walked to my old desk (we'd rearranged the office a couple of weeks before) in the middle of a standup meeting.

YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Sep 22, 2020

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

YeahTubaMike posted:

I sincerely hope there's no such thing as reincarnation. I don't want to be reborn into some hosed up overbearing weird family that makes me feel guilty for masturbating or something.

As far as other types of afterlives go, I want to be cremated & scattered somewhere, because I have this worry that if I get embalmed & buried in a coffin, I won't be able to decompose properly and my body will be "stuck" forever.



The only reason I've never tried a drug harder than marijuana is because I want the circumstances to be more perfect than is probably possible. After freaking out on weed, I got extra careful -- TOO careful, maybe.


I like the idea that you reincarnate until you learn all the things you come here to learn and then you are done- return to the infinite whatever.


I am completely and thoroughly repelled by the idea of being embalmed. Just throw my body into the ground and cover me up with dirt. I'm good with it. If I get a bougie option, cremate me, and infuse my ashes with the rootball of a tree and plant me somewhere.

As for the DMT/harder drug issue -- it is your mind your tampering with-- you are smart to be cautious.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!
cremate me when i die and compress the ashes into a gem that looks like a magicite from final fantasy 6

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

The White Dragon posted:

cremate me when i die and compress the ashes into a gem that looks like a magicite from final fantasy 6

This technology exists!!!! There was a thread about it and everything. You can trap the souls of your loved ones forever by having their remains turned into jewelry!!!!!!

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

tetsuo posted:

I liked that particular incarnation of the Twilight Zone, I don't care what anyone says :colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQ6ZC8EUQ0

this is was great, im glad you posted it. just really good acting and writing.

i had only seen one (1) episode of that version of the twilight zone, i was like 8 years old and it scared the poo poo out of me and i never watched it again. episode was about an undead grandma being taken care of by a kid around the same age.

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Sep 23, 2020

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
There's a desert of black sand and at the end there's everything you expected afterlife to be, personalized just for you. If you think you go to hell, you do :)

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
How do people not find the idea of an infinite afterlife absolutely terrifying? All heavens will inevitably become hell in time.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

Colonel Cancer posted:

There's a desert of black sand and at the end there's everything you expected afterlife to be, personalized just for you. If you think you go to hell, you do :)

drat, I am going to have one sexy afterlife.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

The Moon Monster posted:

Sometimes I worry that when you die your last moment of consciousness will get stretched out to an eternity. It's probably just nothing tho.

Oh yeah, I thought this was happening to me once on a bad trip and I was 100% sure I would be stuck like this for billions of years till the universe ends

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Who What Now posted:

How do people not find the idea of an infinite afterlife absolutely terrifying? All heavens will inevitably become hell in time.

First step is not believing in permanent self. If your identity is not infinite no experiences can be :angel:

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020
It'd be cool if hell existed and the rest of us good expired folk that are no longer bound by space and time could just watch what goes on down there like it was a primetime television drama. I'm just saying it'd be a cool way to pass the time on a Thursday evening.

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

Star Me Kitten posted:

Kind of prefer Barfmarket.



Oh gods, that's horrifying. :gonk:

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Star Me Kitten posted:

It'd be cool if hell existed and the rest of us good expired folk that are no longer bound by space and time could just watch what goes on down there like it was a primetime television drama. I'm just saying it'd be a cool way to pass the time on a Thursday evening.

But it's a trick and if you look it just proves you actually belong in hell. The security guards aren't very respectful when they escort you out.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
I think after maybe 5 years in the flames it becomes the new baseline and you wouldn't even want to get out of them. just getting toasty :kimchi:

After 100 or so years it's not like you'll remember your life before it, just be a flamecritter

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Colonel Cancer posted:

I think after maybe 5 years in the flames it becomes the new baseline and you wouldn't even want to get out of them. just getting toasty :kimchi:

After 100 or so years it's not like you'll remember your life before it, just be a flamecritter

Then they give you a condo and put you to work in the souvenir shops.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

Literally A Person posted:

Then they give you a condo and put you to work in the souvenir shops.

Condos. That is ~so~ hell.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Literally A Person posted:

Then they give you a condo and put you to work in the souvenir shops.

poo poo that sounds pretty good.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Colonel Cancer posted:

poo poo that sounds pretty good.

I mean, there's profit sharing but the rest of the benefits package stinks. It is hell.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

Literally A Person posted:

Then they give you a condo and put you to work in the souvenir shops.

It kinda sounds like hell is an episode of the Gilmore Girls.

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




You're reunited with your loved ones and get to do all the things you liked doing in life forever.

It's great for a few hundred years, then it gets boring. After few thousand years you'd rather not exist anymore, but you can't end it. No activity or human interaction is enjoyable anymore. After a million years you loathe your wretched existence and would do anything to end it but you can't. You see endless billions of years stretch in to the future and know it will never ever end.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

bitterandtwisted posted:

You're reunited with your loved ones and get to do all the things you liked doing in life forever.

It's great for a few hundred years, then it gets boring. After few thousand years you'd rather not exist anymore, but you can't end it. No activity or human interaction is enjoyable anymore. After a million years you loathe your wretched existence and would do anything to end it but you can't. You see endless billions of years stretch in to the future and know it will never ever end.

That concept right there is the reason I stopped believing in "heaven" when I was 5.

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

I always envision a daredevil in life going to heaven, and being completely bored out of their gourd when nothing has any consequence.

E:

At least Norse mythology has an end to its paradise.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020
I'm telling you guys, Spinozian Pantheism is where it's at.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Reincarnation is the bad ending you want to eject yourself from the cycle of suffering that is existence iykwim

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Who What Now posted:

All heavens will inevitably become hell in time.

That isn't true, especially if you believe in the idea of a personalized heaven. Even if you don't though, even if the idea of being relaxed & comfortable for all eternity sounds nightmarish to your earthly self, your ghost might love it. Either way, heaven can't be hell, BECAUSE it's heaven. That's what makes me think that it would constantly adjust itself to suit your desires, subconscious or otherwise.

In my earthly mind, heaven would include all of my favorite things, with a dash of randomness that occasionally involves negativity -- nothing as crazy as pandemics or states/countries being on fire, just maybe stuff like getting a margarita that has too much lime in it or falling down in a mosh pit. Too bad I don't believe in heaven and I have to endure the risk of pouring lovely margaritas down my earthly gullet until I become worm food. :smith:

The idea that heaven is some sort of trap sounds ridiculous to me. Even if heaven is a trap, a total lack of consciousness seems like it could be a part of it, if that's what you really wanted.

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020
Whatever the afterlife is, it has to be better than this.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
You better start believing in afterlife..
Yer in one :haw:

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
It's the afterlife but the only other person there is Dio and he won't shut the gently caress up about Dungeons and Dragons poo poo and it's just like, man, shut the hell up for five minutes.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
You mean Deus? :rolldice: could be worse

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Colonel Cancer posted:

You mean Deus? :rolldice: could be worse

Ronnie. James.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Literally A Person posted:

It's the afterlife but the only other person there is Dio and he won't shut the gently caress up about Dungeons and Dragons poo poo and it's just like, man, shut the hell up for five minutes.

Spending eternity playing D&D with an anime vampire sounds rad as gently caress

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

Literally A Person posted:

It's the afterlife but the only other person there is Dio and he won't shut the gently caress up about Dungeons and Dragons poo poo and it's just like, man, shut the hell up for five minutes.

I'll take it! One ticket for this afterlife please.

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Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

its actually called the middlelife cause there's another one after that one

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