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WaywardSon 
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 12:58 |
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Where do you think we go when we die? Is death the end or the beginning of something else?
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Peter
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:09 |
Of course I don't know (no one does), and would like it to be otherwise, but I think we simply become lifeless meat.
Thus, death is "the beginning of something else" -- a process of decomposition, and the breaking down of the body to its constituent elements.
Hopefully, we "live on" in fond memory, if nothing else. 
Encroaching, inevitable death pushes us to actually do something with our (finite) lives.
(Or it should!)
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:16 |
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Oh, I dunno. I think options 1, 3, and 4 are pretty much the same. I think I believe in an afterlife, but I think it's a much more pleasant and forgiving place than the Biblical references, which are likely scare tactics.
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tardis
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:19 |
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We go to a cocktail party with brie cheese and the like.
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The T
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:23 |
It's so amazing that nobody votes for the only real answer: "wouldn't know"...  ... i mean, is the only one that can be PROVED....
I hope we reincarnate or join our loved ones... i just can't figure it all ending when we die... But the more I get my logic into the analysis, the more I'm convinced it's like that, so let's not think about what we can't change....  ..... If you believe in heaven or hell, though, you can start sinning less to go to the former or sinning more to go to the latter.... |
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The T
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:24 |
 tardis wrote:
We go to a cocktail party with brie cheese and the like. |
Is there a cheese called BRIE? b*****ds! So that's why poor great James gets all the jokes from!!! 
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WaywardSon
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:31 |
I was having a chat the other day with my mother (who is in her seventies) about where we go when we die, and felt a bit sad when she said she doesn´t really believe we go anywhere.
I just wasn´t expecting that kind of an answer from my mother.
So I thought I would make this poll to see how everyone feels about this.
@ The T, I thought you would have voted "The spirit carries on" from that song by a well known Prog Metal band
Edited by WaywardSon - June 11 2007 at 13:34
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tardis
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:33 |
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In all seriousness I couldn't possibly know. It is only through faith people believe in an afterlife. And even to believe you go nowhere is an act of faith because how can you prove it?
We really don't know...but I would hope it is someplace wonderful.
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magnus
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:35 |
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Wouldn't know.
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The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:35 |
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The spirit world, where we chill out and do whatever for eternity, like playing checkers with giant stars.
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thellama73
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:36 |
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I wouldn't know. I firmly believe in ghosts, but they could just be an echo-like phenomenon and not truly sentient.
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Dalezilla
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:38 |
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"No one wants to die
but we do, so we hide
What you fail to realize
is there's no need to fear
you live on in the hearts and minds
of those who hold you dear, who are right here"
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Peter
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:42 |
These lines are from Wilco -- On and On and On:
One day we’ll disappear together in a dream
However short or long our lives are going to be
I will live in you or you will live in me
Until we disappear together in a dream
Please don’t cry we’re designed to die
You can’t deny even the gentlest tide
On and on and on we’ll be together yeah
On and on and on
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Dalezilla
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 13:45 |
I believe in an afterlife, but we'll see.
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Peter
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:12 |
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends, be merry 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Garion81
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:16 |
Peter wrote:
These lines are from Wilco -- On and On and On:
One day we’ll disappear together in a dream
However short or long our lives are going to be
I will live in you or you will live in me
Until we disappear together in a dream
Please don’t cry we’re designed to die
You can’t deny even the gentlest tide
On and on and on we’ll be together yeah
On and on and on
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Dust in the ol' wind hey Peter? 
Wait isnt' that what happens when you get too close to Garten?
You turn to dust in in HIS wind.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"
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andu
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:26 |
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I saw Brian posted on this thread and instantly thought: maybe we'll all be going to some sort of prog-show, hopefully. They say the angels sing in praise of God, don't they? I wonder what time signatures they use...
Edited by andu - June 11 2007 at 14:26
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 14:44 |
I am a believer that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form. I chose "we join the spirit world" and think of the spirit world more as an energy reserve.
I have some belief in reincaration, but like most things, if it can't be proven, the reason usually means that it is fiction to begin with.
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Garion81
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 16:44 |
andu wrote:
I saw Brian posted on this thread and instantly thought: maybe we'll all be going to some sort of prog-show, hopefully. They say the angels sing in praise of God, don't they? I wonder what time signatures they use... |
That would be awsome! 
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Scapler
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Posted: June 11 2007 at 19:13 |
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Being a Christian, I'm going to have to go with a Biblical heaven and hell
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Bassists are deadly
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