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Just the title. Heavens? Hells? Purgatory? Nothing? Become one with the universe? Reincarnation?

Bonus question: If you could design the system of your choice, what would you want?

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[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell was also invented much later by Dante.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

no? only his idea of hell, not hell itself

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"incoherent and contradictory"

"flimsy"

sources?

[–] Mercer@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

damn, then I'm scared to die, because what does it feel like to stop existing?😰

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Do you remember what it was like before you were born?

Its probably exactly that.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It doesn't feel like anything. You don't exist anymore, so you can't feel.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

A bit like the situation before your birth.