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0:00 Introduction
0:13 Michelle Thaller
1:10 Sam Harris
3:26 Michael Shermer
5:50 Rob Bell
8:08 Bill Nye
12:43 Michio Kaku
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Death is inevitable for all known living things. However on the question of what, if anything, comes after life, the most honest answer is that no one knows.
So far, there is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove what happens after we die. In this video, astronomer Michelle Thaller, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, science educator Bill Nye, and others consider what an afterlife would look like, what the biblical concepts of 'eternal life' and 'hell' really mean, why so many people around the world choose to believe that death is not the end, and whether or not that belief is ultimately detrimental or beneficial to one's life.
Life after death is also not relegated to discussions of religion. "Digital and genetic immortality are within reach," says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Kaku shares how, in the future, we may be able to physically talk to the dead thanks to hologram technology and the digitization of our online lives, memories, and connectome.
Read Sam Harri's "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" at amzn.to/3r9EevF
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TRANSCRIPT:
MICHELLE THALLER: Einstein thought that the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang, created all of space and all of time at once in a big whole something. So every point in the past and every point in the future are just as real as the point of time you feel yourself in right now. Einstein believed that literally. One of his best friends died and he wrote a letter to this person's wife, talking about how his friend still exists. Time is a landscape and if you had the right perspective on the universe, you would see all of it laid out in front of you. All past, present, and future as a whole thing. And he said, "Your husband, my friend, is just over the next hill. He's still there. We can't see him where we are now, but we are on this landscape with him and he still exists just as much as he ever has." Einstein believed that you, right now, had been dead for trillions of years, that you haven't been born yet, that everything that's happened to you-if you could get the right perspective on the universe-you could see all at once.
SAM HARRIS: Death is in some ways unacceptable. I mean, it's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die. But I think, worse than that, is that if we live long enough we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean, the people die and disappear and we're left with this dark mystery. There's just the sheer not knowing what happened to them. And into this void, religion comes rushing with a very consoling story, saying nothing happened to them; they're in a better place and you're going to meet up with them after you die. You're going to get everything you want after you die. Death is an illusion. There's no question that, if you could believe it, that would pay emotional dividends. I mean, there's no other story you can tell somebody who's just lost her daughter to cancer, say, to make her feel good. It is consoling to believe that the daughter was just taken up with Jesus and everyone's going to be reunited in a few short years. There's no replacement for that. There doesn't need to be a replacement for that. I think we have to be... We have to just witness the cost of that. I mean, there are many obvious costs of that way of thinking. One is we just don't teach people how to grieve. Religion is the kind of the antithesis of teaching your children how to grieve. You tell your child that your grandma's in heaven and there's nothing to be sad about. That's religion. It would be better to equip your child for the reality of this life, which is, death is a fact and we don't know what happens after death. And I'm not pretending to know that you get a dial tone after death. I don't know what happens after the physical brain dies. I don't know what the relationship between consciousness and the physical world is. I don't think anyone does know. Now, I think there are many reasons to be doubtful of naive conceptions about the soul and about this idea that you could just migrate to a better place after death. But I simply don't know about what... I don't know what I believe about death. And I don't think it's necessary to know in order to live as sanely and ethically and happily as possible.
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[@bigthink]

Do you believe in an afterlife?

[@fuckMAGA]

Definitely

[@Tripilen]

i already found it

[@earthterra8546]

No

[@monk6476]

No exactly what it does interpret. But once a brain is dead, there is no consciousness if only you travel in past and bring those memories in the timeline or into new body. That maybe call some afterlife.

[@aethellstan]

No

[@henryF6]

The far more intriguing question is what happened before you were born? It’s easy to think of death as going to sleep and never waking up…but we all woke up having never gone to sleep

[@iliaadamanthark8336]

Yeah, death is non experience. There is no life after death, there is only life. Universe only experience life through conscious brain, not through death and nothingness.

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@KotlinBek]

@@iliaadamanthark8336 finally some sane person

[@KotlinBek]

@@likenl4508 this guys is everywhere omg, would ypu pls shfshshshshshs f***up

[@leomdk939]

Agreed -- this is something that hardly anyone talks about. How did I not exist for billions of years ... and then exist? That's really the even more confounding of the two questions.

[@Kzombie]

Existence of life in itself is just as mysterious as the possibility of life after death.

[@michaeldunkley5959]

October 8 2015 I died in Vegas from a big heart attack. I left my body and was gone for 40 minutes, and for some reason I came back. I floated slowly up a tunnel ( felt like up anyway) saw a nice warm bright light, talked to my parents and came back. Something to think about! Mike

[@azlanishak3757]

Definitely there is life after death. And sure enough there must be a Creator, a Supreme being that does not bound to space and time who creates life and death.

[@ferminiturbide4390]

Dude…..what a statement and I have to say….I agree, I’ll add that at least as we live through life, we’re able to pierce together some part of the puzzle but we are unable to finish it.

[@ferminiturbide4390]

Piece**** NOT pierce 🤣

[@cjcatague2607]

@@azlanishak3757 I know that you're not asking, but for me I don't think that theres a afterlife. But I do think that there is a creator but I think that the creator is actually not good nor bad, he is both and the creator didn't actually plan everything, he just let everything flow on their own.

[@lucibjlb]

Approximately 2 weeks before my dad died, I had a dream that me and my family were at a funeral home planning his funeral. My dream was so vivid I actually thought it was a memory, and not a dream. I woke up in tears, thinking that my dad had died only to realize that it was just a dream. I felt very disturbed, however. I couldn't get it out of my head. Two weeks later, I received a phone call from my brother telling my that dad had a massive heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. He was going there now to meet the ambulance. He asked that I would bring our mother there. I knew then that dad was actually dead. The next day, the entire family met at the funeral home to plan the funeral. I had never been to the funeral home before. When I walked in and we all sat down I realized it was exactly as my dream two weeks prior. I was completely freaked out. Everything was exactly as the dream including the colors of the walls, the furniture, the placement of the furniture, even where we sat. Since then, my life has changed. I could tell you more but it would be too long to describe. Regardless, I know without a doubt there's something more, I just don't know how it works. We somehow continue. What happens to us, where we go, who knows?

[@johnwiand1167]

I really want to believe in a higher power because I’m deeply frightened nothingness after I die but I can’t convince myself it’s real without feeling like I’m lying to myself. I just really wish it was real and I could know it was

[@lucibjlb]

@@johnwiand1167 you can't worry. It doesn't buy you anything. I would suggest exploring instead. Read, meet and talk to people who have had experiences, learn meditation. Make it into a life long journey.

[@colinpierre3441]

@@johnwiand1167 Something that may help you is thinking about how life started. When you think of it, how could everything just form by chance (as some scientists suggest)? Many things in nature point to a designer. Consider an example of a bird called the Gannet... this bird has the ability to dive from the sky at 118 mph and plunge into the sea (at an impact of more than 20 times the force of gravity) yet SURVIVE! How? Well first it draws a protective membrane over its eyes and inflates organs in its neck and chest that act as airbags to cushion the impact. As it penetrates the surface of the water its beak, head, and neck form a cone shape. That shape evenly distributes the force of impact on the gannet’s neck muscles. After all that, the gannet refocuses its eyes for underwater vision. What do you think? Did this bird's diving ability evolve? Or was it designed?

[@AaxSsys]

​@@johnwiand1167 I was where you were a couple of years ago, I spent so much time thinking and scaring myself half to death over it without wanting to come close to acknowledging a higher power, god, or the acausal. The best thing I did was abandon the worry of feeling stupid and embarrassed or fear of ridicule. I think for many people have these fears, I get why when I listen people talk about religious peoples. Don't be afraid of being wrong, you don't lose much, only gain more and at least you put actual thought into it, unlike most people, anyone who could ever ridicule you for exploring this beyond science and the atheist dogma has never put much thought or experience into their own beliefs, which are based on faith just as much as a other religious beliefs. 1. Look into religion, spirituality, occultism, the acausal, anything beyond what most people accept as fact today. Like Carl Jung for example, astral projection or lucid dreaming. Btw many people get hung up on Abrahamic religions when this question comes up, just remember there are more ideas than Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. 2. Connect with nature, the natural world around you, and yourself. You'll also just feel better in general doing this. Reconnecting with nature is the closest you can really get to the world, it'll tell you so much more about this world than anything else. 3. Be honest, open yourself up to any possibility, introspect, look at your dreams. 4. Experience is the best way to learn, it trumps all. 5. You can learn from tons of stuff, games, books, movies of all types. The internet, others experiences, places of worship. Life is surreal. It's all too unbelievable to be nothing in the end, so don't worry : )

[@akanksha1326]

Idk if life exists after death or maybe they go to another universe or are born as a different person in this world but I believe the people you love will never leave you. I lost a friend two years back and still whenever I remember him, I can feel him. I can feel him in the corner of my room or looking at me when I'm crying and seeing his pictures. They say that people leave and memories fade. No, neither people leave nor do the memories fade. Both stay with you till your end, you just need to change your perspective and they're always here, always:)

[@of8ightandse7en16]

that'd creepy. cant imagine my dead friends, people or what not watching me fulfilling my fantasies.

[@tigerlily5347]

My best friend passed 3 months ago .he was my younger brother. Our family was full of issues frowning up and we stood by each other. As adults we did quite well. During hard times we ,as always were there for each other. He is gone..I miss him deeply..I wish I could hear him see him feel his presence. If I could anyone it would be him and I don't .I'm so heart broken..He was the only family I had. It's really made me question religion. I went to church growing up, and believed God would bless me if I were good. Yet I've had so many hear breaks in my life , more than my share. Now my brother has been taken from me.. if there is a god I want to know why he keeps taking everything that's important away from me..

[@akanksha1326]

@@tigerlily5347 Idk what to say... sometimes life feels unfair. We lose what we love the most. We're always time-tested and maybe that's how life goes. Maybe your brother is still here with you, it's just that you can't see him. And believe me, he's here and you've to be strong, for him. Take care of yourself and your family:)

[@SierNotsruht]

Pseudoscience bullshit lmao

[@mithun9643]

But not like when they was alive because then They were real now only illusion now talking to them will be like talking to own mind. It is hard but we must live in reality it makes us more stronger.

[@gracekim3668]

What Einstein said to his friend's wife is intellectually superb and yet deeply comforting as well.

[@JorgeGonzalez-dl5fw]

That if you have the right perspective, you will see past, present and future. We dont die!

[@marcopass4061]

@@JorgeGonzalez-dl5fw in a way we are already immortal,.. we just cant see the whole map

[@justamanofculture12]

@@JorgeGonzalez-dl5fw that right perspective can only be accessed by the creator. Only the creator can manage the past, present and future because the power of laws and time have no effect on their Creator. Like how a writer can edit his/her book.

[@Jona7Fer]

Hi, if you are not saved, and would like to be included in the rapture of the church. Believe that Jesus's death on the cross, was enough to pay for ALL your sins , yes ALL ,(past, present and future) That is what the Gospel is about. We are saved by GOD'S amazing grace, through our faith in Jesus's sinless life, death on the cross and resurrection 3 days later . No additional works needed. It is literally that simple. Ephesians 2:8-9 Romans 10:9-10 Romans 4:5

[@melaniestarkey7868]

I love what Einstein said that "We were made up of ENERGY ENERGY does not die it transforms*

[@WillofDmusic]

“I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” - Keanu Reeves

[@ritanicole88]

Wise words, from a wise man 😔

[@rickj1983]

At least you hope they do.

[@matthewhenderson6821]

No one ever called him einstein

[@heartofthunder1440]

And the ones who miss us will remember us….. Me. But I don’t know if someone else may have said that too.

[@xv621]

b.s.

[@buckeyeadventures1631]

I have a different view of life and death... I believe we are all made up of energy.. and in theory ... "Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another." Such is life.

[@billgates-qi9st]

I like that idea

[@alidabotes6264]

Atoms aren't destroyed. We all have an EMF around us. If we die our atoms are kept together until we reincarnate. The brain dies but the soul carries on. I will see those who went before & haven't transitioned. I won't know if I'm wrong but it gives me something to look forward to.

[@cosmicape4829]

Conciousness doesnt mean energy

[@SierNotsruht]

Obviously?? Matter is just energy in a condensed form, this is a proven fact.

[@serlitotiolo2355]

You are only energy, but the fact is you're thinking? You have your own identity. That's differentiate you from other persons, plants, animals, stones, sunlight.

[@lucy-cw8os]

its just like sleeping but u never wake up u wont know but this scares me alot

[@PeterS123101]

Learn about near death experiences.

[@alidabotes6264]

NDE's.

[@vontebrown1284]

No it's not, go talk to people who experienced near death experiences, and coming back with personal messages that they wouldn't knew prior, or people seeing or hearing their love ones again, or the love ones leaving messages to other people to give to their family that's living, only people who say like sleep constantly get disputed by others, because sleep have dreams and thoughts along with emotions attached to it, and sleep is the cousin of death, along with sleep healing and reserving the body

[@gg-or2ij]

More than learning about NDE's, I'd say follow a strong spiritual path.

[@NotBot0251]

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[@joelombrdo]

You can be sad--that's human nature. Before my Dad passed I asked if he would let me know he was okay after he passed. My Dad said "you have your beliefs and I have mine.". But twice after he passed I heard him call my name. The second time my right ear and the right side of my head vibrated intensely when he said "Joey." I also saw my Mother after she passed. She looked young and so happy. They still exist. I don't care what anyone says.

[@johnwoodsrd2497]

You have your belief and I have my belief your dad was right

[@jtcorran5758]

Absolutely they still exist. Right down to their individual character. You are correct Joseph.

[@LefeinNoel]

That’s sweet, don’t let the naysayers rattle you. They’re ok, and you will be too. 🫂

[@jaisaxplyr4263]

My Mom just passed 20 days ago and it really hurt. I was asleep when she did. Moments after I woke I saw the most pretty picture of her in my minds eye and then seconds later my wife walks into the room to give me the bad news of her passing. I am sure what I experienced was some kind of message that Death is indeed a beautiful thing.

[@jtcorran5758]

@@jaisaxplyr4263 The soul and 'Life' continue on after the human body dies.

[@earthian3658]

This should have been a 20 second video with all of the speakers just saying "I don't know"

[@earthian3658]

@Roberto Vidal Garcia you missed the point of a joke.

[@earthian3658]

@Roberto Vidal Garcia no worries. Merry Christmas

[@moonbunnies5216]

@Roberto Vidal Garcia this could've led to an online war but I awed at the ending. Merry Christmas!!

[@jessewallace12able]

Well done.

[@Jedi_Are_Scum]

Not really. I enjoyed the first lady's Einstein's quote. That our perception of time is wrong. For example, a 10 year younger version of me is still existing and acting out what I did. And in the future I am existing at the same time. Ok, it will end from my POV one day.. But, as an Atheist, it was an interesting perspective to present (no pun intended).

[@tannersconcerts]

2 quotes that help me conceptualize and grieve with death: "Life is merely a brief gap between 2 eternities of darkness" "Don't be sad about all the time you didn't get to spend with someone, be thankful for all of the time you did get to spend with them" Our human lives are too short to spend sad, and miserable. We must accept death as a natural process, and realize it is a beautiful thing. Death was never meant to be scary, it's a time that every human will experience. We all will have a day, where we take our final breathe, and end this beautiful journey with our loved ones. Each and every person reading this comment will one day experience true peace. A feeling that will last for eternity. Weather we have some sort of consciousness after death, or if there is truly an afterlife, be happy that you lived, you did it, you made it, and be happy when it's over. Don't be scared of death, be present and stay kind.

[@jackstar2662]

Thank you for that. I’ve been slowly coming to peace with my mortality. I believe all humans or anything living for that matter at their core have a biological fear of death. Every human who has ever lived has felt the chill of mortality. This is something we will never be able to escape from. As much as I’ve tried, I simply can’t comprehend death. It will be forever out of reach, and when it does happen, odds are I won’t know it. However, no amount of thinking will ever change the nature of reality. At the end of the day, thoughts are just thoughts. I am deeply interested in science, and I’ve come to realize that despite our probing, there will always be a layer we just can’t understand. The best thing for me is just to focus on living in the present moment, and accepting the finiteness of live. Most of my anxiety goes away this way. I feel at peace and see the eternal beauty in the now. That’s all I can do, and for me that’s enough.

[@guynamedbob8374]

When my grandfather died , my dad woke up in the middle of the night and he saw him standing before him, and he came to tell him that he was alright. I don’t know if this was real or not, probably a manifestation of grief for him.

[@edednoc2672]

It’s just your dad’s mind, he just misses his dad that much that he thinks he can see hem.

[@huhuruz77]

​@@edednoc2672 I agree with you that if we often think of the dearest people we have lost... they will appear in our dreams and we will be informed that they are OK... This happened to me and my aunt. who died and she came in my dreams and said something like, "Don't worry, I'm fine... WE're resting!", but why she said " WE " ? the dream was so REAL that even today I'm pretty shocked. :( Also, my grandmother told me in another dream: "Christi, I'm not coming back from here..." She seemed to be fine in that place...

[@rickoshea9282]

What is real is your dad's vivid imagination. Why not conjure up grandfather and have your camera rolling? It's a childish and frankly dangerous fiction.

[@buddhalovechild]

True story. I am a retired ob gyn. 20 years ago I was practicing in a small town in nc. One night at 2 am I was managing a difficult labor and was trying to decide about doing a c section. The labor room had more than 5 family members who were anxious and angry and making threats so I went out to the nurses station to think. I was there alone when an elderly man with the kindest most intense eyes I have ever seen walked up, leaned on the counter and said "I just want you know everything is going to be OK". He said he was her grandfather. He told me about an nde he had when he was 25. He survived and his wife died when their car stalled on a train track. He described his nde as suddenly being in a vast field of flowers with colors too beautiful to descibe. He walked until he came to a stone wall. His wife was on the other side and told him he had to go back. He had already been pronounced dead and was laying on a gurney under a sheet when someone saw him move. We talked for at least 30 minutes. His granddaughter had a healthy baby 3 hours later and I never saw the man again. At her postpartum visit 6 weeks later I asked her to tell her grandfather that I appreciated his talking with me that night. She looked at me like I was insane and said he had died 5 years earlier. She confirmed that her grandmother had been killed by a train when she was young. Wierd don't you think?

[@dizzybeepot9856]

What did she say when you also confirmed he told you his wife died in the accident?

[@buddhalovechild]

@@dizzybeepot9856 His nde was common knowledge in the family but it was something I think they didn't believe and were embarrassed by. She actually was a little put off. I am still to this day not sure if it was all just some elaborate hoax. The thing is I have never seen eyes and pure kindness like he had. I have had a couple of other wierd things happen but nothing even close to this. I truly do not know what to think

[@TheKuroglu]

And I am Lebron James.

[@holycow3355]

@@buddhalovechild To be honest, I have no doubt you believe it happened, but just inconceivable a spirit 'materialize' as a real person in lighted area & actually spoke to you. Most spirits/ghosts appear as fuzzy shape in darkness. Even self proclaimed psychics just guessing what a spirit try to communicate, not actually spoken english as in talking.

[@buddhalovechild]

@@holycow3355 After 30 years of seeing people at their best and worst, seeing newborns live and thrive who should not have and seeing several other things I cannot explain I am open to anything. We don't know shit as one of patients once told me. Actually, I personally think we are incapable of seeing what we really see and admitting what we really know. The Ole 10000 volts feeding a Walmart toaster analogy. This world after all is said and done may be the actual illusion.

[@thesign1087]

Knowing that im going to die one day kind of humbles me and really just makes me slow things down and not worry so much about this materialistic life and let things take its course

[@AnitaSharma-lc4ep]

Trust me a lot of people think along those lines of living in cool ,calm and composure zone but life has it's twisted ways to swirl you off your twisted path time and time again. We think we can control it but we just can't.

[@thesign1087]

@@AnitaSharma-lc4ep yeah ofcourse that's life! The least we could do is be aware and be prepared. It would be ignorant to think we won't get on twisted paths. I might die a brutal death or a peaceful one. End of the day I will die somehow. So make peace with it. Make peace here on earth while you can cause you never know

[@IMN602]

Tell that to my landlord and the other people and organizations that require money to keep living.

[@thesign1087]

@@IMN602 sounds like a different matter that you need to take care off

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@thesign1087 So, be aware of what, though? And do we... kiss up, to anything?

[@Doom0690]

On November 7th of 2014, the mother of my son and my best friend was murdered by a deranged ex boyfriend who she had recently left. He shot and killed her and then immediately took his own life while my 5 year old son and his older sister and brother watched in horror as their mother bled to death. A month before this took place, I had met my soul mate, my lover, the mother of my now three beautiful teenage daughters, but most importantly, my best friend. She was diagnosed colon cancer in October of 2020 and on October 1st of 2021 shortly after completing Radiation and Chemotherapy treatments, she passed away during a surgery to basically hook her colon back up. I don't normally leave comments and it's difficult for me to speak of these never-ending nightmares that have destroyed so many lives and that have become my reality. My apologies for dumping this on everyone and I can assure everyone reading that it's not an attention seeking comment nor am I looking for sympathy and compassion from random strangers on a comment thread. I only wanted to state that no matter what happens in our lives and in this reality, I have to believe in an afterlife because other than now being a single father of four wonderful and truly amazing children, holding onto to the belief that one day in the future we will all meet again in an afterlife is the only thing that keeps me going. We have to keep the faith that we all meet again, one fine day. Time doesn't heal all wounds and I am sorry to disappoint those of you who believe that it does. Death becomes apart of you that you have to learn how to incorporate into daily life structure and routine or else the guilt and regret will eat you alive and take whatever is left of you. Two very small words, Regret and Guilt, but believe me when I say this and take it from someone who truly understands, they are by far, the two heaviest emotions that a person can feel and carry around with them each and every single day. It honestly takes everything inside of me just to make it through most days. -When the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn and people die but real love is forever. It's October 8th, 2022 - 1:38am and you all see what I am doing. Watching afterlife videos on KZbin. There has to be something after this life. This just can't be all that there is. Humans are very unique and we are the only species in the known universe that understands from an early age that we are going to die. That alone has to count for so much! But these are just humble opinions and thoughts of a lonely and cursed man. I wish I could be the one to confirm that there is indeed, more to life than what we can currently perceive and attest to and that we will get to see the ones we love and miss again in another life but unfortunately, all I can do I share my story and to let others out there who have lost family and friends that you're not alone and that you have to keep going. Humans are very resilient and we're certainty stronger than we give ourselves credit for. In the last seven years alone, me and my children lost everything! It scared me and kept me awake at night for what seems like countess nights worrying about how am I now going to raise four kids and provide for them and get them all the help that they needed. It was so overwhelming and nerve-wracking but as the days pass, I found that all you can really do is take each day as it comes and just make the most of it and the time that we have left with the people that we love and care for and to always try to be the best version of you that you can possibly be so that you have no regrets and you have the satisfaction of knowing that no matter what ends up happening when the time comes, we can all leave this place knowing that we gave it everything we had and that we never gave up....or in. My apologies again and for this message being all over the place at times...but that's just how bad and fast my mind now races and never really seems to stop. PTSD is pure Hell.

[@Daringtobemyself]

I believe there is a connection after death with all existence that is so incredibly peaceful that it feels like pure love. We will all feel it some day and wouldn't want our lives ones who are still alive to suffer because of our death. Feel free to move on and find happiness. You and your children can be happy again.

[@michiejewel5989]

My prayers for you. I pray that God helps you each day. Its never easy but it will get better.

[@life_of_liam]

i want to believe as well but ur argument is essentially - “i want so desperately for there to be an afterlife, so therefore there is an afterlife” not the best we can do with our capacity for reason

[@a_little_demon]

I am so sorry for your loss, that is horrible. hope you and your kids are okay !

[@Sfrags01]

Didn’t think I’d read all this, but thanks for sharing your story. Truly hope things get better, sending love!

[@non-ofyo-business3399]

Having experienced ego death I have come to the conclusion that the thing I’m afraid of losing isn’t the thing I am and subsequently there’s nothing to fear

[@meandyouagainstthealgorith5787]

No one ever complains about having died.

[@goatmansasquatch1485]

I don’t even remember dying

[@joshuatatman148]

Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.

[@111455]

lmao imagine death having 5 stars on yelp

[@larjkok1184]

Or not being born.

[@111455]

@@larjkok1184 then why do we cry when we're born?

[@smallstudiodesign]

I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of how I’m going to die.

[@k0smon]

SD///// That is why some people plan it themselves//

[@chepitogamer8222]

That’s what I dread. Death doesn’t bother me at all, It’s the suffering and pain involved with it that bothers me. I’m a home health aid and have seen the pain/suffering involved with death, not only for the patient but also the family. The process of death is such a thing.

[@Akuma00111]

it doesn't matter ...

[@k0smon]

@@Akuma00111 //// What does not matter?

[@Akuma00111]

@@k0smon how you gonna die. Snap lost consciousness. It wouldn't matter.

[@denttech2515]

1:18. I've always said that the biggest downside to living is losing more of the ones you love

[@AlexSchwartzATV]

Bills argument was always mine. We already lose the ability to remember things and lose our personality while we're alive. Why would that all suddenly return after we die to their optimal states? But hey, if it does, I'm here for it.

[@tylerzane4494]

Bills dumb

[@bpnation37]

Same. Nothing about that makes sense. How would we determine what age that is? Would i still have the back pain I’ve had since i was 22? Would ppl who went bald get their hair back. What kind of physical form would we even have?

[@Jona7Fer]

Hey, if you are not saved, and would like to be included in the rapture of the church. Believe that Jesus's death on the cross, was enough to pay for ALL your sins , yes ALL ,(past, present and future) That is what the Gospel is about. We are saved by GOD'S amazing grace, through our faith in Jesus's sinless life, death on the cross and resurrection 3 days later . No additional works needed. It is literally that simple. Ephesians 2:8-9 Romans 10:9-10 Romans 4:5

[@TheGarlicfather]

@@bpnation37 Read the Quran for answers

[@Zelenak1]

@@bpnation37 now dying is way worse

[@MB-gl2bl]

After my NDE, I absolutely believe there's more to this universe than we can even begin to comprehend. I believe there's something, and I wish people wouldn't get so hung up on religion.

[@marcdemell5976]

Hope is good! HalleluYAH !

[@tempustempus9073]

You pass butter

[@JudePhilips]

Astral plane

[@MrJamiez]

Prove it.

[@giollyyyit]

Well, I think a lot of scientists agree that we know almost nothing about this universe. That's why we can't get stuck with an ideology. Since we can't really know the answers to "is there life after death?", "have I really got free will? Is future predetermined?" or questions like that, we just need to enjoy life the best we can and not think about it too much, cause our brain is limited and can't even IMAGINE what being dead means

[@ifeanyiforchu4403]

These men talk with so much confidence for people who fundamentally are saying " I don't know"

[@fangzhang163]

You call that confidence? You should meet my Christian mom

[@jackiywalsh1246]

@@fangzhang163 no

[@leeriches8841]

Because nobody knows!

[@shrinkwrap1770]

Do you know?

[@mohamedzaeem6980]

True !

[@joshuareyes2509]

I love this kind of philosophical show, teaching us to see the bigger picture and re-evaluate what we exactly know in life rather than being imprisoned and blindly follow the teaching of majority for the next centuries to come. Now about death, do we really die? As a catholic it is the preaching that when a person dies, his soul will face judgement then he will move to afterlife but what if that’s not the case, what if we just simply cease to exist, our personality will be gone, our body will cease to function and that’s all. We are not even aware that we are dead because we have no more consciousness, our relatives will grieve because of the changes it will bring but they will coped withit and the cycle will continue.

[@abiyyilmasaddistv]

I experienced a death in my life for more than 4 hours. Some name it a near-death-experience. Before that day, I used to believe that there was no life after death. But now, I strongly believe THERE IS REAL LIFE AFTER DEATH. I am preparing my life for that.

[@Ken-xc7vg]

I believe in after life but how you gonna prepare for that in this life?

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@Kraig StClair it was genuine question lol i don't understand what he needs to prepare in this life for the afterlife unless he's preparing to kill himself then technically he preparing himself for the afterlife

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@Kraig StClair I get it man it sounds ridiculous to you but there no need to ridicule people on what they believe. If you dont believe in God that's cool but at least be decent person. I used to be a atheist for 27 years and I get it so I'm not trying change your mind nor ridicule what you believe in because at the end of the day you can't prove that there isnt a afterlife or I can't prove to you either that there is.

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@Kraig StClair there you go assuming things. You say keep it out of politics what not you're the one that came on here just commenting "oh please" it had nothing to do with you and I'm not even a Christian. This has nothing to do with what you're talking about, this guy commented on a video that's related to the subject and he just commented on it. Nothing to do with bringing mythology into politics. You're the one thats just trying be asshole and yet you critized Christians people doing the same shit.

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@Kraig StClair all I asked was for you be decent guy and you want go a rant about me being Christian and then go on and on whatever and so on. You're just as bad as the Christians you badly talked shit about.

[@yequalsemexplusbee4322]

Honestly I don’t know what happens after death But hopefully, when I die I want all my atoms to wander the universe I never got to see.

[@k0smon]

RG///// You will be able to visit most anywhere you can conceive of.

[@dan69052]

truth How does all religion start? It starts with the children . Here is a short 4:00 min video that sets the stage. Look it up on KZbin “Welcome to This World”. Sound familiar?

[@yequalsemexplusbee4322]

@@dan69052 I’ll go check it out

[@Earendel.l]

Nicely put.

[@jasminehurtado7161]

Ugh sounds nice

[@liselottenormannsrensen7867]

I think being dead feels exactly as before you were born. Death is only sad for the people left behind❤️

[@paulrichards6894]

very true

[@thersten]

Correct. We were unborn for billions of years and it felt just fine. So death will be just fine too.

[@NatedoggZombies]

How did it feel before you were born?

[@johnnastrom9400]

We don't know what it was like before we were born. That's the problem with copying other people's quotes.

[@paulrichards6894]

@@johnnastrom9400 of course we do...nothing

[@DeadInside-ew8qb]

I have always believed that death is completely final, but many years ago when I was in the army, I was injured pretty badly. While in the hospital, during a period of time I have no personal memory of, my parents came to visit. They apparently be came very concerned after I told them a story one day, I generally wasn’t very coherent, about my grandmother coming to visit me in the hospital. I was so happy she came to see me and I had been missing her so much. This really upset my mother as my grandmother had actually passed five years previously.

[@joebenzz]

It is a known fact in science that everything in the universe can never be destroyed nor can be created out of thin air. When a house is destroyed in a hurricane, the only thing destroyed is the definition of the house itself but the house is still there but instead it's in pieces. Everything applies to this. Everything is transformed, not created, not obliterated but transformed. Why, as a person, a consciousness, would we be the exception to that rule?

[@lights473]

I get extreme anxiety when I'm truly conscious that I will definitely die soon and I cannot control that

[@mychannel-lt9yu]

Staring at the Sun, by Irvin Yalom

[@mychannel-lt9yu]

@TheExplorer Hundreds of thousands of people worry about death. It's gotten the label "death anxiety" for a reason. It's not something that you can just brush away.

[@mychannel-lt9yu]

@TheExplorer Do you speak to people with PTSD and Bipolar disorder in the same condescending manner? Because they're all on equal footing, as far as psychiatric diagnoses go. I recommend reading Staring at the Sun by the psychologist Irvin Yalom, so that you can educate yourself on the matter and hopefully sympathize more with other people don't share your outlook on existence.

[@mychannel-lt9yu]

@TheExplorer Wow, I hope you don't interact with other people in your day-to-day life. Depression alone affects up to 15-20% of all people. Are you really just going to ignore 1/5 of the population for something beyond their control?

[@lights473]

@TheExplorer the fact that I enjoy life is what's giving me fucking anxiety that I will lose it all. One day you'll experience the same self-realization I get when you, yourself, will have to die and there is no way you can control it

[@futurez12]

_"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."_ - Albert Einstein This is genuinely insightful. The very thing we fear most is the very thing that puts an end to _all_ fears.

[@garystevenson5560]

Einstein was a scientist not a mystic. What about Hell ?

[@victoriabenton8378]

He believed as I do too now that we simply change forms.

[@victoriabenton8378]

@@garystevenson5560 There is no hell. God is love we are purified when we die. He is a spirit an energy but massive.

[@dan69052]

truth

[@dan69052]

truthHow does all religion start? It starts with the children . Here is a short 4:00 min video that sets the stage. Look it up on KZbin “Welcome to This World”. Sound familiar

[@bizichyld]

I like to think when we die we are immediately passed into a new dimension in which time does not exist as is does here. Our loved ones did not have to wait at all for us, not will we have to wait for them. We all exist simultaneously at the endpoint of time. That’s what I like to think. What I actually believe, I have no idea.

[@the.gr8est]

This makes the most sense

[@simmerelise]

I have had too many experiences with the deceased to not believe in an after life. Including deceased I never met when they were alive (one example is my biological grandmother who died when my mum was a child). Also including deceased that were complete strangers (one example: the man in the hospital watching his granddaughter who had just had surgery and shared a hospital room with me. The nurse walked straight through him). There is definitely something after death. The deceased I have spoken to about an life after death all say basically same thing: If I was to tell you you'd want to join me there. But your journey on Earth is not complete yet/ You have more to learn/more to do here. Don't worry about it right now. All going well you joining me will be a long time away.

[@dreadsndogs4406]

I really hope you're right, though I wish I could experience such things for myself so that I could not only hope but believe in it

[@morten8586]

The belive of an afterlife was created by humans cuz of the fear of nothing. Nothing is more scary then nothing

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@@morten8586 that's your belief

[@user-sn7rh8cm3n]

We'll see about that...

[@Bruh-ye7dg]

I like einsteins outlook on death, it honestly makes the most sense to me and is comforting. It's almost like his brain was so big it peaked into the 4th dimension.

[@indigochild2.098]

it did what da hell

[@prince-solomon]

The 4th dimension...why not the 258290435820945820945802498520945824905842th dimension? Why limit yourself to such a low number? We humans love to let our imagination go rampant and not focus on hard undeniable facts

[@indigochild2.098]

@@prince-solomon its about density of light thats why not the 267357254826348267452 dimension

[@marcdemell5976]

@@prince-solomon it's our imagination that drives us to seek truth ,it's a gift from YAH! Amein.

[@davidvarley1812]

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[@realman1349]

Just wanted to share a quick story of a death experience I had as a child. When I was 6 years old, I had a vivid and realistic dream that my grandfather died. I was pretty close with him growing up even though he lived about 5 hours away. In the dream, we were at a water park at the top of the slide. He told me he had to leave. I was sad and told him I didn’t want him to leave. He then said goodbye and pushed me down the water slide. When I hit the water, I awoke from the dream. It was in the middle of the night and I was sad and crying. My father heard me and woke up and came to check on me. I was telling him I wanted to call “grandpa”, but he said it was too late in night and we could call him tomorrow. I then started asking my father questions about heaven, hell, and where people go when they die. Fast forward to later that day around noon, and my mother gets a call that “grandpa died”. Both of my parents were very surprised about the foretelling dream. I can’t explain it, maybe it was just a coincidence, but unlikely. I wonder if it was spiritual communication indicating there is life after death or that human brains send off remote communication signals in ways we do not yet understand. I would love to hear people’s thoughts on this or from those with similar experiences.

[@jimd6641]

I had a similar dream about my mother. In my dream I heard her call out my name and she spoke to me. The next day I called her, and she was fine. A few years later, on the night when she did pass away, I got nothing. The way I see it is: people have dreams and people die - according to the laws of probability, sometime they coincide. For you, it was like drawing to an inside straight - unlikely, but it does happen.

[@DavidCarter-ib3vw]

I think there is a lot we don't know about life and death and the mind.

[@marksquires1112]

People are soo scared of the unknown and thus understandably sceptical. Your grandfather, imo, DEFINITELY came to say goodbye to you. I’ve had way to many contacts with spirit beings to write off your experience as a ‘sream’ or a coincidence. Chill everyone, we’ll get there soon enough and see for ourselves just how incredible the afterlife truly is.

[@Manduhai.....]

I had similar dream. The first person I fell in love with came into my dream after 50 years. I have never dreamed of him before, not once after we went our separate ways. In my dream he came to visit me, but never said a word, I kept asking questions and he would not answer, as in life. He had fixed his eyes on a door and kept looking at it. I woke up and went to computer to check on him for the first time. He had just died. How and why this happened, I do not know.

[@DavidCarter-ib3vw]

@J C Well said. Interesting to me is that I cannot tell the difference between real life and a dream. I assume most people I guess are the same way. Sometimes I dream and then after awake I think the dream really happened. On occasion, I can be having a pleasant dream and then wake-up. I can then purposefully go back to sleep and try to continue the same dream. Often I can do so. Sometimes I can dream and have a creative moment. I used to keep a pen and pad nearby so I could write down any epiphanies.

[@teachkeys]

I watched both of my parents die two years apart. My father had been in a coma for 24 hours with a death rattle. Seconds before he died, his breathing slowed down and stopped. The instant his heart stopped, his eyes flashed wide open and his face appeared startled as though he was surprised by what he saw! My mom's eyes looked like she was staring at a group of people in the distance... I knew both of them extremely well. Their faces at the instant of death convinced me there was an afterlife and they were actually still alive in some unknown capacity.

[@davidedgington8805]

Wow that’s must be definitively going on in whole different level going on.

[@catfangoat8741]

Hey I’m really sorry man, I hope your doing great, and wish the best for you.❤️

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

I would have to say that anyone's heart stopping would send them into a state of shock. Have you ever had palpitations?

[@BMF6889]

The University of Virginia has an entire division dedicated to studying Near Death Experiences and Reincarnation. They have tens of thousands of records and they personally interview selected cases that seem to have no logical explanation. Their conclusion is that the soul survives death and it sometimes returns as a different person with memories of their past life / lives. I have been researching NDE's ever since I read Dr. Moody's book "Life After Life" recounting numerous NDE survivors' experiences after they were clinically dead that they could not possibly have otherwise known such as what the doctors and nurses were doing and using in the emergency room while the patient had no brain function. I'm 76 now and I've read and watched interviews of thousands of NDE experiences. I've only been researching reincarnation for 10 years. One of the most compelling examples was a woman who needed to have an aneurism removed that was in a critical part of the brain. The doctors had to lower her body temperature to the point where there was no brain function and then had to remove her blood. After the surgery, she was able to tell the doctors everything thing they did and said and the instruments they used all while her consciousness was floating near the ceiling watching everything. There are examples of reincarnation that cannot possibly be explained other than the previous life he/she recall actually happened based on verified historical records of their past lives. There is zero doubt in my mind that the soul continues after death and while I can't explain how or why reincarnation occurs, there is irrefutable evidence that it's real. Today, there are perhaps a thousand NDE interviews on KZbin and there a few powerful examples of reincarnation available to anyone willing to search for them. Those that claim that there is nothing after we die, have not done their research--its their emotional response without bothering to do the research. Another related interesting subject is Intelligent Design in the creation of life. Read Dr. Michael J. Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Fascinating read. There is a lot of information on KZbin about intelligent design that is also fascinating.

[@bpnation37]

Never heard of a reincarnated person that remembers their past life. Seems far fetched

[@noiseoffstudios1268]

Sounds like you actually need this to be the truth rather than you just believing it.

[@Ken-xc7vg]

@@bpnation37 that's because you haven't searched

[@theCommenter-gw6so]

I hope there’s more options/customizability to the afterlife than that. Many would prefer ceasing to exist over ever returning here in any form. I like to believe that there’s so much more than one option, including a sort of nonexistence for any chosen period if anyone desires it beyond the grave. There’s far too much variety in us for there to be only one answer.

[@dcterr1]

I think the humblest thing to say about the afterlife is that we don't know what happens to us after we die.

[@bogusmcbogus2637]

That's not true. We do know what happens to living things (people or animals) after they're dead. They decay and eventually get devoured by microbes, become part of the physical environment again, etc. The humblest thing to say about the afterlife is that there is no evidence to support it.

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@dcterr1]

@@likenl4508 Sorry but I'm not a Jesus freak like yourself!

[@jusmesuz]

@@bogusmcbogus2637 That's what a body does after it dies. There's no proof that our souls die and rot. So you don't know

[@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG]

@@bogusmcbogus2637 Is there evidence for your thoughts?

[@larrynguyen85]

I thought Michelle Thaller's retelling of Einstein's viewpoint on death made the most sense, and was, strangely, the most comforting.

[@clarkduffe1268]

Sounds a bit like the Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

[@firstal3799]

It's stupid.

[@OnPointFirearms]

Einstein was just a man.

[@jhwhthemerciful]

For Christ Sake people. I truly know what happens after death. Just this one time trust me. I can give you the red pill if you want. Contact me if you want to know.

[@CLM2204]

Just wondering, What does the Word “Stupid” Mean ... And how can you verify your Opinions 🤨

[@JuhaKona]

i really appreciate the depth you bring to your discussions.

[@melissas.2905]

I have a medical condition where I pass out and my heart stops Neurocardiogenic Syncope. I don't always feel it coming. It is a pain to live with. When my heart stops, I lose consciousness. It usually only lasts a few seconds and up to 45 seconds. I don't think I've ever experienced brain death. That being said, when I have an episode and I've lost consciousness, I feel more like I've blacked out, nothing. It's like I'm frozen or suspended. When I come to, I'm usually cold and shaking, often sick to my stomach...sometimes I have lost control of my bowels and/or have thrown up. My whole body had tightened up.. It's like running a marathon with out training or warming up. Very painful. I'm exhausted afterwards. Sometimes for days.

[@Slo-ryde]

Why don’t you have a pacemaker that triggers when your heart rate drops below a certain rate ( called a demand pacer)?…. So you can prevent these events?

[@Purplenpinkk]

I've had syncope twice as a reaction to pain, and my experience has been so similar to yours. I told my husband that it made me not fear death, because had I really died, I would not have know. It's completely lights out.

[@dannyjones9075]

Hey guys. This comment goes out to anyone out there who’s ever lost a loved one. I feel your pain. And my thoughts go out to you. Rest in peace to all the people that lost there lives in 2020. And before. If anyone’s feeling down or depressed going into 2021. Your not alone. But your not giving up today. You get back up and get back down that road. And if you need more time then you rest a little more. But don’t you dare give up, if the people you lost meant something then do it for them... do it because they would want you to, do it for the people around you.... mental health is a serious thing guys. Let’s all stick together ❤️

[@brolyfilth]

Thanks for the positive message.

[@shumsshay4universe]

I am in pain. I lost my father on 17/02/21. He had a hemoragie stroke on 10/02/21 :( I miss him so much

[@kellmac]

@Shums 93 - I'm so sorry. It's not an easy thing to cope with, especially when it happens unexpectedly. Please get counseling, and cry whenever you need to. I assure you that your dad wouldn't want you to be unhappy.

[@nimekupata]

@@shumsshay4universe My entire life has been about proving the afterlife exists. It’s a personal thing as it should be, I understand why these scientists believe as they do, but sadly not everyone gets to see the proof I have witnessed. It may not be a place of flowers and parties, and not even a place - it’s simply going back to what started all of this and yes very conscious. Just because they cannot explain it, doesn’t make it truth.

[@mywifesboyfriend5741]

I like your positivity.

[@wade5941]

Lost my mom and my wife's mom and dad all in the span of a year. Had the opportunity to be there with them during their final hours. I have never been a religious person, but I have to admit that the experience of being there with them has definitely gave me cause to rethink my views.

[@ingridaholmes]

If that cause to rethink your views is going to help you have a psycologically better, physically healthier and ethically levelled life up until your immanent death, whichever way it pushes you, then grasp it. Live it well; live and let live :)

[@scoremxcom]

Yea, Religion is bunk.

[@CaptHiltz]

I don't know if turning to religion in the long run is the way to go. I am an atheist and I won't go on a rant against organized religion but rather say I am a bit of an oddball in that I believe in existence of life after death. I was part of a paranormal research group for about 7 years. In 55 cases we collected quite a bit of evidence, mainly audio that we couldn't debunk and had to classify as proof that unseen entities communicated with us. As for religion, IMO it's a human created thing that doesn't contain any extra, magical components to make one's life better except for the fact that it's all personal perception. Too many religions become political and toxic and in many ways nothing more than a cult unfortunately. If you do decide to embrace religion I advise you to look into something very mainstream and low key. Please don't get involved in Scientology or radical, militant Evangelicalism.

[@scoremxcom]

@@CaptHiltz Well you convinced me! I'll be kissing his ass tonight! thx ps oh and now I know how we got here.

[@SuperTuhla]

Why?

[@prodbycrisp]

I had a big paranoia of death since I was a little kid. I never really understood what happened when we died, if we felt anything when we died but even with these pieces of evidence it’s still a scary thought that I might ironically carry to my grave.

[@amanumin7201]

I recommend you read this article for know something... Death and Day of Judgment Learn Islam

[@anotherSavingGrace]

To overcome the fear of death just watch the tons of people with real experiences of near death - NDEs . They are damn serious and they all have a common thread in its core - its about how God is love n without this temporary body one is much happier It is most eye opening thing that has happened to me in the recent times esp since I had the same doubt as 1 of the panel, about Pascals' wager n who is right/wrong

[@Remedy462]

​@@anotherSavingGraceso then why do we have to suffer to join him? Why couldn't he make us into existence in the afterlife where we can all just be happy together forever instead of here where we suffer. Why allow for suffering for the things you love?

[@anotherSavingGrace]

@@Remedy462 Good question.. AFAIK, it's to deeply appreciate our true nature which is complete happiness.. Earthly life brings out the contrast Pain may be unavoidable suffering is a choice.. to a good extent..

[@anotherSavingGrace]

@@Remedy462 A lot of my questions were answered in the NLS Podcast.. some of the episodes are better than others..

[@francescoiadicicco1266]

All the talk about there's no life after death, then Michio Kaku comes in and says something like "we can digitally clone your mind and make you immortal".

[@rudyferrell]

Let's see them clone our spirit......

[@francescoiadicicco1266]

@@rudyferrell for a small fee there will be the clone spirit option 😝

[@Roberto97810]

That idea is actually precise

[@monte8069]

It will be a copy of you but not you.

[@rudyferrell]

@@monte8069 wrong. YOU are going to pay for dining God and having nothing to want to do with him. People will tell themselves anything to get out of feeling guilty for their sins.

[@arkdark5554]

One of two things happens, when you die: 1) Shit happens 2) Nothing happens

[@aldihamzaraj4795]

I mean, if we have full intestines then after we die. We will. Shit.

[@aldihamzaraj4795]

@@dicezart9667 nice.

[@khairyusuf1659]

Understand purpose of Life & Death, Read Quran for Success of both the worlds My friend's By Time 🕘 Mankind is in Loss, 🕸️ Except for those who Believed, 💛☝🏻🆘 & done Righteous deeds , & Advised each other, to Truth & Advised to Patience, Tomorrow is not Promised 💔 We R Living in a Unpredictable world, ✨ Repent Asap 💕 Dreams R Unlimited But , Life is Limited God💫 knows what's best for you 💟 Understand purpose & your Past , Present & future Life plan's & Law's for you, Word of God, Quran🌠 is Guidance for mankind for a meaningful Life & hereafter Welwisher Spiritual Connection of Monotheism for Tranquillity 💫💯💕

[@arkdark5554]

@@crazyalarmstudios2012 Thanks.

[@aldihamzaraj4795]

@@khairyusuf1659 Bro stop posting this in every comment. I came here for Bill Nye. Even if i do die and i am forgotten, i don’t give a fuck, i ain’t scared of that, i’m more scared by the fact that my country is about to be destroyed by a crackhead psychopath

[@consterus]

In one of my dreams, a man approached me and asked me to follow him. One woman who was sitting at a table said that she would now meet new arrivals. They began to leave the building (it looked like a station building) and it dawned on me that they had all recently died. They looked very tired. The man who was all the time standing behind me said that I was only there to see how it all happens. Then this crowd goes to the bus and I go there too. And while we were driving, I saw as if my native places through the bus window, which I had never seen in physical life, but I was starting to remember. The atmosphere in that place was very mysterious, it was so great. I said to that man: - I like it here, it reminds me of my dreams, I feel good here - Dreams - are a reflection of the "afterlife" world - he answered - Where are we going? - Home. We drove a little more, I was so glad that I would soon see my spiritual home. However, I woke up. I don't know if it was just a dream or if this is how it really happens after death. The dream was very realistic.

[@kathypetty8996]

All of the views from everyone one this video was amazing . thank you for sharing. enjoyed it.

[@cjjuddaustralianartist]

My cat died six years ago, I still miss my beautiful Gingy.

[@mwanikitim9452]

Get another Cat

[@blanco8916]

That is sad

[@cottoncandy6119]

I hope you and your cat reunite in after life

[@melinasasha120]

I lost over 14 cats in the last 20 years. Their passing caused me great sadness and after two years with no pet I came to realize that the only way to get over my grief was to get another cat. One was brought to me by fate and now I have a darling tuxedo cat that I adore.I do believe in an afterlife and I know I will see all my deceased pets again at Rainbow Bridge.

[@cjjuddaustralianartist]

@@melinasasha120 I hope so, Gingy is burried in a little grave under the tree where he curled up and slept during the day. I so miss him.

[@ketchup5382]

Yes there is life after death, but not for the person who died...

[@xMckingwill]

Lol

[@efilwv1635]

Good answer.

[@isidrosalas5088]

😂😂😂

[@moestietabarnak]

anti-solipsism ? :D

[@gordonconlogue5686]

Its over before you know it

[@Cramp100]

We, as a Muslims, with billions of Christians and also Judaists, believe in one God. We might have disagreements about prophets, customs and other stuff - but we are united in One Main Thing: God is One and Only.

[@sumejividi6663]

Cool. But imagine going to heaven and realising as a Muslim that there is a Jesus and no Mohammed. Or we all are going to venerate Mary, and how would protestants see this. Imagine a Jehova Witness getting to celebrate birthdays in heaven which they rejected or told not giving blood cost many people's lives and will be punished for that. Imagine being in heaven and Muslims are told to call God Jehova, or told to pray the Rosary.

[@sumejividi6663]

@Kraig StClair that's cool.

[@_space.pony_]

The first time I had general anesthesia, the experience... was of having no experience. No sense of time passing, no sensation of being asleep or dreaming. I could've been out for a few seconds, or a few years, I would believe either one the evidence proved to tell me. If I had to describe it as anything, I would just say black, or nothing. Not even black except for the moments before unconsciousness and right before regaining consciousness when your eyes are physically closed. Anyway I had a very great sense overcome me that that's what death is. It's just being turned off, like a light. Socrates said to fear death, or assume it is some evil, is to think oneself wiser than you really are. Everything that ever lived has died. It can't be that bad. Life itself arose for whatever natural process that is, and death is an inevitable part of that, for some reason we don't understand. That is the crux of our deliberations. But it is a moot point.

[@pxjxgx]

I love this comment so much. I know exactly what you mean about general anesthesia. I had a hysterectomy 2 years ago. My first real surgery. I remember the feeling of just before and in between being under and waking up. It took me twice as long to fully wake up. During that time right at the beginning of coming out I remember this feeling of fading away. I was unconscious, I could hear but didn't understand the sounds. I could sense that my body was being moved but couldn't feel it. I realized this only once I had woken up. Had I never woken up the last part of me would have only known closing my eyes before surgery. It's just too much for us to fathom. Just like how we don't have to think about it for our lungs to take in air, we don't have to think about it to keep our hearts beating. Those organs are designed to work until they don't. Those organs can't imagine not doing their job, they just do it. Our brains are the same.... a brain can't fathom not doing its job. It's a survival tactic, I think.

[@eliaso4867]

Anesthesia just put you to 😴. When you die you will see the real afterlife with no return. And much regret on your way to hell

[@UN1VERS3S]

Long comment full of gibberish.

[@ryanyowell9697]

I like to think on the "mind-body problem" in philosophy when I think of dying. It's fascinating how our consciousness can exist in a physical body, yet cannot be seen as a separate host. To think that our consciousness is its own matter provides some solitude when it comes to dying. Maybe, just maybe, our conscious energy is a special force that continues to exist in the universe despite losing its body.

[@marcdemell5976]

We are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes .James 4:14.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

There are two kinds of nouns, concrete and abstract. The existential status of their referents are very, very different. Physics asserts the constituents of concrete entities are eternal. There is no equivalent law that applies to abstract entities like processes. You know exactly, with no doubt whatsoever, that annihilation happens to a process when the processor disintegrates. e.g. The ketchup making process ceases in the moment the ketchup factory is blown to pieces. If being conscious is a process of the body, which is so likely as to be equivalent to a certainty, then I think we are forced to very happily conclude, we are *not* condemned to endure eternity.

[@michaeldunkley5959]

You are right. I died October 8 2015, floated up a tunnel, saw a very bright light, talked to my parents and came back. After what I went through, I believe your body is just a temporary place to hold the real you for a while! I could tell you more if you like! Mike

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@michaeldunkley5959 If you actually died you would not be here to write that comment. You had an experience, that's all. The 'you' making process ceases in the moment your body is blown to pieces.

[@danny5473]

Hi Ryan, rest assured our consciousness does not exist within a physical body at all.Only what God created is real, and nothing else really exists. God created us Mind & Spirit, we then, not being satisfied with that, went on to create our body. The Mind & Spirit are not and cannot be inside the body because the body is not real, and therefore does not exist.

[@invox9490]

"Offer the peasants something nice so they'll keep building our pyramids." - This is true on a multitude of levels.

[@paule.2687]

or we could just murder a few of them and the rest will keep building it out of fear lol

[@parrishkelley]

@@paule.2687 also true on a multitude of levels

[@willkosak]

Like the lousy $600 stimulus checks.

[@AJ.Rafael]

Do we really think the Pyramids were built by peasants though? 🤔

[@parrishkelley]

@@AJ.Rafael thats like saying do we really believe American slaves picked cotton, of course they did you think the elite gonna build their own pyramids?

[@willmoore7582]

I like the open mindedness of these individuals, especially Michael Shermer, re organized religion being a tool to keep the masses in line and that we really ought to give some credence to the idea of this life is all there is and that we ought to enjoy it for the blissful moment in time it is to us and our fellow inhabitants here on this planet. Cheers all.

[@levi_octavian]

This is more of a prophetic dream but I still feel fits the topic of this video. I “woke up” in my sisters Bedroom thinking I was actually awake and there was this man that was floating or hanging in the doorway. He didn’t move and appeared dead but I knew he was alive. He wore a brown fedora and trench coat. His body was green and rotted like he was decaying. His mouth hung open with glazed over eyes I could see every detail. Never felt such true fear in my entire 21 years of existing. Told myself if I closed my eyes he’d go away which I did then eventually woke up. Same day I got the news my grandma passed away from septic shock in the hospital. I sometimes wonder if it was death himself paying a visit to tell me because I’ve never had a dream like that before or ever again. I’m not religious but consider myself spiritual I’ve grown up with freaky paranormal shit happening around me all my life that I can’t explain. I can’t say for certain that there is something after death. But it isn’t 100% unlikely either.

[@Slo-ryde]

I think what you described might be your dreamed version of Freddie Krueger of TV horror lore….. he wore a fedora and depending on depiction, could also be greenish….not sure if he ever wore a trench coat… you may wanna look into it!

[@TheGarlicfather]

I experienced a lot of unexplainable paranormal activities my whole life since i was a kid. From objects moving around me to having dreams that happen exactly the way i dreamed it in real life to waking up with my body paralysed and seeing entities… so in my search for answers i turned to many things for answers but didn’t get any until i turned to islam the Quran and hadith to see what it says about all of this stuff what i am experiencing and i got all the answers i needed and it told me what i need to do when stuff like this happens for protection from Allah and it always works but anyways reading your comment what i think happened to you is You had a bad dream that most likely was from a devil or a demon trying to worry you. It’s best to keep these dreams for yourself otherwise you give power to it so don’t take them serious and whenever stuff like that happens ask for protection from Allah (God) sincerely and believe he will help you you can do this in any language you want. I hope this will help you and may Allah guide you to the truth

[@jessebob325]

Remember what it was like before you were born? I suspect that being dead is much like that. - Alan Watts 🍻😷

[@sonjaleesloth]

Sometimes I wonder why we have unexplained talents and interests though.

[@freedk9]

You should add "quote by Alan Watts" behind your sentence

[@jessebob325]

@@freedk9 It's been so long since I'd read it I had forgotten it was from Alan Watts. I'm old 😄. Thank you. 🍻 (I fixed my post😉)

[@DennisMoore664]

I've been saying this for a while now. Makes me smile when it when it turns out I've recognized something on my own, even using the same words, that Mr Watts has said.

[@bobmusil1458]

@@sonjaleesloth We don’t

[@TheRISINGSTAR35]

The fact that we are here in this world when we didn't choose it means that it can happen again after we die

[@joehorn4650]

Maybe we did choose it, i mean we had the smarts enough to know when we were itty bitty sperms that we had to swim fast and beat all the other sperms, wasnt that some kind of choice?

[@blizzforte284]

@Luca Duca It’s not logical at all. There can’t be nothing after death, because "nothingness" is as far from logic as it can get.

[@prentezlarkenspiegel805]

That is true. But the wait is going to be loooong!

[@yourdaddysthickasf8770]

@Luca Duca oh shut it

[@bathin813]

@@blizzforte284 it's logical. It's part of the cycle of sustenance. We were created. To be the best of creations. With our desires and needs, to beat those desires and follow what the creator wanted for us is being the best of creations. Animals have no free will. They will act accordingly to their desires. We have been given the power to choose.

[@gailknight3128]

When my mother in law was in hospital, I had to go home to the children, we knew she didn't have long to live. I lay on the sofa in the lounge and fell asleep. I suddenly woke up and thought Sarah, fight it, and then , no let go, as we knew she would only live a few months in terrible pain if she got through this crisis. A couple of minutes later my husband rang to say she had gone. I had a very peaceful feeling going through me, a calmness. It was very strange.

[@jgage2344]

So what ?? Seriously you can’t see anything else that could have caused these feelings ? Ghosts and gods are about as real as that dream you had !

[@owensomers8572]

Interesting concept presented by Michio of interacting with digitized persons, after what Bill said. Which version of that person at what age would you be interacting with, and who gets to decide?

[@man-yp1gb]

I like the Confucius saying " If we don't know life, how can we know death "

[@baselkhateeb]

watch a Tedx video titled "From life to death, beyond and back | Thomas Fleischmann" and you will change your mind

[@man-yp1gb]

@@baselkhateeb No coming back from the dead story of a made up revelation in a made up religion is going to convince me unless I see it myself and even if I see a deity or after life no one but myself will know and understand. It would be impossible to share, only to ourselves can it be revealed. Also no one would believe it anyways for good reason.

[@baselkhateeb]

@@man-yp1gb I used to agree with you,, but was shocked with the proven NDE experiences that shown there is a life after death.. you better be ready by then.

[@man-yp1gb]

@@baselkhateeb ready for what? I have nothing to worry about. I can argue the bible or any religious text to the creator and show it's flaws, then what?

[@prince-solomon]

It's a pretty dumb and weak saying. Just because Confucius is supposed to have said something, doesn' t mean it's automatically gold and beyond criticism. Any sane person should have an understanding of what it means to be alive and live a life. We are aware that we die, but of course, since it is a one way ticket, we can't know it until it's happening.

[@rashadblack96]

I love big think so much. Y’all seriously help me keep my sanity in ways I can’t explain. Not only that but y’all give great knowledge and wisdom ❤️. KEEP IT UP!

[@dan69052]

truth How does all religion start? It starts with the children . Here is a short 4:00 min video that sets the stage. Look it up on KZbin “Welcome to This World”. Sound familiar

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@arnie9205]

Ok, I didn't watch the video but I had to look at the comments to see what everyone is thinking. I am an agnostic at best but I had a real life experience that raised the hair on the back of my neck one day and when things of this nature happen to a person it really makes you wonder what's at play in this universe. So my experience goes as follows. I moved out east to the Vermont / Upstate Ny area back in 84 from the wonderful state of Iowa. I came from a small rural town in Iowa and have lived in the same out east in upstate Ny while working in Vermont. My mother (whom I was very close to) passed away in 2010 and after flying back for the services I had the next day off to gather myself after the trip. I told my wife that morning that I felt I needed to plant something as a memorial as my mother was a garden freak. My wife said she knew just the nursery to go to in order to find what I was looking for. The trip to this nursery took us through the town of Mechanicville Ny. As we were driving through the town I noticed a parked car that was exactly the same model of car as my wife's car which we were riding in with the only difference being it was white and as we approached it I then noticed it had an Iowa plate. Now living in rural upstate Ny I can tell you I might see a car with an Iowa plate once every two years so naturally I got a little excited. As we pulled up closer I saw that it had one bumper sticker on it. It read simply " Your Mother Loves You". Whoa, even telling this story still makes my neck hair stand up. The last little oddity was that my mothers house that she had last lived in was on Mechanic street. Too many coincidences or what. Hope you all find whatever gives you peace. For me it's looking at a star filled sky on a clear night and hoping there might be something else.

[@LordTunezilla]

"You just need to be good enough" I struggle with perfectionism... and that hit me like a truck. Don't settle for mediocrity, but don't strive for perfection either

[@charlesbrown9213]

A wise person once said : "Do not let the 'perfect' be the enemy of the 'good'.

[@sew_gal7340]

Striving to be perfect teaches me more, being mediocre is like still water..it gets dull and polluted after a while. Theres no such thing as perfection, but when you aim high you get very far

[@fembot521]

Hearing that Einstein said those things makes me believe and brings me great comfort. My husband is still with me, for real.

[@jlpc2474]

I just lost my husband last week, I pray he’s still with me too😢

[@videosofinterest9227]

They are.

[@Dosindapendence]

@@jlpc2474 He is with you Always and forever ✝

[@karyncummings4401]

In our minds memories live. But he hat happens to our memories when our brains die?

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@robertkimmel5416]

My best friend died two years ago of a fatal heart attack in my driveway. It totally crushed me.😔 However, he had a saying about the perception of death. It was this: When we are alive, we are watching life go by just like we were watching a parade through a peephole in a fence. We can only see one person passing by at a time. However, God sees the whole parade all at once.😊❤ I sure do miss him.😔

[@timterrell8678]

Religion is the peephole. Science builds a step to let you see the entire parade above the fence. God is the candy they throw at you that gives you cavities.

[@alexyancy6018]

@@timterrell8678 Who said ANY word about religion?

[@timterrell8678]

@@alexyancy6018 I brought up religion. Did it trigger you because you don’t belong to one?

[@alexyancy6018]

@@timterrell8678 Yeah, as a reply. "Trigger me because i dont belong to a religion"... I thought religion is the "peeophole". I am not a fan of religion so why would i be unhappy about not having one ? i consider myself as spiritual and yes i believe in an all uniting essence that is connected with every being in this universe. Thats what most people call GOD. But is not dependant on religion

[@timterrell8678]

@@alexyancy6018 Then your peephole would be spirituality instead of religion.

[@emmaabumere2870]

I believe we exist as possibilities. Cos "life" is an endless occurring possiblity. This feels like nothing to us yet "Nothing Exists".

[@sebastiantorker4930]

The way I think about immortality is based on 2 assumptions: 1) existence is a matter of probability, and 2) one cannot experience non-existence. Whatever theory of the universe OR Multiverse theory might be true (MWI, CCC, …) there will be a point when the conditions are just right for you to be conscious. It took 13.8 billion years since the big bag for you to pop into existence, however, what one experiences on a personal level is continuous existence. One simply does not exist during the time between the Big Bang and one’s own birth. Likewise one does not exist after one’s own death and the time he/she pops into existence again. It’s simply a matter of probability.

[@The_Wild_Wolf]

If I knew for sure that afterlife exists, the sadness for thinking that maybe I will never see those whom I've lost again would be gone aswell as the fear of losing those who are close to me. That alone would improve my quality of life substantially. The only problem I have with being alive is that you either die young or you live enough to lose people, and that makes the life more sad the longer you're alive. Maybe that's the point though. After enough losses maybe you end up accepting your own end more easily.

[@ramaraksha01]

Not one theist asks - What about my loved ones down on earth? I was the bread-winner - are they suffering/starving/sick/homeless/jobless? NOT ONE!

[@keng7758]

You may find some solace in reading some NDE (near death experience) stories. I read the book Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander. For me, a former Catholic who no longer wants to be affiliated with Catholicism, his book opened my mind to a far more logical view of death and the afterlife. I try to be more loving and kind after reading these stories. I also find huge solace in knowing I’ll be reunited with my love ones who have passed. Good luck to you!

[@ramaraksha01]

@@keng7758 THERE IS ONLY ONE WORLD! THIS ONE! The one God made for us, this world, this earth, this life! Life is a Gift from God! Don't throw it away running after magic Retirement Homes in the sky - don't end up as a Ghost - eternal "life" hanging around in old dusty, creepy abandoned mansions

[@keng7758]

@@ramaraksha01 ohhhh bummer…hanging around like a ghost was my plan….bless you my friend…

[@ramaraksha01]

@@keng7758 lol the ideas are not that hard - few theists ask any questions while the priest spews easy cheap promises of an eternal life of comfort & ease No one asks - wait, we get to just sit around doing nothing, like living in a Retirement Home, doing nothing, an idle, useless, pointless existence for eternity? How does that make any sense? But by keeping their silence they are accepting that such a "life" is what they want & when they end up as Ghosts, they have no one to blame but themselves

[@0x0abb]

If there is an afterlife, you could be living it right now.

[@instqnctz]

Damn.

[@bosozoku1000]

And when you die you go to the after afterlife

[@aworology3027]

We could be living in purgatory.

[@padmanabhanc.s.chittoor1605]

After death, your soul leaves your physical body and stays at the place of death in invisible form. Then you get into another parallel world and wait for your turn to born again with new body, new mother and father. Birth to death, we live as per preordained story, collecting and reducing Karma including the Karma you inherited in your previous birth. Rarely, a person clears all the Karma and becomes a soul free of birth and death. May be Jesus is one example. There are known saints in India who just vanished in thin air.

[@cothren6504]

@@padmanabhanc.s.chittoor1605 I once had an odd dream. Or perhaps it wasn't a dream : I was waiting in a seemingly vague condition with many others just like me. I remember asking, "Is it my turn?" That dream (or memory) ends there. Looking back, I wonder from time to time, if I took my turn or someone else's turn.

[@okman7504]

If spirituality exists, then an afterlife does exist. However that is a concept completely outside of our understanding of the universe, and so it is attributed to optimism and faith (not that it isn’t false). While the polar opposite is grim and realistic, believing that there is no soul, but we are conscious simply because of complex organs and systems that process the world, without that we are unconscious, and unaware of anything. If this is what death is, nonexistence, unconsciousness, unawareness of anything forever, well it hurts to even think about that. Yet we do have examples of an unconscious and unaware state, such as the final stage of sleep when dreams finally leave and you can’t remember anything in between, almost like skipping forward in time, but for death there is no waking up. I think life is underwhelming. Life is a very complicated game, games are very simplified parodies of life, and our entire short existence is only this? Only living one lifetime as one person partaking in such mundane societal activities. I can’t help but want to hope for a continuation, a lot of people cannot. At least we find some solace in the unknown, it’s not determined that death is simply nonexistence.

[@littlepacificstudios]

Grandpa died for 35 minutes on operating table in the 1930s. He was 13 years old at the time. He was dead so long they were filling out his obituary for the news paper down the halls. Yes there is life after death. He was floating up in the ceiling in total bliss watching them working on himself. And then he said bammo! He was back in his COLD body. He was having appendix removed. He told me this when I was a young man. We were very close for sure. 😊

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@SMHman666]

A very interesting discussion that could go on forever! Well done everyone concerned. I regret scrolling through the comments, lol.

[@OGbobbyKUSH]

I as a child would try to think of what it would’ve been like if I were never born, it used to make this really weird feeling come over me. Super hard to explain.

[@Ken-xc7vg]

Right on man

[@MrPhilipmcclenaghan]

Another thing I have always thought about is when people talk about being reunited with their dead loved ones after death. But how would they even find them? If there's potentially 100 billon dead people walking around somewhere in the afterlife we'd never actually find anyone we knew

[@zeecee5881]

Your applying earth logic to something that doesn't work that way. There's no time or space on the other side. Everything is now all at once.

[@MrPhilipmcclenaghan]

@@zeecee5881 very true. So in that case, if we aren't in our human bodies and more so just spirit based and there's 100 billon of us, we're not finding anyone?. Sounds a bit sad doesn't it

[@lynetteowens946]

Ain't our loved one's there to greet us?

[@zeecee5881]

@@lynetteowens946 It seems that each person who has a near death experience has some things which are similar and some experiences are completely customized to your individual needs or personality. Some people meet their family, others meet large angels with white gowns and golden belts, others meet jesus, while others are all alone. Some float above their bodies for awhile, others immediately go through a tunnel. Some folks end up in comlplete darkness and others are in a white glowing room. It varies but in many ways it is still the same.

[@empyrean196]

@@MrPhilipmcclenaghan- You’ve mentioned 100 billion. But how many of those bodies are just from rebirth. It maybe tens of billions fewer. Same soul. Variant lifetimes. I’m hearing more about reincarnation. What if our consciousness is just cyclical sparks visiting earth.

[@pl6818]

Whenever I ask myself what it must feel like after death, I always ask myself how it must have before birth and that will answer everything.

[@alanclw6024]

And how would you know how you felt before birth? Hmm... let's make it simpler, how would you know how you felt in an event you forgot happened?

[@dibakarhajong2737]

I believe after death, you return to non existence state just like you have been before your birth

[@farrellmasterson]

It's pretty wishful, but I wonder if this nothingness is for eternity or if after an inconveniencebly long time (perhaps after a new big bang) you can you experience a new life?

[@dibakarhajong2737]

@@farrellmasterson the fact is "You return to dust and you lose your consciousness for eternity"

[@alanclw6024]

@@dibakarhajong2737 You should not toss the word "fact" so cheaply. This show more ignorance than intelligence. There are areas of science that cast doubt on monism as being the sole explanation.

[@x7ate9x81]

As someone who is terrified of what comes next after death, I look it as this way for comfort: you have a soul. You have energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Both your soul and your energy need somewhere to go. I’m not sure what’s next. Reincarnation? Heaven? Hell? Eternal darkness? I’m not sure but I do believe there is something next

[@80sHolic7]

There's no proof that a soul exists, but if it makes you happier and more comfortable thinking other wise, then more power to you. :P

[@larryc1616]

We are no different than other animals.

[@thersten]

As space is expanding, mass/energy is decreasing as a percentage of total space. Therefore all energy will eventually dissipate into the cold darkness of space. And that's where you'll probably end up unless space stops expanding somehow. A grain of sand in the ocean is tiny. A grain of sand in the vastness of the universe is practically non existent.

[@80sHolic7]

@@thersten Your physical body will perish no doubt, but will concious traverse or transcent somewhere else even if it means living another life on another planet? Because really, iif we had solid evidence that it's light out after this life and there's 'nothing' after. I would be making some big changes. :P

[@thersten]

@@80sHolic7 think about it...did ur consciousness appear out of nowhere once you were born? Or did it exist before that point and somehow "traverse" into your current body? You obviously have no connection to any previous version of you so it should be obvious that whichever the case; you won't remember anything so death is the end because your memory will either not exist or be wiped clean. Make those changes TODAY!!!

[@laniechrisgardnerasl8639]

I have had many experiences after some of my loved ones died. These experiences are hard to explain in words. We are all created from the same energy, from the same source. Once we die we "exist" in another realm. This life is temporary and we should embrace every moment. Our soul will be reincarnated with our soul group time and time again. It is a beautiful process. Namaste!

[@donkey3187]

Nice story bro.

[@theCommenter-gw6so]

Many wish to never return in any form, however.

[@CoolAce1]

All these great minds say no so who am I to think I know better. I liked Kaku's answer to this question.

[@Exceltrainingvideos]

There was a time when people were sure that the earth is flat. Some time back scientists got the Nobel prize for stating that electrons are particles. Later some scientists got the Nobel prize for stating that the electron is a wave. Then yet again some scientist got the Nobel prize for stating that the electron is neither a particle nor a wave! Today we understand that every thing is basically energy. We humans haven't spent much time on understanding the phenomenon of death because life is so much fun!

[@mywifesboyfriend5741]

Death isn't a phenomenon, it's the end. The cessation of life. People are right to be scared. Humanity needs to know there's nothing after this, and live accordingly.

[@davidvarley1812]

@@mywifesboyfriend5741 why be scared of death, once I'm dead, hopeful I won't exist. I'm scared of dying in pain but I'm more scared of living in pain. So why should I be bothered about being dead, its going to happen and there's nothing I can do about it. Your right enjoy life.

[@unitedstatesofamerica4737]

@@mywifesboyfriend5741 disagree the think that our body made is nutrients and we die nutrients will be there.

[@mywifesboyfriend5741]

@@unitedstatesofamerica4737 That is true, but I was talking about souls.

[@margeferguson8145]

@@mywifesboyfriend5741 it’s the cessation of the physical body.

[@code_monkey_steve]

I may be immortal. I mean, so far so good.

[@yoursotruly]

Like the man said while falling from a skyscraper halfway down.

[@dan69052]

truth How does all religion start? It starts with the children . Here is a short 4:00 min video that sets the stage. Look it up on KZbin “Welcome to This World”. Sound familiar

[@Val2073]

We are all immortal. We are all the same life. We have experience every instances of life. In one life, I was you and you were me. There is only Existence and it is infinite.

[@BrianBattles]

What were you up to 78 years ago?

[@BrianBattles]

@@Val2073 Huh?

[@deweyrobinson5639]

I certainly love to believe that there is something afterwards, something just as wonderful and mysterious, hopefully 🙏 even better!

[@paulrichards6894]

more chance of me kicking shit to the moon

[@billsmith7673]

I would love to believe it, too, but I have strong doubts that there is.

[@paulrichards6894]

we are animals when die just like other animals it will be over...nothing......worm food

[@deweyrobinson5639]

@@paulrichards6894 Of course you have your opinion and can believe whatever you want. For me, I believe that we are pure energy and energy never dies, it merely transforms shape and when I lay this physical body down, I will arise in my body of Light!

[@paulrichards6894]

@@deweyrobinson5639 its called reality

[@earthlightsmusic2743]

That last presenter's ideas reflect very much those of Boris Pasternak, voiced through his character D.r Yurii Zhivago, when he explained to his future MIL how her life would go on in all those who had known her.

[@deathkitsune6839]

this is the one thing i will be afraid of until my dying day. I want there to be something after life, the one thing i don't want to lose is myself, because it's the only thing i have left. I want to believe in an afterlife, but a part of me knows that logically, there isn't one. i can't bring myself to choose one, if i choose to believe in an afterlife i feel like i'll just be lying to myself, but if i choose to believe there i nothing, i'll never be able to feel comfortable again, knowing every second is me closer to just....not being. I can't talk about this with people, brcause i always get one extreme or the other. "believe in God, he will show you." i can't bring myself to believe in something that never had an effect in my life, my grandparents where strong believers in God and spent the majority of their lives helping others, yet suffered slow painful death with no peace. My dad who helped others went the same way. why did they get nothing but suffering in the end when they did so much good? or people say "well there's nothing after so why care, you won't be around t care about it." that doesn't help me at all, I WANT to be around to care. i dont want to stop existing, and you think the best way to comfort me and help me come to terms with it is just say "yhea you wont exist, so fucking suck it up." i want to keep existing, i dont care about being alive, or being on earth, having my stuff, i just want to keep being me. I want to believe in religion and the possiblity of an after life, but i don't feel like i can do that without accepting that there's the chance that nothing exists afterwards, because I'll just feel like im lying to myself, But i can't bring myself to accept nothing ater death because i don't want to accept that I'll just lose the one thing that i own alone, myself.

[@jebotekarotte6307]

Bro i feel u 10000%. I'm struggling too between religion and logic. I'm always thinking it doesn't metter how strong your faith is or how good it made you feel in your life, everything you believe could be a lie and its fucking my mind. I get the same reactions when i talk to people about this "You have to believe and you'll gonna see" or "You cant feel anything, neither happiness or sadness theres just nothing so fuck it enjoy life." Well its not that easy when you think everything you do could be senseless and for nothing.

[@alexlogiudice9395]

I feel your merry go round train of depressive thinking I’m feeling it as well now and a few times before in my life and I’m not even 30 I still got decades to live but don’t want these thoughts in the back of my head every day How are you doing otherwise though?

[@yasuogaming5035]

Think of it this way,if you did not exist and suddenly popped into existence,and will pop out of it again,what’s stopping you from popping into existence again?

[@ramaraksha01]

@@jebotekarotte6307 belief is like believing and supporting a Dictator who will then reward his loyal supporters - that is where all these ideas came from ancients living under Kings/Dictators who made God in their image - such men demanded obedience and loyalty(belief) & rewarded/punished accordingly Religions like Christianity & Islam use these ideas to gain power Imagine voting for someone who then says those who voted for me, I will reward, those that did not will suffer Or those who are of my religion I will reward & those that are not will suffer Would you not call such a person pure evil? And yet change that person to God and suddenly even bright minds grovel in agreement! That is amazing! And all these afterlife scenarios are ALL THE SAME! The easy lazy life of comfort the prostitutes/gigolos/leeches/freeloaders live shamelessly sponging off their rich Sugar Daddies! There is a Sugar Daddy being waiting for us and if we believe he exists and get his name right, we will be rewarded with such a life! Sit around doing nothing, an idle, useless, pointless existence for eternity! Every time I have asked what does one DO in heaven? Can you describe a day to me? just ONE DAY? Theists run away! Can't believe religions making cheap easy promises that they know can never be verified are the top ones in the 21st century

[@ramaraksha01]

God is like a Dictator who will reward those who believe and support him? God is a Putin, a Saddam? Those that do not support him suffer but those who support Putin/Saddam live the good life? Can't believe that in the 21st century these are the top ideas! And every time I have asked - what does one DO in heaven? Can you describe a DAY to me? Just ONE DAY? Theists run away! What is amazing is to see that the Media does not ask such questions either! protecting religion and its cheap and easy promises Why exactly would God have billions of people living like prostitutes/gigolos/leeches/freeloaders live down here - shamelessly sponging off their rich Sugar Daddies - not doing a lick of work? How does that make any sense?

[@AldoRyan]

I think the thing that saddens me is how many wonderful things I enjoy being here in this physical life. The other thing that saddens me most is that I know how much my family, especially children, will miss and grieve for me, as I will too up until the moment I depart.

[@spiritualak5147]

Death is so saaad

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@matimus100]

Enjoy the moment

[@k0smon]

454///// There are even more wonderful things ahead for you after you pass to the afterlife.

[@DavidCarter-ib3vw]

I wonder if there are people living, like in Afganistan, Iraq, or Syria that might be better off dead? I guess any life is better than no life? I dunno?

[@Cejoguard]

Now this makes sense, This is my explanation of how I interpret this concept so bear with me. since the Universe is expanding and it takes time for light to travel through the cosmos, an event in time is just a reflection of light, therefore when we die, our reflection [of light] is still traveling through space, so technically, we would still be there, it's just a matter of perspective.

[@firewilson8056]

We do know for sure that death is a change from one form to another. Water can become steam or ice. Tadpoles become frogs and caterpillars become butterflies. Our bodies change when we die and I think the emotions and love and music inside us travel on different wavelength

[@imstillw8ing]

"picture what it would be like when you're dead" I picture it will be a lot like before I was born. Billions of years passing by without my awareness. I don't care. Because I can't care.

[@skonther0ck]

Best comment so far. Well done.

[@ethanthatgangster5653]

It is a scary thing to think about but don’t worry you are in this one I am Christian and I believe in heaven

[@con.troller4183]

@@ethanthatgangster5653 An eternity on bended knee singing the praises of a psychotic deity. Sounds like hell to me.

[@jcs1025]

@@con.troller4183 Damn right. The Christian version of heaven sounds not only that we become servile, but also incredibly dull…especially for ‘eternity’.

[@BigBoogookie]

Just because you can't remember something doesn't mean it didn't happen. The first few months or years of your life, for example.

[@djacob7]

The biggest mistake with this kind of thinking is the presumption that an "I" exists. And the second biggest mistake is the assumption that "we" includes only humans.

[@Anonymous9683]

I agree - I'm surprised Sam Harris didn't hit on this, given that he's spoken many times about the illusion of the self. He comes at it from the path of meditation though, so maybe he believes still in continuity of experience, which would merit the question of afterlife, rather than experience of continuity, which could do away with that question.

[@Anonymous9683]

Could you elaborate on the "we" comment?

[@djacob7]

@@Anonymous9683 A lot of people say "We experience our consciousness." or something to that effect. What is "We"? Does "we" include other animals? Fish? Insects? Bacteria? Single cells? They's have to include single cells, otherwise they'd have to arbitrarily select somewhere between humans and cells.

[@khairyusuf1659]

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[@DulceN]

@@khairyusuf1659 Will you just stop posting the same nonsense over and over? It’s simply annoying and you won’t convince anyone!

[@mdmmysocialmedia254]

Thought Provoking: As an Investigative News Journalist I find this video to be insightful; thank you for airing this intellectually stimulating talk! Sincerely, FREE PRESS WITHOUT BORDERS

[@youbtaallah]

The *Law of conservation of energy* tells us about afterlife. Like smock to fire once you burn out your sole leave the body up to somewhere where you can’t turn back.

[@cosmoscarl4332]

One of the best examples I have seen of how to be was Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. He taught children to accept others as they were and to love. He never pushed his beliefs on other people. He didn't live for the future except to make it better for everyone, and wasn't stuck in the past. Just love and help others. That's the only thing that makes this life meaningful. At least to me.

[@haroldrodriguez5678]

Damn. Right! To be of service to others!

[@Kenneth-uv8rk]

He was a beautiful person. If we could all aspire to be like him…

[@PlanetKaylah]

Bills perspective really shocked me. He asked "what would you do differently if you knew there was an afterlife, commit more crime?" How about realize sooner, that life is more of a learning experience and that maybe there is a bigger lesson and purpose than just living then death. You would allow yourself to not take things as serious, you would maybe appreciate nature more and find a deeper sense of the universe knowing it Is all connected, plus so so much more. You can do some of these things without believing that we are eternal beings, but knowing we are, shines a light on so many more areas that may have not been visible before. I was an atheist and over time my horizon expanded as my understanding of things did, which transformed into spirituality. I can only hope the horizon expands more and more for everyone.

[@likenl4508]

I will say it over and over even if one person accepts and believes. Please do not die without accepting the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood. If a soul could come back from the dead who died without Jesus I guarantee they would tell everyone to RUN to Jesus and never let go. Jesus crushed sin and hell for us and took the wrath of God for us do not reject the Gospel. That God sent His Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Please people do not reject Jesus hell is forever and once you die that is it. You will wish and hope you were never born. Eternal everlasting punishment that Christ saved us from already. Believe in Him follow Him accept His blood RUN to Jesus and He will hold onto you and never let go. Confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and never turn your back on the One who promised to give us Everlasting life if we believe in Him. Please do not die and spend ETERNITY in everlasting LAKE of fire that Jesus saved us from don't reject the Cross or the blood shed that He spilt for us Jesus Rose and defeated sin and death for us Please do not die without Jesus there is absolutely NO Hope without Jesus Christ ❤️ I promise because God promised if you believe in Him you shall have everlasting Life. Look in front of you and confess Jesus as LORD and SAVIOR and thank Him for saving you from everlasting fire that never burns out please people Look to Jesus and never look back on the hell that He crushed for us. Jesus is Always right there beside you

[@thereciter4389]

I WAS an atheist too. Draw closer to God and he will draw closer to you. He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

[@WookieeWarrior3000]

Yeah, that argument about committing more crime if you believe in an afterlife sounds like its coming from a bitterly atheist teenager.

[@pikachen]

@@WookieeWarrior3000 Except everyone is different. Perhaps some would commit more crime while others would see just how valuable here and now is, that there isn't a hope for better things in an afterlife and would thus do their utmost to change things here and now. No two minds are the same, not even for identical twins.

[@ballHand]

Yeah it says alot about Mr. Bill Nye the gender fluid guy.

[@mikeys7536]

There’s a good possibility that after death, we just go back to being what we were before we were born. Basically a state of nothingness. I’d much rather that be the case as opposed to having to live forever. Life is hard and it’s brutal. Just the thought of outliving my dogs is downright depressing.

[@johnb8854]

*Do you realize, that NOTHING is SOMETHING, or you would NOT be able to refer to it ???*

[@mikeys7536]

@@johnb8854 Don’t get me wrong John, I love being alive and I intended to stay that way as long as I can. I just have no problem with this life being finite. It gives purpose and appreciation for what I have. I hope there are other layers/levels/dimensions to it.

[@bluespartan5092]

I took an afternoon nap today. I’d put my money saying that’s what death is like, no dreams, no feelings, no emotions, no sensors, nothing. You’re just GONE! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kuldeepchhetri1355]

Imagine when u die and wake up to see an skinny being staring at you with a joint in his hands saying "how was it? "

[@kuldeepchhetri1355]

@Jason it's up-to you 🙁 since most people could just imagine a skinny, green, with big black eyes whenever we talk about an extraterrestrial being

[@kindlerashod]

You mean the alien version of Snoop Dogg?

[@normanperez9096]

You've been watching to many movies bruh.

[@dalm8413]

Nah I’ll wake up look to my left my joint will be in the ashtray

[@alexandrudrekaru-solo8789]

Dude:)))))

[@anthonypettid1786]

I recently had 2 close family members pass and this actually helped me.. thank you

[@Yameen200]

You may want to look into NDEs. Perhaps it may help/benefit you ? I mean im generally skeptical but NDEs are quite intriguing stories. Look up Sam Parnia, Bruce Greyson, Titus Rivas : The self doesnt die for starters.

[@scofah]

Sorry for your loss. Lean into the grief. ☮️

[@TEAMOLOVESYU]

Wishing you a lot of strength and happiness in ur moment of discomfort.

[@srphono6453]

The job of every prophet in the Bible has and is to explain how Mankind has come to form part of the Divine Deity of God As created by God - to his Holy Image, we are are important to Him; hence He sent his one ☝️ and only Son (see John 3:16) so we had a fresh start lol. I know this by having a relationship with my Dad (creator) not by cheap mankind’s religions and rituals. Pls don’t let man deceive you on who Our Father really is. All you need is an empty room (hahah) and a heart full of wonder looking for Him to find the one and only truth - Just say Jesus I give you my life. This is how you live forever by his side. X 🚨🌊🎄

[@nancyf.8185]

@@Yameen200 thank you for this reference, I really appreciate it.

[@frankyjayhay]

Even if there's nothing after death we'll certainly stop grieving for our loved ones when we're dead as well and there won't be survivors' guilt when we're no longer surviving so that at least will be two issues out of the way. There's a saying "be glad the way things are". It may turn out to be a pandora's box if there was real repeatable physical evidence. Perhaps it's better confined to inner feelings after all.

[@ihabbanayoti6032]

Suppose you’re on an airplane that’s doomed. What do you say in those final 90 seconds? I’ve always been searching for the answer that’s not God, but I would find myself in the moment saying “Thank You God for this wonderful life, take care of my loved ones, and please accept my soul” Knowing yourself truly, and appreciating the situation. You can probably find your answer for life thinking about this awful scenario.

[@ravindrapratapsinghshekhaw4562]

Hinduism: consciousness comes to experience life on earth as a learning experience, it returns to 'source' when it thinks its purpose has completed (Here source means - divine being/god)

[@insearchofpeace2151]

What is consciousness? Where does it come from? Where does God come from?

[@jaymarkkabo2626]

Show me your source (God). Or else it's just a made up story.

[@ravindrapratapsinghshekhaw4562]

@@jaymarkkabo2626 i meant to say, in above paragraph source signifies god/divine being..