Ok, I'm going to put forth two scenarios that happen after you die. Not in a sense of which is more likely to happen, just given the two options, which would you take. You have to pick one option, and you cannot break the rules.

1. After you die, you are dead. There is no endless blackness, no endless whiteness, nothing. No thought processing, simply dead forever, it's over.

2. After you die, you begin a new life as another person on Earth. What happens during that life could be any number of things, but you will always begin your life again as a person on Earth at some point from 1990- later. You will never gain immortality. Even if science manage to let people live millions, or billions of years, you will still die eventually, and then restart as a baby human after dieing. Also, there is no way you will ever know anything of your past lives, or have any recollection of them, and you will have no idea what happens after you die. IE: Each time you 'reincarnate' you are left to wonder what will happen after that life, and essentially after each cycle, that person you were is dead, and you cannot obtain any recollection of being them, or any idea that you restart life after you die.

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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy"

It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do.

"You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see."

I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people

Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land

I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine."

I do not understand how they are distinguishable. In what sense is the person in the second option, "me?"

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...but in purple blue, I'm stunning!

those two options are basically the same.

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To me too they are basically the same. Is either one better though? Would you choose one over the other, and if so, why?

Fundamentally they are the same, but they are also rather different.

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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy"

It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do.

"You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see."

I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people

Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land

I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine."

I guess I'd pick #2. Doing things is what I like to do.

1. 2 violates the laws of thermodynamics, and they amount to the same thing.

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\m/ \m/

Living isn't easy when you're far away from home...

Both of these don't account for this: What about the journey of the soul? Surely even after option 2 you would have to die for good and you would have to transcend the physical.

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"The man who learns only what
others know is as ignorant as if he
learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge
are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age

"Try to see the forest through her eyes."

Réalisant mon espoir, Je me lance vers la gloire. Je ne regrette rien. (Making my hope come true, I hurl myself toward glory. I regret nothing.)

Or, the mind is a function of the hardware. It doesn't survive any more than a program in a computer's memory does when that memory is powered down

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Things change, but Avatar is always a part of us, our inspiration and our dream. We all follow it differently, but remember how it brought us together.
\m/ \m/

Living isn't easy when you're far away from home...

fact is in these theories no one is right because none of us has died and came back and told us *shrugs*

I'd pick 1. Just one good life is enough to keep me happy for eternity.

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^What that guy said.

Though I guess my one question would be is; Do you know that you will be reborn, or is it always unknown to you, no matter how many times you are 'recycled'?

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"When the time comes, just walk away and don't make any fuss."

HNM: As you can see in the OP, it's a hypothetical situation.

As for what I'd choose, number 2 - I'd rather have an eternity of experiencing life than an eternity of nothingness.

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personally, i don't want to question my afterlife, because i personally don't care what happens.

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But you wouldn't know.

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What?

What about option 3?

3) Turn into a ghost and scare the **** out of people.

^(OwO^)

Booooo~

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