What do you want least to happen after you die?

Maple-Leaf

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Maybe hell is just a big black room where you‘re forced to watch a movie about all your most embarrassing moments.
 

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To wake up in a pod and be greeted by some inhuman entity asking, "So, how did you enjoy the game, sir?"
I'm not sure if I would hate that, but I would most certainly be very wary of what I'm supposed to do now that "the game" is done. I'm on the fence about this one. Could be good, bad, or meh.
 

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Maybe hell is just a big black room where you‘re forced to watch a movie about all your most embarrassing moments.
Interesting take on hell actually. Wouldn't be hell for me though, would be extremely boring though so I suppose slowly going insane from an excruciatingly boring act of constant repetition over and over for eternity could be hellish. Unless I grow so mentally disassociated and with such advanced psychosis that I create a world in my mind to live in while my body remains wherever it is. The time needed to get to that point though....
 

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Honestly I am going to be utterly devistated if in any way manner or form my conciousness and self continues on. Like i'm cool with soul recycling as long as my identity is entirely wiped. I just don't want to keep existing :(
 

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What is "I" in this view? What defines it as different from not "I"? You mention experience, as how you know "I" exists, yet claim the "I" exists even without experience? The brain is a rather important organ for the capacity to experience things. When it dies, that capacity is lost. There are also other methods to make experience cease in a more temporary manner, such as General Anesthesia. If experience is how we know we exist, how can there be any certainty that we exist when we don't experience?

Umm... "I" is the subject of experience... The thing that is subject to the information generated by the brain and have an experience of it...

I suppose... You could replace the word "information" with "action" and "experience" with "reaction", if that makes it more clear?

Note: "I experience, therefore I exist", doesn't actually say anything about what I am, only that whatever I am, I must be something that actually exist, and not a bunch of things merely conceptualized as a thing...

If you look at the sky and see a flock of birds, I believe most people would recognize the ridiculousness of believing that there is an actual object, up there in the sky, flying among the birds, which you could call "a flock of birds", but is there really any real reason whatsoever to believe the birds you see aren't the same kind of mental representations that represent multiple things as a single object? Is there any reason whatsoever to believe there are actual objects out there which you could call birds?

Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What is it like to be a Bat?", and David Chalmers famously stated that "It is undeniable that some organisms are subjects of experience, but what is unclear is how is it that these systems are subjects of experience." But... Is it really?

Do such things as bats, organisms, systems, etc, actually exist out there, outside of our minds? Or are they merely mental representations that represent multiple things out there as a single object?
 
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Hmmm being reanimated under someone's absolute control sounds like hell, heck just the idea of being under someone else's control be it through stuff like geass, charm magic, hypnosis and the likes is just TERRIFYING to me, so yes, that'd be it, this also leads me to mention that I don't believe the christian heaven is a place for me, cause for all we know even if it existed, according to the bible humans have free will thanks to a certain event where god said something along non intervention to moses as far as I recall, but souls don't necessarily do, but who knows, just I absolutely hate the idea of having someone else have complete control over my actions.
 

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I would hate to be reincarnated as the heroine of a story. As an aspiring splendid villainess it would be my worst nightmare.
 

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I would hate to be reincarnated as the heroine of a story. As an aspiring splendid villainess it would be my worst nightmare.
But imagine how cool it would be to be the villainess who everyone thought was the heroine. You get away with everything, and the heroine can only suffer in silence, because they're the "villainess". It would be a true victory, but is a villainess truly a villainess if they win? Only you can answer this.
 

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One of the religion in the world is proven true.

I just don't think it's fair at all for the other believers.

At least, I just want my soul to disappear forever without worrying about earth anymore. So reincarnation or afterworld is a big no.
 

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imagine just having to watch the human race for the rest of time. Like, I just got out of that hellhole and now I don’t even get to participate?

Or maybe I would just disappear. And never think again.

ngl sounds marginally better than the first option.
Heir wars. No one wants a big fat drama.
 

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I would hate to be reincarnated as the heroine of a story. As an aspiring splendid villainess it would be my worst nightmare.
You could subvert expectations, kill the queen and become the demon queen. Start a military industrial complex built SOLELY on a Tax Curse which curses everyone to pay you taxes in currency of solid honey or they will suffer itchy eczema on their calf for an eternity.
 
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