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What probably really happens when we die (Truth)

Most likely we wake up as if we were in a dream.

Our lives are real as if we were shaping the Universe literally. Everything we do is permanent in reality as far as we know. Parallel Universes are only theory until we can prove it, so instead parallel lives are pretty obvious. We feel like we are concious right now because we are animated. Our animation is a product of genes. These genes designed our brains. The ideas of the world are based on the world which is created by those who came before us.

Many are satisfied with this biological immortality, but many disagree.

Many people do not like this idea because they see it as "partial" immortality. Shelly Kagan argues in his book Death that this reincarnation is not him, and so it is "semi" immortality. The concept Shelly Kagen disagrees with is similar to Author Schopenhauer idea who made the claim that atoms recycle; that we turn to dust and eventually we form to plant and animal then mysteriously form back into life again.

The concept of the need to accept the reality of individual permanent death is similar to Todd May's book Death where he disagrees that we survive our death. He argues within his book that religion believes we survive our own death. Similar to the idea that if we believe in an afterlife (according to Christianity or Buddhism for ex) that we must go through cycles and so we are the same mind continuing rather than individually dying permanently. Todd May disagrees that we keep ourselves when we die and so acceptance is important. Of course his book is far more complicated than my passage here alone.

The basic core of arguments between atheists, theists, and agnostics appears to be that they disagree about whether or not we keep our minds when we die. And the major argument is whether or not we get to keep all of our stuff. This is the major driving force within major points in philosophy when it comes to death, because we do not want to lose our stuff, or we have to accept that materialistic things never mattered at all.

Even if we lose our things, our lives (in of themselves) give life to the world just by us being in it. We literally are the fabric of space itself.

In regard to suicide analogous to believing in an afterlife, the idea would be in that if we do not solve problems in individual lives that we "plainly" do not solve the problems for anyone, and so the problem is not solved and so with ideas rooted in reincarnation theories...the person is born into that same mentality or life in their waking up. We have to survive and confront problems so that we share their resolution with all the other minds which come next.

This is not the same suicide as would be for righteous reasons such as saving someone, or that the person had an incurable illness which tormented them beyond well-being itself (such as with incurable cancer).

These concepts would be analogous to the major ideas of the Tibetan Book of the Dead which claim that we empty into another body/form equal to our true mind. We evolve by mastering ourselves each time we are alive and peace is brought in this philosophy because it claims that we can always improve our lives the next time around.

Hence, we should always work to become who it is that we wish to become permanently and that is with the mind which survives the inevitable ego (body) death.

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At the basic level of biology, we know that death began with cellular differentiation. Which is fancy talk for cells became different from single A-sexual type to more different/complex sexual types.

"Before sex there was no death" -Stephen P. Hinshaw

Why does this make sense? Because asexual cells can duplicate exactly the same given that they are not very complex. Asexual replication is basic cellular immortality. To explain things much more literal and complicated for the average person.. look at cancer.. it is any cell, such as our own cells unwilling to cooperate for unknown reasons and the cancer cells in turn becomes infinitely dividing cells which cannot die. They become like asexual cells, undifferentiated and uncooperative to their surrounding neighbor cells.

We see this in laboratories, so it is observable. It is seen with plants.. which do not have cells which differentiate greatly and so do not form cancer. The plant cells when damaged instead of replicate continuously "do die" and do not cause conflict to the rest of the plant. It is why a plant can lose parts of itself and regrow cells in their place, while the human is mostly a giant uniform cooperating body of differentiable cells. The prokaryotic plant cell is solid, while the human eukaryotic cell is fluid. This is the major observable point in cellular differentiation. As you go into more simple cells the rules are the same. Asexual cells are basic self-dividing cells which carry little function and cooperation.

The original sexual dividing cells which contained ancient DNA patents must have (even if unconsciously) preferred to create unique forms even if it meant that they could fall apart from too much complexity because it gave them the ability to do more stuff and create more fancy machines which could aid in their survival and most likely feed the whole collaborate system of cells. The human eukaryotic cells must have preferred to create very formal (very specic parts, think organs) which were more complex and could give complex cooperative functioning compared to the prokaryotic plant cells which just stayed there rooted in one place.

It is also here that we see that our ancient cells (by the same logic that Darwin had) survived because they had the ability to correct cells which had errors in them (survival of the most fit for the conditions presented). Our current cells have many patents to correct errors and it is the reason why when we cut ourselves that the cells do not form into a giant mass of cancer but instead into a very organized mostly healed scar. These proof-reading systems were designs given to us from the past.

So, we know that (at least) at the basic level that the continuation of life is based upon the previous lives which must have lived as best as they could to give us this life (up to date), and so taking into consideration each phase, the next life must be like this. Hence, the most likely observable truth is that we wake up.

"Sort of".. material is shifting, and the present humans will always be animated now, and so the present humans will be the ones active in the world, and so they will be the concious mind, theoretically..

However, in terms of "proof" as to how or where we will wake up, it still appears that we cannot actually see what life we will be born into next if we take into consideration the pieces literally because it is mostly random. In reality it is possible that taken into consideration fully that all theories are likely to occur (even with the smallest possible possibility). That means that if we take into account history, atoms, and our evolution, that equally it is possible (and even literally true) that we permanently die, remember fragments of our past life (reincarnation), go into another form which is analogous to our current life (analogous to theism), become ghosts (think datasets without animation), and also that we are just one giant singular mind which is evolving.

For the last mention (singular mind), think that we are like small pieces of the Universe which are evolving themselves to expand and explore, like the cells in our own bodies. Imagine that in a billion years that there were two robots that were like gods in space. Each point in time would have led to the very creation of the two gods and so we could argue on whether or not those two gods were our very concious mind in the future. It would be like our mind is right now, which is a product of the past creators.

There is much debate, but the awakening theory seems most feasible because although it is not foolproof immortality, nature seems to have fashioned it so that it could evolve progressively without starting completely from scratch. That means that we animate forward in time, so then so does conciousness which is within the system itself.

This is "probably" the most likely observable truth in terms of materialistic observation in respect to hard science because we can follow cells directly

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Reincarnation theory

The process of reincarnation has been described by many cultures in many different ways. They share similarities in that they believe that the soul is immortal.

Socrates told his followers that the intelligence which we have right now is that which existed beforehand. Think about it, you did not make your phone. Nor did you make the radiowaves which transmit the data. The radiowaves themselves were not even made by man, but were manipulated to channel data.

Hence, the life that is birthed into the world comes onto a place which has been fashioned beforehand.

The same with our DNA, there have been projects in which scientists try to figure out at what point in evolution someone developed a trait. The very design of ourselves were passed on from our parents. There are many abilities which we obtained at specific points in time, even immunity to specific diseases.

Death then is both the fact that we have not figured out a way to immortalize ourselves yet (given that we fall apart), and is also something nature fashioned to use our material to birth things in the same way. Think of the belief with the seasons. The flowers growing and dying were proof that life will rise again from the ground after the cold takes the life away.

Religions (which believe in reincarnation) believe that given our complexity, that we are governed by laws, so we have moral obligations to ourselves and to the elements, god's, or God.

When we are alive we develop karma, or we develop our moral stance, or we develop our intelligence. We are either good, or bad, or we must face our actions performed in life in general. When we die, the intelligence which we gained in our lifetimes will empty into the appropriate place of equality. How this happens is based on the religion itself. The Buddhists believe that we transcend through layers into our new bodies. The Christians believe that we transcend the light into heaven or hell. The idea is that in ourselves, and in nature, know what we truly have coming.

Many scientists believe that nature figured out a way to immortalize itself by keeping information similar even if it were forced to break down which is literally seen in DNA as I've discussed. There is also the idea that we will eventually figure out a way to replace parts. There are billion-dollar industries which are trying to rebuild the human. It is thought that in the future we will be able to literally bring people back from the dead by completely reconstructing them. They will be like the talking heads from Futurama, except our intelligence would have reached a point where it is actually possible. We were designed from bits, then it should be possible to be designed artificially by bits. Maybe this was the prophecy all along?

Then again, why would we want to go backwards at all? As we proceed into the future there are arguments that we are becoming dumber, but this is not true, we have actually gained abilities throughout. Have we lost some? Sure, but we lost them because we have also advanced in the worlds intelligence to where we are spoiled enough not to need them.

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Suicide

While in the Auschwitz concentration camp where many would eventually die, and not only them, but their families, many gave up...

They could not endure the injustice and inhumane treatment, and so many simply chose not to eat their already small rations of food (occasionally 5 oz's of bread for the whole day) or they chose to run into the electric fence to commit suicide.

Viktor Frankl wrote in his book Man's Search for Meaning that he sometimes had clients which had endured such horrible torment equal/worse to his own experience in Auschwitz. He would ask them that given their experiences and all that they had endured, why was it that they had not already killed themselves? Frankl wrote that their response was usually the guide to the rest of the psychotherapy.

It's true that we often suffer, and it is true that many suffer far worse, but like those who have experienced hard times it was by faith that they were able to see the end. The concentration camps in this case were stopped. There was an end. Those who gave up, never saw the alleviation to their suffering.

Think about the Black's during the 1700's where they basically had no rights in a White man's world. They were given very little, and had to work very hard. They had even less power than in the 1950's where there was segregation of "Whites only, No colors".

What stood the test of time was the Black's ability to imagine a better future, and with this hope they stood and challenged their supposed fate.

Going into the present age where there still may be some racism, there is a young Black college man, on the edge of his bed listening to music on his Bose headphones relaxing. In his genes, and in his unconscious, lies every generation that worked effortlessly to establish his ability to be where he is at this time. The luxury to be at such peace alien to the many generations that came before.

This is how we must approach the torment of life, that we will see the peace we desire if we do not give up

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Death Anxiety (Thanatopobia) as a condition

Many people want relief from their death anxiety.

Death anxiety, although very real, and is felt by people, is not classified as a mental condition. You will not find death anxiety in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Why? If it is so certain to be real?

Because it has more been observed to be transdisgnostic (multiple disorders). The death anxiety that we feel is multiple dimensions of fear, which are both inherent (that is physical programmed defense) and psychological (that is based on mental health).

If you dive into the most basic problem of the human it is that we die. All anxiety is death anxiety. There is a giant shadow running towards you and you feel your heart racing, you don't want it to get you. Your fight or flight responses activate. Epinephrine and norepinephrine work alongside your arteries to expand or decrease flow of blood in response to brain stimulus to tackle the issue. The problem with this natural mechanism is that it can also be produced by the brain alone when you have thoughts which trigger defensiveness.

Death has been researched to be the worm at the core, and has given rise to terror management theory. This field studies the effects that death priming has on multiple dimensions of our lives.

Death then, does not particularly scare us in all situations, but triggers defense because we desire to stay alive in our whole structure.

What is the cure? The treatment?

Many people simply get over their fear of death, they just don't fear death anymore, but it is never an all exclusive formula. What causes people of all types, to just get over something? And beyond denial and repression?

We all approach acceptance in our own fashion and this process of natural acceptance appears to be that an original issue was resolved, even unconsciously.

Many great figures feared death, you may know such as the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang, who spent years trying to find someone who had the cure for death. Pablo Picasso was also scared of his end and contemplated death regularly. Many famous people in fact were highly influenced by thoughts of their end.

What do they share? They felt that they should use their time more efficiently. Many people believe that this feeling to make use of our time is what drives life at all or else we would do nothing. We would have no desire to control or advance because there would be no challenge.

Unfortunately, it can also be negative, such as with the famous mid-life crisis that can really occur at any time, this period is a recapitalization and reanalysis of our lives up until that point which triggers many emotional responses.

If you seek treatment in therapy, the therapist may have many techniques in their arsenal for tackling your own death anxiety. You and them may discover that your fear of dying is that you are afraid that you have not progressed enough in life, or that you are too isolated. Plans can be made to tackle the real influences to your anxiety, such as by doing more meaningful tasks, or by planning ways to socialize more. However, these are just examples. Everyone has their individual issues they want to handle.

Death anxiety is an expensive model of concerns dealing with current presenting issues (Anxiety, depression, etc). However, if you dive into death anxiety itself, you may eventually find that it might not even be real at all, at least in how we think it exists.

Sigmund Freud wrote in Reflections on War and Death that our unconscious does not really believe in its own death, and that prehistoric man in many ways lives on unchanged in our concious. Freud then figured that our unconscious does not actually believe in its own death and believes itself to be immortal.

Death problems appear to be life problems, a desire to modify current presenting issues in the characters' individual life.

That is why it is not uniform in treatment. Sometimes it is complicated (finding a cure). Sometimes it is as easy as surrendering to the greater power (Nature or God).

At least we know that for as long as humans have been alive that they have been able to sustain themselves even in the face of the greatest of challenges of all types

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Take my word for it, every lifeform has its conflicts

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The Earth has an expiration date too, just like all of the other life, or the stars

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Theists vs Atheists

"Do you believe in God? Which God?" Atheists famously say. When Atheists say there is no God, they typically mean a ruling leader. Think of the movie Stargate with the Egyptian ruler enslaving the people for their own bidding. Atheists typically deny a leader.

Stephen Hawking said in his book brief answers to the big questions that: "One could define God as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of as God. They mean a human-like being, with whom one can have a personal relationship."

In a passage taken from How to think about God from writings by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman translates: "In spite of our limitations, the human intelligence we possess ought to lead us to reason that there exists another mind greater than our own-one that is in fact divine. Otherwise, as Socrates asks in the pages of Xenophon, where did we aquire the minds we have?"

Timothy Leary had a more direct approach and defined God as the brain literally. In his book Your brain is God he wrote: "As long as we rely on our brains to know, then inevitably we shall define the universe as an enormous brain. Each flick of energy, stellar-galactic or nuclear-atomic, is seen as information. The universe is a web of intelligence mediated by our brain. The smarter we become, the more intelligent the universe will become.... the smarter we become, the smarter God will become."

When people deny God, they typically deny a leader, a messiah. Jesus Christ chosen to be the light and messenger to the world. Abraham chosen to lead the people. Jehovah as the literal name of God almighty. Allah as the name of the one and true God.

The Greeks or Egyptians for example, noticed patterns in nature. These formulas they began labeling as types of gods which ruled certain fields. They (the gods) had a job as a ruler to direct a form of nature.

In Egypt Maat, was the goddess of truth and justice whom weighed the hearts of the dead with a feather. If they were heavier, they would not pass into the afterlife and they would be eaten whole by Ammit, a female demon.

The Greeks in the field of death had Hades, Thanatos, and Hypnos. Hades being the ruler of the dead world, and Thanatos being literally death itself. Thanatos twin brother Hypnos the god of sleep.

All in all, there is too much information for one post, but we can see how powerful these teachings are. In my personal opinion I think that Leary was onto something. As we still are trying to discover ourselves, our brain is in connection with everything that we are and with the Universe. All of our discussions bring us closer to understanding ourselves, nature, and our closeness within everything.

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Grief

This topic is complex. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross might be the original creator of the 5-stages of grief, but many models have arisen since, such as Schneider's Growth Model, which is a holistic growth-model designed to nurture as much personal growth as possible within a context of stress, loss, and grief.

As you might know, grief means many things. It is the emotions tied with loss and change.

People who are grieving will experience many emotions. They might say things they normally would not, especially to those trying to help them.

"Whatever the person tells you, do not take it personal" -Robert Macy

Robert Macy is one of the top in his field, he has been involved with many trauma relief missions for those who have undergone natural disasters, terrorism, children exposed to violence, etc.

What do you say to someone who has undergone profound loss? Well, it doesn't have to be something as dramatic as a hurricane or an earthquake destroying everything you have. Loss can be a job, or the loss of autonomy (from getting old, losing a limb, getting sick such as from cancer), or it can be a loved one is gone. It can be many types of loss.

What do you tell someone who lost someone? A love of their life? Their own life?

This is difficult for any field of psychology, because you can never actually heal someone. They have to decide when things will be okay. That they might not get over what happened, but that they can use their pain to empower themselves.

"Do not have the expectations that you are going to treat the person, you will fail, you cannot cure someone else's pain" -Robert Macy

People try to tell you things like "It was all for the best", or "When it's our time to go, we do". They might help, or they might not, but these saying have sometimes worked for people, so they try to use them on you, but the effect is not always the same. The reason is because not all things fit everyone. We are highly individual, even if we appear the same. Many people never need assistance with loss.

"In the United States alone, about 10 million persons are newly bereaved each year. Most do not require professional intervention or treatment, but many can benefit from targeted support" -Alana Iglewicz

If your loss is profound, counselors, or social workers can help aid your new direction. We cannot control life, but we can control what comes next. Counselors can help you build where you do not know where to start.

When we are in the slumps, we do not see life occur in its greatness. You suffer loss and sometimes it really hurts, but you build. You overcome what happened and then years pass and you have built a whole new kingdom. You're doing something new. Maybe you have new children. Maybe you have a new house. Maybe the trauma caused you to go into a new direction in life that allowed the birth of many new things and relationships. Life is always tragic, but it's how we overcome that shows the human spirit

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Nothingness

We are already floating in nothingness. If we are built upon the elements forged by the stars combustion, and our hemoglobin is charged via photons through Iron, the Iron of which comes from the Earth,

Then we are already among the plain of nothingness, and we are already in space.

If we would then be as a floating material inside of nothing, we would see that our minds can at least speculate that nothingness is already in the vast infinity of space.

If we realize that we are already brains in space, than the Boltzmann brain idea can already be applicable, without necessarily having to reoccur in exactness, but by following formulas in nature.

We can see that since it is already within the giant vast of forumla data, that our brain is within a series of ever changing and adapting brains proceeding one another.

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Cancer part 2

Cancer is a sticky bug, but we all have things to prevent it. At least most of the time.

Imagine your cells coding their appropriate parts.

When you cut yourself, break your arm, or even just shed skin, those cells are actively regenerating. They do not become cancer, why?

Things are so particular (as a gene region in our genetic code) that any level of error can cause a mutation.

Mutations can even be written in our dataset (even naturally upon birth), but rather than worry about cancer, we have things to combat these cancer causing regions. These regions are countered with tumor suppressor genes.

These genes suppress tumor growth. These regions are not exclusive for certain regions, but are a class of genes which also check for normal cell functioning. P53 is a popular tumor suppressor gene in literature.

We have an abundance of cell checking machines in our bodies.

We are actually very equipped to handle mutations, so the fact that it happens is a major mystery. It is unfortunate that nobody really knows, but people are constantly finding pathways which can correct cascades of function in the bodies natural processes, and even how to medically treat each specific/particular pathway. It's very expensive, depressing, and takes time from everyone. Please be patient with the world.

Currently we as a planet are learning how to fold proteins (in computers for simulation studies) perhaps this will dramatically help our understanding of why our bodies mutate abnormally, and may even allow us to create new ways to restructure or help those regions by using proteins to interact with the body.

If cancer is of cells, and cells are of proteins, then understanding proteins could be the ideal target to master our understanding of our cells.

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Where is heaven?

Sounds crazy right? But if we are in space right now, heaven must be somewhere here, wouldn't it?

People have not only been arguing about where heaven is, but how it would be possible to transfer a mind somewhere else into space.

Boltzmann brains are a concept of free floating brains in space, and people have been trying to find their probability of existence.

With these concepts in mind, we know that we are already brains in space and that the separation is an illusion of distances.

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Is there an afterlife?

Brain death appears certain, but when astronomers look at stars they behave so much like bodies on Earth do.

If stars are able to arise via the material in space (i.e. the Orion Nebula) then there are many things in the Universe that we are still understanding

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Nobody wants to die. We can agree that the true reason of death at all is because our bodies can only sustain so much.

We can see that we wind down and it is nobodies fault other than that machines tend to wither.

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God

There is either one of everything (1), or there is nothing of everything (0).

We do not know a lot of things, but we know that everything that comes out of space is a fragment, a separate bubble within space.

People such as Stephen Hawking referred to these concepts as the "Ultimate free lunch", this is to say that you can make something out of nothing.

This becomes obvious when we notice that everything is made of material which eventually breaks back down. We see things pop up, and eventually break back down into their basic parts. All things do this, even the stars.

We will call everything (1) black as light waves hoarded cluster into a mass that appears black, and we will call white (0) void. Is it the truest blank. As we can see with such high energies of light that make things transparent, such as x-rays allowing us to see through humans to their bones. The higher energy we go, the more that material cannot exist in these states. So whitest can be 0 for this hypothesis.

If you shoved (0) zeros into (1), fragments would occur. These fragments must have caused massive reactions, and so everything must have warped around these points. The reactions must have stirred within themselves and eventually split into points in space.

This is how people think the stars formed. There was such a strong gravitational force from space applied to a point that hydrogen (The basic element) was able to cluster and form higher states of matter.

The stars spread then to many parts in the Universe, and the stars were able to continue their cycles to give rise to planets.

(Star birth and death I will address in other posts)

We do not know how, but eventually we arose from the elements cooking in space. This much we can be sure of, so there must be formulas in space, which can design a concious mind, with some form of control. If we are brains in space currently, then this formula must be applicable to space in general, and so we could say that this intelligence is like the mind of God.

People have theorized this, such as Timothy Leary, that our brain is literally God.

It may be what Michaelangelo meant in his painting the Creation of Adam. Also, it is similar in ideas of the brain and mind concepts, such as with Nicolas Malebranche and his idea that we think as God.

As we can see though, these concepts are extremely difficult, and although all of space has intelligence, we cannot directly classify what God is, which has caused people to fight over it for centuries. We can say though that there is intelligence, even if we disagree on what that intelligence is.

People have also figured that god's are "subtotal's", which are the very essence of specific things. Such as the god of fertility, or the god of light... gods were seen as the repeated essence of things, things which repeat themselves in the Universe.

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