/lit/ - Literature

When you die you fly to explore the universe.

The person who said it doesn't know what we use language for, or is deliberately misusing it.

I don't know which is worse.

I think that something might live on, but definitely not the part of the self that most of us identify with. Identity seems too dependent on this world to live on.

>>1248637
There is no language.

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>>1248654
>deliberately misusing it

If death were a stage in the evolution of perception then all the perspicacious would die young. This, obviously, isn't the case (though one might be tempted to point to a few romantic poets who 'transcended' all too early).

>>1248719
pro

>>1248631
Everyone dies. Crush a bug and it's an inanimate smear of mush. We're pretty much the same once we pass on. To say that there is any kind of vision of consciousness after we die is self delusion.

>/lit/ - second grade philosophy

The most recent description of life and death I read was from Dune Messiah.
Maybe some of you remember.
It went something like this:
"I occurred."

And that was that. Convincing himself he "occurred", Paul Atreides came to terms with life and death.

Dune Messiah was brilliant, btw. :)

>>1248842
Physically.

What about mentally?

>>1248876
I'm afraid i don't understand the distinction.

>>1248631
Fucking magnets, how do they work?

>>1248876
There are only physical things, everything else is in our minds.

>>1248886

really?

>>1248876

Once your brain physically dies, there is no more mentality.

itt: people who aren't Buddhist

Sounds like something I'd find on Tumblr, emblazoned on a picture of a forest, or a skyscape, or a city or something.

Cliche and meaningless

>>1248902

Hah, sounds like you hit the nail right on the head. I totally can seeing this quote displayed like you described.

>>1248876
lol