/lit/ - Literature

>>18140639
Some anime and manga, found answer to what happens after death.

>>18140639
>Has any literature come to a coherent answer as to what happens after death?
The Bible

Imagine caring about what happens after death. Literally the most pedestrian thing to care about ever. Who gives a fuck. The lights just go out like when you go to sleep, it'll feel exactly like before you were born. Go do something with your life, play video games or meet girls or whatever. Stop caring about this stuff.

>>18140691
i can't escape it, jim. i once was able to live like you. it took me over

i think amerika (kafka) does it in an interesting way. death might as well feel like a strange but sweet dream before the lights go out.

>>18140691
Precisely, you don't care because you think that you already have the answer.

>>18140639
Killing yourself to find out is the only way to answer that question.

>>18140649
>anime
Fuck outta here weeb

>>18140799
Ok brb

>>18140639
Best to either not think about it or assume you already know

>>18140639
When you die you are just waking up into a different consciousness just like when you wake up right now it's never different. It's not different now why would it be when you are someone else

>>18140823
anime website
>inb4 literature board
...on an anime website

I think I have existential OCD, does anyone else here have experience with this

>>18140823
He’s right you know.

>>18140855
sauce on this brotha

>>18140883
this is now an ebiblue thread

>>18140861
I have what they call "real event OCD" about things that could have changed my present situation.

>>18140992
Wait, you don't remember your past consciousnesses?

>>18141134
am not psychotic sorry

>>18140855
>>18140992
isn't this open individualism?

>>18140639
Unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale.

>>18140639
Al Qur'an

>>18140859
hardly relevant.

>>18140639
Do you want to live forever, Anon?

>>18140639
Read epistemological works

>>18140639
Not literature per se, but if you really want to know anon, and have an open mind, you should start reading books on near death experiences. Raymond Moody's Life after Life for example. Otherwise I would recommend commentaries on Hindu philosophies like Vedanta. That's going into much more mystical territory though and most people aren't into that even though it's where the answers to these questions actually are. You have to weigh up how tortured you are by the idea of death and how resistant you are to the concepts presented in what I suggested. I hope you find peace with these things anon

>>18140639
If you lived a just and ethical life you are re-born as a man again, with some astounding and helpful inherent qualities.
If you were a devious and abhorrent person you are re-born as a woman or if you're a bit luckier as an animal

>>18142381
Garbage take

bump

>>18142381
retarded misogynist

>>18140639
yeah give me some time anon i'm working on it

>>18141088
I love the way he draws the women.

>>18140639
Plato: The what can happen is oblivion (aka eternal sleep, basically impossible). Or what can happen is eternal transmigration. It's up to you to decide what's worse. I personally would prefer eternal sleep, but I doubt that is really possible or feasible, so I lean towards the pessimistic option of eternal transmigration.

>>18143969
Neither seems particularly likely.

>>18143981
There are no other options.

>>18140639
Bro, read this guy named William Shakespeare.

Short answer: no. Just as we know nothing of what came before, we know nothing of what comes after.

So, just as Edgar tells the suicidal Gloucester in King Lear, act 5, scene 2:

"What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. Come on."

modern english translation: You can't choose to know shit beyond life. You know what you know, we live and die when our time comes.

>>18143990
Eternal transmigration is essentially the same as oblivion. An eternal, transcendent, true self you return to upon death, making this life a dream of sorts, is what I think happens.

>>18143996
>Eternal transmigration is essentially the same as oblivion.
No. They are entirely different; the difference between is and is not. Experience or no experience. Polar opposites.
> An eternal, transcendent, true self you return to upon death, making this life a dream of sorts, is what I think happens.
This still counts as a type of transmigration. That state will not be permanent if temporality is even relevant to it, meaning you will just end up back in phenomenal reality, the state of ignorance we find ourselves in right now, again anyway.

>>18144009
>Experience or no experience.
The existence of the ego is what matters.
>you will just end up back in phenomenal reality, the state of ignorance we find ourselves in right now, again anyway.
Much like your waking life is interrupted by moments of loss of consciousness and other altered states but I fail to see how that's a bad thing.

>>18144016
>but I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
I'm not trying to convince you of that. I said in my first post that it's up to you to decide whether it's good or not.

>>18144026
Why did you call it a pessimistic option?

>>18144032
Firstly, I can't find any valid reasons to assume an eternal self that is at all meaningful beyond the human form (which is why I use the very general term "transmigration"), secondly, even if I did make that assumption, it still wouldn't be a sufficient explanation for me. The idea of Buddha-nature tends to resonate with me more for that reason, but it's not something I can dogmatically affirm or really understand properly either. Thus, even if I could be assured of the eternal, transcendent self, I wouldn't be content with it. It would not be sufficient.

>>18140639
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Tibetan Book of the Dead

>>18144112
>It would not be sufficient.
Because ego/identity is crucial, otherwise there is effectively no difference as far as your own phenomenological experience goes between that vague idea of eternal self/buddha nature and annihilation.