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What happens when you die? Best and worst case scenario
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2017-05-17 at 7:50 AM UTCseems legit
Originally posted by http://wondergressive.com/death-solved-by-vestigial-gland/ We now know what happens at death:
Resting comfortably in the recessed center of your brain, encased snugly within the corpus colossum, wrapped tightly between the dual-hemispheres of spongy nerve bundles, encased in the quarter-inch-thick armor-plating of skull, finally surrounded by your main and expressive organs with which you face the world, exists a tiny gland, long considered vestigial (serving little to no function), that holds the key to our interpretation of existence as we know it. I’m speaking of the pineal gland. This minute spec, roughly the size of a grain of rice, is more heavily protected than even the heart with its literal cage of protection, because if something happens to your heart you die, but if something happens to your pineal, you can’t go to heaven.
Never heard of it?
This pineal gland has influences on both melatonin and pinoline, but our interest is in the gland’s role in the creation of dimethyltriptamine, or DMT. This chemical, DMT, may well be the reason we, as a species, are capable of sentience itself.
I’m not a chemist; break it down.
First, DMT is a narcotic, schedule 1. It’s scheduled as a highly illegal substance all over the planet, largely because DMT is one of the most potent psychedelics known to man. Intensely powerful. Yet, every day your pineal produces this stuff.
Secondly, DMT is the chemical that elicits dreams. That’s right. Each night as you drift to slumber-land, not only are you tripping on a psychedelic, but you’re also premeditatedly committing a federal offence; possession or consumption of DMT could land you a felony charge.
And third, this illegal gateway to dreamland is released in massive amounts at the moment of death. When I say massive, if a water glass of DMT evokes a dream, at death, an equivalent river excretes into your system. Any druggies reading this?
How have I not heard of this before?
Well, the pineal’s significance is neither a new idea, nor an unfounded one. Spanning the expanse of human civilization runs an undercurrent of worshipful adoration to the almighty pineal, more widely known as the inner eye, all-seeing eye, or the like – considered the body’s gateway to the soul.
Egypt had its Eye of Horus (now emblazoned on the US dollar bill). Hindu culture has its bottu (the familiar forehead dot). Even the ancient art of yoga recognizes the brow chakra, or ajna, as blossoming at the pineal, or third eye. That’s only to name a few.
The hell you say! The truth behind the cult of the pineal has gone largely unnoticed collectively, though the symbols themselves have been downright ubiquitous. Tibetan Buddhists, as well, have long carried a belief that the soul enters the fetus precisely 49 days after conception. Likely, reading this, you are not a Tibetan Buddhist – their numbers fall less than 20 million – and whether you subscribe to an eternal soul or not isn’t the point, because day 49 is the moment the pineal is formed in a fledgling brain.
Great, so what does all this have to do with death?
Well, on an experiential level, shrooms distort perception, coke smacks you with raw energy, ecstasy grants superpower orgasms (ladies), and most notably, weed slows time – time distortion seems to go hand in hand with most psychedelics as well – so time passage then is totally subjective. Ask Einstein.
Meanwhile, among DMT smokers, out of the macrocosm of potential experiences, two major themes emerge nearly universally:
1) A stretching of time – they experience the hectic 6 or 7 minutes as a near eternity or lifetime. Imagine Cobb’s 50 year night in Inception.
2) They experience religious incarnations with a tilt toward whatever sect the subject is affiliated with.
Here’s the clincher: after death, while this massive psychedelic dose courses through the brain, there is this mysterious several minutes where the brain still functions. With our new perspective, however, we at last understand what these minutes are…
These few minutes after death, subjectively, are experienced as an eternity, engrossed in the DMT universe. Also, the trip itself is a highly personal experience dictated by the deepest realms of the subconscious.
Therefore, whatever at your deepest core you expect to happen when you die… Congratulations, that’s what’ll happen… Every religion was right.
Mystery solved. Peace on earth.
If you’re resourceful, you can find this stuff and try it. The bigger question now is: do you really want to know where you’ll be spending eternity?
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2017-05-17 at 7:51 AM UTCBrains are so silly! Is our personality like evenly spread out throughout our brain?
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2017-05-17 at 11:48 AM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 11:51 AM UTCThe aliens have computers which record a detailed, complete record of everything that makes you what and who you are, your personality, your body details, your memories, right down to the number of hairs on your head and your DNA. Backups of you are made from time to time, similar to backup tapes on a computer. So after you die, the aliens have a detailed record of everything about you. From that recording, they can remake a new you - one that is not only identical to the original, but it really is you. Think of the "buffer" on the transporter in Star Trek. The body's molecules are broken down into a data stream, stored in the buffer, and the sent somewhere, where the data stream is reassembled back into its original form. This is the same method the aliens use, but much more detailed even than that. Once you're dead, they still have you "in the buffer". This means they can bring you back again exactly as you were at any time, and they can also bring you back at any point of your previous you. Once Satan and all his followers are destroyed, all good people will be restored from those records and placed back on Earth just as they were. Then all those people will live forever in a paradise, right here on earth, because there are also detailed backup of everything that's ever been on the Earth, including animals, plant life and everything else. The planet will also be restored from the backups to the time the Earth was one giant paradise.
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2017-05-17 at 11:53 AM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 11:55 AM UTCFedoranado
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2017-05-17 at 12:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 That would be an interesting experiment. Give someone a brain transplant and see if they act more like themselves or the previous owner of the brain
The brain is just the biggest nervous center of the body. We have a little "second brain" in our gut, it's a sheath of neurons along the large intestine that has a fair amount of processing capabilities and sort of acts like the ECU of our digestion. We also have our entire network of neurons around the body. These are all part of the neural network that composes "you". So I think unless you transplanted these too, you wouldn't really have a real shot at "transplanting the mind" so to speak. -
2017-05-17 at 12:53 PM UTCOr, plug two brains in together to see how the two bodies react and interact.
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2017-05-17 at 2:01 PM UTCCPR on a light bulb would be like trying to wire it up correctly.
The thought of afterlife is clearly an ego thing. To believe that you're that important to continue to exist after your body shuts down, you would have to believe that there is more meaning to life.
I think it comes from simple superstitious. -
2017-05-17 at 2:11 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 2:20 PM UTCThe light bulb thing I don't know, I'm thinking about it again. Not only can you not do the equivelant of CPR to a bulb (CPR doesn't involve replacing anything permanently), a light bulb DIES every time it turns off. Like whether the light dies of old age or gets switched off, both states are identical.
Lights can be alive and dead over and over.
Why can't humans be shut off and on? Where's our power switch? -
2017-05-17 at 3:09 PM UTCEvery one of our "spirits", our "souls" are linked to a central nexus, and yes, we are that important. Every single one of us who ever lived, and who will live, is critical to preserve, except for the bad ones.
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2017-05-17 at 3:53 PM UTCTo exist is to suffer.
As the OP said, pain is part of the human condition. We cannot ever be in static equilibrium, with no suffering and just contentment.
Eventually even heaven, with everything presented to you at your will, would become hell. It would be torturous, to one day run into the limits of your imagination and even at your height, as a god ordained by God, you are still not content.
Life is a moving game, and happiness is a state of dynamic equilibrium that can only be maintained through acceleration... And nothing accelerates forever. The dear catches up. Our own meaninglessness catches up.
Say there is a god and we do get our happy ending... Is that really going to satisfy you? That your "purpose" is to get this wonderland of hedonism and live in it forever like a goddamn Sim? Forever, for infinity?
The best outcome would be oblivion. To exist is to suffer.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-17 at 3:57 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 5:53 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 5:53 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 6:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon To exist is to suffer.
As the OP said, pain is part of the human condition. We cannot ever be in static equilibrium, with no suffering and just contentment.
Eventually even heaven, with everything presented to you at your will, would become hell. It would be torturous, to one day run into the limits of your imagination and even at your height, as a god ordained by God, you are still not content.
Life is a moving game, and happiness is a state of dynamic equilibrium that can only be maintained through acceleration… And nothing accelerates forever. The dear catches up. Our own meaninglessness catches up.
Say there is a god and we do get our happy ending… Is that really going to satisfy you? That your "purpose" is to get this wonderland of hedonism and live in it forever like a goddamn Sim? Forever, for infinity?
The best outcome would be oblivion. To exist is to suffer.
I'll take that deal but only if there's drugs in heaven.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-17 at 7:13 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 7:13 PM UTC
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2017-05-17 at 8:49 PM UTCwall
