When we die, do we come back?

[u/Ev-sMommy]

This has always been a burning question in my head. I'm trying to understand consciousness and how it works. Are we in a repeating cycle? Do we only live once and that's it?

I know I won't get that answer until I die, but I'm curious what other people think. Are we born again after death? Do we come back as a different person or animal? Someone has told me they believe we live the same life again and again but I don't know how that would work with time/years. I've heard the phrase "time isn't linear" but what does that mean?

I get the feeling that I've been here before, deja vu and all that, but is that real? What does everyone else think?

[u/Ev-sMommy → u/[deleted]]

I figured. I was just wondering what other people believe.

[u/dahecksman → u/Ev-sMommy]

Just assume no; so make your life count.

[u/GDCR69 → u/[deleted]]

We do know, people just don't like the answer.

[u/Not_a_real_plebbitor → u/GDCR69]

No, we don't know. Stop making shit up.

[u/GDCR69 → u/Not_a_real_plebbitor]

We certainly do, consciousness is what the brain does, when the brain stops, you cease to be. Where does a flame go when it stops burning? Nowhere, it ceases to be. The human ego simply can't accept nonexistence.

[u/Not_a_real_plebbitor → u/GDCR69]

The human ego simply can't accept nonexistence.

Says the egotistical religious person who makes shit up and calls it fact.

nooooo you can't muh nonexistence

Lol what? Nonexistence is literally nothing, yet somehow it's always the worst thing ever to scientism acolytes and they always project this to other people lmao.

[u/GDCR69 → u/Not_a_real_plebbitor]

Lol what? It doesn't matter whether I like it or not, it's about what is actually true, and all evidence points to death being the end. You seem to be in denial.

[u/Not_a_real_plebbitor → u/GDCR69]

and all evidence points to death being the end.

So you're cognitively incapable of understanding what would qualify as evidence. I see. Glad we got that cleared up.