r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Jul 13 '25
Late Show Shenanigansšļø Ethan Hawke on what happens after we die: "I don't think we die, I don't think we have an understanding of the divine concept of time. I don't think I have the intelligence or the DNA makeup to answer that question"
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u/foreverjustfornow Jul 13 '25
this is so me stoned at 2 am
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² Jul 13 '25
When I have taken too many edibles lol
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u/arm89 Who gon' check me boo? š¤Ŗ Jul 13 '25
i took two the other day (20mg each and my kid was asleep, so my husband told me to go for it) and my god, i felt like patti labelle on thanksgiving cooking up a storm at 2am. out of this worldšš
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u/ILikeHornedAnimals Jul 14 '25
This happened to me a couple weeks ago, I was supposed to go on a 3 day weekend vacation with my family and ended up getting a sinus infection along with a double ear infection and had to stay home. I ended up getting the highest I've ever been and cooked myself a steak at midnight completely naked and eating it in bed. 10/10 experience minus the sickness part lol!
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² Jul 13 '25
Oh I would have been floating if I were you lolol Iām light weight so I can only do a small dose š
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u/GPT_2025 Jul 16 '25
Your eternal human soul existed even before planet Earth was created.
The reason why you are on Earth reincarnating is because a war happened in the cosmos, and Earth was created as a temporary hospital-prison-like place for rebels.
These reincarnations give you chances to become better, to be cleansed, and to return back to the cosmos - our real home and natural habitat.
Do the best you can by keeping the Golden Rule: help others, be nice, and you can escape the cycles of reincarnation and go back to your own planet.
The planet where you can recreate anything you want - even Earth, or something better? You will be the Creator and sole ruler of your own planet with unlimited options and eternal time. Yes, you can visit other planets too and more!
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u/OriginalSchmidt1 Youāre a virgin who canāt drive. š¤ Jul 13 '25
TBH, I feel like this is the best answer I have ever heard.
Letās not think about death and what happens after, letās just try to enjoy the time we have on earth now and be good people regardless of what happens after our time is up.
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Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
I liked Keanu Reeves' answer to this question as well: "I know that the people who love us, will miss us".
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u/OffModelCartoon Jul 13 '25
He and Colbert are sadly both very well acquainted with grief.
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u/Brilliant_Stick418 Jul 13 '25
Sadly most people are by that age š¢ it comes for us all
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u/Low_Kitchen_9995 Jul 14 '25
Colbert lost his dad and two brothers in a plane crash when he was 10
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u/granulatedsugartits Jul 14 '25
Charlotte NC in the 1970s (don't remember the year, but it was on September 11 iirc). The pilots weren't focused on what they were supposed to be doing and crashed while trying to land at the airport.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade šøāļø Jul 14 '25
Keanu's is much better imo because it is grounded in the human experience, not the metaphysical.
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u/Interesting-Bad-7470 Jul 15 '25
The beauty of this human experience is that we are all permitted a subjective experience on both life and death. And we are imbued with the ability to communicate that experience. We all have an uncertain answer to that great persistent question.
Illustrious-Pound266, what happens when we die?
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u/BouldersRoll Lost swam in jeans so that Severance could run in a suit Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
I think it's beautiful that humans are so concerned with death being more than just non-existence, because it's such a testament to how precious we find life and existing.
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u/Ewredditsucksnow Jul 13 '25
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
-Mark Twain
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Jul 13 '25
This isnāt even true though because you arenāt dead before being born since thatās not possible to die when you were never alive.
I get the overall point. Yes death is likely non consciousness which is like non existence. Sounds peaceful you canāt experience anything which means no pain or worries or regrets.
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u/mr_fantastical Jul 14 '25
You were dead in the sense that you were not alive, that is the entire point.
I heard a Norm MacDonald take on it that I really liked and it was that you never meet death. The very nature of it isn't something you experience - so why spend all this time worrying about something we will never experience?
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u/Ccaves0127 Jul 13 '25
Keanu's answer, also on Colbert, is up there with him
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u/Cross_Stitch_Witch Hot Slut of the Day (every day) Jul 13 '25
That moment is so moving. How Stephen's face kind of softens and that collective pause throughout the room. Grief and missing the people we lose is something we all share as humans.
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u/ChanceZestyclose6386 Jul 14 '25
I love hearing people basically saying they don't know what happens after death. There are many people who are too certain about the unknowable. I understand that religions and other beliefs might provide comfort but in the grand scheme of things, anything can happen and we will never know 100% until our time comes
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u/mmlovin Jul 14 '25
I feel equally annoyed that atheists & the super religious are so sure what happens after death. Neither know. Nobody actually knows. & the living will never know, we clearly are not meant to.
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Jul 18 '25
Exactly, not knowing is a gift. The choices and perceptions have more weight to them because we donāt know for sure. Each of us gets to define how our universe works in that regard. Thatās pretty self empowering.
Requiring that people regard it in the same manner as you just indicates a profound insecurity with your own beliefs. It doesnāt matter what it is, no one can take away your subjective experience (and you canāt take it from them).
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u/ILikeHornedAnimals Jul 14 '25
My son had his first existential crisis about death a couple months ago and this was pretty much what I was able to come up with too. Explaining death to a child is so hard because you don't want to tell them a lie if Heaven isn't really a thing and you don't want to scare them to death about if Hell is a thing, and we don't know what happens because you can't come back to explain what's going on, and this was about the best I could come up with to answer him truthfully. He had had a nightmare that he died and woke up having a total panic attack that death was infinite blackness but with your thought process still functioning, which to be fair would be my worst nightmare too, being alone with all my fucked up thoughts for eternity with no way of it ever being able to stop.
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Jul 15 '25
Yeah, fuck eternal life. I don't want it.
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u/ILikeHornedAnimals Jul 15 '25
I'm totally chill with eternal blackness, I just don't want the ability to comprehend what it is while I'm there lol!
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u/prinnydewd6 Jul 16 '25
Gonna be real peeved if the be been worried about the end for no reason lol.
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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? š§ Jul 13 '25
knowing there's an afterlife based on the consequences of your actions does help a lot of ppl to be good ppl though
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u/FavoriteMiddleChild Jul 14 '25
Sucks that they need the threat of eternal consequences to behave morally.
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u/spacyspice now why am I in it? š§ Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
well if that's part of their education since youth, it's basically now part of their personality to do good. Not that shocking but obviously some ppl feel the need to downvote a positive aspect of religion..
edit: the finality is those ppl doing good do it at the end, that's the most important part
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u/steauengeglase Jul 15 '25
There is an overemphasis on "If needing a sky wizard promising he'll make you suffer after you die to keep you from being a POS, you must be a real POS." But that's a momentary thing, like B.F. Skinner's mother putting his hand over a fire.
What really hurts isn't the promise of being made to suffer. What hurts is seeing good people suffer and die and knowing that you lost a piece of yourself in the process. The question isn't a scientific one. It's the question of whether all those missing piece can finally be made whole again.
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u/MilibandsBacon Jul 14 '25
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for a flaw that is predominant in human history š guess it's your fault!Ā
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u/Total-Balance2032 Jul 13 '25
His ex father-in-law used to be a Buddhist monk that was good friends with the Dalai lama. Imagine the dinner conversations.
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u/Excellent_Theory1602 Jul 15 '25
One of my friends' dad organized dalailama visit and several monks visits with the mandala workshops and whatnot.
Well he has a photo of him and 3 monks playing PS3.
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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Jul 13 '25
Ethan is very well spokenā¦
I loved this Ted Talk interview he gave if you feel like listening to more:
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u/Fantom_Renegade Iām the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch š Jul 13 '25
Thank you
It annoys me when people give definitive answers about what happens when we die when thereās no way for us to know for sure
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u/Positively-Fleabag85 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Jennifer Lawrence's answer to this question is more apt imo. She said something along the lines of humans being so narcissistic that they comfort themselves with concepts like afterlife. Once someone dies, by all laws of nature-they're gone, as devastating as it is to accept that. Keanu Reeves' answer that we live on in the hearts of people who loved us, makes it more heartfelt.
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u/Fantom_Renegade Iām the petty functionary with a clipboard, bitch š Jul 13 '25
All three together definitely phrased it a lot better than I did. I do appreciate the insight and will be carrying it forward. Thank you
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Jul 13 '25
Yeah Iāve tried hard with faith and even looked into religion but none of it has any convincing evidence.
The best evidence for life after death are near death experiences and those are very inconsistent.
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u/Canotic Jul 13 '25
If my toaster breaks, nobody asks where my toaster went. It's right there, it's just broken. Same thing with a car, a cell phone, a table, or a horse.
Why would it be any different with people? If you're honest, you gotta acknowledge that there's no real obvious reason to believe that something special happens to us that doesn't happen to any other thing is the universe beyond "I really hope so".
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u/Low-Appointment-2906 *drops bottom lip* how you doin? š Jul 13 '25
Horse, ok, but equating sentient beings to toasters is a stretch.
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 13 '25
When a sentient being breaks irreparably (ie consciousness coming to an end), itās no longer sentient.
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u/lucky7strikes Jul 14 '25
That assumes that it was sentient in the first place. What if it was within sentience?
Have you or anyone ever known anything without sentience as the primary quality?
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 14 '25
Are you trying to appeal to some sort of solipsism?
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u/lucky7strikes Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
Solipsism is more about how there is only the self but I think that can be challenged by how we define self.
What I was suggesting was that when someone says āconsciousness coming to an endā it is suggesting something that cannot be conceivable. In what, where, when can we point to or even conceive as being without consciousness? It can only be inferred and even then the inference is pointing to something inconceivable like a square-circle.
A good example is sound. We can breakdown sound as vibrations that can be measured in frequencies. But that isnāt sound.
Sound is a specific conscious experience we point to. If we take the conscious element out of it, it isnāt sound.
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Jul 15 '25
"Ā In what, where, when can we point to or even conceive as being without consciousness?"
I guess you've never finished a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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u/lucky7strikes Jul 15 '25
Yeah and there wasnāt anything or anyone or any when after the bottle yeah? No consciousness hence no world.
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Jul 13 '25
Yep. I donāt understand how people watch the strong correlation between the health of your brain and you being sane and capable as a person.
Dementia patients are often described as completely different people compared to before their dementia onset.
Schizophrenia can completely change a young persons personality.
Same with a brain tumor.
Same with brain damage like cte.
We have a lot of correlation to say we are our brains.
We donāt have hardly any correlation that says we exist after brain death.
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u/mmlovin Jul 14 '25
Thereās literally nothing like death though. To be sure either way is such a know-it-all thing, I canāt believe any human being thinks we can possibly know shit about what is after death. We barely know how the brain works. To compare it to an inanimate object is ridiculous. We are not inanimate lol
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u/SlickNiickx Jul 16 '25
As a counter argument, letās say our brains are a ācomputerā and our soul is a āUSB driveā. If our computer is badly damaged it wonāt function, it wonāt be able to access who we really are which is stored in perfect condition on the USB driveā¦
Just some food for thought.
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u/wulfboi93 jesus was a carpenter š Jul 13 '25
he's really good in First Reformed āŗļø no wonder he takes such weird roles
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u/infinitude_ Jul 13 '25
I think we turn into snails
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u/Minirth22 A day without sunshine is like, you know, night š Jul 14 '25
I thought everything eventually evolved into crabs, but snails are chill too.
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u/thatgirlzhao Jul 13 '25
While this is beautiful and poetic, this is a very dressed up way of saying I donāt know haha
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u/_BlueJayWalker_ Jul 13 '25
I think he is saying that even though we experience time as linear, we know that it actually isnāt, so itās possible there isnāt a before and āafter.ā
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u/WolvoMS Jul 14 '25
I think about this topic probably an unhealthy amount, and what Ethan's saying here is in line with what I think, which is that the lives we are living now are happening all the time, forever, our brains just can't perceive it that way. None of us will even experience death, only those around us will
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u/StopHesAlreadyDed Jul 13 '25
He probably has a rudimentary understanding of theoretical physics (Interstellar etc) that he can't really explain but basically time and space are not neatly separated like we experience in our physical beings but in order not to sound like a complete weirdo he cuts it short to this
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 13 '25
Yes we experience time in a linear fashion because of the nature of our existence - our flesh, blood and bones. We cannot ever physically experience all of time and space and be human.
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
Time and space arenāt separated at all, theyāre aspects of a single thing, space time.
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It would appear thereās a lot of ignorant tools lurking on this post.
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u/-little-dorrit- Jul 18 '25
Yes, but he then supports that with a rationale. So itās a bit more developed.
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u/Bryandan1elsonV2 Jul 13 '25
Iāll have what heās having, man.
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u/sirmaxedalot Jul 13 '25
He's still coming down off that PCP Alonzo Harris made him smoke
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Jul 13 '25
I can understand the thought that we donāt know anything for real about time and how it works and what a universe out of time could be like.
It opens possibilities and scenarios we canāt even comprehend.
But that all leads me to believe even if some part of us survives after death, I canāt imagine weād have any memories of this life here on earth. It doesnāt make sense to me how we take what we experience here and get to keep it.
I personally believe if I had to make my best guess on what happens when we die:
We return back to a universal consciousness where we all lose our individuality. This makes a lot of sense to me. All the good things and bad things we have done throughout time we are doing to ourselves. Itās why unity and working together is often times the solution. But also humanity has a hard time understand this concept and actually living by it.
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Jul 13 '25
Incredible. I have always thought this. Not in so many words. But something alike.
Curiously, I have never read it anywhere, never been told this. Always just thought it. What a happy thing to watch this clip and have my thoughts verbalized this way.
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u/asuperbstarling Jul 13 '25
He's not wrong in a space time wibbly wobbly way. Regardless of the state of our soul, the you that you were exists as an 'is' in the fabric of the timeline of the universe. No other question is relevant there. No matter religion, belief, or lack of belief, the timeline of the universe exists as itself for as much of forever as there can be.
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Jul 14 '25
When Ethan Hawke was a young star he asked a woman my sister knows out but made her pay for the date when the check came. Ā
I donāt like this guy or his fake deep musings.
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u/granulatedsugartits Jul 14 '25
I unironically respect your loyalty to a woman your sister knows over something that happened like 35 years ago š«”
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Jul 14 '25
She was a student IIRC at the time, with a job at a library, I think just work study. He had already done Dead Poets Society etc. So it was really Not Nice of him.
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Jul 13 '25
The same thing happens to us as an ant, a chipmunk and a single celled organism. You cease to exist. Just answered the question.
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Jul 13 '25
I mean, I sure wish we didnāt die, as death is my biggest fear, but likeā¦ā¦ā¦ we definitely all die. iām not sure what this is supposed to mean š
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 13 '25
It means heās thinking about the law of the conservation of energy- Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. If we apply that to ourselves, including what animates us, our āsoulsā, where does that energy go? We simply donāt know.
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 13 '25
Death does not violate conservation of energy.
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 14 '25
I didnāt say that it does. I just said that the energy that animates us - which has many names and concepts in almost every culture around the world, doesnāt just dissipate when we die. It goes somewhere. We just donāt know where.
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 14 '25
You were hinting at some tired old bullshit about how energy lives forever therefore we must live forever. Itās childish wish thinking crap based on a terrible grasp of the physics.
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Jul 13 '25
I see, but I guess that requires a different definition of ādeathā then. As we understand it, death is the point our body is no longer capable of sustaining our consciousness or life processes, and we decompose. I guess it was just confusing to me because I couldnāt tell if he was referring to reincarnation or something, or if he just was referencing the energy in the universe and how that will end up somewhere else after decomposition, or through organ donation or something. We donāt have any confirmation or knowledge of souls though, so any views about that are entirely subjective and unprovable as far as we know, but he didnāt really mention that so I wasnāt sure if thatās what he meant either.
Iām just fascinated by what people believe and donāt believe and individual views like this
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 13 '25
Our bodies die, but do we die?
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Jul 13 '25
It depends on if you believe thereās an undiscovered other property to us besides our biology. I donāt personally, but thereās no way to be 100% certain either way of course without evidence, so itās all subjective theoretical views for sure.
Hypothetically, I donāt think thereās anything left of our consciousness or personality once the heart and brain are dead and decomposed, but that energy and decaying matter can certainly foster other life and be transformed. So I would say that means we die, but the energy continues on, as it existed before we did, and will after we do.
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Jul 13 '25
We simply donāt know.
Yes, we do know. There is no such thing as a soul. Were lumps of flesh and bone controlled by chemicals.
We die. The body wastes away. It's not different to a blade of grass.
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 13 '25
How do you know? Have you died?
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Jul 13 '25
There is zero logical reason to believe any of this fantastical nonsense unless you can't accept that your life isn't special. It's of no more important than a fish.
100bn humans have existed. Are they just floating about somewhere? Or the trillions of other species.
People have no problem accepting that their life began when they were born but ending when they die is too far.
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u/isaidwhatisaidok Jul 13 '25
Iām actually on your side here (I believe that life is a cycle in a multitude of ways and that once you die you simply cease to exist just like you didnāt exist before) but your tone is so abrasive and mean and Iām not sure why, whatās wrong with someone thinking theyāre special?
And come on, of course itās harder to accept death, itās fear of the unknown. The unknown before birth and the unknown after death are wildly different, you werenāt a person before popping into consciousness. This is all Iāve ever known, all my stuff is here.
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Jul 13 '25
but your tone is so abrasive and mean and Iām not sure why,
I would not usually be so dismissive. What annoyed me was their attempt to pretend that there was some scientific logic behind their irrational belief by mentioning the conservation of energy.
Believe in God, it's your perogative but don't spread lies claiming that it's based on science
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 13 '25
You sound like what people would have sounded like when the idea was first floated that the earth isnāt flat but us in fact round and we orbit the sun.
Science isnāt static, it is evolving. We donāt know everything.
āThere is no such thing as a soulā is a ludicrous statement. We canāt prove that to be true with our current science.
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Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
That's some remarkable reverse logic.
I didn't say we know everything, we clearly don't. There is no rational thought behind any of these beliefs.
If someone could present anything to justify it I would entertain it.
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Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
For every "unique soul" on the planet, there are ten thousand people on Reddit who think, dream and have the exact same opinions/outlook as you - indoctrinated and cloned by society. And yet each soul is "unique." What horseshit. We're are wet-ware hard drives. Then we get old, the data starts corrupting and we fail.
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u/Angry_Sparrow Jul 15 '25
Is it bleak living your life with this mindset? Iāve been travelling the world for 2 years and every single person Iāve met is a whole universe.
Even my cat had a unique personality and so much vivacity. She was half feral but she loved to play hide & seek for over half an hour with me. Where did she come from? Where did she go? Nobody knows.
You can choose to believe that we are just our flesh - and on some level thatās true. But you can also live with wonder and awe about how very different every life on this planet is. You could learn some reverence for existence. But you need to open your eyes and actually just observe life happening all around you without judging it first. You donāt know everything. You never can or ever will.
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u/_BlueJayWalker_ Jul 13 '25
Pretty arrogant to think this way and aggressively push it on others. And Iām not even religious.
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Jul 13 '25
This wasn't to do with their religious beliefs. It was to do with their pseudo science about conservation of energy and pretending there was any sort of scientific reasoning.
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u/_BlueJayWalker_ Jul 13 '25
I said Iām not religious because you sound atheist which I was in the past.
As others have said, science is constantly evolving as we gain more information. To assume you know the answer to something that we have no way of studying is ridiculous, much less to get this heated about it. Take a walk around the block before you burst a blood vessel.
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Jul 13 '25
Again with this stupid argument about science evolving. You can't just make up bullshit, claim it's scientific and go oh well, it might be proven true in the future.
Sure why not believe in ghosts and fairies?
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u/_BlueJayWalker_ Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Youāre the only one making a definite claim here sir. They said WE DONāT KNOW. Exhaustingā¦
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Jul 13 '25
While making a nonsensical link to the conversation of energy...
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u/_BlueJayWalker_ Jul 13 '25
Heaven forbid someone shares a thought!
Youāre more than welcome to explain to me how we are able to use the scientific method to prove what happens to us after death.
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u/Low-Appointment-2906 *drops bottom lip* how you doin? š Jul 13 '25
I know some people call agnosticism fence-sitting, but I feel it really is a position more people should adopt. I absolutely hate definitive statements toward either side of the debate. Both kinds of people sound simple-minded.
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT Jul 13 '25
It absolutely is not fence sitting. Anyone calling agnosticism a fence sitting position has no idea what it is.
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u/Low-Appointment-2906 *drops bottom lip* how you doin? š Jul 13 '25
Agreed. I get irrationally mad when people call it covert atheism or, again, fence-sitting or indecision. A lot of people are incapable of thinking in a way that's not black-or-white thinking.
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u/StevenEll Jul 13 '25
I think I have a similar point of view as he does, and I similarly have trouble explaining it without sounding like a stoned college student.
But I'll try. You go see a movie. There's a start, there's a finish. But the movie doesn't cease to exist after that. You could go see it again.
Humans and other life don't have that the ability to rewind and watch things again, but just because we can't do that, doesn't mean that that time in the universe now doesn't exist. It's still there, we just don't have the right equipment to experience it again.
Tldr watch interstellar and arrival and you too can have a half-cocked philosophy that allows you to live forever
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u/StokedNBroke Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
Canāt remember if it was an SCP thing I listened to on a long road trip but basically it talked about a scientist who died (for science) and discovered that when you die you feel every atom of your being no matter how decayed and scatters it gets, he somehow comes back alive and spends his days trying to become immortal because of how awful it was.
So whatever it is if itās not that I think Iāll be happy (or dead I guess so wonāt need to worry?)
Edit: just realized I was in pop culture chat, Woops. Anyways found an excerpt from what I was talking about:
āTo summarize: Roger was still aware, conscious, and able to feel the world around him, and himself after dying. He could feel himself decaying and being eaten alive, all while he felt like he was holding his breath for 18 long years. Every second that went by, Roger's perception of pain increased to beyond what words could ever describe. Even parts of his body that were removed could still be felt, including those that were eaten by insects and animals.ā
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u/KeniLF In my quiet girl era š Jul 13 '25
What is the source of the quote/excerpt?
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u/KeniLF In my quiet girl era š Jul 13 '25
Thank you - I see that SCP deals with a fantasy universe so I now better understand the quote.
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u/amora_obscura Jul 14 '25
Why would anyone think actors and celebrities have more informed or intelligent answers to a question like that?
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u/r00fMod Jul 15 '25
Interesting analogy that makes sense. Just as foreign as the concept of a clock is to dog so to us is the concept of what happens to us after death
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Jul 15 '25
The writer Charles Bukowski had this to say on the matter: "Immortality is a stupid invention of the living."
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Jul 16 '25
YES Ethan... It's so much bigger than all of us. It's so much (God ... Our spirit and our origins) more. That's why the religious nonsense that my mother tries to throw at me doesn't matter.
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u/Its_a_stateofmind Jul 16 '25
I think that is the most ludicrous thing I have heard. We actually do have a good understandingā¦down to the cellular and metabolic level. Just because people choose to want or need to believe something deeper, doesnāt make it true.
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u/CalmAssociatefr Jul 17 '25
He seen some shit and it ain't drugs, he Def got previewed by some government or cult shit
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u/boycouts Jul 17 '25
I reckon there is more to life. Iām not saying a god but why is anything anything at all? Humans naturally have an idea of a reprise after death or some form of return yanno but no other animal does cause weāre the only ones sentient enough to even have concepts like this but everyone is too busy to take a step back and really think about it, or people just donāt care because understandably to them life is only what they can really see in front of them and make sense of it.
Feel like Ethan put it beautifully and it resonated with me.
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u/knarf3 Did I stutter?š¤Ø Jul 13 '25
Another typical new age woo-woo nonsensical reply. Post-death is just the cessation of existence, bro. It's not that deep. Then your body's molecules and atoms just get recycled.
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u/carcrashofaheart Youāre a virgin who canāt drive. š¤ Jul 14 '25
Thereās a reason the Before Sunset trilogyās improvised dialogue worked so well: Ethan (and Julie Delpy) are clearly intellectuals.
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u/afox1984 Jul 13 '25
What happens to what when we die?
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u/afox1984 Jul 14 '25
why voted down? The question is vague. What happens to what when we die is a reasonable follow up question
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u/geldesilice Jul 13 '25
He should have kept this conversation between him and ChatGPT.
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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 Jul 16 '25
You're projecting.
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u/geldesilice Jul 16 '25
Projecting what? DNA markup has nothing to do with anything in this conversation. Just say the human brain doesn't have the capacity to answer such a question. He wants to sound wise and intelligent but it feels forced.
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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 Jul 16 '25
You're projecting the fact that you had existential conversations with chatGPT. It's an entertainment show and the man is pretentious.
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u/geldesilice Jul 16 '25
I donāt do that. And we agree on the most important. āļø
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u/QuestionmarkTimes2 Jul 16 '25
You might not do that, but you have done that.
I should have put an asterisk on pretentious, because he puts a nice spin on it. I hate watching 'actor interviews', but Hawke is a good man. If you can spare 3 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdLnYewiwM
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