The really important poll... (Part 1) - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums

PERCON · 2nd June 2005, 04:08 AM

This is the first in a series of important polls hosted by your's truly, PERCON.

I want to find out what people think of different complicated questions, so with each vote give a reason in a post please.

It's all just a bit of fun really.

The first set of questions are all based on life after death...

Please be aware that your vote is made public so people can see who voted for what when they click on the vote count, this is to make sure that everyone has given a reason with their vote, no other reason, if you feel put off by this you do not have to vote.

Thanks for reading, and if you voted thanks for taking part.

PERCON

PERCON · 2nd June 2005, 04:25 AM

I don't believe there is a life after death because I believe that when someone dies they just simply stop working, for example when a battery DIES ppl say it's stopped working, they don't say it's soul has gone to heaven. So human beings are no different when they die that is all that happens, they stop working.

PERCON

angrybuddhist · 2nd June 2005, 05:58 AM

I stopped working years ago, but I still expect to be paid.

Vega · 2nd June 2005, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PERCON

I don't believe there is a life after death because I believe that when someone dies they just simply stop working, for example when a battery DIES ppl say it's stopped working, they don't say it's soul has gone to heaven. So human beings are no different when they die that is all that happens, they stop working.

PERCON

What the hell kind of logic is that? Batteries also do not create art, children or war.

The Master™ · 2nd June 2005, 12:54 PM

Then you obviously aren't aware of the battery people in PERCON's universe... It is the drugs he takes that make him babble incoherantly!!!

There is no life after death - you are here one minute, gone the next!!! The soul is some sort of made up metaphysical crap that helped the terminally stupid follow religious charlatans!!!

They say that animals don't have souls - we are animals - therefore we don't have them!!!

Oh, and Vega, you'll find that the majority of people don't create art or war - and a significant number can't create a child!!!

Vega · 2nd June 2005, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Master™

Then you obviously aren't aware of the battery people in PERCON's universe... It is the drugs he takes that make him babble incoherantly!!!

There is no life after death - you are here one minute, gone the next!!! The soul is some sort of made up metaphysical crap that helped the terminally stupid follow religious charlatans!!!

They say that animals don't have souls - we are animals - therefore we don't have them!!!

Oh, and Vega, you'll find that the majority of people don't create art or war - and a significant number can't create a child!!!

To quote the elephant man:

"I am not an animal!"

Everyone has the potential to bring about life, death and art of a sorts. (Others make their own definitions as to what can be classed as art.)

The Master™ · 2nd June 2005, 01:06 PM

In that case, a battery has the potential to bring about life, death and art (of a sorts)...

Life: electocute someone to re-start the heart
Death: electocute someone to stop the heart
Art: lose fluid that makes a stain that someone might consider art

Oh, and I am an animal!!!

Vega · 2nd June 2005, 01:11 PM

Perhaps in some twisted way, that I will never understand, a battery has the means to do that. However it lacks the will.

Simian logic.

Neon · 2nd June 2005, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by angrybuddhist

I stopped working years ago, but I still expect to be paid.

Lol

And my vote was on "other", because I'm frankly still not sure which, if any, spiritual or religious ideal to put my devotion in.

A1ien · 2nd June 2005, 06:51 PM

My vote was for other as well, simply because i'm not sure what happens after death but i prefer not to believe that is the be all and end all. i would like it if reincarnation was true

nixie · 2nd June 2005, 07:12 PM

I voted other,because I don't Know if there's life after death, but I would like to believe that there is something to look forward to.I agree with Alien,I would also like to believe in reincarnation,

Tsujigiri · 2nd June 2005, 10:23 PM

I voted 'Other' because the options you gave apart from 'other' were limited.

Sooby · 2nd June 2005, 11:17 PM

Life after death, for me, consists of feeling the pure joy you loved ones give you while you bodylessly (without physical constraints) float/fly across the universe looking at and interpreting the wonders of other civilisations, solar systems, black holes and parallel universes - it would give you something to do until the end of time - even travel back through time to see things as they happened.

Whatever, I like the idea....

Darken Rahl · 2nd June 2005, 11:56 PM

I voted other, simply because I don't know. Haven't tried it yet, at least in this lifetime.I was raised in a very Christian home, but somehow I just have a hard time with parts of any organized religion. I follow the principles of Christianity, as it relates to how to deal with other people. (Don't kill, steal, commit adultery, and so forth.) I just have a hard time "buying" the idea of Heaven and Hell as an after-life.
If someone asked you what will heaven be like, very few people would imagine the same thing. I wouldn't want streets of gold and jeweled walls and a huge city, that would be pretty close to my idea of Hell. Put someone who likes that image in my vision, and they would describe it as their idea of Hell. All religious explanations rely on the faith of the individual at some point, and faith is dismissing logic to believe in that concept of Heaven and Hell.

PERCON · 3rd June 2005, 03:46 PM

I am very sorry that my terminology for death being like the stopping of a battery stired up so much burble (gloriously invented word there

) but I didn't mean we LIVE like batteries I meant we only die in the same way. By all means life is magical, and well batteries in all their electrical flowiness are not that magical. Bad explanation before on my part there, soz. Glad to see the Master thinks so highly (or lowly, depends what people think of batteries) of me to have invented an alternate reality in which battery people live, I'm barely secure with this life, no chance of me inventing an alternate one

.

I'm also glad to see there have been other replies, thanks guys and girls

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Quote:

Originally posted by Tsujigiri
voted 'Other' because the options you gave apart from 'other' were limited.

LOL, They are aren't they. Nothing against the reasoning there Tsujigiri

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It was all part of my little plan...

PERCON

View Poll Results: Is there a life after death?
When you die you go to either Heaven or Hell...	2	10.00%
When you die you watch over the living...	0	0%
There is no life after death...	9	45.00%
Other...	9	45.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

2nd June 2005, 04:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
PERCON Mental Innovator Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 225	The really important poll... (Part 1) This is the first in a series of important polls hosted by your's truly, PERCON. I want to find out what people think of different complicated questions, so with each vote give a reason in a post please. It's all just a bit of fun really. The first set of questions are all based on life after death... Please be aware that your vote is made public so people can see who voted for what when they click on the vote count, this is to make sure that everyone has given a reason with their vote, no other reason, if you feel put off by this you do not have to vote. Thanks for reading, and if you voted thanks for taking part. PERCON

2nd June 2005, 04:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
PERCON Mental Innovator Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 225	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) I don't believe there is a life after death because I believe that when someone dies they just simply stop working, for example when a battery DIES ppl say it's stopped working, they don't say it's soul has gone to heaven. So human beings are no different when they die that is all that happens, they stop working. PERCON

2nd June 2005, 05:58 AM	#3 (permalink)
angrybuddhist MadMonk Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 137	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) I stopped working years ago, but I still expect to be paid.

2nd June 2005, 12:54 PM	#5 (permalink)
The Master™ Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,758	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) Then you obviously aren't aware of the battery people in PERCON's universe... It is the drugs he takes that make him babble incoherantly!!! There is no life after death - you are here one minute, gone the next!!! The soul is some sort of made up metaphysical crap that helped the terminally stupid follow religious charlatans!!! They say that animals don't have souls - we are animals - therefore we don't have them!!! Oh, and Vega, you'll find that the majority of people don't create art or war - and a significant number can't create a child!!!

2nd June 2005, 01:06 PM	#7 (permalink)
The Master™ Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,758	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) In that case, a battery has the potential to bring about life, death and art (of a sorts)... Life: electocute someone to re-start the heart Death: electocute someone to stop the heart Art: lose fluid that makes a stain that someone might consider art Oh, and I am an animal!!!

2nd June 2005, 01:11 PM	#8 (permalink)
Vega Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 17	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) Perhaps in some twisted way, that I will never understand, a battery has the means to do that. However it lacks the will. Simian logic.

2nd June 2005, 06:51 PM	#10 (permalink)
A1ien Lord of the Skies Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ceredigion Posts: 86	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) My vote was for other as well, simply because i'm not sure what happens after death but i prefer not to believe that is the be all and end all. i would like it if reincarnation was true

2nd June 2005, 07:12 PM	#11 (permalink)
nixie pixie druid Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 3,968 Blog Entries: 3	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) I voted other,because I don't Know if there's life after death, but I would like to believe that there is something to look forward to.I agree with Alien,I would also like to believe in reincarnation,

2nd June 2005, 10:23 PM	#12 (permalink)
Tsujigiri Waiting at the Crossroads Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mongolia Posts: 1,509	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) I voted 'Other' because the options you gave apart from 'other' were limited.

2nd June 2005, 11:17 PM	#13 (permalink)
Sooby Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kent Posts: 37	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) Life after death, for me, consists of feeling the pure joy you loved ones give you while you bodylessly (without physical constraints) float/fly across the universe looking at and interpreting the wonders of other civilisations, solar systems, black holes and parallel universes - it would give you something to do until the end of time - even travel back through time to see things as they happened. Whatever, I like the idea....

2nd June 2005, 11:56 PM	#14 (permalink)
Darken Rahl Intrepid Voyager Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 51	Re: The really important poll... (Part 1) I voted other, simply because I don't know. Haven't tried it yet, at least in this lifetime.I was raised in a very Christian home, but somehow I just have a hard time with parts of any organized religion. I follow the principles of Christianity, as it relates to how to deal with other people. (Don't kill, steal, commit adultery, and so forth.) I just have a hard time "buying" the idea of Heaven and Hell as an after-life. If someone asked you what will heaven be like, very few people would imagine the same thing. I wouldn't want streets of gold and jeweled walls and a huge city, that would be pretty close to my idea of Hell. Put someone who likes that image in my vision, and they would describe it as their idea of Hell. All religious explanations rely on the faith of the individual at some point, and faith is dismissing logic to believe in that concept of Heaven and Hell.

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