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| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Litmus: 8:56am On Nov 22, 2025 |
They become aware as other people or other living things probably.All things are, in a sense, personalities of the awareness we call consciousness. Consciousness is as if the mirror on which existence is reflected. You are always conscious. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KidFromForeign(m): 8:56am On Nov 22, 2025 |
liveyourlife007:That is YOUR believe and your believe is just that, beliefs. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by AngelahFlo(m): 8:56am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Alusiizizi:All these long writeups is needless. The Bible states clearly "it is appointed unto men once to die. After that, the Judgement" When someone dies. If He was born again and has been given eternal life by Jesus, he or she goes to Abraham's Bossom while an evil person goes to hell. Awaiting the day of the White Throne Judgement when he'll be summoned and judged according to his works on earth. Read the account of The Rich man and Lazarus For clarity on this |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KidFromForeign(m): 8:58am On Nov 22, 2025 |
liveyourlife007:Oga,he asked a simple question. Can you prove it or you are just regurgitating some brainwashed ideas force fed you? |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KidFromForeign(m): 9:01am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Dtruthspeaker:What does fear and great chill have to do with proving the existence life after death? So because you fear death and h ell,it's now a proof of life after death? |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KidFromForeign(m): 9:06am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Dtruthspeaker:Nobody knows what happens after death and that is why anyone fears. You can make up stories of h£ll to suit your need to continue existence at some level after death but that doesn't mean nothing. All you are doing is grasping at straws. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by DiarisGodoo: 9:08am On Nov 22, 2025 |
KingDashx:Gay want same sex not opposite sex |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by SeriouslySense(m): 9:08am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Philippians 1: 23, 2 Corinthians 5: 8, Luke 23: 43 Philippians 1:23 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; 2 Corinthians 5:8 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. Luke 23:43 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Note for Luke23: 43. that was before Jesus death, because he went to paradise to meet the godly who died before his death, now after his resurrection, he stays in heaven sited at the right hand of the Father, so our souls will go directly to heaven instead of paradise. Truthseeker10: |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KidFromForeign(m): 9:09am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Dtruthspeaker:Your Bible and whatever is written there is not a proof of anything. A book of talking Donkeys and Snakes? That is your proof? 🙆🏽 |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Felimax(m): 9:11am On Nov 22, 2025 |
soulkiss18:I really don't care if you Insult me. I am not like the regular believer that you know. I enjoy it when I see people swim in ignorance and disbelief. Trust me bro, it is not compulsory you must believe in JESUS. Jesus never said it is. We are brothers and I am a believer but you are not. It's just ok with me. I still like you the way you are. Ok? Good boy! Na me create you wey I go preach for you? Was I there when they were fertilizing your egg? The truth is when you die anyhow you see yourself you take it like that. Ok? What I have as a Catholic is what I don't share anyhow. I just see myself as the privileged few. I have had multiple subconscious encounters I could no longer talk like people who don't know about their subconsciousness. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Dtruthspeaker: 9:19am On Nov 22, 2025 |
KidFromForeign:Whether you like the facts it gives proof of or not, It is proof of anything in it exactly how you present textbooks, magazines, printout etc. So say something that makes sense, if any |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by MaxIntheHouse2(m): 9:20am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Philosophers are humans like you they only makes sense to you because they became famous due to how people like you rate them. There is nothing called "SOUL" it's your mind meaning each human has his or her own mind. If you go for a plastic surgery to change all your looks your mind still keeps what is stored in it that's what makes you you not something invisible that's why the Bible says when you die your soul (mind) dies immediately! Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 compare to Ezekiel 18:4 lilsmart: |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Dtruthspeaker: 9:21am On Nov 22, 2025 |
KidFromForeign:Not True. You fear death because there is something fearful in it that is waiting there |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by RealityKings1: 9:22am On Nov 22, 2025 |
DarkJeddi:Are you the one who wrote it to know it's a fairytale? |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Kog45(m): 9:25am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Sirchiboy:Jesus Christ already provided the answers |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by KingDashx(m): 9:27am On Nov 22, 2025 |
DiarisGodoo:Omo the only gender I know are male and female.. those are the two basic gender for reproduction, the rest don't count, that's why the bible clearly said ADAM and EVE. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by slimik: 9:28am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Sirchiboy:No where, but recycle ♻️ to our host earth 🌎. Every living thing's death is the vitality and nourishment to earth. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Dtruthspeaker: 9:30am On Nov 22, 2025 |
KidFromForeign:If you are giving the option of traveling to Abuja by road from Benin, would you have chills and fear? Yes! Why? Because of what is waiting for you there. Unlike if they say you should travel by road from Houston to Georgia, you would not be afraid Why? Because the thing you fear in Lokoja is not there on the Houston expressway. It's as simple as that |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by DiarisGodoo: 9:33am On Nov 22, 2025 |
MaxInDHouse:The way you think eh. God created EVERYTHING not just herbs! What we are talking about here is OBSERVATION not discovery or invention! And not just by scientists but by countless parents whose children start talking about their past lives and how they died starting around age 2, 3, 4 https://www.tiktok.com/video/7364882016782929194/
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| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Roycemadeit(m): 9:33am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Truthseeker10:I have once been asked this question and this was my reply...I suppose you are JW Many people turn to sacred texts,chief among them, the Bible, in search of clarity on life’s most enduring questions: Where do we come from? Why are we here? Why is there suffering? If we all seek peace, why is there war? These texts are often treated as divine instruction manuals, handed down to light the way through human confusion. But when we pause, not out of fear or inherited belief, but from a place of curiosity and courage, we begin to notice something: the answers may not be as absolute as we've been told. Let’s begin with origins. The Bible offers a creation story, but it is far from the only one. The Yoruba tell of Oranmiyan forming the earth with a five-legged fowl and a shell of sand. In Chinese cosmology, a cosmic egg splits open, birthing yin and yang from which all things emerge. Among the Fulani, divine milk pours from the heavens. None of these accounts can be proven, but that’s not their point. These stories are cultural expressions of wonder in the face of the unknown. No human witnessed the beginning. So, we make meaning through myth. These tales, passed down through generations, are reflections of the questions people dared to ask, not blueprints of universal truth, but mirrors of cultural imagination. Why then is the biblical story elevated as the truth? Largely because it was carried by empires. In Africa, Christianity didn’t take root through some grand spiritual revelation; it came wrapped in colonial conquest. With the missionaries came the sword, and the Bible. Even the language we now use to describe the divine reveals this history. In the original Hebrew, the name revealed to Moses was YHWH, so sacred it was rarely spoken aloud, often replaced with titles like Adonai (Lord) or HaShem (The Name). Today, we say “God”, a term not native to Hebrew, but from the old Germanic word, "Gudan," meaning “that which is invoked.” This is not just a translation. It's a transformation. To rename the sacred is to reshape it. It’s a shift not only in language, but in power. Names carry identity, and to change a name is to assert control over how something is seen, spoken of, and understood. You could say even God’s name was colonised. And isn’t that the essence of colonisation, the power to rename, redefine, and rewrite, even the divine? This isn't an attack on faith, but a call to examine the forces that shape it. Belief is never formed in a vacuum. It’s shaped by culture, politics, and power. Now to the question of purpose: Why are we here? Many assume the Bible holds this answer. But much of it is a record of ancient people grappling with their own questions, Abraham, Moses, David. These were not universal declarations addressed to all humanity. They were moments in a larger, evolving dialogue. To rely solely on a 2,000-year-old manuscript to define our personal destiny is to ignore the voices of billions who have sought, and found, meaning in other ways. If purpose is truly divine, wouldn’t it speak to each of us directly, rather than solely through ancient intermediaries? Consider also the problem of suffering. When innocent people suffer, the explanation is often “the devil.” But even that raises questions: if God created all things, did He not create, or at least allow, the devil? Isaiah 45:7 says, “I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things.” That verse alone challenges the neat division between good and evil often presented in Sunday school. The Eden story further complicates things. Two humans, innocent and unaware of good or evil, are placed in a garden with a forbidden tree. They’re told not to eat from it, but not given the moral understanding to truly grasp the command. When they do, they are punished, and all of humanity is said to have inherited their guilt, except Enoch and Elijah who are not of his seed.🙃 But then we’re also told humans were made perfect in God’s image. Which is it? Even more troubling are the stories where God commands the killing of entire nations, including infants. What do such acts say about suffering, innocence, justice, or divine love? And when we ask why humans war even though they seek peace, the answer often lies in identity. People fight to protect or impose their sense of who they are, tribes, nations, beliefs. Ironically, the Bible itself tells of a time when humanity spoke one language and worked together. But it was God who, fearing their unity, scattered them, confused their speech, and planted the seeds of division. From that division came borders, religions, and conflict. So we must ask: does the Bible really offer peace, or the beginnings of fragmentation? Does it answer our questions, or deepen our confusion? There is great power in questioning. Sacredness is not diminished by scrutiny; it is revealed through it. Faith born from fear may feel comforting, but it is not freedom. True understanding begins when we stop clinging to inherited answers and start daring to ask better questions. Because if this text cannot withstand my honest doubt... would I be right to say that it is divine in the first place? |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Pootle: 9:34am On Nov 22, 2025 |
GanagiBitrus:you right, after life is coined out of the fear that the actual existence end. heaven and hell is also a religious way to tame the actions of man, after death is a mystery and can never be unravel |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by LordReed(m): 9:36am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Sirchiboy:Dead bodies get disposed of, nothing more to it. All the ceremony and stories surrounding death is for the living, the dead know nothing. |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Roycemadeit(m): 9:37am On Nov 22, 2025 |
MaxInDHouse:Without Satan, God ceases to exist. And God has not proven that he is not Satan either, since he embodies the characteristics of Satan.... Even the book of Chronicles and Samuel... Told the same story, using God in one and then, Satan in the other. as the being that pushed David to carry out the census |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by DiarisGodoo: 9:38am On Nov 22, 2025 |
KingDashx:So why are some born gay and why does sex urge persist long past child-bearing age? |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:38am On Nov 22, 2025 |
DiarisGodoo:If we have to believe everything people have been observing surely there will be no place for God's word that's what Satan is doing underG! 2Corinthians 4:4🙂 |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by josielewa(m): 9:39am On Nov 22, 2025 |
yes, because that is what we can see..have you seen the ether before ?, your answer is no, as far as no one can prove the existence of the spiritual world, then i will say its all an illusion...teh body is all we see, we dont see the soul, spirits etc, thats even if they exist DeepSight: |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:39am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Roycemadeit:Can you please expatiate on the highlighted?😟 |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by damdam995(m): 9:42am On Nov 22, 2025 |
Heaven or Hell. It depends on their deeds on earth |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by Roycemadeit(m): 9:44am On Nov 22, 2025 |
MaxInDHouse:Let's have a look at a few Please say it is my lack of understanding of what is written and then give the right context... 2 Samuel 24:1 “Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, ‘Go, take a census of Israel and Judah.’” 1 Chronicles 21:1 “Now Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.” Amos 3:6 “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by josielewa(m): 9:49am On Nov 22, 2025 |
I also do remember what i called past live, always questioing my dad if he ever worked at thr tin can port or on ships, and he would laugh at me saying no.., the truth is there are no solid eveidence of people truly remebering their past lives, it could be a case o children fantasy or what scientist call paramnesia. everybody will tell you they remember a thing or two about their past lives, but can they prove it.., NO. DiarisGodoo: |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by josielewa(m): 9:51am On Nov 22, 2025 |
there is no one born gay, your society influences what you become.... DiarisGodoo: |
| Re: When People Die. Where Do They Go. I Want To Know. by josielewa(m): 9:52am On Nov 22, 2025 |
good take, the dead tell no tales ![]() LordReed: |
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as the being that pushed David to carry out the census