[sysbin]

I do toy with that idea of how our thoughts are somehow stored elsewhere and contrary of our memories just being gone at death. I'm trying to make the concept work with the idea of eternal reoccurrence but it's hard to think of a good idea. I'm agnostic as well but I don't rule out the concept of a deity. There could be heaven & hell and even when it's just double predestination. A deity doesn't have to please the whims of what we think of as fair. Anyhow, I could even see eternal reoccurrence working with a deity altering the simulation as it pleases. Btw, simulation is just a word and one I chose to express what we live.

[gremlinsinc]

If there's a creator, I don't think he's a deity....more like a bystandard of his creation. Maybe a programmer coding our 'simulation', or a scientist tinkering with anti-matter and dark matter accidently exploding himself out of existence and us into existence.

Though the entire universe could just be like a wave that spreads out, and then back in and back out and back in eternally. Whether each iteration is a mirror of itself or 100% different nobody will probably ever know.

I don't think we'll ever have answers even if we colonize the entire universe. There's a good Asimov short story on entropy where they keep asking a super computer if they can stop entropy and for eons it keeps saying unable to compute and just before entropy runs out it came up w/ a solution.

Mankind became immortal (or long-lived at least) and had populated the entire known universe. Damn, I'd love to live to see that.