DennisWisconsin is offline DennisWisconsin Post #1  October 4,2009, 5:35pm
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"Death isn't the end of life, it's the beginning." says TV's, The Ghost Whisperer.

There are eleven dimensions and many universes so say the physicist theories... perhaps we get stuffed into another dimension when we die...

There is a heaven so say the religions.

We have dreaming bodies so say the new agers... and we carry on with those when we die...

There are many mysteries in this 'life', but death seems to be the ultimate. If there is no 'after life' then we won't know it when we die because we are dead. Religions will never have to give refunds on all of those 'donations' they took.

Is it possible that humans are not that special after all... I mean was there a heaven for dinosaurs? Of course not... animals don't have souls... we know this because...

What do you think about death? Do you fear it? Does it matter?
 
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Personally, I just don't want it to hurt a whole lot.

Or be really humiliating, like being crushed by the hind end of the Snoopy float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
 
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Okay, okay, serious answer.

I don't know.

No really, I don't. I realize that's pretty fricking hilarious coming from the token Christian, but not one single person has come back from the dead and told me what it was like.

So I have a vague idea per my theology, but it's all a matter of interpretation and no one knows for sure. At least not until they've been there, done that, and then it's too late to clue me in, of course.
 
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chawks64 wrote :
Personally, I just don't want it to hurt a whole lot.

Or be really humiliating, like being crushed by the hind end of the Snoopy float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
lol How do you think of this stuff?
 
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I watched my wife die and she wasn't afraid and I have an entirely different take on it now. Also, I narrowly escaped twice in my life. Once I got knocked off a waterfall and fell into the 'bottomless hole of death' and another time I was sitting in my car and it got hit by lightning. Both times there wasn't time to be afraid.

The only thing that may make me fear death is the physical pain that accompanies it at times. Other than that, no, I'm not afraid to die. I don't want to die but that doesn't make me afraid. Chawks may have been kidding but it's probably true for a good many people.

On a lighter note I read some survey results years ago about men and death. Married men live longer than single men. But married men were more willing to die.

Also, diein' is part of livin'.
Last edited by tweet37; October 5,2009 at 2:34am. Reason: And when you're dead, you're dead. And that's it. The end. Then they throw dirt in your face.
 
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DennisWisconsin wrote :
..What do you think about death? Do you fear it? Does it matter?
we all die. so in that sense, it does not matter what you think of it. it will still come.
 
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DennisWisconsin wrote :
What do you think about death? Do you fear it? Does it matter?
Let me rephrase those questions :

- Why should we fear something that will happen anyway?
- What's the point of spending our lives in fear of (or even just thinking about) what happens next?
- Don't we have enough to think about as it is (like, the people who are here, alive, with us)?

And here's a funny one :

- Who is willing to argue that the dead do not get what they deserve (after they die)?
 
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chawks64 wrote :
but not one single person has come back from the dead and told me what it was like.
How do you know that someone hasn't come back and told what it was like? Isn't that the whole Christianity thing, 3 days, and rose again from the dead.
I met someone who claimed to have died and come back. But that was in the Psych Ward, and most people didn't believe him.
And don't ask me what I was doing in the Psych Ward, cause that's a whole other story!
 
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Comedian wrote :
How do you know that someone hasn't come back and told what it was like? Isn't that the whole Christianity thing, 3 days, and rose again from the dead.
I met someone who claimed to have died and come back. But that was in the Psych Ward, and most people didn't believe him.
And don't ask me what I was doing in the Psych Ward, cause that's a whole other story!
Well they haven't told me personally, and I only take firsthand accounts.

Oh carp, now I'm going to have some horrific dream where someone DOES come back and tell me!
 
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rix is offline rix Post #10  October 8,2009, 12:31am
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Nabokov's memoir, Speak, Memory, described life as a spark between two identical pools of darkness, the darkness before we were born and the darkness after we die. And how odd it is that we have so much concern about the latter and so little about the former.

Interesting perspective!
 
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