Some Thoughts on Life and Death
  • jasonm
    18
    At some point you die. Every moment you lived was but a fleeting second. If you're completely gone, there was just a succession of these fleeting seconds, and then nothingness. If you live on when you die, after a long time, your life is but a fading memory.

    Now, imagine there is life after death. This either goes on forever or it terminates. If it terminates, this means that there will come a time when you never exist again. If it doesn't terminate, life goes on forever.

    Also, assume there is reincarnation: if you don't reincarnate, then you will never see this world again. If you reincarnate, you might change and who you are now no longer exists - permanently.

    All of this is true for everyone.

    Some things to think about...
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  • Jackson
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    Some things to think about... — jasonm

    Not sure what you're saying.
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  • Tom Storm
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    Every moment you lived was but a fleeting second — jasonm

    Actually some better moments went the full hour.

    Some things to think about... — jasonm

    Not really. Unless there is good reason to think this, why tie yourself into knots? Can anyone demonstrate that there is anything after life ends? And even if there were, can it be demonstrated that the perspectival orientation of the living you is the same interpretative value system you would employ (and find meaningful) after death? Not on your life (and that's no pun).
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  • Angelo Cannata
    330
    ↪jasonm

    I think you have just described, with non technical words, what Heidegger described with more technical ones, by saying that death is the possibility of impossibilty.
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  • enqramot
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    If only Dodo could be resurrected, I'm sure it could share some valuable insight into these problems. But first we'd need to learn to understand the Dodoan language.
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  • Agent Smith
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    Live as if you were to die tomorrow there's no life after death. Learn as if you were to live forever there is life after death. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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  • Agent Smith
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    If only Dodo could be resurrected, — enqramot

    Just so that we can kill 'em again! :snicker:
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  • javi2541997
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    ↪jasonm


    If it terminates, this means that there will come a time when you never exist again.

    Beautiful, doesn't it? Not existing anymore could mean not experiencing the same failures and disasters again. I do not see this uncertainty in a negative effect. We should be grateful for this gift that the universe brings us.
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