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Thinking about your own death
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| Lira |
How often do you think of your own death? Most people, perhaps intuitively, think that something perceivable is going to happen to them after their own death (i.e. they will go to some other dimension/plane, they will reincarnate, they will hang out in a jacuzzi with the Big JHC drinking wine all night long, et cetera). So far, so good.
It's not bizarre to think that something will happen to you, but it's somewhat bizarre that so many different cultures imply that some sort of life-after-death exists, and that whatever happens after death, it's not "the end".
Thus, I think we could draw one of the following conclusions from this: either there is indeed an afterlife (life itself is already bizarre, why wouldn't there be another life just as absurd as ours?), or we're so important to ourselves that we can't even think of what it would be like not to exist. I tend to favour the latter due to my affinity with materialism and the impossibility of going anywhere my body isn't, but no matter how hard I think about it, death seems to be as puzzling as being thrown in a black hole: if you ceased to perceive time, wouldn't your mental activities cease as well? In that sense, you'd tend to imagine that you'd be stuck within your last memory, but that memory has to span for some time, and if you cannot perceive time, what are you going to retain in your perception? Moreover, reason why I thought about it in the first place, can you imagine something you can't talk about, like an absolute death?
This morning, I felt relief in knowing that I wasn't alone [pdf - Imagination and Immortality by Shaun Nichols] in most of my pondering, and I decided it would be a nice topic to discuss here with you guys.
How often do you think about a possible absolute death? |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I think about my own death a lot. Always have. What comes after life, whether it be something or nothing, is of little/no importance to me. However, I'm open to either possibility, and feel prepared for both. I've always been an optimist. :toothless |
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| iammesol |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I'm open to either possibility, and feel prepared for both. I've always been an optimist. :toothless |
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| Barbino |
Good Question!!
I was thinking about this last night when I was sucking cock, since I'm gay. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Barbino
Good Question!!
I was thinking about this last night when I was sucking cock, since I'm gay. |
That would make an awesome bumper sticker! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Barbino
Good Question!!
I was thinking about this last night when I was sucking cock, since I'm gay. |
LOL! Best alt ever! |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Barbino
Good Question!!
I was thinking about this last night when I was sucking cock, since I'm gay. |
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| nchs09 |
I never think about my own death  |
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| SuspicionVandit |
I come home from work every night at 1am, so I'm always scared of getting murdered by black people.
Also, getting sucked into a black hole's singularity, I'd imagine you'd be thinking about pain for an infinite amount of time, seeing as you become ripped in half down to the smallest amounts of matter.
On a side note, one thing I thought about the other day, is would you even feel a significant amount of pain if you lept feet first into a black hole? With time distortion, would the electrical signals of "pain" reach your brain as you watch yourself become halved? |
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| Zoso |
I tend to dwell more on the "how" of death and less on the after. I always wonder how I will die - disease, car crash, or more recently, snake bite! Will my death be quick and unexpected, or long, painful, and drawn out? Death by orgasm might be the best to hope for.
Also, alts are suckers. |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by Barbino
Good Question!!
I was thinking about this last night when I was sucking cock, since I'm gay. |
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| Silky Johnson |
After working with old/sick/miserable people...I hope I die of a heart attack before my body gets consumed by arthritis or some other and I spend my end days in aching pain and misery.
Incentive to keep smoking, imo. |
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