Your View on Death

[DemolitionSquid]

Strange, I thought the Japanese prefered their jellyfish sexually immature.

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[Genopath]

When your Life Bar reaches 0, you GG and play another round.

Oh you mean in RL, nvm :P

[TheEconomist]

Strange, I thought the Japanese prefered their jellyfish sexually immature.

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No, that's only for sexually immature girl-toddlers. Even the Japanese have standards, you know.

[Gradius]

You guys are ruining my serious death thread with your frivolous & nonchalant posts. Back to waxing on the scientific & metaphysical views of death plz.

[DemolitionSquid]

You guys are ruining my serious death thread with your frivolous & nonchalant posts. Back to waxing on the scientific & metaphysical views of death plz.

Stop trying to ruin our fun with your Jihad

[TheEconomist]

The point I was trying to make before I was so ruuuuuuuudely interrupted was that, when you want a question answered concerning the emo or the death-y, you must consult the Japanese.



Behold such vast wonders of knowledge and have all of your questions answered.

[GnaReffotsirk]

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Yes, I loved that movie.

[Blazur]

For me death is a subject I choose to ignore in my plight to live for the moment. I accept that it's inevitable, but don't spend any time worrying about it. Since I don't believe in a higher power or afterlife, death is simply the light going out and the expiration of human life.

I've yet to lose anybody really close to me so haven't had the need to grieve heavily over death. Although if my wife or kids died I'm sure it would crush me.

[The_Blade]

Now, death is something I don't really think as much as other things. I fear the death of family members, but not my own. Perhaps I might fear my own death if others grief for me, but that's as far as it goes. As others haves stated, death should not be feared or evaded, but not seaked either. I still want to live long enough to rise my kids or do something amazing on my field of work.

Now, afterlife and teology. I do believe in a God, but not in the old fashion way of a being who punishes the evil and rewards the noble. God is more like a colective of ideas to me. He "controls" the universe through physics and math. He knows everything, as he is or can see the full universe (not only humans) and the flow of energy through it.

Small details of the universe like life or its unessesary reason to exist have led me to believe there was more than we can think of before the big bang. We could even be a digital simulation of an alternative universe designed by some advanced civilization (It's creepy how the blue wall of old 3d games behaves like the boundaries of our universe ^^). God could even be aliens, but for now I believe in an omnipresent being who controls it all.

So far the catholic religion was the one I grew in, and it has helped me design a "God" for myself. Istill disagree with the church and many of their believes, because it's guided by men who are flawed by nature like any other government. It drives me mad when they critisize other religions in church, like the jews(who are apparently hated by everyone).

I believe in afterlife as belonging to part of this "God". Like a small fraction of knowledge and wisdom which joins many others, with no physical means. Heaven for me would be an encounter with the most inteligent minds of the universe and suddenly know everything (which will make you laugh at the human life and its search for a simplistic solution never thinked of). Hell will just be the opposite, being part of a recycle bin of knowledge which serves no true purpose, but has to exist as little parts of it may be salvaged. Because we are limited to our sences and our context in history,we like to imagine things close to our reality (60s movies which contained huge tapes as opposed to the current USB) for this reason you can't but picture afterlife as something tangible and humans created spaces where to live the afterlife.

A good profesor of mine once said "It's really hard to prove gods existance, but its as hard to prove he doesn't exists."

So that's a small view of the concept of death and afterlife I like to think about.

We are just to limited to ever imagine reality as it is and we like to create models which resemble it best. It's the same for those things we can't even start to understand.

[GnaReffotsirk]

Well, with respect to the idea of the after life and things made into religion, I believe there is a way to preserve the "you". Not talking about becoming a ghost.

I don't have a clue how that works though.

I however strongly believe that the Egyptian mythology about Horus was made real. "Word became flesh" and that the incarnation of this tale actually happened. Ergo, resurrection.

Don't know if either extra-dimensional beings, highly advanced beings, or whatever made it happen, but I believe it did. And that this was displayed to prove there's a way not to be bound by the idea of death anymore.

In any case, at this moment of time, given how things work among the living and where I am in that structure, death is a relief. Though, yeah, there's little fun here and there to pass the time till the day arrives.

Living in the moment, yeah, I do that too.

I can't imagine though, say, if you are now 200,000 years old, having been through so much, good and bad (according to your preferences), how would that make you as a person? What understanding, what feelings? How will you now be? Who will you be? Will you still care? Will you still chase after things and attempt to grasp them?