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#136 |
WhatUneed2Hear
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: AllSoulsMatter
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#137 |
MVP
Join Date: Aug 2017
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#138 |
Stay down bitch!
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Plano, TX
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I lived through Matt Cassell as a starter, dying is a piece of cake.
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#139 |
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Join Date: Mar 2024
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In response to OP: Of course most people want to live as long as they can, to a point. However, many old people (80s, 90s, 100s) reach the point where they are "tired of living", for lack of a better term. It seems that if you live long enough, you will eventually be ready to die.
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#140 |
GREAT SCOTT!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Lot G
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I just hope we all die more gracefully than Ubeja.
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#141 |
Starter
Join Date: Apr 2024
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Well, I’ve dealt with a couple deaths recently.
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#142 |
Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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As I hit the halfway point in my life I think about it more and more. Is it eternal darkness or heaven and hell? The idea of just blinking out of existence at any given moment is kind of terrifying to me.
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#143 |
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2024
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I'd choose blinking out of existence over an eternity of anything. Even Heaven would become intolerable eventually.
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#144 | |
Cynical Misanthrope
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Alaska
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Sartre had a similar opinion, arguing that there is no inherent meaning to life but that we can give meaning when we make moral choices. For Sartre, there was no objective morality or moral standards but rather that we make our own independent choices. Of course, Sartre was not consistent, denouncing French colonialism and actions of the French government later in his life when those were moral choices, albeit choices he apparently disagree with. Anyway, as I said, I appreciate the intelligent and respectful response. I expect we will not see eye to eye but being able to elucidate differing opinions well and politely is rapidly becoming a lost art. Thank you. |
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#145 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sioux City, IA
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#146 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sioux City, IA
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#147 |
Starter
Join Date: Mar 2021
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For those that despair at the prospect of death, would you feel better if you believed in an afterlife? Dr. Stephen Meyer has countless videos making a case about the infinitessimal odds of "something coming from nothing", i.e., what are the chances DNA forming on its own (DNA stores 1.5 gb of data per 1 genome...100 billion cells in a body) from a primordial soup, and resulting in intelligent life. Take a little time and rabbit-hole this topic, it's worth it and may change your outlook on man's existence. Belief in an afterlife and Creator can be a matter of faith, or it can be a hard-won, science-based revelation, but no matter the reason, belief in the divine and an afteerlife will likely change and improve every minute of the rest of your life.
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#148 |
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Join Date: Mar 2024
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#149 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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short answer to the OP Question?
Relieved. Man, I would have absolutely zero interest in keeping the wheels on this bus indefinitely. Sooner or later I'm gonna be just fine pulling into the garage. Ain't there yet. Not particularly close, in fact. But man, immortality sounds just awful. |
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#150 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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