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Old 07-16-2016, 06:55 PM
 
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That's your philosophy???
no, I am more of an engineer. Making up stuff is cool but at some point it has to be tested and built with what we do have.
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Old 07-17-2016, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Baltimore, MD
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Yeah it scares me when I think about it.
That death is forever.
It's not for 900 trillion trillion trillion trillion years and then you wake up.
No it's for eternity.
Then why think about it?

So what on death. It doesn't scare me as I am convinced nothing (example, an afterlife) will happen. Life is overrated anyway. Try to enjoy something in the here and now.
Don't think about death.
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Old 07-17-2016, 08:10 AM
 
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Then why think about it?

So what on death. It doesn't scare me as I am convinced nothing (example, an afterlife) will happen. Life is overrated anyway. Try to enjoy something in the here and now.
Don't think about death.
I just think about it sometimes.
What scares me is that it will be forever.
that I will NEVER wake up, not in a 900 trillion years.
The concept of eternity here scares me.
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Old 07-17-2016, 12:35 PM
 
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I just think about it sometimes.
What scares me is that it will be forever.
that I will NEVER wake up, not in a 900 trillion years.
The concept of eternity here scares me.
Because it will be forever, that's what scares me.
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Old 07-17-2016, 01:00 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Well that is like saying that the nonexistence of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I ate today, will be forever. Both the sandwich after I ate it, and me after I die, will no longer be organized according to their respective identities, our matter and energy scattered to the four winds in various ways. In both cases, the matter and energy will be recycled but there will never be that same sandwich or that same good old Mordant.

The same will be true of my car eventually, or my computer or my house. Everything is finite, and eventually disappears forever.

It doesn't suddenly become a special or deep insight that this is so, just because it involves you or me. We are part of the constant churn of matter and energy in the universe. So there is not "one thing" that lasts forever. The reality is that "everything" doesn't last forever.
Sorry to hear about the car.
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Old 07-17-2016, 01:26 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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I thought the answer was plastic.
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Old 07-17-2016, 01:32 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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no, I am more of an engineer. Making up stuff is cool but at some point it has to be tested and built with what we do have.
Then you will be interested in the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson...
Ian Stevenson

I mean, what if the made-up stuff actually checked out? What then?
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Old 07-17-2016, 03:16 PM
 
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I thought the answer was plastic.
no, it will be our death and that's what scares me.
This concepts of eternity of non - existence / unconsciousness.
That it never ends. never. not in 90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00 trillion years.
And what is that time, not a drop in the ocean compared to infinity.
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Old 07-17-2016, 03:26 PM
 
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I would use the term "illusions", not "delusions".

If cake time is true, and its a big if, you are wrong.
what is cake time?.
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Old 07-17-2016, 03:27 PM
 
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It scares me to think that i will be dead and hence will not experience anything for eternity , not even in 90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 trillion years.
And what is that compared to infinity, not a drop in the ocean even?.
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