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I find it kinda funny that a bunch of you don't mind dying. Have you ever given death any thought? What if its nothing like you imagined....what if instead of heaven or nothingness, its the sensation of being in a coffin forever, and you can't get out or move or do anything? That would be terrible. Death scares the crap out of me cause nobody knows what happens...
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<div class="quote_poster">norespect Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I find it kinda funny that a bunch of you don't mind dying. Have you ever given death any thought? What if its nothing like you imagined....what if instead of heaven or nothingness, its the sensation of being in a coffin forever, and you can't get out or move or do anything? That would be terrible. Death scares the crap out of me cause nobody knows what happens...</div>
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Also, here's something I jotted down one night that kind of relates as an answer to your post...
If reality is like a dream and is at the mercy of our beliefs etc. Then perhaps an afterlife exists after all. If yo u believed it enough could you cause your rebirth into a heaven which is entirely of your own making? For instance could you force by belief the existence of god?
Perhaps dreams are lower forms of reality to this one, and as when you die in a dream you wake to this reality. When you die in this reality perhaps you are awakened into the pure stream of the collective consciousness in the same way you are woken from your present dreams.
Perhaps quantum physics is so random because there were no prior beliefs to this unknown area, and now that we believe it is as it is, it will remain this way.
You may find all this hard to swallow but think about this, if you think the world is as it is, a rational understood planet with life on it, then you shall ignore and discount unexplainable phenomena and anything and everything that does not fit into this picture (your beliefs). It leaves you only with evidence that supports your idea and is perhaps one of the reasons that we all seem to think we are correct.
Now if everything is all a field of quantum consciousness, where your beliefs reign supreme over your reality. Then if you don?t believe in an afterlife and you believe death is the end, then it will become your reality.
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I have nothing to fear, then.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Also, here's something I jotted down one night that kind of relates as an answer to your post...
If reality is like a dream and is at the mercy of our beliefs etc. Then perhaps an afterlife exists after all. If yo u believed it enough could you cause your rebirth into a heaven which is entirely of your own making? For instance could you force by belief the existence of god?
Perhaps dreams are lower forms of reality to this one, and as when you die in a dream you wake to this reality. When you die in this reality perhaps you are awakened into the pure stream of the collective consciousness in the same way you are woken from your present dreams.
Perhaps quantum physics is so random because there were no prior beliefs to this unknown area, and now that we believe it is as it is, it will remain this way.
You may find all this hard to swallow but think about this, if you think the world is as it is, a rational understood planet with life on it, then you shall ignore and discount unexplainable phenomena and anything and everything that does not fit into this picture (your beliefs). It leaves you only with evidence that supports your idea and is perhaps one of the reasons that we all seem to think we are correct.
Now if everything is all a field of quantum consciousness, where your beliefs reign supreme over your reality. Then if you don?t believe in an afterlife and you believe death is the end, then it will become your reality.
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I have nothing to fear, then.
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^^Read some Socrates lately Sasha?
I agree with the premise of it. Fearing death is a waste of time and energy. I think what people fear most as they age is regret. I woulda, coulda, shoulda, done this or that. One thing I want to avoid is ever living in regret by not trying something while I'm young and capable.
I agree with the premise of it. Fearing death is a waste of time and energy. I think what people fear most as they age is regret. I woulda, coulda, shoulda, done this or that. One thing I want to avoid is ever living in regret by not trying something while I'm young and capable.
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I don't believe in the afterlife. To me, when I die I'll just rot in the ground or have my ashes spread. Still not afraid to die though because that's just life. Take it as it is, day by day, do your best and explore what you can. As I mentioned, there may not be a tomorrow for you. I just want to be with my fianc?e and do everything that I possibly can.
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<div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Also, here's something I jotted down one night that kind of relates as an answer to your post...
If reality is like a dream and is at the mercy of our beliefs etc. Then perhaps an afterlife exists after all. If yo u believed it enough could you cause your rebirth into a heaven which is entirely of your own making? For instance could you force by belief the existence of god?
Perhaps dreams are lower forms of reality to this one, and as when you die in a dream you wake to this reality. When you die in this reality perhaps you are awakened into the pure stream of the collective consciousness in the same way you are woken from your present dreams.
Perhaps quantum physics is so random because there were no prior beliefs to this unknown area, and now that we believe it is as it is, it will remain this way.
You may find all this hard to swallow but think about this, if you think the world is as it is, a rational understood planet with life on it, then you shall ignore and discount unexplainable phenomena and anything and everything that does not fit into this picture (your beliefs). It leaves you only with evidence that supports your idea and is perhaps one of the reasons that we all seem to think we are correct.
Now if everything is all a field of quantum consciousness, where your beliefs reign supreme over your reality. Then if you don’t believe in an afterlife and you believe death is the end, then it will become your reality.
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Interesting, I have been thinking about the same things for a while.
P.S. Do you study philosophy? I'm thinking about doing just that...
Also, here's something I jotted down one night that kind of relates as an answer to your post...
If reality is like a dream and is at the mercy of our beliefs etc. Then perhaps an afterlife exists after all. If yo u believed it enough could you cause your rebirth into a heaven which is entirely of your own making? For instance could you force by belief the existence of god?
Perhaps dreams are lower forms of reality to this one, and as when you die in a dream you wake to this reality. When you die in this reality perhaps you are awakened into the pure stream of the collective consciousness in the same way you are woken from your present dreams.
Perhaps quantum physics is so random because there were no prior beliefs to this unknown area, and now that we believe it is as it is, it will remain this way.
You may find all this hard to swallow but think about this, if you think the world is as it is, a rational understood planet with life on it, then you shall ignore and discount unexplainable phenomena and anything and everything that does not fit into this picture (your beliefs). It leaves you only with evidence that supports your idea and is perhaps one of the reasons that we all seem to think we are correct.
Now if everything is all a field of quantum consciousness, where your beliefs reign supreme over your reality. Then if you don’t believe in an afterlife and you believe death is the end, then it will become your reality.
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Interesting, I have been thinking about the same things for a while.
P.S. Do you study philosophy? I'm thinking about doing just that...
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<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I don't believe in the afterlife. To me, when I die I'll just rot in the ground or have my ashes spread.</div>
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<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Interesting, I have been thinking about the same things for a while.
P.S. Do you study philosophy? I'm thinking about doing just that...</div>
Nah, I just read a lot on such subjects. I have no clue what I want to study.
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<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Interesting, I have been thinking about the same things for a while.
P.S. Do you study philosophy? I'm thinking about doing just that...</div>
Nah, I just read a lot on such subjects. I have no clue what I want to study.
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Hahaha, oh no! Quite the contrary. I just thought that was hilarious. The one and only thing off of Viscous Circle he did right.
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." ...It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. -- The Late Bill Hicks
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." ...It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. -- The Late Bill Hicks
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Its easy to say not to worry about death, but its another to be on your death bed or very sick and be staring death in the face and shrug your shoulders.
First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.
And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.
First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.
And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.
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<div class="quote_poster">norespect Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.</div>
It seems to me that to you it's tough to let things go. I love my family to death, but I know that one day I will have to leave them, and not see them for long periods of time and in that timespan, I will develop my own life on my own terms and I won't look back in regret that I hadn't spent time with my family more, or this and that. Once you accept yourself as you are, whole in whatever state is the period where you rid yourself of fear and death becomes just another cornerstone. When you live life everyday in its present, and you care only on that and you don't think about the past or the future, is when you're in a true state of happiness. Thoughts about the past and the future obstruct our reality, and to obstruct our reality is even worse than death.
You dream, you wake; you live, you die. Somehow it occurred to me that if you die, you wake. - Alex Garland from The Coma
I am become death, destroyer of worlds - passage from the Bhagavad'Vita
and my ultimate favorite...
...that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks
And, you kind of proved my point of fear and death for me with the Palahniuk quote. Especially the last part.
It seems to me that to you it's tough to let things go. I love my family to death, but I know that one day I will have to leave them, and not see them for long periods of time and in that timespan, I will develop my own life on my own terms and I won't look back in regret that I hadn't spent time with my family more, or this and that. Once you accept yourself as you are, whole in whatever state is the period where you rid yourself of fear and death becomes just another cornerstone. When you live life everyday in its present, and you care only on that and you don't think about the past or the future, is when you're in a true state of happiness. Thoughts about the past and the future obstruct our reality, and to obstruct our reality is even worse than death.
You dream, you wake; you live, you die. Somehow it occurred to me that if you die, you wake. - Alex Garland from The Coma
I am become death, destroyer of worlds - passage from the Bhagavad'Vita
and my ultimate favorite...
...that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks
And, you kind of proved my point of fear and death for me with the Palahniuk quote. Especially the last part.
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<div class="quote_poster">norespect Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Its easy to say not to worry about death, but its another to be on your death bed or very sick and be staring death in the face and shrug your shoulders.
First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.
And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.</div>
Never thought about that. It really would.
Kinda funny, I killed 2 mosquitos as I read this page. <waste of space <<waste of more space...
First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.
And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.</div>
Never thought about that. It really would.
Kinda funny, I killed 2 mosquitos as I read this page. <waste of space <<waste of more space...
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<div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Hahaha, oh no! Quite the contrary. I just thought that was hilarious. The one and only thing off of Viscous Circle he did right.
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." ...It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. -- The Late Bill Hicks</div>
Speaking of ....
Here's a question from the new driver's license test.............
You are driving in a car at a constant speed.
On your left side is a 'drop off' - (The ground is 18-20 inches below the level you are traveling on)
On your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping horse which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it.
Behind you is another galloping horse. Both horses are also traveling at the same speed as you.
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
For the answer CLICK and DRAG your mouse from star to star.
* <font color=""White"">Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round</font> *
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." ...It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. -- The Late Bill Hicks</div>
Speaking of ....
Here's a question from the new driver's license test.............
You are driving in a car at a constant speed.
On your left side is a 'drop off' - (The ground is 18-20 inches below the level you are traveling on)
On your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping horse which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it.
Behind you is another galloping horse. Both horses are also traveling at the same speed as you.
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
For the answer CLICK and DRAG your mouse from star to star.
* <font color=""White"">Get your drunk ass off the merry-go-round</font> *
