Death is forever

iDave · 24-04-2015 05:13PM

What about diamonds?

fergus1001 · 24-04-2015 05:15PM

Is the dress blue and white or white and gold ????????????????????????

Paramite Pie · 24-04-2015 05:19PM

deathisforever wrote: »

I dont want children only for them to realise their own dreaded mortality.

I first learned about mortality at the tender age of four when my kitten died. I got over it.:)

My Dad was an undertaker and my earliest memories often involved a funeral of some sort or another. I grew up with death and while it's quite fascinating to think about the concept of not existing (how can something that exists truly understand utterly nothing!?!) it never really scared me.

I really don't want to die and I would live a thousand years if given the chance but I've realised that it's okay when I do. I certainly haven't lived life to the full but I doubt the average bacterium hasn't either and as a human I've had the greatest opportunities to appreciate life.

And as for all the misery in the world, it tends to create the greatest art.

ToddyDoody · 24-04-2015 05:25PM

Dead ppl... Bunch of lazy bastards is all they are

endacl · 24-04-2015 05:28PM

iDave wrote: »

What about diamonds?

They're a girl's best friend. But......

.... you're right! Diamonds are forever...... paradox...... It Begins!

:eek:

Mr_Muffin · 24-04-2015 05:34PM

In a the far future the technology will be available so you can live forever if you so wish or even go and visit heaven for a day trip to see loved ones etc (if heaven was actually real).

On a long enough time scale everything is possible.

fergus1001 · 24-04-2015 05:40PM

If you want to be very morbid everything that ever was will cease to exist in a few million years when the universe collapses on itself so even if you are remembered for what ever reason you and all information regarding you will be gone and a new universe will form with a new form of sentient life

Yall can't escape that ****

24-04-2015 05:46PM

Death doesn't depress me (although it did between the ages of 14 and 23/24, relentlessly so). The thought of the universe being deterministic and the unfoldings of our lives only being able to happen in one way depresses me infinitely more. So even if you exert enormous willpower and are successful in the conventional sense, you know that you don't deserve any praise because "you were always going to do it" ... free will and determinism is the most depressing subject a human can contemplate. You start to feel trapped between two slabs of time and trapped within an inescable claustrophic enviornment of causes passing through you having an effect on you, and you in turn being a causative factor in other phenomena in the environment ... honestly, the thought of eventual death putting an end to these and all thoughts for me is one of the few things which gives me some peace from them. If you don't know what I'm talking about, count yourself lucky. These thoughts have ruined my life, utterly ruined it - never go to far down the rabbit hole of thinking deeply about determinism, free will, the nature of our existence..

Hans Bricks · 24-04-2015 05:46PM

I have to admit, I've grown more nihilistic in the last couple of years. Not suicidal or anything like that, but when I start to worry about something trivial or that the consequences of something happening might not be ideal, I start to think so 'effing what ? Shure it'll all mean nothing eventually or it doesn't really matter.

Jon Stark · 24-04-2015 05:48PM

OP I'm usually the most negative cat there is but even I'm gonna tell you to fack off.

Geniass · 24-04-2015 06:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Never go to far down the rabbit hole of thinking deeply about determinism, free will, the nature of our existence..

Like we have a choice ;-)

The Diabolical Monocle · 24-04-2015 06:15PM

rebirth bitches !!

karma. action and consequence. I am a spiteful god.

lulu1 · 24-04-2015 06:28PM

It says in a psalm/book/bible/comic can't remember which

Your life is mapped out for you before you are even born and I believe every word

fergus1001 · 24-04-2015 06:32PM

lulu1 wrote:

Your life is mapped out for you before you are even born and I believe every word

Your username should be lala

lulu1 · 24-04-2015 06:34PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Of course we will be remembered for a certain length of time, be it by siblings, children, grandchildren, but there does come a time when there will be no-one living who remembers you living, in which case you are only a name on records or a face in a photo.

Only positive is that although I have no video evidence of who my great grandparents were, what they sounded like etc, with current technology there might be video of me around for many hundreds of years. Scary thought that!

Just seen a video of my parents(both long gone) at a xmas party over 30 years ago and that was scary. It was on you tube My god the thought of my parents being on you tube. I didn't like it

lulu1 · 24-04-2015 06:37PM

fergus1001 wrote: »

Your username should be lala

Well i didn't write it I only read it

johnny osbourne · 24-04-2015 06:43PM

i.m gonna be a pirate when i grow up

The Diabolical Monocle · 24-04-2015 07:05PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Death doesn't depress me (although it did between the ages of 14 and 23/24, relentlessly so). The thought of the universe being deterministic and the unfoldings of our lives only being able to happen in one way depresses me infinitely more. So even if you exert enormous willpower and are successful in the conventional sense, you know that you don't deserve any praise because "you were always going to do it" ... free will and determinism is the most depressing subject a human can contemplate. You start to feel trapped between two slabs of time and trapped within an inescable claustrophic enviornment of causes passing through you having an effect on you, and you in turn being a causative factor in other phenomena in the environment ... honestly, the thought of eventual death putting an end to these and all thoughts for me is one of the few things which gives me some peace from them. If you don't know what I'm talking about, count yourself lucky. These thoughts have ruined my life, utterly ruined it - never go to far down the rabbit hole of thinking deeply about determinism, free will, the nature of our existence..

I've heard that we have 'free won't' rather than 'free will'. Tests showed the decision areas of the brain lighting up seconds before we say make our choice, but apparently the choice to resist/not do an action are under our control.

heres a link I didn't bother to read.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/201106/free-wont-it-may-be-all-we-have-or-need

Macavity. · 24-04-2015 07:08PM

Death doesn't sadden or scare me at all. You cannot have an experience of nothing, so what is there to fear?

johnny osbourne · 24-04-2015 07:11PM

surely there must be a way around death

fergus1001 · 24-04-2015 07:18PM

Macavity. wrote:

Death doesn't sadden or scare me at all. You cannot have an experience of nothing, so what is there to fear?

I think it's the point of what you will miss out on (technological advances ect) in staying alive rather than the fear of nothing

ceadaoin. · 24-04-2015 07:22PM

fergus1001 wrote: »

I think it's the point of what you will miss out on (technological advances ect) in staying alive rather than the fear of nothing

If you want live forever just so you can experience technological advances then you aren't living right!

I'd want to stay alive to be with my family, see the world and enjoy being alive. Couldn't give a toss about technology tbh.

johnny osbourne · 24-04-2015 07:27PM

if only there was someway we could download our brain and upload it to a new brain

Geniass · 24-04-2015 08:08PM

In time the very rich will have clones (that technology is already there) and brain "info" that makes you will be transferable to a largely clean slate brain.

endacl · 24-04-2015 08:09PM

job seeker wrote: »

Id call that tragedy, which does happen..

You have me stumped on this one...

Ah, sure a good stumping every now and again is good for us. Keeps the mind sharp!

endacl · 24-04-2015 08:11PM

johnny osbourne wrote: »

surely there must be a way around death

There is indeed. The clacks.

bodhrandude · 24-04-2015 08:13PM

Yeah death is one of these things that never go out of fashion really.

endacl · 24-04-2015 08:16PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Yeah death is one of these things that never go out of fashion really.

It's to die for.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 24-04-2015 08:17PM

Ah jaysis lads, talk about that Friday feeling

johnny osbourne · 24-04-2015 08:18PM

dead we're all dead

Death is forever

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