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#1 User is offline   Optimus Prime 

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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:25 AM

So with all this talk about Heath Ledger (he died) it got me to wondering about our mortality.

What do you think happens when you die? Do you believe in an afterlife? Is it crazy to look at yourself as constantly getting nearer to your own ending?

What does the future hold? Longer Lifespans? An eventual ability to prolong our lives via machinery or some sort of "soul transplant"?
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:38 AM

I believe the world goes on without you, but our brains only experience reality while they are alive, and hence you never actually experience death, as you approach it, it shifts out to infinity (your own infinity) and your last moments last forever (your own forever).
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:49 AM

A return to oblivion. Nothingness.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:54 AM

What's nothingness?
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:56 AM

Beats the hell out of me.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 03:57 AM

I'm counting on conscientious organ harvesting to prolong my life.

Edit: You know, my own personal body part-replacement clone.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:00 AM

Maybe your oblivion/nothingness is the same as my infinity/forever?
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:03 AM

Well...you die and tell me how that works out.:rolleyes:

I always liked the idea from the last Rings movie.


Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: [smiling] Well, that isn't so bad.
Gandalf: [softly] No... No it isn't.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:09 AM

When we die, we either:

Go to heaven ie: God places all of Erikson's books in front of us with a bottle of scotch.

Go to hell ie: God places all of Goodkind's books in front of us with a bottle of drain cleaner.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:10 AM

@Rodeo: So, you die and go to England. Except more gray and under a swift rainfall.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:17 AM

I'd like to think there is something after death. The idea of total oblivion..seems..boring.

Yet what about the idea of Heaven? What would it be?
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:20 AM

It is the state of your mind during your final moments/eternity.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:22 AM

Lots of people would be enduring extremely unpleasant eternities.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:24 AM

If you mean pain, i think that as your nervous system shuts down there would be a period before your death where you couldn't feel it.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:27 AM

That is an interesting thought Cold Iron.

Then there is the whole reincarnation idea...which is also fascinating...but I think a lot of people want to have a means of continuing on after their corporeal body dies
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:32 AM

The better your life, the "bigger" your soul, and when you die, you contribute more to the universal mega-soul, resulting in more "-ness" to go around...
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:35 AM

Hmmm...so a theory of an "omni-soul" or "over-soul". Well this goes back to my whole theory that the universe is "alive", but I digress.

My dad wants me to help him write a book about this nutso theory he has about computer chips eventually "downloading" your soul and creating immortality...which I'm sure has been at least touched upon in some other type of sci-fi novel/movie...but his theory has a lot of depth to it..

Would that be possible? Guess on what the soul actually is.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:39 AM

Xander;247084 said:

Hmmm...so a theory of an "omni-soul" or "over-soul". Well this goes back to my whole theory that the universe is "alive", but I digress.

My dad wants me to help him write a book about this nutso theory he has about computer chips eventually "downloading" your soul and creating immortality...which I'm sure has been at least touched upon in some other type of sci-fi novel/movie...but his theory has a lot of depth to it..

Would that be possible? Guess on what the soul actually is.


Yeah they did that in the Red Dwarf series.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:41 AM

Alive in this sense still doesn't imply intent :rolleyes:

Also the soul is god. It's everything. It's infinity. A computer can't download it because it's in it.
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Posted 23 January 2008 - 04:42 AM

Cold Iron;247068 said:

If you mean pain, i think that as your nervous system shuts down there would be a period before your death where you couldn't feel it.


Pain isn't always physical. Nice try though.
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