what would you do if death never came and no one seemed to be willing to acknowledge it. what if death never came and you forgot that it was supposed to. what if, as you get old, you go senile, and cease to be aware that you exist long before you die. or, you just go from being aware of your life to being aware only of dream, long before your heart stops.
Originally posted by Sophie
It stops being emitted. Light is a function of electromagnetism, when the conditions required for there to be light stop being met, there will be no light.
Well, I thought it was a good example. It's more suited for the ignorant. Your knowledge of science puts you on another level.
It was a good example of what death is like, in a way.
It really can be like flicking a switch. One moment you're there, the next you aren't. You no longer exist, there's just nothing. It's something that most people have a hard time grasping because of course you can't experience non-existence. Although, I suppose the closest thing is when you're sleeping and don't dream, or at least don't remember dreaming. Imagine just going to sleep and never waking up. You aren't suffering, you aren't in fear or pain, because there no longer is any you to experience, it's just nothingness.
Most people simply cannot come to terms with this. Religion has been called the opioid of the masses for a good reason, it's a very difficult and unnerving subject to fully understand and come to terms with, to accept.
Dwelling on it won't do you any good, of course. Best to just be alive, be in the present, focus on whatever makes you happy. At some point it will either happen or it won't. No man knows the hour. Even the suicidal can't be certain of when they'll finally be pushed over the edge.
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Death is definitely the end of our story. But it's not the end of the story. Who knows, after an infinity of years, perhaps our expanding pocket of space that we call a single universe might clash with another pocket of expansion.
Originally posted by Captain Falcon
Death is definitely the end of our story. But it's not the end of the story. Who knows, after an infinity of years, perhaps our expanding pocket of space that we call a single universe might clash with another pocket of expansion.
this is true. death is to life as night is to day, but, you're still the only YOU you get.
I thought I had posted this before, must have been in another thread. Copy paste from a quick lookup:
"death is nothing to us." When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
Epicurus has one of the most concise and sound explanations of death I've come across.
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Originally posted by Malice
I thought I had posted this before, must have been in another thread. Copy paste from a quick lookup:
Epicurus has one of the most concise and sound explanations of death I've come across.
you're fucking stupid as fuck. you are trying so motherfucking hard to look smart, and you're like, going through every possible 'wannabe-pinhead dweeb' cliche in betabetical fucking order.
reality check: that test didn't tell you that you're autistic. it just told you that you're stupid.
I was dead for many years. I'm the authority here when it comes to death. What happens is you go to Rainbow Road from MarioKart and you simply race forever or until you come back to life.
actually I don't know, I'm tossing up whether it would be more disrespectful for someone to dig up my corpse and have sex with it or to use it as a road bobsled
Originally posted by snab_snib
you're fucking stupid as fuck. you are trying so motherfucking hard to look smart, and you're like, going through every possible 'wannabe-pinhead dweeb' cliche in betabetical fucking order.
reality check: that test didn't tell you that you're autistic. it just told you that you're stupid.
I counter with what I consider, in my expert/superior as a critique of the finest works man has produced, the most profound quote from a film that reached the epitome of intellectual calibre and depth:
I don't think you'll ever be able to post again on this site after having been so thoroughly dominated in debate.
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Originally posted by Malice
I counter with what I consider, in my expert/superior as a critique of the finest works man has produced, the most profound quote from a film that reached the epitome of intellectual calibre and depth:
