Death

[Going411x7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Going411x7]

Not modern Hebrew--just the biblical Hebrew.

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

I should really pick your brain....

[Going411x7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Going411x7]

You're always welcome to pick my brain, camaro, especially about penis enlargement.

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

Prepare to be boarded!

[Going411x7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Going411x7]

We're going to have to put you to work, mate!!

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

I'm gonna send a few hundred PM's your way soon...

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

There will never be a sure-fire answer, but I just thought of this concept of Heaven and Hell. Perhaps Heaven and Hell are merely the last thoughts we have as living beings. To elaborate: Heaven has many positive concepts attached to it. Some of my ideas may be wrong, because I am completely atheist and don't know much about the bible. I know an acceptance of death is a big piece of dying. Also, when we die, our brains are flooded with hormones. Maybe heaven is merely a flood of positive hormones, brought on by the Acceptance of life and death. Someone who has lived a positive life will be more likely to accept death with open arms. It could be this acceptance that brings about positive hormones. Hell could merely be a dying dread. A dread that we didn't live our life the way we wanted to, or should have. Hell could be a Realization that we wasted our life on unimportant things, and there is no possible way to change this, as we are dying/almost dead. Imagine that feeling!! The feeling that our last thought will be one of regret, pain, suffering. In this moment, it will seem eternal. Hence eternal suffering. The fact that we lived our life in pain, hatred, resentment, suffering, and there is no going back. Someone who has lived positively and affected others lives in a good way won't have that. They will accept death with open arms, glad to be rid of pain and suffering that is profound and inevitable in all living creatures.

Hmmmmm. I'm curious what other people think of my ideas

[Nachos87 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nachos87]

There will never be a sure-fire answer, but I just thought of this concept of Heaven and Hell. Perhaps Heaven and Hell are merely the last thoughts we have as living beings. To elaborate: Heaven has many positive concepts attached to it. Some of my ideas may be wrong, because I am completely atheist and don't know much about the bible. I know an acceptance of death is a big piece of dying. Also, when we die, our brains are flooded with hormones. Maybe heaven is merely a flood of positive hormones, brought on by the Acceptance of life and death. Someone who has lived a positive life will be more likely to accept death with open arms. It could be this acceptance that brings about positive hormones. Hell could merely be a dying dread. A dread that we didn't live our life the way we wanted to, or should have. Hell could be a Realization that we wasted our life on unimportant things, and there is no possible way to change this, as we are dying/almost dead. Imagine that feeling!! The feeling that our last thought will be one of regret, pain, suffering. In this moment, it will seem eternal. Hence eternal suffering. The fact that we lived our life in pain, hatred, resentment, suffering, and there is no going back. Someone who has lived positively and affected others lives in a good way won't have that. They will accept death with open arms, glad to be rid of pain and suffering that is profound and inevitable in all living creatures.

Hmmmmm. I'm curious what other people think of my ideas

Good stuff.

I only don't agree that pain and suffering are inevitable. Those are the products of the mind and mind alone.
Also, you answered to my "we will find a way to live infinitely" with something like "death will never be avoidable". Care to elaborate? Is it based on something concrete or is it just your opinion? Because never is one strong word.

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

Good stuff.

I only don't agree that pain and suffering are inevitable. Those are the products of the mind and mind alone.
Also, you answered to my "we will find a way to live infinitely" with something like "death will never be avoidable". Care to elaborate? Is it based on something concrete or is it just your opinion? Because never is one strong word.

Pain and suffering ARE inevitable. As humans, we all have weaknesses, and must learn. If we never faced pain, suffering, turmoil, we would not need to learn, because we would already have all the answers, yes? Have you ever been hurt in your life? Of course you have. It is how we deal with this pain that makes us who we are. And yes, NEVER is a very strong word. But as humans, we will truly never know all the answers. Otherwise we wouldn't be human!! If we could live individually, with all of our knowledge, at the beginning of the birth of earth, when everything was natural, then maybe we would have a fighting chance at living forever. BUT, we can't, and never will have this oppurtunity. We will all die, simple as that. Live and learn.

[Qarzan Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Qarzan]

My point of view: personal opinions are personal opinions. They don't have to make sense, they don't have to be right to the exclusivity of everyone else being wrong, there can be inconsistencies in logic when it comes to beliefs. And it's ok to say, "I don't know."

I feel like the technology to make humans live forever is coming, very soon. Whether or not we can or will actually do it is another thing entirely. There's a whole buttload of ethics and philosophy that goes along with it. One of my friends asked me if I would undergo a procedure to make me pretty much immortal. The situation he gave, was to inject myself with some nanomachines that repair and replace dead and dying cells in my body. He said that he definitely would. I said that I definitely would not. My reason being: after a few hundred years, I would get bored. Also, in order to make room for the new, the old must perish.

[Toadstool Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toadstool]

I'd opt to live forever. Just think of all the skills and knowledge you can acquire. Just think of all the places you can visit, books you can read, stuff you would otherwise not have been able to do.
Nanomachines can't protect you from a bullet to the head, so there is always the fear and promise of death. I could be a doctor, a mechanic, an expert martial artist and a monk all at the same time.
Sounds rather appealing.

[Realman Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Realman]

If we lived forever life is no longer special and the whole we be so over populated ,we would have to find a new planet to live on by then.

[Toadstool Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toadstool]

Some people live the normal amount of years and still don't see life as special. Some people off themselves early and some people choose to go and kill for a living. That stuff would all stay the same. Others see life as special now and would continue to see it as special.

It would be pretty cool if we colonized another planet! I wonder how long the customs for intergalactic travel would be...

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Toads don't fly except when they eat burritos and then they propel themselves. Hey how do you know when a moth farts? Yup you guessed it; he flies straight!

[Nachos87 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Nachos87]

Pain and suffering ARE inevitable. As humans, we all have weaknesses, and must learn. If we never faced pain, suffering, turmoil, we would not need to learn, because we would already have all the answers, yes? Have you ever been hurt in your life? Of course you have. It is how we deal with this pain that makes us who we are.

What I meant is that the events are what we make them. There is no good or bad. There is just what is good or bad to us. It is you who's making yourself suffer, instead of some event being the cause of it.

You don't have to suffer to learn something out of it.

And yes, NEVER is a very strong word. But as humans, we will truly never know all the answers. Otherwise we wouldn't be human!!

That is currently your definition of being human. It used to be something else, before this righteous "everyone is equal" society. It will be something else in the future.

If we could live individually, with all of our knowledge, at the beginning of the birth of earth, when everything was natural, then maybe we would have a fighting chance at living forever. BUT, we can't, and never will have this oppurtunity. We will all die, simple as that. Live and learn.

Everything was natural? Opportunity for what? You seem to be spewing nonsense. Don't tell me you're one of those that feels sorry for himself and that death will be his salvation. Dying is nothing noble.

Living forever will be the matter of tweaking some parts of the DNA. Death makes no sense to me whatsoever.