Shantanu
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You are right: I forgot molecules.Uhhh...no...you might want to revisit you're basic physics...
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You are right: I forgot molecules.Uhhh...no...you might want to revisit you're basic physics...
Well, not quite. They were organic materials in a world where particular microorganisms and larger little critters that live on organic materials consumed and reshaped them. The identity which any observer originally associated with those organic materials no longer exists outside of memory.But the compost, although seemingly dead, was reborn into the different vegetables I harvested. The composted material did not just deconstruct and disappear, the material simply changed into another form of being and continued to exist.
Death is something that happens to the others. You will not die in your world, but you will eventually die in everyone else's.
Yikes! I hope when I do die, I stay dead. Except in the minds of my living family and friends. After that, most of us are gone forever unless you make it into a history book or some other type of public remembrance. Even then, it's not really you they are knowing. Just blips about your life.
Dying is a good ending to a long life lived well.
Well, not quite. They were organic materials in a world where particular microorganisms and larger little critters that live on organic materials consumed and reshaped them. The identity which any observer originally associated with those organic materials no longer exists outside of memory.
If you are talking about being recycled into other materials like everything organic on the planet, I agree.Your true self never experiences "death".
Death is something that happens to the others. You will not die in your world, but you will eventually die in everyone else's.
Indeed, not the elements constituting the materials, nor many of the molecules. Just the identity of any particular critter, and the critterness of any particular identity.Still the material did not simply cease to exist. If I'm not mistaken there's some silly law somewhere that says matter can't be destroyed...ya da...ya da...
Interesting thought. I have considered it often. Not sure if I really think it's true, but...Death is something that happens to the others. You will not die in your world, but you will eventually die in everyone else's.
Death is something that happens to the others. You will not die in your world, but you will eventually die in everyone else's.
No, I don't think so. There's only one world and I will die in it along with everyone else.
I agree completely. Though I have no fear of death I can't say I am in any hurry to get there!
Your true self never experiences "death".
Of course it does. True self (soul, spirit, etc) are things that help us in this life. When there is no brain to think about self. No body to live it. No mind to experience it. Poof! Nothing left.
But do we entertain the idea we will be nothing (no self no body)? If we cant, I wonder if we are taking reality for granted as we enjoy being the emperor with no clothes but uncomfortable when they found out they are naked the whole time. Eh.
Obviously you have never lived with someone that talks to dead people.
I have talked to dead people but that was a hallucination caused by God.Obviously you have never lived with someone that talks to dead people.
You would be surprised (no pun?) I live with people in their 80s in a senior and disability home where talk about death and dying (and people dying) is pretty much a day to day thing. Grief does put a spin and nature of insight from what I thought before and now. That, and it isnt an ancient mystery of the cosmos. We die. Thats it.
I notice people show their true self in the living not in the dying. People's worldview for the hope of the future and their lives changed with the blessings of god is so embedded in their DNA that to tell them they will die even at 90 does rock peoples boats. I dont know if people entertain it because of the uncomfortable nature of it. Nowadays, I do more and more often.
But, if you're talking about Six Sense, I do believe the spirits of the deceased communicate. Just not in the external signs of opening and shutting cabinets (many people have that, mother included) and feathers on the ground.
There is death to all self. Why think there is anything more? I understand why people hope and have faith but to express it as fact?
I have talked to dead people but that was a hallucination caused by God.
Kind of interesting. Don't know if I'm a believer. Not a disbeliever. Have you a journal where you jot down your thoughts and/or experiences. Not for debate or even discussion, just so interested folk can read?I'm talking about living with a true medium. It is very reassuring.