Are we all really gonna die ?

Cyrus · #1 03-20-2006, 03:45 AM

Sklansky, George W Bush, Rove, Kerry, the White House cleaning lady, every soldier fighting in Iraq, every insurgent fighting in Iraq, the Russians, the Chinese, the good poker players, the bad poker players, the main players, the other players, the extras, the help, everybody is gonna die. In a hundred years there will be no one reading this still alive. Not even the memory he even existed maybe.

Isn't there something that can be done? This is too horrible.

IronDragon1 · #2 03-20-2006, 03:49 AM

spanshcastlemagc · #3 03-20-2006, 04:15 AM

horrible maybe, unavoidable - definately

carpe diem

amirite · #4 03-20-2006, 04:37 AM

It happens.

Prodigy54321 · #5 03-20-2006, 04:58 AM

I hear Christ is coming back before that happens [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

MidGe · #6 03-20-2006, 05:07 AM

Yes, we will all die. We will die in different circumstances though. Some will die in their sleep, that is they simply will not wake up. Some will die in terrifying , horrible and painful circumstances. Some will die with a sense of relief, perhaps in dignity thru euthanasia, having had enough of life. Some will be desperate to delay death by another instant. But at the end we will all be dead, then forgotten, and our lives will soon become totally inconsequential to humanity or even the universe.

"ave, munde, morituri te salutant"

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Phil153 · #7 03-20-2006, 06:13 AM

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Isn't there something that can be done? This is too horrible.

[/ QUOTE ]That's why kids were invented.

Copernicus · #8 03-20-2006, 10:06 AM

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Isn't there something that can be done? This is too horrible.

[/ QUOTE ]That's why kids were invented.

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Do you mean they were invented to make death a relief instead of something horrible? I thought that was wives.

bunny · #9 03-20-2006, 10:10 AM

I dont understand why this is horrible. Life is amazing for its own sake - it doesnt matter how long it lasts. (Or if anyone remembers it).

#10 03-20-2006, 10:21 AM

Cyrus when you die you return to the state you were in before you were conceived. Is that no-state? Well it might be. Is it absolute nothingness? Well maybe. Yet YOU, a frisky little Cyrus, somehow popped out of that state of absolute nothingness or no-state or whatever it was, and eventually became the Cyrus of today [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] So, here's the question for ya: if you can somehow emerge from non-existence once, what makes you think you can't do it again? Would a scenario of non-existence, brief existence, then non-existence forever after, make more sense than a scenario of non-existence, existence, non-existence, existence, non-existence, existence, non-.......why should the first pattern make more sense than the second pattern? You did not exist and then you existed. If you (or your consciousness or sense of self-awareness, to look at it another way) can emerge from non-existence to existence once, why couldn't it happen again?

I'm not claiming that it WILL happen again, but look at the precedent established, and wonder and think. That's all.