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Well I am eventually, but like every once and awhile i'll see or read something that triggers this reality check in my mind where "I'm going to die some day and I don't know when and I don't know how but that'll be it and all even though I may be married to someone i'm still far away from them, and i'm gonna have to go through it alone and it's terrible."
Dont worry I have spent alot of time with people who are or have died and death is not what you think. What you need to do,and Im not telling you what to do is:Spend some time with the elderly and ask them their views on death you will be surprised.
Your left-brain constructed 'ego' which is like a little container in which you're bouncing around, is going to eventually perish, yes. But you don't need to stop functioning your organism to do that, you can manually undo this conditioned response to reality called the ego with force. "Peel back the layers of the onion" so they say. Your real identity lies at the center.
-------------------- we must strive against all ill-formed resistance to attain the chalice of a higher spiritual awakening
There's nothing there.
"Dreams: at the bottom of them lies the merciless onslaught of reality."
That's the beauty of the system. You don't have to be ready for it or able to handle it. It happens anyway. Resistance is futile. I accepted my situation long ago because I was born with a terminal condition.
-------------------- "A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting." - Carlos Castaneda
Worrying about death is pointless. You will die anyway. There are no other guarantees.
If you're worried about losing your life, why burn it away with anxiety? Live your life, you can die any time no matter how much or little you worry. Worry won't help you 'dodge' death. Think of all the people who have ever lived over the centuries. Every thing they ever did, every worry they ever had, has been washed away for good. Hopefully they took the time to enjoy it while it was happening.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
P.S - Death is inevitable, it is part of the cycle of life.
Just live your life in the now. Live your life and enjoy it. Don't worry about death until you are dead. Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of not living life. Death is a natural part of Life. Live your life and enjoy it.
We don't know what awaits us at death. I'm of the opinion that my soul is eternal, so who cares about dying. But that's just me. We do know that life can be totally awesome if you make it that way for yourself.
So live your life, and enjoy it.
-------------------- Return is the movement of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
All things are born of being.
Being is born of non-being.
Quote: Burbles said: Want to give me a reason why (biological) aging cannot be cured?
Seriously, you could win up to 10,000 USD if you can give a reason why aging can't be cured... research it lol
Aging is the passing of time. Even if you're in the same physical shape at 60 as you were at 50, you have aged ten years no matter what. Some people age well, some don't.
You said aging can be cured. That's quite different than saying we have not yet discovered a reason why its effects can't be cured or prevented. We can prevent or slow indefinitely some of the physiological effects of aging on a human body, but there is no cure for aging.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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