|
Signo
manamana
Registered: 03/05/02
Posts: 1,949
Loc: Purple Haze
Last seen: 17 years, 22 days
|
Die now, or later?
#3209023 - 10/03/04 02:31 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
I have a hypothetical question for you:
Would you prefer to die young and be fondly remembered by all of your friends who continue living, or be the last person you know from youth to die and have no one to keep your memory alive?
-------------------- Correlation is not causation!
|
Moonshoe
Blue Mantis
Registered: 05/28/04
Posts: 27,202
Loc: Iceland
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3209027 - 10/03/04 02:33 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
as long as my quality of life was still good in my old age (i could still think and not be in constant pain) than i would consider it a great blessing to live longer than anyone i knew. Sure it would be a bit lonely but still a gift to experience such a full life, more time to ponder the mystery and prepare for the final journey.
-------------------- Everything I post is fiction.
Edited by Moonshoe (10/03/04 02:33 AM)
|
JacquesCousteau
Being.
Registered: 06/10/03
Posts: 7,825
Loc: Everywhere, Everytime.
Last seen: 1 year, 10 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Moonshoe]
#3209215 - 10/03/04 06:57 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Not to mention it's highly unlikely that you end up being the last one who knew you. Just because they weren't your childhood friends doesn't mean they don't know you. What about children? Grandchildren? Most of us will have a bloodline carrying on below us that won't allow us to be forgotten so easily.
|
Shroomism
Space Travellin
Registered: 02/13/00
Posts: 66,015
Loc: 9th Dimension
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3209255 - 10/03/04 07:24 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
I'll die when I die
--------------------
|
mr crisper
.
Registered: 07/24/00
Posts: 928
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3209274 - 10/03/04 07:45 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
sorry if this sounds cold, but the living keep moving, the dead recede into the past. 2 generations down the line and you will be forgotten. very few of us will be written into the history books.
'be fondly remembered' 'keep your memory alive' these are just products of the ego.
|
Gomp
¡(Bound to·(O))be free!
Registered: 09/11/04
Posts: 10,888
Loc: I re·side [primarily] in...
Last seen: 1 year, 27 days
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: mr crisper]
#3209406 - 10/03/04 09:27 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
im gona write a book! :P
-------------------- -------------------- Disclaimer!?
|
stefan
work in progress
Registered: 04/11/01
Posts: 8,932
Loc: The Netherlands
Last seen: 3 years, 5 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3209411 - 10/03/04 09:30 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
I'll live you can meet new people all the time. if no one remembers me, too bad. When I'm dead I'm not around anyway to worry about that
|
Huehuecoyotl
Fading Slowly
Registered: 06/13/04
Posts: 10,689
Loc: On the Border
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3212346 - 10/04/04 12:43 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Live long and die fulfilled. Fuck being remembered.
-------------------- "A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda
|
Divided_Sky
Ten ThousandThings
Registered: 11/02/03
Posts: 3,171
Loc: The Shining Void
Last seen: 15 years, 9 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3212366 - 10/04/04 12:49 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
I definately need all the time I can get to make sure a) I am ready, b) I have made good karma, c) I have made some positive impact upon the world.
-------------------- 1. "After an hour I wasn't feeling anything so I decided to take another..." 2. "We were feeling pretty good so we decided to smoke a few bowls..." 3. "I had to be real quiet because my parents were asleep upstairs..."
|
silversoul7
Chill the FuckOut!
Registered: 10/10/02
Posts: 27,301
Loc: mndfreeze's puppet army
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Shroomism]
#3212385 - 10/04/04 12:55 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Shroomism said: I'll die when I die
-------------------- "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire
|
Signo
manamana
Registered: 03/05/02
Posts: 1,949
Loc: Purple Haze
Last seen: 17 years, 22 days
|
|
Great thoughts people, Thank you!
-------------------- Correlation is not causation!
|
Shroomerious
OO
Registered: 07/27/03
Posts: 534
Last seen: 13 years, 9 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219030 - 10/05/04 04:15 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Die? Define "Death" please.
--------------------
|
silversoul7
Chill the FuckOut!
Registered: 10/10/02
Posts: 27,301
Loc: mndfreeze's puppet army
|
|
Quote:
Shroomerious said: Die? Define "Death" please.
The end of all body and brain functions.
-------------------- "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire
|
allmakescombined
Boss Man
Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 384
Loc: My Office
Last seen: 19 years, 5 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219187 - 10/05/04 04:53 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Signo said: I have a hypothetical question for you:
Would you prefer to die young and be fondly remembered by all of your friends who continue living, or be the last person you know from youth to die and have no one to keep your memory alive?
Everyone you know goes away in the end. Everyone eventually becomes forgotten after a few generations.
Like ordinary people who lived 1000 years ago and left no foot notes in history. Long forgotten.
-------------------- Get back to work.
|
trendal
J♠
Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
|
|
The end of all body and brain functions. Many bodily functions continue on after what we normally consider "death". Your hair continues to grow and cellular activity does not just halt all of a sudden! Even your brain cells continue to fire after "death". I think a better definition for human death would be "the cessation of brain functioning in such a way that leaves the body uncontrolled". Ie: if your brain is no longer able to keep you conscious, keep your heat beating and your lungs breathing...then you are dead
--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
|
allmakescombined
Boss Man
Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 384
Loc: My Office
Last seen: 19 years, 5 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: trendal]
#3219251 - 10/05/04 05:12 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Death is gonna be so kewl. i cant wait
-------------------- Get back to work.
|
MarkostheGnostic
Elder
Registered: 12/09/99
Posts: 14,279
Loc: South Florida
Last seen: 3 years, 1 month
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219262 - 10/05/04 05:15 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Wow, you must really be young (relatively speaking). At a certain point, life is like escaping a pursuing enemy across a mine field. Those you know are dying all around you but you have to keep running. Running is like breathing - it doesn't even occur to you to stop - you can't stop. You can hardly even slow down to grieve because it's only a matter of time before it's YOUR turn to die. It's not that you don't feel the loss, but you realize as you get older how precious lifetime is and you learn to celebrate each breathing moment, not wallow in a sense of loss or self-pity. I know this sounds cold, but it's not. Each death around you fills your heart with more and more Realization - Love, loss, grief, appreciation, regret for having not loved more. It's not mind-expansion as much as Love-expansion. When my old Daddy's last sibling died, and he was told, he said nothing. He wasn't demented - yet. I don't know what went on with him internally. Then my Dad died in August last. I covered his face and have experienced inner heart-felt states ever since.
No one is gonna visit a grave in 50 years unless it's a historical site. How about in 5,000 years? Maybe a monument the size of the pyramid Khufu/Cheops. How about in 50,000 years or 250,000 years? If Humankind still exists, or exists on Earth, even the pyramids will be sand. It's more productive of a Human life to think of one's smooth transition into Eternity (like getting into a perfectly comfortable bath, rather than one too hot or too cold ) than vainly imagining what temporality will be like without us in it. If we have Eternal value, it is in Eternity, in GOD, not in time. From the perspective of time, whole worlds are born and die, recorded only in the Book of Life. What could the memory of a Human be after the Earth vanishes in the inevitable supernova of our sun?
THINK COSMICALLY !
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
|
Shroomerious
OO
Registered: 07/27/03
Posts: 534
Last seen: 13 years, 9 months
|
|
I don't know what really happens to me from my "dead" point of view so I can not answer the question. What I can say is that I hope something fun and interesting happens and if somehow I find out what it is and I like it better than this world I may take a long walk off a short pier.
I need friends and I suppose that if all my friends die I will try to find some new ones but as my "old" ones are irreplacable(I don't know if this word exists) I will miss them much maybe to a point where I wished I had died first but then again I do not really know what happens when you die and when I asked for the definition of the term I didn't mean medically, evrybody knows that and I don't think that this post's question can be answered using that definition nor actually any other definition, except if you "know something more special" which you would like to share with us.
--------------------
|
Shroomerious
OO
Registered: 07/27/03
Posts: 534
Last seen: 13 years, 9 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219315 - 10/05/04 05:25 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
No one is gonna visit a grave in 50 years unless it's a historical site. How about in 5,000 years? Maybe a monument the size of the pyramid Khufu/Cheops. How about in 50,000 years or 250,000 years? If Humankind still exists, or exists on Earth, even the pyramids will be sand. It's more productive of a Human life to think of one's smooth transition into Eternity (like getting into a perfectly comfortable bath, rather than one too hot or too cold ) than vainly imagining what temporality will be like without us in it. If we have Eternal value, it is in Eternity, in GOD, not in time. From the perspective of time, whole worlds are born and die, recorded only in the Book of Life. What could the memory of a Human be after the Earth vanishes in the inevitable supernova of our sun?
Great thoughts!
--------------------
|
allmakescombined
Boss Man
Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 384
Loc: My Office
Last seen: 19 years, 5 months
|
|
'The lovers are but a thin veil on the ocean of the Beloved' We either disappear in the literal sense, or we disappear into eternity; eternal rahman.
-------------------- Get back to work.
|
Gomp
¡(Bound to·(O))be free!
Registered: 09/11/04
Posts: 10,888
Loc: I re·side [primarily] in...
Last seen: 1 year, 27 days
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219353 - 10/05/04 05:32 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Define "Death" please. - change? ;D
-------------------- -------------------- Disclaimer!?
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 24 minutes, 28 seconds
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219367 - 10/05/04 05:36 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Very nice post Markos!
Your post puts a much more personal level on this discussion, one that I would not be exposed to at this age to the same degree (I assume I'm younger than you). Death may be sad to most, but it doesn't have to be. We have to accept it as an inevitable counterside to life, one that everyone we know, including ourselves will pass through
I definitely agree that one should not be overly attached to the idea of eternalizing our short existences . Accroding to some beliefs, this initiates the act of rebirth, which is a distraction from the timeless perfect state of "God".
--------------------
|
MarkostheGnostic
Elder
Registered: 12/09/99
Posts: 14,279
Loc: South Florida
Last seen: 3 years, 1 month
|
|
Thanks! Thinking doesn't seem to make me any more money, but it helps keep micromanaging administrators in their place.
|
Shroomerious
OO
Registered: 07/27/03
Posts: 534
Last seen: 13 years, 9 months
|
|
--------------------
|
NumberOneEgo
Stranger
Registered: 10/05/04
Posts: 16
Last seen: 19 years, 3 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3219749 - 10/05/04 07:12 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
i would like to die later so i can drink more glasses of milk, i love milk..
|
Frog
Warrior
Registered: 10/22/03
Posts: 4,284
Loc: The Zero Point Field
Last seen: 11 years, 2 months
|
Re: Die now, or later? [Re: Signo]
#3221051 - 10/05/04 11:04 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Good question. I agree with those that wrote "die whenever." I don't care who remembers me. I care about what I do along the way towards death.
Of course, a long procession line following my casket won't be dissuaded.
-------------------- The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Teilard
|
|