Death, how do you feel about it?

hubbertspeak7777777 · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 07, 2007 Posts: 487

I chose the last option. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Everyday life is like a boxing match with an opponent who can kick your ass with ease and the match only ends when you die and your only get breaks when you sleep. The odds are always against you and you can expect to receive an emotional and psychological beating everday. Everything you want is always just out of your reach. Life is stressful, scary, humiliating, unforgiving and not worth the hassle. Sure there are a few enjoyable moments here and there like sex or smoking a cigarette, but overall it's crap. It would be great if I had been aborted.

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1361

It seems indeed that there is no smooth sailing for anyone of us. Life get's you, the one way or another. This leads to the conclusion that the purpose of the whole exercise must be that a matrix is provided in and upon which one is able to learn and conclude, for the most part through the outcome of one's actions and interactions.

The idea is that one checks out at the end (personal death) with a broader knowledge from experience, since everyone who checks in is bound to have experiences, no matter how benign, interesting, boring, trivial etc. The kind of experience on has is secondary, one could even state irrelevant. Whithead states: To fear death is to misunderstand life: link

Terrence McKenna comes closest in wording it well.
Check YouTube entries about him. Eros and Eschaton for instance. Also quite remarkable: Dec. 2012 has been determined by him independently from Jose Arguelles, who promoted the Mayan calender, as a pivotal date for that change. McKenna calls it Omega point.

He speculates that time could be annihilated in its current definition for instance. McKenna certainly recognized the magnitude of what's to come. It is something much larger than death.

lper100km · Last edited by lper100km on Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:05 am; edited 1 time in total

The original content of this post was in response to a post by anagami that I thought was particularly offensive.

The post by anagami has since been removed, rendering my post unneccesary.

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1361

lper100km

albente: see above

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1361

OK, let's disregard the missing messages then and focus on the subject matter of mortality:
Are you ready to be confronted with this entity or do you prefer to hide behind constructs that promise eternal live?

lper100km

albente: See my post on page 2

MadScientist · Heavy Crude Joined: May 19, 2004 Posts: 418

I rarely think about death. My freethinking time gets spent on how to keep my family alive and loved to the very best of my ability.

There's wisdom there that I first learned in USMC bootcamp. And it's one of the fundamentals of leadership.
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madison · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 12, 2005 Posts: 255

I remember four past live and two of my deaths.

Been there, done that. Again and again and again, lol!

I don't fear death, but I do fear dying and living in horrible conditions on earth prior to death.

albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1361