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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2010 at 21:37
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:



Everything is nothing. Including nothing.

Don't forget that nothing is everything. Wink

Also none of this exists, we are all figments of our own imaginations which don't really exist either because we don't really exist...


Nothing exists anyway, as far as we know. The only thing we know definitively is that we exist as pure thought, (as Descartes said).
Outside of that...well you may be just a brain floating in a vat, being fed false sensations right now!

I don't believe you, you don't exist. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2010 at 21:46
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:



Everything is nothing. Including nothing.

Don't forget that nothing is everything. Wink

Also none of this exists, we are all figments of our own imaginations which don't really exist either because we don't really exist...


Nothing exists anyway, as far as we know. The only thing we know definitively is that we exist as pure thought, (as Descartes said).
Outside of that...well you may be just a brain floating in a vat, being fed false sensations right now!

I don't believe you, you don't exist. Tongue


Of course I don't.
Nor do you! Shocked
Everything we know as our lives is just one giant illusion being fed to Slarti (whos a brain in a vat).


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 04:16
I took an epistemology class once. It probably was the closest experience to being dead that I've had.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 04:48
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

I took an epistemology class once. It probably was the closest experience to being dead that I've had.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 09:39
Leaving the afterlife possibility out of this discussion, my take about that is:

I couldn't care less about that. Death is something that happens to everybody. I think all the problems with death come from problems in accepting the reality. People should not care about things they can't do anything about. Dead people remain dead regardless of what you do to yourself while thinking on them. When I die, all the rest will keep on, and I can't do anything about what is left.

So why worry about death?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 09:59
^ All very pragmatic certainly but it's not the being dead part that's the killer, it's the dying part that people are uncomfortable with
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 10:07
It could be that the universe is one gigantic fabric or tapestry and the things it is comprised of (possibly including life like us) are constantly being "spun or interwoven" as part of "the playing field"
        
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2010 at 16:25
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

It could be that the universe is one gigantic fabric or tapestry and the things it is comprised of (possibly including life like us) are constantly being "spun or interwoven" as part of "the playing field"
        
And if "Mother Universe" decides that all of a sudden, she does not like the design, and decides that it needs a quick,big, and aggressive alteration, or thinks of throwing it out completely, i tell you, fellow humans, we are going to be "up  sh$# creek without a paddle" in the most literal sense of the term!
           who really  knows what the future holds in store?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 11:14
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Do you think this thread will ever die? LOL


looks like it's about to
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 17:27
He's dead, Jim.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 18:19
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

Well you know, there's always that "choice" in movies where the hero has to pick between his kid and his wife. I've never really gotten that, the child is obviously the correct choice. Children are the future.


The child isn't the correct choice because "children are the future."  The child is the correct choice because the husband and wife love their child more than they do each other.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 20:11
looks like anybody who thought that this thread was over was "dead wrong"LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 20:13
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

He's dead, Jim.

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 22:02
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

He's dead, Jim.

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.
NO KILL I
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 22:12
Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

He's dead, Jim.

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.
NO KILL I

ssssszzzzzzz LOL

By the way, CBS.com has old Star Trek episodes on streaming. Cool

Also, if you're wearing a red shirt, you are in extreme danger as far as the series goes, unless of course you are Scottish. Tongue

RIP James Doohan.


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 16 2010 at 22:32
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 23:55
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

He's dead, Jim.

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.
NO KILL I

ssssszzzzzzz LOL

By the way, CBS.com has old Star Trek episodes on streaming. Cool

Also, if you're wearing a red shirt, you are in extreme danger as far as the series goes, unless of course you are Scottish. Tongue

RIP James Doohan.
 
What?! Thats insane. Thanks for te info. I'll have to watch a couple soon. Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2010 at 00:47
....an unavoidable juncture..........All that you can't leave behind
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2010 at 01:46
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

He's dead, Jim.

I'm a doctor not a bricklayer.
NO KILL I

ssssszzzzzzz LOL

By the way, CBS.com has old Star Trek episodes on streaming. Cool

Also, if you're wearing a red shirt, you are in extreme danger as far as the series goes, unless of course you are Scottish. Tongue

RIP James Doohan.


Indeed, muggers demanding money are feared more by the Scots than phasers on 'kill' setting
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