How often do you think about death?

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
Sooo, instead of depressing yourself, why don't you do something that will make your parents proud? Feel good about yourself for making them happy.


Man, I think that was the first positive post I've ever made here.

I have already done PLENTY to do that. That's not the issue. In fact, it's not an issue for them at all. This is my issue.

 

[Whitecloak]

I welcome it.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Very frequently actually. Its almost an everyday thing. I probably fear death, as I am enjoying my life right now. I love playing my guitar, and I know one day I wont be able to play it anymore. I always wonder what it is like to die. I dont believe in an afterlife, god or anything. I guess I will have to find out if such afterlife or god exists when I pass away. Maybe death is like a deep sleep, but one you never wake up from. Who knows.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I know many of you do not believe in God but I just keep the faith so that when I die I can get to heaven. I hope it exists and I hope I get there.

I was raised a Christian...but my faith wavors...and I wonder if there truly is a party after the fat lady sings...these days I'm not too convinced.

Of course you shouldn't be convinced. Every human concept of life after death is based on nothing except wishful thinking.

Personally, I think about death from time to time, and I imagine it would be just like before I was born..

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I know many of you do not believe in God but I just keep the faith so that when I die I can get to heaven. I hope it exists and I hope I get there.

I was raised a Christian...but my faith wavors...and I wonder if there truly is a party after the fat lady sings...these days I'm not too convinced.

Same here, raised as a Christian, believed since I was a little kid. The only thing that keeps me believing is that there must be something some place maybe even reincarnation if not then where the hell did we come from and who created or what created all the other planets etc. I know this can be debated or some will say evolution but whatever, I still believe.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I know many of you do not believe in God but I just keep the faith so that when I die I can get to heaven. I hope it exists and I hope I get there.

I was raised a Christian...but my faith wavors...and I wonder if there truly is a party after the fat lady sings...these days I'm not too convinced.

Same here, raised as a Christian, believed since I was a little kid. The only thing that keeps me believing is that there must be something some place maybe even reincarnation if not then where the hell did we come from and who created or what created all the other planets etc. I know this can be debated or some will say evolution but whatever, I still believe.

In other words, wishful thinking...

 

[Udel]

Frequently. More about family and friends though.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: Random Variable
I think about death every time I visit ATOT.

I think he meant impending, not inflicting.

:laugh:

 

[Stretchman]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
I think about death every time I visit ATOT.

Lol.....

 

[gooseman]

I'm 42, will be 43 next month and I find myself thinking about it all the time. I read the obituaries in the paper every day and see all these people my age or below that have died. It makes you start to think about it. I've survived a brain tumor and the surgery that followed and just wonder how much more there is.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: gooseman
I'm 42, will be 43 next month and I find myself thinking about it all the time. I read the obituaries in the paper every day and see all these people my age or below that have died. It makes you start to think about it. I've survived a brain tumor and the surgery that followed and just wonder how much more there is.

I'd say you were given another lease on life...

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: scottish144
I don't think about it much at all, but hey I'm 17 with a pretty nice life. I abstain from the whole afterlife buisness. It gives me more motivation, as I know there will be nothing after I die. This may sound depressing, but when u think about, nothing is nothing. You don't exist. You're not consious to experiance this nonexistance, so there is not pain or boredom. Death may stop life, but death is not torment. Granted, I will not accpet death openly either, as I can do MUCH more alive than dead.

How do you know that nothing is nothing?
Without experiencing nothing, how can you assume that there isn't something in nothing?

I've been around a little while, and if there's anything I've learned, it's that I don't know shyt about shyt. The more I learn, the less I know. I've found that's how the seach for knowledge works.

When I was younger I believed wholeheartedly in absolutes. Right was right, wrong was wrong, up was up, and down was down.
Fact is, it ain't so.
Reality is what our perception makes it, and nothing is finite.

I get through the days thanking a God that I don't understand for all the wonderful things around me, and praying for patience and tolerance.
My God guides my perception and I'm a hell of a lot better for it.
So far as the afterlife goes, I figure it's none of my business what happens after I die.
I never bothered to worry what I was before I was born, and I have yet to hear a theory on that that involves me being created out of "nothing".

 

[Analog]

If you really look inside, you'll see that your spirit, body and mind are really intertwined. I think that if you deny your spiritual side, you're not really living, but just existing.

Death, in my opinion, is the end of your mind and body, but not the end of your spirit. On these forums, religion is bashed pretty hard, but look at the posts above, I think that too many people deny their spirituality, no matter what faith, or mostly lack of. Too many people that are just existing. Now that is depressing.

 

[BMdoobieW]

once in a while

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I mean, many of us here are young, between the ages of 15 and 35 I would say. I am 25. But does anyone else ever catch him/herself, in the midst of doing something fun and youthful, having thoughts about the day that will inevitably come when you will fade away (hopefully peacefully) and cease to exist? Does it ever hit you like a ton of bricks in the middle of your happiness? And if not about your own death, do you ever think about the day, knowing how much your parents love you, when you have to watch them die in front of you?

I have these thoughts from time to time, and they get me so depressed.

Just wondering if I'm the only one...

live for today. why dwell on death?

i hope when i die i have lived a full life and am ready for it, because i am far from ready right now.

 

[scottish144]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: scottish144
I don't think about it much at all, but hey I'm 17 with a pretty nice life. I abstain from the whole afterlife buisness. It gives me more motivation, as I know there will be nothing after I die. This may sound depressing, but when u think about, nothing is nothing. You don't exist. You're not consious to experiance this nonexistance, so there is not pain or boredom. Death may stop life, but death is not torment. Granted, I will not accpet death openly either, as I can do MUCH more alive than dead.

How do you know that nothing is nothing?
Without experiencing nothing, how can you assume that there isn't something in nothing?

I've been around a little while, and if there's anything I've learned, it's that I don't know shyt about shyt. The more I learn, the less I know. I've found that's how the seach for knowledge works.

When I was younger I believed wholeheartedly in absolutes. Right was right, wrong was wrong, up was up, and down was down.
Fact is, it ain't so.
Reality is what our perception makes it, and nothing is finite.

I get through the days thanking a God that I don't understand for all the wonderful things around me, and praying for patience and tolerance.
My God guides my perception and I'm a hell of a lot better for it.
So far as the afterlife goes, I figure it's none of my business what happens after I die.
I never bothered to worry what I was before I was born, and I have yet to hear a theory on that that involves me being created out of "nothing".

K, first of all, I didn't say that we were BORN out of nothing, cause we're NOT. Everything is born from a cell formed during sex. Every middle school kid knows that.

Second of all, let me state my religious beleifs. I am a confirmed skeptic. I don't believe in any god, but I don't denounce their existance either. I'll believe it when I see it. If someday it is proven to me beyond doubt that God/Allah/Ogun/Thor/Zeus/Medusa/some paegan animal spirit is god, then I will accept it as truth.

Third of all, I am well aware that reality is what our perception makes it. In fact, there is a theory in physics that matter can be created out of nothing (big bang theory). Regardless, if I peecieve something to be nothing, then it is so, regardless of how true that view may be. Unless I percieve anything other than nothing, then, for all intensive purposes, the state in question IS nothing.

 

[JEDI]

russian roulette anyone?

for those hardcore, how about an automatic?

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
I pray for death every time I visit ATOT.

fixed

 

[BrokenVisage]

Damn, just started thinking about it.. truely sucks.

 

[YoshiSato]

I have become death..destoryer of worlds

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Codegen
It kinda sucks for me.

My days since I started JHS have been pretty much wake up, piss away time, go to school, piss away more time. Come back from school, piss away more time. Go to bed, repeat.

Be grateful for every single moment you're in school and not like the rest of the working world...yet.