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kor anon
Amarr
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:19:00 -
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Despite the fact it is regarded as a rather grim subject, I'd like to ask the OOPE what they beleive when it comes to death, and whether they are afraid of it, think of it alot, etc.
Personally I'm not afraid of death itself. I don't know why I should be afraid of the most natural thing in the universe, and something that is ultimately inevitable whatever i do. The only thing i fear is my life to be without meaning, quite simply put I want to be remembered for a long long time. What do I think happens when you die? Nothing, no afterlife, no reincarnation. Try to remember anything about last nights sleep, that is what I think death is, nothingness. |
Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:24:00 -
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Well...I don't believe in relgion, after life, spirtual stuff, hocus pocus and all that jazz.
I don't believe in God and all that, but I don't consider myself Atheist or anything. I claim no titles as they are a gravity well for stereotypes.
So...ever had one of those dreams where you're asleep...all you see is darkness...yet you're semi concious to it and nothing happens at all? I think death is like that. Just without the conciousness part.
I think it's a lot like blacking out. No blood going to the brain makes you pass out. Everything goes black. If your brain continues to not receive blood, it stays black/unconcious.
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:28:00 -
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The immediate events leading to death are a frightening prospect I do not like to think about, but the state itself, meh. I am not afraid of non-being, which is what I expect. |
bff Jill
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:31:00 -
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Nobody knows, we have no direct evidence to go on, anyone claiming anything is biased by personal opinion. Everyone finds out soon enough.
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kor anon
Amarr
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:32:00 -
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 Originally by: bff Jill
Nobody knows, we have no direct evidence to go on, anyone claiming anything is biased by personal opinion. Everyone finds out soon enough.
You never find out :P Your too dead to notice
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Terradyne Networks
Terradyne Networks Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:33:00 -
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When it comes to the actual act of dieing, which has been twice now, I remain quite calm which amazes doctors.
Overall I have no real issues with death. I already understand that my life is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. If I die in 30 years or in 30 minutes it makes no difference to me because I'll be dead. A handful of people will mourn for a week and the world will move on and everything that I have said and done will mean nothing in the future.
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:34:00 -
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Death brings nothing to be afraid of.
The moments just before then can be a truly terrifying experience.
I don't fear nothing. I fear suffering.
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Ideas for: Mining
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Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:35:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
Death brings nothing to be afraid of.
The moments just before then can be a truly terrifying experience.
I don't fear nothing. I fear suffering.
Which is why when I die, if it's not in my sleep I hope it's instantaneous enough for me not to even be capable of thinking about it.
Being in a plane crash is probably one of the most scariest moments of your life...knowing your life is going to end within less than a few minutes...
CCP Atlas - The Short Story - "With Quantum Rise, we kind of messed up the performance of the EVE client."
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7shining7one7
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:39:00 -
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWcjXuqICf0&feature=PlayList&p=3296E37DDE1473E7&index=0&playnext=1
watch it if you're bored sometime or w/e
o/
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kor anon
Amarr
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:41:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWcjXuqICf0&feature=PlayList&p=3296E37DDE1473E7&index=0&playnext=1
watch it if you're bored sometime or w/e
o/
It seems fate does not like your link
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Roymundo
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:43:00 -
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Originally by: Karrade Krise
Originally by: Abrazzar
Death brings nothing to be afraid of.
The moments just before then can be a truly terrifying experience.
I don't fear nothing. I fear suffering.
Which is why when I die, if it's not in my sleep I hope it's instantaneous enough for me not to even be capable of thinking about it.
Being in a plane crash is probably one of the most scariest moments of your life...knowing your life is going to end within less than a few minutes...
i'd love to pop my clogs while sky-diving.
i just know some sick twisted part of me would be singing the paratroopers song....
"gory gory, what a helluva way to die!"
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Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:48:00 -
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Burning to death, Drowning, or being buried alive.
Other than that I think I could cope. Not afraid of death, Just the dying part 
But I do believe in something after death. I think the Big Bang is the most ******ed load of crap ever, and for it to be an actual scientific theory just boggles my mind. Last Time I lit an M80 I didn't get a miniature universe  There is just way to many coincidences for this all to be "just by chance". I know I'm in the minority on these forums and I'll be eaten alive, but oh well.
Besides, I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down |
Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:50:00 -
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As long as I don't wake up dead...
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7shining7one7
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:50:00 -
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Originally by: kor anon
It seems fate does not like your link
well imo fate is nothing but the direction in which you are currently heading unless you realize you have a choice in changing the direction.
and i just changed the direction, and now the link works..
whereas you grabbed a potential outcome had i not "changed the direction".. and there you have the basics of "prophecy".. seeing the current direction and some of the potentials that could occur but it doesn't mean they will.
"ooh but what will really bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if i hadn't said anything." |
kor anon
Amarr
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:50:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Burning to death, Drowning, or being buried alive.
Other than that I think I could cope. Not afraid of death, Just the dying part
But I do believe in something after death. I think the Big Bang is the most ******ed load of crap ever, and for it to be an actual scientific theory just boggles my mind. Last Time I lit an M80 I didn't get a miniature universe There is just way to many coincidences for this all to be "just by chance". I know I'm in the minority on these forums and I'll be eaten alive, but oh well.
Dont be ashamed, Its as good as an explanation as any |
kor anon
Amarr
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:52:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7
Originally by: kor anon
It seems fate does not like your link
well imo fate is nothing but the direction in which you are currently heading unless you realize you have a choice in changing the direction.
and i just changed the direction, and now the link works..
whereas you grabbed a potential outcome had i not "changed the direction".. and there you have the basics of "prophecy".. seeing the current direction and some of the potentials that could occur but it doesn't mean they will.
"ooh but what will really bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if i hadn't said anything."
Does anyone have a translation device? I think mine is still bugged |
bff Jill
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Posted - 2009.02.04 19:55:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Last Time I lit an M80 I didn't get a miniature universe
How do you know? If you did it would be its own universe, seperate from ours. We could all be making new universes every time we fart.
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There is just way to many coincidences for this all to be "just by chance".
Agreed
A thing people need to realize, is that understanding the mechanics of how something works does absolutely nothing towards explaining why things work like that in the first place 
Science can tell us nothing we don't already know, it can only help us understand what we do know better and let us see how all the things we know fit together.
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Nomakai Delateriel
Amarr
Ammatar Free Corps
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Posted - 2009.02.04 20:01:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Burning to death, Drowning, or being buried alive.
Other than that I think I could cope. Not afraid of death, Just the dying part
Same. Although I don't think I'd have much of a problem with drowning.
Burning, being buried alive. That's bad.
Cadmium poisoning, being ripped to pieces (racking) and dying from any type of hemorrhagic fever virus ranks pretty high as well.
Fear of being Buried alive is mostly a psychological thing for me.
The rest is the sheer potential for pain.
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bff Jill
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Posted - 2009.02.04 20:05:00 -
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If you burn alive the heat of the air eventually sears your lungs and you can not absorbe oxygen and suffocate.
Also the nerve endings burn away after a while so you don't feel heat.
So being burned alive, first you are REALLY HOT, then feel nothing, then you just kind of fall asleep.
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Nomakai Delateriel
Amarr
Ammatar Free Corps
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Posted - 2009.02.04 20:12:00 -
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Originally by: bff Jill
If you burn alive the heat of the air eventually sears your lungs and you can not absorbe oxygen and suffocate.
Also the nerve endings burn away after a while so you don't feel heat.
So being burned alive, first you are REALLY HOT, then feel nothing, then you just kind of fall asleep.
That's the scientific part.
The part where any fireman that I've ever met says that watching/hearing someone burn to death (it's rare, but it does happen in car accidents when someone is stuck in the car and it catches fire. Often enough that plenty of firemen have seen it first hand) is the most traumatic thing they've ever experienced doesn't leave me all too comforted. |
David Kang
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Posted - 2009.02.04 20:21:00 -
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Edited by: David Kang on 04/02/2009 20:22:00
Originally by: Nomakai Delateriel
Originally by: bff Jill
If you burn alive the heat of the air eventually sears your lungs and you can not absorbe oxygen and suffocate.
Also the nerve endings burn away after a while so you don't feel heat.
So being burned alive, first you are REALLY HOT, then feel nothing, then you just kind of fall asleep.
That's the scientific part.
The part where any fireman that I've ever met says that watching/hearing someone burn to death (it's rare, but it does happen in car accidents when someone is stuck in the car and it catches fire. Often enough that plenty of firemen have seen it first hand) is the most traumatic thing they've ever experienced doesn't leave me all too comforted.
What you have confirmed though is something else, if you cannot destroy or create matter.
The human body goes back to from once it came.
Burning alive you die and your matter converts into thermal energy. if you die of natural courses you will rot back into matter like soil etc
Although this sparks the question. what happens to dreams and thought? they are in essence hard printed into the brain. or are they an energy (The brain works off of electrons)? and what happens to that energy? is it converted into biomass that's degradable?
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Florio
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2009.02.04 20:38:00 -
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I allow the thought of dying to regulate my actions.
Faced with a decision, I will think "As I lie on my death bed and think back on this moment, which option would make me smile in satisfaction?"
eg. Do I work over the weekend or play games with the kids? Hmmmm, easy one. |
Hieronymus Alexandre
Fashionable Enterprises
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:01:00 -
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I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you?
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7shining7one7
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: Hieronymus Alexandre
I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you?
see what you made me do! |
Polkageist
Minmatar
Accelerating Nanomechanical Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:15:00 -
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funny, i just spoke of this today with a familymember, but as usual our talk ended fast as we couldnt come up with any arguments, so its really a belief? I dont know, but im not gonna go in the cascet as a traitor.
i immediatly thought of this track by Immortal Technique
The Cause Of Death
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Polkageist
Minmatar
Accelerating Nanomechanical Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:23:00 -
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this is also good, but the mix of the audio **** me off :)
Cause Of Death
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7shining7one7
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:26:00 -
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Originally by: Polkageist
funny, i just spoke of this today with a familymember, but as usual our talk ended fast as we couldnt come up with any arguments, so its really a belief? I dont know, but im not gonna go in the cascet as a traitor.
i immediatly thought of this track by Immortal Technique
The Cause Of Death
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Karma
Eve University
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:29:00 -
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"the matter of death... or the death of matter?
what matters most?
flesh and bone or mind and soul?
or are they one and the same?
the fact of the matter is, I do not know.
but I do tend to find out, in the fullness of time."
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:47:00 -
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I don't think about it, but I am a little worried about it. I could say that it doesn't bother me at all and pretend to be cool as cucumber boy, but that would be a lie. This is the only life I have and ever will have. I like my life and want to extend it as much as possible. I'm also worried about what will happen to the people that love and rely on me.
I don't like the fact that there isn't anything I can do to avoid it. It gives me the feeling of being forcefully hold down by someone while trying your hardest to strugle free. I guess when you grow old enough, I could get tired of carrying the burdens of life and death might turn into a sweet release. I predict that when it's my turn to go, I'll just make preparations for those that stay behind and then just die. And then there will be nothing. No worrying, no anxiety ,no fear and I can finally stop correcting people who are wrong on the internet.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.02.04 21:55:00 -
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My take on it ?
There's absolutely nothing "beyond death".
All you leave behind is in what is left in the world by you : children or grandchildren, things you've built, things you've discovered, things you taught.
I don't fear death itself, but I am dreading the moments prior to my death.
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