Originally posted by TheOne101
With this world there is always something to do. Think about it. 4. something billion people. Each with a different agenda, a different daily routine, and different hobbies. Group all 4 bilion of them into a couple hundred thousand different groups and you still have cultures and festivals, events, etc to do watch learn and so on.
Hell, if i were immortal i would surely go on a killing spree. We were talking biologically immortal correct? But if i cut your throat or ripped your heart from your chest you would infact die, yes?
Thank you.... hell. so would I.
Re: Why do we die?
Originally posted by DarkRaven
Why do we die? I believe that we die because we as humans lose the will to live. why do you think that we die?
Yeah, it's all in the mind - we do loose the will to continue, or it's abruptly taken from us. Maybe we die also in order to make space for future generations of life.
No no no
The concept that we need to die to have meaning in life is the result of having already accepted death as an inevitability. I have a story here I thought would be appropriate to the topic:
The Dragon obviously represents death, and the story shows how people rationalize a thing that is obviously bad into something that is neccessary because the people had given up hope that the Dragon could ever be defeated.
Death is not neccessary, there is so much in this universe that can be understood but we are limited by death and so never realize our potential.
Why do we die? Well, we don't even know for certain if our very being, our mind/sould actually does die. But the physical body which it inhabits dies. It's a just a composition of elements and chemicals that rot or fall away with time. Once that goes, the life essence that makes it possible for us to sustain the (healthy)body, leaves.
Originally posted by Mindship
Death is change, and change is what reality is about. If there was not gonna be any change, then why bother with existence? Might as well have stayed Nothing, instead of Something.If you're less philosophically inclined, death of old organisms makes room for new organisms, this providing opportunity for continuing evolution, which is necessary for a species to survive, given that environments change.
For those purely biologically oriented: death happens because the molecular machinery responsible for cellular reproduction wears out over time, as does any machine.
Like mysticism? Death allows for liberation from the dream of life, so that when we return to the next dream, hopefully we will have learned something which, in the end, will return us to the Source from which everything springs.
You could make an interesting argument on my "ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTHS" thread.....
I honestly think death is just Change. Like Mindship sed.
When we die, our bodies are the only things we know to die.
Yet does that mean they cease to exist?
NO.....they go back into the ground. They decompose. They become one with the EArth again.
Then the molecules that make up our bodies go to form the molecules that will make up the bodies of many other people, animals and life forms.
Not to mention much of the chemicals we consist of go back to form the rest of the upcoming bullsh*t that exists on Earth.
It's recycling bro. 😉
AS for our soul.....who knows.
Mind ? Our mind is both the physical connection of Nuerons and processes of thoughts being transferred back and forth in the form of electrical impulses.
Energy, like matter, cannot be created nor destroyed. So it will exist in another form. Probably end up as calories in a candy bar.
Now....does our IDENTITY die ? Do our memories cease and does the essense of who we are stop being ?
If you beleive in a Soul, then you may also beleive that our Soul takes these things with us. If you beleive in reincarnation, then may also beleive that each life we have still retains something from the old.
Not to mention our identities live on in the memories of our loved ones, for as long as they exist as well.
I duno, this sh*t is too confusing.....