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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
Not a religious question at all...
How do you perceive it and how does it affect your views on life? Me? I pretend everyday might be my last, it quite well be, so I act accordingly.... You?
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Erwin New user 56 Posts |
To TRULY treat each day as the last would be to never do anything unpleasant or tedious and to spend every minute with loved ones. I wish I could claim this. Someday I may win the lottery, but til then I have to work.
To be in someone's house exactly how they left it before a sudden death is to face mortality head on. Each time you walk out the front door you cannot say for sure that you will return. I haven't had this experience for quite some time so this is how I deal with it: I believe I am immortal. |
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McAllisterMagic Regular user 196 Posts |
Live everyday like it's your last, and one day you'll be right!!!
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2011-02-16 15:39, Erwin wrote: Nope, you're assuming that I perceive myself to be the most important thing in my life. To live life as if it was almost ending is putting what is important first, your loved ones and your dreams. It puts everything in perspective. The Samurais lived like this. They were no saints but they did not shy from unpleasantness for sure... Maybe this saying says it better... "Work as if you're going to live a thousand years. Pray as if you're going to die tomorrow." But that's how see it.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
I once heard an interview with a novelist in her 80s (I can't remember who). She said that she wanted to live each day as if she were immortal. Probably explains why she kept writing.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Per Raymond Smullyan, you only have to do two things to achieve immortality -
1. Never lie. 2. Say, "I will repeat this sentence tomorrow."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Death tends to suck.
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
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On 2011-02-16 16:39, MagicSanta wrote: In outer space, more so.
JACK, the Jolly Almanac of Card Knavery, a free card magic resource for beginners.
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McAllisterMagic Regular user 196 Posts |
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves-Bill Hicks
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The great Gumbini Inner circle 3062 Posts |
Thinking of death ultimately makes one feel alive!
Good magic to all, Eric |
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The great Gumbini Inner circle 3062 Posts |
Why is it in life we give so much thought to our death and in death we give so much thought to our life? I say consider the moment and it will all balance out.
Good magic to all, Eric |
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
I think as soon as we are not limited to the constrictions of our physical perceptions, things get really interesting really fast.
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2011-02-16 15:32, Pakar Ilusi wrote: Just wondering why you say it's not a religious question at all. It's hard to imagine that one's views on death and their affect on his/her views on life wouldn't be informed by one's religious perspective.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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On 2011-02-17 02:10, LobowolfXXX wrote: Not everyone is religious. Or believes at all in any religion. But everyone dies, just asking how they perceive it.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
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On 2011-02-16 16:59, McAllisterMagic wrote: Bill Hicks statement may be closer to reality than most of us think. I tend to believe that we are all immortal in the sense that this thing we call death is only a removal of our conciseness from this World at this time. Like going under anesthesia, regardless of how long you are "out" to you no time has passed at all. People who have come out of a state of coma report very little or no loss of time, even though they may have been in coma for weeks or even years. This is what I think death is like for the individual. I think that death for the individual is just a new awakening with a rebirth in another existence. I just hope that I don't come back as an Insect or Creature other than Human or Human like. Iven
Give the gift of Life, Be an Organ Donor.
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
The problem is that if you went into a coma ten years ago you would wake up to a black president, black golf champion and black formula 1 champion. You may think time hasn't passed but how wrong you would be.
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
I thank God every day that I have out lived most of my enemies.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Welll....in my case I wouldn't have even known to ask about the formula one racing champion.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I want to bench press 520 pounds when I'm 105 years old. And then read a good book.
I don't just want to live for a longass time, I want to functional for all of it. And when death does come, I'll do it again!
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
When you're dead your dead. You simply cease to exist and the game is over. The matter that comprises your physical form goes back to the collective to be redistributed as needed. But everything that you were, everything that made your consciousness unique is gone forever.
So it's important to live this life, the only life you're going to get, as well and as fully as possible. Of all the matter in the universe only a very small amount of it gets to sit up and look around so it's vitally important you don't waste the opportunity by making needless and timeconsuming arrangements for an after life you're not going to get.
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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