http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GgflscOmW8

Well, I don't think you really say anything about the matter. How would one know "what it is like to be dead" or put another way, how can one be "experiencing not being alive"?

It's all right, except that everyone always asking stupid questions like "WTF ARENT YOU DEAD???"

hahaaaa

you know that little delay between when you get fragged and can earliest spawn? that is death, man.

But compare that with being spawned and eating a rocket.. surely you would prefer to be in some sort of stasis

i dont like CA

... do it for the pluses! :P

... if self-awearness was a thing after death, but its not. so .. HOW ABOUT NO!

Alive is just an adjective that our primordial "brains" have come up with to describe this illusion. It's all just atoms, man. Only when the last atom has decayed will death be complete. But, alive? We were never alive. Smoak wede errey day.

Death will be a huge relief. In some aspects does beat living indeed. Being dead beats waking up monday morning. It beats all the burdensome tasks that consume half of life, work, handling mundane tasks, [non tourism] travelling, waiting in queues, forcing smalltalk with people, being rejected, sleep difficulties, medical conditions, bills, losing track with your life etc.

I mean, if I could just go to play hockey right now and then sit the rest of the evening at my pc with good and repeat that I would have more negative view of death, but for a lot of parts it's like you said, not that bad of a trade-off to my or most of the people I know's way of living.

Is this about coollers QL-career?

Being alive has its ups and downs whereas been dead is complete nothingness. So your question is really nothingness vs happiness? You can't compare the two. Sure most people will say happiness is better but that's only because of how society see's death e.g. dark, violent, sadness but in reality it's just complete nothingness. It's just one of those things that you cannot compare. I'm more afraid of the process of dying and the people it will hurt than being dead.

then you stopped thinking

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You personally should consider euthanasia, ostensibly to collect empirical data , it may improve intellectual output.

suicidal? also, "I mean, it certainly doesn't beat living, that's for sure." how do u know that? it's anything but sure

I wouldn't call it suicidal.

Have you ever died before? What was it like?

he's still alive, isn't he?

you said the afterlife can't be better than life. i said you can't know that. then u ask if i died before, implying 'wtf do u know about it, have u died before?', like i was the one making statements about what happens after death, not u

eh that's not what I meant. Maybe you had a near death experience or you were in a position when you felt more dead than alive.

In that very moment, would you consider just letting it slip?

no near death for me. but i'd totally be willing to die. i'm lazy, life requires effort, i like sleeping=death fuck yeah

(provided the afterlife isnt eternal pain to which an evil being will subject us all, of course)

That's exactly what I meant.

Can't be that bad if you're a lazy fuck :l

it isnt necessarily bad for active, pony-loving, life-affirming mofos either. it might suck, it might be 'nothing', it might be better, might be the same.. we dunno. personally i think (if it's not worse) that it's just nothing

I heard there is a type of jellyfish (iirc) that doesn't age...
so maybe soon....HIGHLANDER

Yeah that fucker reproduces cells or some wicked ass shit.

But I'm no jellyfish, I'm a squirrel.

It's hard to type without opposing thumbs.

NATURE....finds a way..

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I call bullshit on your lack of opposing thumbs and how that hinders your ability to type. Your not holding a banana in your hand, its flat on the table bro. THINK ABOUT IT :

S Q U I R R E L ?

I thought a rainbow pony.. ;____;

me too :)

I AM IMMORTAL

From my point of view this must be fucking dull.

Doesn't it get really boring?

No, because I also have infinite youth. An immortal life is never dull because you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

What if you just wanted to end it; your immortality would become a curse rather than a blessing.

Immortal in the sense you cannot die of natural causes. You could still kill yourself or perish when the world ends.

just don't

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been standing in my place but who will never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara -- more, the atoms in the universe. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Donne, greater scientists than Newton, greater composers than Beethoven. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I that are privileged to be here, privileged with eyes to see where we are and brains to wonder why.

Good post I rate 5* star out of 10/10%

http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/DeadPhilosoraptor-29884.png

Although this is just a stupid image macro, I see a higher meaning in it

What if I present you with a button that being pressed has the effect of in 99% of cases give you 1.000.000 and in the 1% take you out of existence? No pain no nothing, you'll not even see it coming. If being dead ain't so bad it's win or lose nothing. So what if it were only 10 dollars and say 50-50 or reversed? Would you still press it? (>implying you would have with the initial rules)

And now how would you feel if it was Rainbowdash with her hoof above the button? No matter the statistical distribution and money returns?

it give me 1.000.000 what? 1 million potat, 1 million dollars, one million fluttershys?

If it's about moneh, I'd probably press it about ~20 times with 99% probability.

dollars or any equivalent currency, yes.

EINE MILLIONEN DEUTSCHE MARK

I'd press it and buy a damn bike. Fuck sake.

Then I'd organize a 30 million QL tournament

Rest goes to cha... fuck, I'd spend it for myself.

what if it's $50 and say 50-50? still feel like pressing it?

No, for some reason I don't feel like pressing it just yet. But I'd keep it close to me in case I might just get overly bored and want to be done with it. Heck who knows, might even get 50 bucks out of it.

From gambling's point of view you'd get better odds selling all your stuff and putting it in roulette. But more importantly even ultradepressed people would still be oddly risk-averse to your latter suggestion. Fear of death is a primitive instinct to some extent seperate from rational thinking. Being on an aeroplane is just about safer than anything statistically, yet most of us know atleast one person morbidly afraid of flying.

well my points were not really based on risk assertion, but more on illustrating that the simple thought of non existance is not quite 'well if you are not then it don't matter', because if it would be the case then you would press the button even at extremely low chances of any gain as the expectation value of the outcome is always non-negative...

yes being suicidal is no joke, i had a period during last summer, its mostly due to peer abuse, like if someone makes you act a certain way and inside you might feel like totally different person, the main thing is to not give a shit what others want you to think and be closer to yourself. hope this helps, also i watch spiritual stuff like eckhart tolle sometimes helps to not feel totally lost in this materialistic garbage world.

Yeah losing yourself in the process of becoming a better person sucks - it's really hard to get back on track and finding yourself.

Check this game out.

being dead sucks donkey ballz, because as long as you're alive ur can do something with your life. burn fat, learn japanease, fuck 20yo blonde twins etc etc...


when you're dead you can do shit

That's a good point, but the majority of things in life don't constitute of fucking 20 year olds.

It's just that small reward that you get when you get fucked over repeatedly.

There must be something else to pursue in life rather than fucking, I think.

42 is the meaning of life

Do you believe in the afterlife?

No.

Do you think human brain is able to imagine infinity?

If they try hard enough, I have a hard time grasping the concept. Whenever I imagine infinity, I stumble across a border. Can't get rid of that mental border and can't comprehend how something can be infinite. Maybe if I explain it to myself with numbers, just adding one by one and when you've finally reached the end just add another.

Yeah. When we try to imagine nothingness, we think black and space, which is not nothing. It's an interesting exercise, but I think futile. We can't comprehend these concepts, just like different dimension, or, what really gets me, lack of up/down orientation. It's very limiting :(

What do you mean up/down? Does it have to do something with this?

Good video about dimensions, but I was talking about how we must divide things on up and down. If you could float upside down you would be scared of falling into space and if you were to walk sideways or a weird angle to earth, you would just feel sick.

Never thought of that before. Now I'm starting to wonder if that applies to zero gravity spaces.

fuck Carl Sagan

watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-Zv7hpsm0

jesus...im only at 5:40 in the video and mind already blown. I'm glad I chose to collapse the probability of watching that video. Also gives new meaning to the drug term "ride the snake" lol.

p.s. good thread Anhedon...sometimes you just have to get back up on that magical pony after falling off, okay?

What if... what if the pony doesn't want to be ridden :(

What if there is no spoon?

I don't think any of that is actually grounded in real science. its pretty clever, but just declaring "time" is "undulating in the fifth dimension"? where did he get that from? as soon as someone starts interpreting quantum mechanics for you its 99% sure they are talking bullshit unless they are an actual physicist.

"Rob Bryanton has worked in music, film, and television for most of his life."

Man what the fuck.


Wake up, realize you're a faggot, do some dry mundane shit, cry yourself to sleep, rinse repeat.

What's the fucking point :(

instead try being awesome like me

I think this perception changes especially over time. And this is one of the few good things that we can talk about aging. Your body goes down without noticing until one day you see and say that this shit has to end. The slowly preparation for death. After a certain age must be more of a blessing than a curse. What I think that it is more important is to find your inner peace.

And now for something completely different...
It is maybe that our subconscious desire to end the living is causing our natural slow disintegration that we call aging. Or is it that the cells that are bound together do not like the formation anymore and so they tend toward something they "see" around with every replication.