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« on: July 04, 2016, 07:59:40 AM »

Are you afraid of the void and nothingness you'll be facing once you've died?
Or do you think the silence and emptiness will be filled after the last second of your life?
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2016, 09:35:09 AM »

Dying, yes. Death. No.
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2016, 10:12:17 AM »

Not really, and I'm not saying this to make myself look "tough". There are many things that frighten me, some pretty benign even, but death isn't among them.
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2016, 03:40:02 PM »

Honestly, I'm afraid of death, even if I think there might be an afterlife. That's why I consider myself a transhumanist; I want to transcend death.
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2016, 05:03:21 PM »


This. The odds of going in my sleep are pretty slim, so this is a fair response.
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« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2016, 06:01:20 PM »

Honestly, I'm afraid of death, even if I think there might be an afterlife. That's why I consider myself a transhumanist; I want to transcend death.

Living forever? Now that's an idea I find terrifying.
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2016, 11:35:19 PM »

Honestly, I'm afraid of death, even if I think there might be an afterlife. That's why I consider myself a transhumanist; I want to transcend death.

Living forever? Now that's an idea I find terrifying.

Well, for me, its more "living forever until I choose to die", than simply living forever. If I last until the heat death of the universe (assuming there's no Judgement Day), that's bad too. But living however many hundreds, thousands, millions of years I want to live? sure, why not?
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2016, 12:11:02 AM »

Absolutely.
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2016, 01:51:30 AM »


This. The odds of going in my sleep are pretty slim, so this is a fair response.
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« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2016, 06:34:12 AM »

Dying. After that I won't care, because I won't exist.
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« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2016, 07:48:33 AM »

It peaks in your 30's, for most men at least.  Or whenever you have young children under your care.  It was true for me, and I've heard it from others as well.  I didn't fear death when I was young, hell, the opposite.  I thought I was invincible.  And I don't really fear it now, at least not as much as I did 5 or 10 years ago when my kids were younger.  My youngest is almost 15, and sure, he still needs his papa, but nowhere near as much as he did 7 years ago.

so...a bit.
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2016, 11:16:09 AM »

A bit. But more afraid of dying than actually being dead. However, I don't think much about it.
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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2016, 06:59:47 AM »

When I believed in hell, yes.
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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2016, 01:13:06 PM »

What bothers me about death is that it will bring life's joys and good experiences and all unrealized aspirations to an end.  The future condition of being dead doesn't bother me.  I'm told there were some 13.7 billion years that elapsed before I existed, and I don't recall having a sense of dread about not being alive during that time--so I'm not worried about not being alive for the rest of it all.  But I do have anxiety and sadness about losing life.
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« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2016, 04:28:30 PM »

What bothers me about death is that it will bring life's joys and good experiences and all unrealized aspirations to an end.  The future condition of being dead doesn't bother me.  I'm told there were some 13.7 billion years that elapsed before I existed, and I don't recall having a sense of dread about not being alive during that time--so I'm not worried about not being alive for the rest of it all.  But I do have anxiety and sadness about losing life.
Yeah. that's basically how I feel.
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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2016, 05:55:58 PM »

What bothers me about death is that it will bring life's joys and good experiences and all unrealized aspirations to an end.  The future condition of being dead doesn't bother me.  I'm told there were some 13.7 billion years that elapsed before I existed, and I don't recall having a sense of dread about not being alive during that time--so I'm not worried about not being alive for the rest of it all.  But I do have anxiety and sadness about losing life.

The solution, I think, is to die doing something you love, or in the name of something you love - "The best people renounce all for one goal..."
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« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2016, 06:23:49 PM »

I am a living creature, so yes.
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2016, 09:53:12 PM »

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« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2016, 10:01:35 PM »

No, not very much. Indeed, the recent tragic death of a former acquaintance of mine as a result of a fall in the Grand Canyon helped me to view death as even less of an abstraction than I previously viewed it. Plus, without successful anti-aging technology, death is inevitable; thus, why fear it?
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« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2016, 04:09:11 PM »

I'm afraid of never having lived in the first place.

(Not my quote, I don't remember who I heard it from)
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« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2016, 06:20:35 PM »


This. The odds of going in my sleep are pretty slim, so this is a fair response.
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« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2016, 01:56:46 AM »

I'm honestly more afraid of the idea of knowing beforehand/seeing it coming than the idea of death itself.
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« Reply #22 on: August 05, 2016, 07:52:42 AM »


Why would you believe what is likely a lie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc

If there is a hell then there is a heaven.

Nature always creates for the best possible end and if the god you believe in cannot even do that then why would you follow or believe in such a loser?

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« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2016, 10:45:19 PM »

No, I'm a Christian and know that I will be with my Savior. My only hope is to share as much love and bring as many people to Christ as I can while on Earth and to help make it a better place while I'm here.
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« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2016, 02:36:14 PM »

Tell me friend.
When one of your children does something bad, do you punish your other child?

Likely you are not that deranged.

That in effect is what God did yet you respect that vile demiurge for something that you would never do.

Please explain after viewing this sermon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKNup9gEBdg&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

Having another innocent person suffer for the wrongs you have done, --- so that you might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral.

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