loveme4whoiam Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 Life is when you are not dead. Death is when you are not alive. Fair point. For myself, as a committed atheist (thats someone who disbelieves just to spite the-one-that-does-not-exist :lol: ) i believe that we live, feeling all the pain that goes with it, then we lie down in a box and get eaten by worms, or burned to a crisp and dropped on a lawn. I did have a theory at one point in my life (not for very long, mind, i was speaking with a very... devout friend of mine) that if there is a God/Buddha/bloke with a magnifying glass up there, then He created life in order to test people. He takes the people of Heaven (that sounds like a dirty word to my ears <_< ), and puts them here, where we are tested with the most painful existence He can manage to summon up for us. He challenges us to stay the course (ie, by not going kamikazi and ending the pain) until the end, when we either get returned to the fold as better men (and women), or we are forced to repeat life again and again until we get it right. Anyway, that was my theory. Subject of a warped mind. BTW: If this is proved to be true, then i have some words for our lord and master: Windows ME sucked, pal! Think about it... :innocent: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmid Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 BTW: If this is proved to be true, then i have some words for our lord and master: Windows ME sucked, pal! Bill Gates is God?!?!?!? Well, that restores my faith in the (in)sanity of the universe. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveme4whoiam Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 What? It makes sense! Think about it; he gives us life (Windows 3.1) but keeps the best bits from us. He sends us trials (Windows 95 and 98), helps us along at certain points (Windows 2000) but then smacks us in the face when we're not looking (Windows ME). But in the end, he shows us mercy (Windows XP Pro). BTW: If you believe this, i am really scared of you <_< :lol: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojlnir Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 Life and death, the eternal connundrum. As mentioned, this topic makes us confront ourselves and our beliefs. I for one believe that there is some sort of over arching force in the universe (universes). I seriously doubt that force having any control over our lives, but it is there none the less. I particularly like a film called "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr. If you haven't seen it, I suggest watching it sometime. It's very dark, but at the same time it illustrates very well my conception of the hereafter, which I think is probably quite similar to Oddguy's take on it.The soul, or whatever you want to call the thing that makes you who you are, is not a one off deal. It can come and go as it pleases, so we're never really gone...we're just someplace else. It follows then that death is the other half of the transition...birth being the first half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akrid Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Life; the effect of chemicals that evolve to adapt to any enviroment forming bodies or vessels to reproduse, reproduction is the soul purpose of a living thing, to ensure the survial of the chemical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikeman85 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Life and death are biological functions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormscape Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 life is when Tetagrammon has allowed your soul to enter the arena.death is when you have failed on your mission in life. And the meaning of everything is.....42.Like 42 as in discovery channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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