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06 Jun 2013, 11:02 am

Just because you can put a question together (“Is the cat alive or dead?”), it doesn’t need to make sense. What color is the hair of the king of the USA?


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06 Jun 2013, 11:10 am

^ an actual cat is involved in that situation. There isn't a king of the United States, so your question is null and void to begin with.



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06 Jun 2013, 11:36 am

Spiderpig wrote:
Just because you can put a question together (“Is the cat alive or dead?”), it doesn’t need to make sense. What color is the hair of the king of the USA?

That the cat is both dead and alive does not make sence, which is the point about this particular thought experiment.
Can we now go back to the original theme of this thread :?:


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06 Jun 2013, 2:38 pm

kate-silverton wrote:
no, thats why it's called death


Well, using that logic, you could ask, "is there death after life" and conclude, "no, that's why its called life".

...or

"Is there life before death"... "yes, that's why its called life"

...or

"Is there death before life"... "yes, that's why its called death".



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07 Jun 2013, 10:38 am

The Universe is so young, I've always wondered what propelled intelligence and self-organization. How could star dust form such intricate creations like our solar system, and mankind.. I more feel that to harbor our consciousness, it reached an equilibrium of the perfect conditions necessary to manifest. Nicolas Tesla said to understand the universe, think energy, frequency, and vibration.. I view it's forever evolving. I find solace in the thought that we're all like droplets of water, and when we die we re-join the ocean again, but at what point does the droplet become the ocean. Perhaps once deceased, we re-join the ether of the cosmos, and the process continues. The scientific age of the universe, only being 13.7 billion years old.. maybe it works in cycles, or apart of a bigger universe, or multi-universe..



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07 Jun 2013, 11:33 am

Raymond_Fawkes wrote:
The Universe is so young, I've always wondered what propelled intelligence and self-organization. How could star dust form such intricate creations like our solar system, and mankind.. I more feel that to harbor our consciousness, it reached an equilibrium of the perfect conditions necessary to manifest. Nicolas Tesla said to understand the universe, think energy, frequency, and vibration.. I view it's forever evolving. I find solace in the thought that we're all like droplets of water, and when we die we re-join the ocean again, but at what point does the droplet become the ocean. Perhaps once deceased, we re-join the ether of the cosmos, and the process continues. The scientific age of the universe, only being 13.7 billion years old.. maybe it works in cycles, or apart of a bigger universe, or multi-universe..


Fifteen billion years old is young?



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07 Jun 2013, 9:17 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Raymond_Fawkes wrote:
The Universe is so young, I've always wondered what propelled intelligence and self-organization. How could star dust form such intricate creations like our solar system, and mankind.. I more feel that to harbor our consciousness, it reached an equilibrium of the perfect conditions necessary to manifest. Nicolas Tesla said to understand the universe, think energy, frequency, and vibration.. I view it's forever evolving. I find solace in the thought that we're all like droplets of water, and when we die we re-join the ocean again, but at what point does the droplet become the ocean. Perhaps once deceased, we re-join the ether of the cosmos, and the process continues. The scientific age of the universe, only being 13.7 billion years old.. maybe it works in cycles, or apart of a bigger universe, or multi-universe..


Fifteen billion years old is young?


Yes.. very young if you think about how big the universe is.. in about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD the Black hole era of the universe is suppose to occur, and Beyond 10^^100 is when the dark era is suppose to happen, when the universe is effectively "dead". Also I always figured the age to be around 14.3 billion, but I Googled it before I posted.



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09 Jun 2013, 12:50 pm

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How can you not know what death is like? It is the same state of nonexistence as before you were born, hell, before your earliest memory.


Also as whenever you are in non-REM sleep.



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14 Nov 2013, 11:01 am

There is very probably no life after death.

And the reason I think that there is no life after death is because the brain creates consciousness. And when our brain dies there can be no more consciousness.

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Is%20ther ... 0death.htm

Also the fact that no one ever came back to life after dying that to me shows that there is very probably nothing anymore after we die.

After death we become food for plants and that's probably the end of everything.



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14 Nov 2013, 11:08 am

Life after death. Sounds like an oxymoron to me.



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15 Nov 2013, 4:03 pm

"Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"
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Time does not move. It would be absurd to speak of time moving into the future etc. If it did, how fast? Seconds per what? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
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