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rwieder 0
QuoteAre you afraid to die?
I've read this thread already. The usual people with their all too predictable arguments. (Just an observation)
As to your question, let's look at this topic from another perspective, from another dimension. If you knew how, when, where, & what time your life was going to end, would you make arrangements to avoid it? Are would you simply accept the fact that that's the inevitable?
Your topic question did not involve religion and yet religion wound up not only getting dragged into your thread, everyone got off the thread topic which is "Are you afraid to die?"
Me afraid to die, "NO" However, if i was a cat i am on my last life. I won't address religion regarding this topic, because the topic does not ask me what my religious opinion is, only your remarks to your own topic got that going. (It's a slippery slope) I believe there are enough people here who know how i feel about religion. Good "Point Blank" subject matter though!
-Richard-
"You're Holding The Rope And I'm Taking The Fall"
"You're Holding The Rope And I'm Taking The Fall"
RALFFERS 0
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Funny thing to ask a bunch of skydivers.
I guess... I just don't consider some 'death-defying' sport as most people do though.
Believe it or not, my financial troubles will be over sometime soon, and when they are I'll be jumping. Having said that - I'm not going to go into every jump thinking: "oh my God, I might die today". It may happen, as much as it may not....and I'm not going to let my feelings about death stop me from doing something I enjoy.
So the question is not when and/or how I get there but rather when I get there.
Dialogue/commentary between Divot, Twardo & myself -
"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of
"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of
jakee 1,594
QuoteAs to your question, let's look at this topic from another perspective, from another dimension. If you knew how, when, where, & what time your life was going to end, would you make arrangements to avoid it? Are would you simply accept the fact that that's the inevitable?
If I knew when my life was going to end then I wouldn't be able to avoid it. If I was able to avoid it, the prediction that I was going to die would a load of rubbish (which they always are).
Do you want to have an ideagasm?
QuoteI read an e-mail the other day. I liked the analogy.
You ever see a puppy wanting inside a room that he hears something in, excited and wanting to go there?
Yeah, that is kind of how I look at Heaven.
When God opens the door, I'll be more than happy to go in.
Now imagine a bunch of kids on this side of the door, happy it's closed so the puppy stays where they can play with it. In your analogy, I'm one of those kids.
Blues,
Dave
"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)
(drink Mountain Dew)
ryoder 1,590
Quoted00d....we're bugs on a rock spinning through space.
No, no! "We're innocent critters squashed on the highway of life! "
"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.
airdvr 210
Not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens. 
Please don't dent the planet.
Destinations by Roxanne
Destinations by Roxanne
Nope.
I worry about being crippled. I worry about providing for my family after I've died. I worry a little about painful slow deaths. Death itself looks OK.
I worry about being crippled. I worry about providing for my family after I've died. I worry a little about painful slow deaths. Death itself looks OK.
grimmie 186
Everyone does it, so it must be fun.
Just think how fun a living funeral would be if you were dying of some horrible disease. Gather all of your pals and have an old style Dean Martin roast. Have your friends tell all of the cool things about you, make fun of you and celebrate your life. Drink lots, laugh your ass off, have a great meal and get laid all night.
Wake up the next AM hung over smelling like sex and feeling really crappy, but smiling ear to ear.
Get on a plane with a bunch of your pals and make a final leap over the ocean. No rig. Feed the fishes.
The End.
Everyone wants to meet Jesus, nobody wants to die to get there...
Just think how fun a living funeral would be if you were dying of some horrible disease. Gather all of your pals and have an old style Dean Martin roast. Have your friends tell all of the cool things about you, make fun of you and celebrate your life. Drink lots, laugh your ass off, have a great meal and get laid all night.
Wake up the next AM hung over smelling like sex and feeling really crappy, but smiling ear to ear.
Get on a plane with a bunch of your pals and make a final leap over the ocean. No rig. Feed the fishes.
The End.
Everyone wants to meet Jesus, nobody wants to die to get there...
sartre 0
Only if it means running into the same assholes I've met here for an eternity.
BDashe 0
Yes. Terrified, largely because of my beliefs (or lack thereof)
As someone else said- I'm more scared not to live
So there I was...
Making friends and playing nice since 1983
Making friends and playing nice since 1983
My wife works in nursing homes. after seeing all that transpires in those pl;aces I am more affraid of living there than of dying. Dying would be a release. living there would be a prison
Skyrad 0
No
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
turtlespeed 226
QuoteQuoteI read an e-mail the other day. I liked the analogy.
You ever see a puppy wanting inside a room that he hears something in, excited and wanting to go there?
Yeah, that is kind of how I look at Heaven.
When God opens the door, I'll be more than happy to go in.
Now imagine a bunch of kids on this side of the door, happy it's closed so the puppy stays where they can play with it. In your analogy, I'm one of those kids.
Blues,
Dave
Well - yeah - but Dave . . . i never knew you wanted a turtlepuppy.
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun
No, I'm not afraid. After a long enough period of time, you are dead, then everyone that ever met you, and eventually most likely the whole of the human race will be gone. None of us are special or unique, we are all the same, worm food, like 'twardo said. Go make a jump, be alive. You would be unbelievably lucky to know exactly when you would die, so might as well decide that it's going to be today.
lippy 918
Since the subject of the afterlife came up, and this entered my head for some strange reason the other day:
Back in high school in one of our extremely common weed-inspired philisophical conversations, we started talking about heaven and what it would be like. At the end we decided to get more munchies, but one of the things somebody brought up in the middle was that heaven would just be infinite knowledge. I know it's a stupid stoner idea, but its something that still sticks in my brain 10 years later. I'm not sure if there is a heaven, but I think a place where everybody knows everything would an option for such a place....That and all the chicks are topless
I got nuthin
QuoteYes. Terrified, largely because of my beliefs (or lack thereof)
As someone else said- I'm more scared not to live
Always be kinder than you feel.
1969912 0
QuoteSince the subject of the afterlife came up, and this entered my head for some strange reason the other day:
Back in high school in one of our extremely common weed-inspired philisophical conversations, we started talking about heaven and what it would be like. At the end we decided to get more munchies, but one of the things somebody brought up in the middle was that heaven would just be infinite knowledge. I know it's a stupid stoner idea, but its something that still sticks in my brain 10 years later. I'm not sure if there is a heaven, but I think a place where everybody knows everything would an option for such a place....That and all the chicks are topless
Did we go to high school together? I remember something very similar
Infinite knowledge would be OK with me.
"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG
Funny you say that, i just got done giving an interview about my jumping and that was one of the questions.
Yep im scared to die, because i think when we die thats it...and life is too much fun. Friends, family and lots of beer are what its all about.
QuoteLaughing at the concept of being immune to the fear of death, Andy says, “I’m very scared to die. I want to live to a ripe old age and die in my sleep dreaming of 20 year old girls in mini skirts.”
Yep im scared to die, because i think when we die thats it...and life is too much fun. Friends, family and lots of beer are what its all about.
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People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.
Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.
People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.
Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.
Rainbo 0
From the moment we're born we spend the rest of our lives dying (so to speak ) so why be afraid of where we're obviously going. The only fear I have is of how my kids would feel as they haven't figured out the above yet...
Rainbo
TheSpeedTriple - Speed is everything
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."
TheSpeedTriple - Speed is everything
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."
Somehow I lost the fear of dying a while back.
We now return you to the regularly scheduled sniveling festival...
We now return you to the regularly scheduled sniveling festival...
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