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Re: Life after death
« Reply #25 on: Aug 21st, 2007, 11:18pm » |
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Sameer, very interesting. I don't think the Christians would agree on the last bit though. 
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #26 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 12:51am » |
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very interesting story indeed. thanks for the link.
what part do you think Christians would not agree with?
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #27 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:07am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 12:51am, TheNumberScott wrote:very interesting story indeed. thanks for the link.
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That God is a computer created by the previous race of Man.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #28 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:58am » |
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well, yeah, not taken literally no.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #29 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:01pm » |
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Do you believe in luck?
For how many years have sentient humans (homo-sapiens) existed? I would say at least a few million years. Now in all that time, what are the odds that any one of us are alive in this short time slice in the 21'th century when compared to over a few million years of sentient existence. I don't really believe in reincarnation but isn't it strange that you are alive right now as we speak when the odds are less than 1 in a million? 
There is obviously a flaw in my argument somewhere (e.g. there were less humans in the old days) but to tell you the truth, I don't really believe in luck either...
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #30 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:20pm » |
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Interpreting from various religions the amount of soul in the universe is constant 
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #31 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:44pm » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:20pm, Sameer wrote:| Interpreting from various religions the amount of soul in the universe is constant |
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What about soul music? 
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #32 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 7:10pm » |
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Quote:| but isn't it strange that you are alive right now as we speak when the odds are less than 1 in a million? |
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We're typing, not speaking, someone is silly.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #33 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 8:53pm » |
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I thought that I had heard that there were more people on the earth now, than the rest of history up to now combined. If that's true, then I'd say the chances are around 1/2.
Even if it's not true, someones gotta be alive right now. why not us?
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #34 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 9:10pm » |
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True, and why would it be luckier to live in this slice of the 21st century, than in any other century ? We may know stuff people back then didn't know, but that doesn't mean we're luckier, eh ?
( We could go down the divine intervention road again..)
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #35 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 9:21pm » |
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Quote:| True, and why would it be luckier to live in this slice of the 21st century, than in any other century ? We may know stuff people back then didn't know, but that doesn't mean we're luckier, eh ? |
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Here's a neat video which i found interesting, it's semi-related.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #36 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:32am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 9:21pm, mikedagr8 wrote:| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q |
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It's interesting at the start, but it gets patently ridiculous at the end with its predictions of the future. Those predictions are likely to be as accurate as predictions made 30 years ago that we'd all be driving flying cars, have robots to serve us, and be wearing silver clothing by 2000..
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #37 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 1:08am » |
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True, but they are all impractical for the time being, we don't have AI,. but there are bartending robots, Flying cars, are not possible without huge prices and silver clothing is too expensive and heavy.
If the predictions were 100% accurate it would be scary, but they are only predictions.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #38 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 8:23am » |
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on Aug 23rd, 2007, 1:08am, mikedagr8 wrote:| If the predictions were 100% accurate it would be scary, but they are only predictions. |
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Yes, but when predictions are consistently 99.9% inaccurate, they're superfluous.
Predictions should at least be grounded in some sense of reality. I mean, it doesn't make sense to say things like, "Speed skaters now finish the 10 kilometers 3 minutes faster than they did 50 years ago, in 150 more years they'll be finished before they started".
That's totally bonkers; yet the kind of predictions people get away with.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #39 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 1:13pm » |
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on Aug 23rd, 2007, 8:23am, towr wrote:
Yes, but when predictions are consistently 99.9% inaccurate, they're superfluous.
Predictions should at least be grounded in some sense of reality. I mean, it doesn't make sense to say things like, "Speed skaters now finish the 10 kilometers 3 minutes faster than they did 50 years ago, in 150 more years they'll be finished before they started".
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Excellent point. It makes predictions, but it assumes a constant rate of progress, something quite impossible beyond a certain point (as some things like finishing a race before you started), and disregards the fluctuating variables of life.
I have to say I agree with Three Hand's opinion... I would like to think so, but there is no way for me to find out for sure either way, so I guess I will just wait and see and enjoy the time I do have living.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #40 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 2:50pm » |
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Quote:Predictions should at least be grounded in some sense of reality. I mean, it doesn't make sense to say things like, "Speed skaters now finish the 10 kilometers 3 minutes faster than they did 50 years ago, in 150 more years they'll be finished before they started".
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Obviously to an extent it can occur, but there is always a limit, and then it declines. E.g. Stock markets, the computer world, sprinting records.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #41 on: Aug 26th, 2007, 1:39am » |
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lol i leave for a week and we went from life to death to religion to luck and now to a computer that will rule us
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #42 on: Jul 2nd, 2012, 4:38am » |
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I believe,Because i am a Muslim 
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #44 on: Aug 17th, 2012, 11:05am » |
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Seven of Nine: Human attitudes toward death are perplexing.
Tuvok: How so?
Seven of Nine: Too much importance is placed on it. There seem to be countless rituals and cultural beliefs designed to alleviate their fear of a simple biological truth: all organisms eventually perish.
Tuvok: I take it the Borg have no fear of that biological truth?
Seven of Nine: None. When a drone is damaged beyond repair, it is discarded. But its memories continue to exist in the collective consciousness. To use a human term, the Borg are immortal.
Tuvok: You are no longer part of the Collective. You are mortal now like the rest of us. Does that disturb you?
Seven of Nine: My connection to the Borg has been severed. But the Collective still possesses my recollections, my experiences. In a sense, I will always exist.
Tuvok: Fascinating. That must be a great relief.
Seven of Nine: [reflective] Yes. It is.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #45 on: Aug 20th, 2012, 5:29am » |
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there should be a life or something like that . Human body produces energy and energy never gone away ,it turns another form . So What happens this energy after death goes another universe ?
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #46 on: Aug 20th, 2012, 7:11am » |
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on Aug 20th, 2012, 5:29am, bluviaggiatore wrote:| So What happens this energy after death goes another universe ? |
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No, all that remains is simply heat, in this universe. As what all energy ends up as.
Actually, it's wrong to say the human body produces energy, since conservation of energy means it is never produced nor destroyed. We just transform one form of energy into another, increasing entropy as we go along.
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #47 on: Dec 12th, 2012, 8:15am » |
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how can be posible the life after death , i can´t belive it .there´s nothing after death.maybe there´s something inyour brain that could make a paralel world for your minds.(i am sorry for my english)
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #48 on: Dec 12th, 2012, 8:54am » |
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on Dec 12th, 2012, 8:15am, moriarty wrote:| there´s nothing after death. |
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Are you sure?
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Re: Life after death
« Reply #49 on: Apr 1st, 2013, 4:06am » |
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on Aug 12th, 2007, 12:48pm, Sameer wrote:| i don't... i believe everything we see or who we are (or as we say life) is just a biochemical process that was triggered due to right conditions and the end of such a biochemical reaction is death... |
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Never say never....It's not about our body...it's about the entire information from our souls...
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