Do you fear death?

NZG wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Seek it out, join the army, become a firefighter or an extremely reckless police officer. Why live the shit life when heaven is up there waiting for you?

Seeking to die saving a life defeats the purpose.

Are you fucking serious?

You don't join the army or become a firefighter to die.

Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

ahlycotc wrote:Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

What about if it's self sacrifice?

My biggest fear is dying.

Death fears me.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

What about if it's self sacrifice?

Give an example.

I would prefer not to die if at all possible

I keep reading "defeat" instead of "death."

Im more scared of the fact when i die i will never ever live again, and that is pretty much life over for EVER

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

NZG wrote:

Seeking to die saving a life defeats the purpose.

Are you fucking serious?

Don't be fucking stupid. Fucking idiot.

Lux wrote:You don't join the army or become a firefighter to die.

ahlycotc wrote:Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

Two good reasons that "lesser" minds came up with

As Gordon said, only when I think about it too much.´

Neither an eternal paradise nor lack of existence pleases me too much.

Roloman4 wrote:As Gordon said, only when I think about it too much.´

Neither an eternal paradise nor lack of existence pleases me too much.

A lack of existence is weird to think about, It doesn't scare me, it's just weird to think about.

I don't think about it, so I am not afraid of death. I will die the day I die and that would be the end of it... literally.

ahlycotc wrote:Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

"The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom is press coverage"

What a stupid quote. Suicide is when you give up on life; martyrdom is when you give your life for a reason or a cause.

Can't depression be a reason?

Look at how I worded it though. You don't give your life FOR depression.

this guy

What are you trying to say?

polska. wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:Actively seeking death is basically suicide.

"The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom is press coverage"

Was the death of Malcolm X, Ghandi, and MLK the same as suicide?

"A martyr doesn't fear death. A person who commits suicide fears life." - by me

SBSP wrote:What are you trying to say?

Compliment.

Like pro guy.

No, I live off this quote when I think of death

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones" - Richard Dawkins

It's full context is this -

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

Moralists and theologians place great weight upon the moment of conception, seeing it as the instant at which the soul comes into existence. If, like me, you are unmoved by such talk, you still must regard a particular instant, nine months before your birth, as the most decisive event in your personal fortunes. It is the moment at which your consciousness suddenly became trillions of times more foreseeable than it was a split second before. To be sure, the embryonic you that came into existence still had plenty of hurdles to leap. Most conceptuses end in early abortion before their mother even knew they were there, and we are all lucky not to have done so. Also, there is more to personal identity than genes, as identical twins (who separate after the moment of fertilization) show us. Nevertheless, the instant at which a particular spermatozoon penetrated a particular egg was, in your private hindsight, a moment of dizzying singularity. It was then that the odds against your becoming a person dropped from astronomical to single figures.

Crossed that bridge some time ago. I'm going to heaven, you see.

I've gone through hell

I'm expecting heaven.

GK01 wrote:No, I live off this quote when I think of death

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones" - Richard Dawkins

It's full context is this -

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

Moralists and theologians place great weight upon the moment of conception, seeing it as the instant at which the soul comes into existence. If, like me, you are unmoved by such talk, you still must regard a particular instant, nine months before your birth, as the most decisive event in your personal fortunes. It is the moment at which your consciousness suddenly became trillions of times more foreseeable than it was a split second before. To be sure, the embryonic you that came into existence still had plenty of hurdles to leap. Most conceptuses end in early abortion before their mother even knew they were there, and we are all lucky not to have done so. Also, there is more to personal identity than genes, as identical twins (who separate after the moment of fertilization) show us. Nevertheless, the instant at which a particular spermatozoon penetrated a particular egg was, in your private hindsight, a moment of dizzying singularity. It was then that the odds against your becoming a person dropped from astronomical to single figures.

Sam

ahlycotc wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

What about if it's self sacrifice?

Give an example.

Joining the army and constantly attempting reckless things that, if successful, will benefit your country in the war effort.

I don't fear death, death is just a part of life, but I actively avoid it.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:

Give an example.

Joining the army and constantly attempting reckless things that, if successful, will benefit your country in the war effort.

That's not actively seeking death though. That's just a consequence of your actions. Your main objective is to benefit your country.

Going alone to fight an army of 20-30 people could be considered suicide though.

ahlycotc wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Joining the army and constantly attempting reckless things that, if successful, will benefit your country in the war effort.

That's not actively seeking death though. That's just a consequence of your actions. Your main objective is to benefit your country.

Going alone to fight an army of 20-30 people could be considered suicide though.

Rambo is not suicidal