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Originally posted by paranoid
Why? I personally prefer the anticipation of eternal life. Too bad that it will happen without you.  Why any person living in 21st century would think of his death with anticipation is beyond me... [/b]
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These have got to be two of the stupidest comments I have ever heard. I'll take them one at a time.
1) You anticipate eternal life, and then say "too bad it will happen without you". What the hell? So please set me straight on this: You do believe in eternal life, but for who? Only people who believe in it? What about those who don't? Do they get whatever they believe? Or, as you likely believe, you think they'll end up with endless torment because they just happen to not believe what you do. Right?
First off, if that were the case, that still would be considered living. Just because it's isn't flowers and sunshine doesn't mean they wouldn't be "living".
Second, there is no "eternal life". Life as you know it is when your body has a pulse, has brain functionality, and has breath. When that stops, your "life" is no more.
In which case, unless you have some miracle technology, you will die. End of story. There will be no "without you".
Yeah yeah, your soul "lives on". Which brings me back to the "first off" pharagraph.
2) "Why any person living in 21st century would think of his death with anticipation is beyond me..."
What are you kidding me? Everyone has such a wonderful life that they're happy to be living right? Ok, how about the cancer patients who are wracked with pain so bad they can hardly think, let alone "live". So they shouldn't anticipate dying? You're saying that under no condition, you can't envision anyone whose life is so bad they'd be begging to die? Get real.
I can easily picture the scenario where pain is so bad all you can think about is dying.
On a side note, hell to me would be an entirely senseless void with absolutely nothing whatsoever around. No sound, smell, taste, touch, sight. Nothing. Endless nothing with your being concious of it all. All being nothing, with no ending.
All that aside, I'm undecided on what happens when you die, other than the fact that I'm not anticipating it. I don't want a nice little heaven where everything is happy and praising of a deity. Since apparently I must die at some point in time, I want to die and start again, over and over. I like living, and it's a damn shame life is so short.
Quzah.