Originally posted by Cris
What you attribute to the meaning of death is no more than an acceptance and a rationalization that death is welcome and desirable. Effectively you have been brainwashed into believing death is good.
Death is not welcome nor desirable, it's a fact of life that must be accepted. Death is the result of life, just as you see in the animal kingdom, plant kingdom, geology, hydrology, ect. I don't believe that any of these natural phenomena is pointing out to the fact that death is a negative thing, more like the fact that it's part of life needed to renew life.
Originally posted by Cris
No, you have yet to show me that you have grasped the essentials of my reasoning. You do not think like me, and if you ever had then you could never have become a theist.
I think I have grasped the essentials of your reasoning Cris, but I can't embrass it because it's lacking. While your thoughts are energetic and important for launching us to improve as you venue in your visions and creative thougts, some ground rules and basic grounding conditions are lacking, which makes your thoughts no more than an enjoyable roller coaster ride that will finally land on earth where they should be.
Originally posted by Cris
My mother is now 87 and has also led a very active life and was also very attractive when she was young, actually she still doesn’t look her age. But aging is taking its toll and she is becoming increasingly frail and now has greater difficulty recovering from simple illnesses.
This is life Cris, and your grandma have no choice but to bow down to life and give it a cheer for letting her be who she wanted to be and recognize that it's time for her to leave this stage for another.
Originally posted by Cris
Unlike you I find this development to be incredibly sad knowing that the outlook is a further decline and eventual death. While I am sure that science will continue to increase our health and lifespans for the future I am also reminded that if more people had not been so brainwashed by religion and had spent more time and energy looking for real solutions to aging and death then the outlook for all of us would now be much better.
I'm not brainwashed by religion, I hate religion, what gives you the idea that I'm religious? I'm more like drunk with realities of this life and natural tendencies and our position in the universe.
Originally posted by Cris
It is this fatalistic attitude that is taught by religion, i.e. death is good and to be welcomed, that I find makes the concept of religion to be probably the greatest evil man has ever created. Anything that brainwashes people into believing that the ultimate bad is the ultimate good has to be the most perverse and idiotic idea possible.
How can this be evil, while death is a reality. Do you rather that we disrepect your mother and call her a sickly diseaced with age woman, or recognize her as a mature life that is ready for retirement from this lowly form to get into a better stage. How the hell is that evil. It's evil to view something so misunderstood as purely scientific, we might as well, encage the elderlies in a deserted island so that we don't get infected by their diseace.
Originally posted by Cris
God is still a fantasy, but believing that death is good and welcome is sheer stupidity.
Why? Stupidity is naiveness, and a person that believes that death is a reality of life is not naive. Naive is more like the person that think that they conquer reality and death....Conquering reality is imaginary.
Originally posted by Cris
I see no point in bowing down to something that doesn’t exist.
But you are bowing down whether you want it or not, reality creeps on you whether you want it or not. Some of us understand this, and others prefer to wait to the very end when reality hits them in the cojewels.
Originally posted by Cris
But again you demonstrate that you do not know me. It is specifically that I can see a dismal future for myself as I age and decline into painful debilitating age related diseases, that convinces me of the evil nature of religion. I don’t know if you have experienced the death process yet,
I think I have some experiences. I suffer from seizures, the kind that you remember everything that happened to you....I wish I had the other one. it happens very rarely, neverthless, it's a burden and fear that I always carry with me. I had one episode last March, when I left the site for two month if you noticed. It's a disorder in the brain as you know where the signals are confused and body acts randomly in a way that may resemble death. I have felt the body tightening, I have smelled things that don't exist, I had the dejavous, I had an encounter with death, I heard voices, and the whole nine yards. It was not pleasant a bit Cris, but enduring the ride and persevering always have resulted in good for me. I have came out stronger out of every episode like you wouldn't believe. And I feal the same for death, and while I might momentarily suffer, I'll persevere and reach my goals at the end. I never give up on that.
Originally posted by Cris
but you don’t appear to reflect the true unattractiveness of death. My brother died of polio in the 1950s and that left a massive impact on my parents. My sister died of cancer in 1996 and I watched her painful dieing moments and her death. I also watched my father die in terrible pain in 2000.
Cris, I gave birth twice without pain relief, and I don't think cancer would even measure close to birth pain. I thought I was going to dye too, but knowing that the result is a birth of a child gave the strenght. It's the future prospective that makes the pain tolerable or not, and for you Cris, death is the end, so the moments of pain will seem like a life time for you.
Originally posted by Cris
Aging and death are very ugly and are human conditions that should be attacked with everything we can possibly muster.
We can't attack them Cris, unless we try to metamorphis to be stones, but who wants that life.
Originally posted by Cris
Your brainwashed acceptance of death is frighteningly sickening and strengthens my resolve to continue to help towards the eventual demise of religion in every way I can.
If your resolve to continue research to cure diseace, and find pain relief, and others, you'll find me with you. If you find a way to prolong lifes and even conquer death, you'll find me your greatest supporter. I like to separate the issues here. But if you try to convince me now that death is evil while you have never died or experienced it, and while you can't revive one dead person or stop aging, then I'll curse you.
Originally posted by Cris
With the current state of science and technology and for the first time in human history it is no longer certain that death is an inevitability for all of us.
Yes, if you prefer to live in a coma in a freezer.
Originally posted by Cris
Death means the cessation of my existence. That is not acceptable. I will do everything possible to prevent that event. I will also do everything possible to oppose all individuals and I will seek the destruction of all those institutions that encourage a belief that aging and death are somehow to be welcomed.
You have no understanding of death and I pity you. Start with lower simple life forms like the plants and start to stop the leaves on the tree from dying and dropping first, or try to make a flower live forever instead of giving life to a new seed. You want a plastic boring eternity, and that's not my nature.