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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 1, 2018 6:05:42 GMT
Like why doesn't life always live. Why do you think?
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Post by Polaris on Feb 1, 2018 6:17:14 GMT
if there were no death, we wouldn't think that we are living. we would take life for granted and in that way it would be silly. also I understand that death is just another stage of our existence. I am a strict believer in life after death!!!
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 1, 2018 6:24:00 GMT
Yes I believe in life after that. But it's also interesting that we all die at different ages and that we never know when that time is. Why such mystery?
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Post by berserker on Feb 1, 2018 6:26:55 GMT
This is a broad question and I will choose to interpret as questioning why individuals sometimes do not seek out the connotation to living; i e seeking joy, passion, love, desire, happiness, enlightenment etc.
In a popular standpoint, I would say people are fragile. Our minds our weak, and while the decent moments are taken note of, the indecent and abhorrent events are soldered into our memories with a vibrancy that also fuels. The negativity borne of such happenstances affect individuals differently, and based upon their own state of mind and being, the events are iconoclasts to further development, or beatings which breed only apathy. To continue this train of thought, the two outcomes are A) change, and B) standing still. Change can still lead to socially denotated negative outcomes, or in this context, could become the anathema of what one might consider the connotation to living, however, if there is passion and effort, inspirations, and/or ingenuity, the individual is still following this idea of "living."
In this instance, then by comparison, those frozen, apathetic, or standing still are the true opposite to the idea of living and the question posed, yet to be answered, remains, "Why doesn't life always live?"
Naturally inquisitive, the human mind seeks to bridge gaps, to overcome, and to grow, but when met with the repeated end result to experiment after experiment, variation upon variation, the stagnation of being deprived of new experiences and opportunities will unquestionably dampen one's capabilities. I would say a clear example would be long term abuse victims whom systems of humanitarian assistance never reached would meet this criteria of individual.
Although the topic origin may refer to an even more general query, or seeks to attune itself to the more light topics of why we as humanity hold ourselves back in certain instances, I would say to a degree we have all experienced the consecutive results that brand us into patterns, and the fact we think and change to form new algorithms shows we are not yet so defeatist as to mete out an existence of listless lifelessness.
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Post by val on Feb 1, 2018 6:47:22 GMT
We die because our bodies can no longer sustain vital functions. This can be traumatic or over time. Many of humans' survival instincts are to avoid traumatic death, and I would guess that very few instincts were to preserves wellness and thus extend natural life. Genetics ultimately determines the length of an organism's lifespan, which is an equilibrium reached over countless generations balancing the resource requirements of repairing accrued damage overtime to the individual, the burden that puts on the social group they live in and how it affects the individuals ability to produce and raise offspring. There's lots of factors, but nature has decided our base lifespan. We are just one of countless cycles that exist for a moment in the global ecosystem.
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Post by oluoch06 on Feb 1, 2018 8:28:32 GMT
The mystery of life has never really been understood despite the various explanations humans have come up with.
I always wish for long life and I subscribe to the idea that life in itself is a gift with death being ultimate.
The cause of death in my opinion is sin. This is well described in the biblical story of the Fall of Man. Death is an inherited curse and for sure the wages of sin is death.
One may live for 10 years or 100 years as long as you live it correctly that's enough.
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Post by Διαμονδ on Feb 1, 2018 8:53:50 GMT
From the point of view of Christianity, death came to this world with sin! But from the point of view of materialism everything in our world has its time decaying, including the human organism!
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Post by ajay0 on Feb 1, 2018 17:55:21 GMT
From the pov of eastern philosophy, it is so for the avoidance of complacency and lethargy, in case we are eternal.
When we know constantly that we have only a short time span, obviously we will live life energetically and to the fullest consciously. But the issue is we forget the fact of our mortality even then and willingly delude ourselves as immortal, and hence we need constant reminders of death happening around us of our own impending death. Our own death will also serve as a reminder of this fact to others.
In buddhist and hindu religious philosophies, going to the crematorium and watching bodies being burnt or cremated is considered a valuable spiritual exercise, so as to easily contemplate on the destruction of our own physical bodies, a fact which we in general unconsciously abhor and do not deliberate upon due to fear.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 18:10:12 GMT
Death is a completely natural process and it brings about release and renewal. I, for one, would not want to be stuck in the body of a paralytic, leper, epileptic forever. Death is the liberator.
Remember: Job 32:7-9. There's wisdom that comes with age and wisdom that can only be discovered in youth. A lot of people miss out on their youth, never get to find their proper place in life, develop their talents, etc. If death is the end of everything, then there's no purpose to life. So it follows that god has enacted some sort of renewal for humans (after spending some time in a purgatory). Reincarnation and afterlife used to be compatible concepts, as seen in ancient Greek religions.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 20:36:06 GMT
Life is a dream in another dream.
Why our sentences end by points? We're all thinking by sentences. To put a point into the end of any sentence is to make a break. Out brain needs a rest, so the body either. If we're all living in a dream, being unconsciousness is to sleep in the dream or to see dream in the dream. When we sleep we're seeing one whole sentence, when we're asleep we see a torn world.
Besides, thinking about the end of our lives is nonsense, 'cause this thought doesn't seem ours. The thought of the end of everything doesn't belong us.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 19:31:42 GMT
We are infinite beings transforming between finite beings . Do not discount your existence . We are much more than a just a flesh . Death is only the beginning.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 21:29:32 GMT
We are infinite beings transforming between finite beings . Do not discount your existence . We are much more than a just a flesh . Death is only the beginning. A wonderful optimistic words! But I think these words won't help us not to die. Ok, I agree with the part of your replica 'bout 'infinite beings transforming between finite beings'. It is a good thought. Democritus held such view. But I disagree with 'we...'. Who is 'we'? 'You', 'I', 'we' - it is something that exists between beings you've told. According to your claim there are at least two problems: 1. How many finite beings do we need to be as we are? I mean what number or what quantity of substantia, etc? Cutting your hair or nails can be understanded like 'loosing yourself'? 2. Eithter there are no souls, or if the construction of the finite beings torns we will be torned too. According to the second, some philosophers like Anaxymander said that 'everything in everything' meaning that 'we' are not us (we are), and 'you' are 'I' and 'we' too...
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Post by Polaris on Feb 5, 2018 21:41:04 GMT
we leave life in this world because we are not part of it. we just joined it not long a go and we will leave soon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 15:22:15 GMT
We are infinite beings transforming between finite beings . Do not discount your existence . We are much more than a just a flesh . Death is only the beginning. A wonderful optimistic words! But I think these words won't help us not to die. Ok, I agree with the part of your replica 'bout 'infinite beings transforming between finite beings'. It is a good thought. Democritus held such view. But I disagree with 'we...'. Who is 'we'? 'You', 'I', 'we' - it is something that exists between beings you've told. According to your claim there are at least two problems: 1. How many finite beings do we need to be as we are? I mean what number or what quantity of substantia, etc? Cutting your hair or nails can be understanded like 'loosing yourself'? 2. Eithter there are no souls, or if the construction of the finite beings torns we will be torned too. According to the second, some philosophers like Anaxymander said that 'everything in everything' meaning that 'we' are not us (we are), and 'you' are 'I' and 'we' too... Oh for sure there is a soul. To start off with there isnt a death to begin with.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 11:56:56 GMT
So, if you sure about the presense of soul, I guess, I will not be afraid to die.
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