Plan like you'll live forever, live like you'll die tomorrow. I think this quote summed up my sentiments with eloquence.
I don't fear dead as long it's not a painful dead. You just become food for the worms in the ground after you've died. (which is why I want to be cremated instead of burried when it's my time)
Thinking about death, I also consider it as "a person (i.e.: me) ceasing to exist" When you consider existence as being temporary and not-existing as the default, death isn't that bad, I guess. But hell, I wanted to be cremented just to save space on earth. What a waste of space to bury carcasses.
death takes on different definitions from person to person. it will vary. it all depends on what you believe. ill tell you what i believe, and this is my own belief. if you happen to disagree, well, feel free to believe so. death, to me, is not the end of life. in fact, it is a transition from our previous life to another level of life. the meaning of existence, to me, whether they be physically or spiritually, is like school. when you pass away, you have achieved something you were sent to earth to accomplish. life is a cycle. you come to earth to learn a lesson. after having completed that lesson, you move on to the other. but if you did not complete that lesson, you will come back to finish it. its just liek repeating a course. death only takes your spirit from this world, (the learning world), to the spirit world. you will then reincarnate to earth to either relearn a lesson, or learn a new one. it is a continuous process, until you graduate, in which your spirit reaches the highest level in the spirit world, commonly referred to as the level of God/Alah/Buddha/ and any other Gods/Goddesses. according to religious documentations, what i have mentioned here, does not cover even 1% of religious beliefs. once again. you are free to believe in your beliefs. this is my belief. (im saying this because i do not wish to take part in a Holy argument.)
dann, the life/death cycle you describe sounded a bit like Ground Hog Day (or now the rip off series Day Break) If you've done something wrong (mission failed), you do EVERYTHING all over again. Kind of like playing video game if you think of it that way.
whats ground hog day? i took those lessons from official religious documentations, such as books from university.
jus don't think to much... I used to fear death, but what i fear most is losing my parents?.... now spending my time with them before i regret i never did n hangin out with friends....
Haha since it's a spam; better make it a useful essay instead .. Jz like to add my beliefs as well and my thoughts on ur comment Hiake... I think in one of Dann's posts; he did mention that one doesn't only go through one cycle of life to able to accomplish all the tasks/learn everything.. In fact it's quite impossible. Even Gautama Buddha took a few tries (no idea how many) at reincarnation (of course he did his best in all the past lives) and finally as a Prince who lived some 2,500 yrs ago India; he renounced all material possessions in order to find enlightenment; and that was his last life on this Earth. Nirvana/state of Buddhahood: This is a person who has successfully completed the lives of a cycle of existence, and by his success in overcoming Karma is now ready to move on to another plane of existence. Contrary to the popular belief; Nirvana is NOT a state of nothingness; where one has 'no wants'; but rather, 'no evil wants'. One may actively seek to achieve the state of Nirvana. Nirvana is NOT the negation of everything as is usually supposed; it is instead the elimination of those desires which are wrong; it is the elimination of scandal; the elimination of perjury, greed, lust, and other faults. The Enlightened One strives so that they are empty of evil emotion, and thus their soul can rise within them and leave the body at will. It is a liberation from the body; liberation from lusts and gluttonies of the flesh. It does not mean the cessation of all experience; it does not mean the cessation of all knowledge (including the 'want of attaining Nirvana'); nor the cessation of all life. It is incorrect to say that Nirvana means existing in a state of nothingness. Nirvana is freedom from lust, freedom from the various hungers of the flesh, Nirvana is not even a blissful contemplation. It is, instead, a fulfilment of spiritual knowledge, and liberation from all bodily desires. In short, the state of Nirvana is being in a pure state, pure so far as lack of lusts of physical things are concerned. But even when one has attained to Nirvana ie the freedom from flesh desires; one still goes on to learn spiritual things and to advance in other planes of existence (My belief is there are nine planes of existence). And if you going to ask me (please don't lol) what happens at the ninth plane; I have to go into another elaborate post... lol.
^ word lol im surprised you actually DID read my posts! fine ill do the same to you yea, its all true, but im curious... was it 9 or 12? i cant recall...
^Whut!@@ Does that mean u didn't read previously aihhzz.. As far as I know; it's nine If you want to go for 12; i won't stop u...
