How can one know LIFE without DEATH.
If there was no death you would be immortal, everlasting..etc
What would life be?
What understanding could one have of existence?
What could one learn if there were no Dichotomy?
That is the superficial short version of that side of the coin.......
I am well aware of dichotomy, its relevance, etc. What relevance it has to do with anything else you've posted so far is what perplexes me. It has none. Nonetheless, I shall humour you.
The understanding one would have would be exactly the same as we have now, except there wouldn't be any concept of what happens after we died. The change would really not be that drastic. Sure, religion as we know it would be completely, totally and utterly fucked, but that'd be about it.
Imagine infinite life trapped within a physical form......... Dichotomy?
That's not a dichotomy. That's "hey guys, there's plenty more time to get laid and drink buckets!"
How much can an immortal learn by understanding and fusing, transcending, merging or whatever you'd like to call it, this Dichotomy?
It ISN'T a dichotomy if there is only one state of being.
Life would become so much more wouldn't you think?
Only in that we'd have more time in which to do the same things. Eventually, we'd all get bored and just get laid randomly with everyone we went past. Sure, tech might advance that bit faster, but, really, life wouldn't be all that different. We'd just do stuff we wouldn't normally do knowing we couldn't die.
By the way when i speak of LIFE I am not speaking of lifestyle or any matirial aspect of your existence I speak of your actual LIFE not what society has told you it is or should be!
The following things would probably change:
- People would get laid more.
- People would do outlandish things more.
- People would do more learning, research, etc, knowing that sitting on their laurels would/has eventually bored them witless.
- People would get bored more, as they'd spend more time resting on their laurels in spite of point #3.
If you die and there were no Dichotomy within LIFE... would you not be dead while believing the illusion that is your " LIFE ".
No. If you're dead, that's it. You're dead. Trust me, dude, you need to rephrase your arguments. If the life/death dichotomy did not exist and you were dead, you would never have been alive. Therefore you were never born and could never have existed to think this over.
Assuming you live to be 70 in the realm of infinity you may as well have never existed... If you don't understand the TRUE meaning of LIFE you can not see the truth of death.
Assuming there was no death, that does not mean one cannot do those seven things that are fundamental to all living things. Therefore, life in itself would not change in the least. It just means we have a lot more time alive.
People understand finite things such as death much easier than the infinite variety, its human nature.
Death is a closed ended solution....makes a nice little book end....easy concept for everyone to grasp and fear......
I don't fear death. I don't actually care about death all that much. It is really not that difficult to understand the differences that would result from immortality. Sure, the earth'd be a bit more populated but in truth, that wouldn't matter because if we all cannot die we just simply wouldn't bother to eat.
On the other hand LIFE is an open ended solution even through physical death.... a little more complex of a solution...but a lot more freedom from control and fear....in that one.
Not really. That's complete bollocks, that is.
The only question I really have for any one is:
Once your Life (soul, energy..etc) is realized does physical death erase ones knowledge, understanding, thoughts, emotions etc. of an infinite existence as one was alive and lived for Life as opposed to death.
Once LIFE is known (which I all hope we have LMAO) does death outweigh or transcend the actuality and tangibility of prior existence?
Rephrase this question. It's too ambiguous. However, my answer based on what I think you said is that once you're dead, you're dead. So yes, death erases everything about you that ever was.
How can one exist and then suddenly die and have physical death take hold forever? Death is not where we come from, we come from life!
Cessation of existence is really not something I'm afraid of.
It is ALL WE HAVE AND WILL EVER KNOW!
But that does not mean that it is all there is. All I will ever know of you is that you post impossibly ambiguous and irrelevant posts in topics. That cannot be all there is to you. I assume you have parents, possibly a GF as long as you didn't bring all this up to her, possibly a BF if you're that way inclined and you didn't bring this up to him. I imagine there is more to your existence than pissing me off, but hey
WTF do you people think you can learn death? THIS IS THE ILLUSION OF LIFE!
Do not profess that you are any better than us. "You people" implies that you have somehow learned about this. You know no more than I about the subject.
Mortality and Immortality are the same in this LIFE!
Not really.
DEATH IS NON EXISTENCE by the way.. Try and deny that one... LOL
Finally, something we agree on.
Hope this puts some of you in a quandry! 
Only in terms of your atrocious grammar and your sweeping ambiguity.
Congratulations Anonymous. Good to see you passed Phylosophy 101. Never thought you had it in you but good on you.
Maybe now you have enough credits to go into mime school 
LOLZ
Nonetheless, Anony, you clearly have never once bothered to dignify me with my requests for you to write your posts more clearly rather than going off on random evasive tangents. You've not deigned to delve deeper into ANY your own "theories" or develop them for those who can't understand your impossibly garbled grammatical constructions. While completely off-topic from your first post, I can actually see the buds of a possible sound post from you. If you had only constructed your arguments in a less hurried fashion that more clearly explained what it was you were trying to say, I may possibly begin to entertain you with less of a condescending attitude. Rule o' thumb: If you use your words and explain or at least organise your sentences into some sort of coherent and clarified fashion (read: in English), I wouldn't get hacked off with you. Writing in an impenetrable fashion might have made you look like a learned man in the 17-1800's, but now it just makes you look like a wanker.
Edited by Paradox, 06 April 2007 - 02:53 PM.
