Our sun has around 5 billion years left iirc, but it gains heat throughout it's lifetime so I think in around 2-3 billion years it will be too hot to sustain intelligent life here.
I am Litterally Petrified of Death
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Our sun has around 5 billion years left iirc, but it gains heat throughout it's lifetime so I think in around 2-3 billion years it will be too hot to sustain intelligent life here.
Yeah I think about death way to much, reason been I seen my dad drop dead in front of me when he was only 42..
On another note, if some type of after life was true, I don't think we will or should find this out until D day as people would just use this as a easy exit if you get me.. Ah well hope I wake up in the morning lol..
On another note, if some type of after life was true, I don't think we will or should find this out until D day as people would just use this as a easy exit if you get me.. Ah well hope I wake up in the morning lol..
As with just about anything in life, the reality of any undesirable situation is never quite as bad as what the mind conjures up (things are usually not as bad as they seem). Once you're dead, whether you believe in an afterlife or not, your body ceases 'to be', therefore you would know nothing about it - because you won't exist.
I believe in an afterlife or 'something', though not for the purposes of simply cheering me up. In fact, you if you read enough posts on here, I would say that there are plenty of people that aren't quite sure one way or the other. They have had insightful experiences but have automatically refused to trust their intuition, which is common. Children are the 'free' in this regard, though around the age of ten or so they tend to close down as the physical world begins to preoccupy them more and more.
I wouldn't worry OP, concentrate on the 'way' you die, rather than death itself. That should provide a smoother journey for you in the long run.
I believe in an afterlife or 'something', though not for the purposes of simply cheering me up. In fact, you if you read enough posts on here, I would say that there are plenty of people that aren't quite sure one way or the other. They have had insightful experiences but have automatically refused to trust their intuition, which is common. Children are the 'free' in this regard, though around the age of ten or so they tend to close down as the physical world begins to preoccupy them more and more.
I wouldn't worry OP, concentrate on the 'way' you die, rather than death itself. That should provide a smoother journey for you in the long run.
Which is apparently what the universe was before it started..... Only problem was something triggered it off, which will probably happen again and the cycle continues.
In fact if you think about it, there could have been numerous universes before ours, which have died off and started again.
What is nothing if not something?
Man, when I really start to think about this stuff it really starts to bake my mind...
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You need to expand really. The theory reads that the way we read time is cyclical, this cycle started 16billion years ago, there are probably infinite cycles before and infinite cycles after. The end of this cycle could be result in "absolute zero" if the universe experiences the "big crunch".
Agreed. None of us can even begin to understand the slow rhythms the universe breathe to. Maybe it contracts one day, maybe it keep on expanding until .... well, until whatever happens. Maybe our sun runs out of juice and we need not worry about anything else. Point is, a 100 years from now, a measly 100 years every single person on this forum, or anyone who ever posted here, will be dust in the ground or ash scattered somewhere. There will be new people with no knowledge of us, discussing the same issue, just as it undoubtedly happened in 1912.
We're just insignificant cogs in an unimaginably large wheel that will forever keep on turning, no matter how significant we see ourselves as. Time is not going to do anyone a favour and save him.
Besides, after 70/80 years of living, you can do with the rest
And you will come to rest , no matter how much you want to keep on living
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meh, way I see it is once im gone im gone so I wont know anything about it why worry about something that is GOING to happen and CANNOT be stopped. and once it has happened you wont remember a single thing about it 
why worry about something that is GOING to happen and CANNOT be stopped. and once it has happened you wont remember a single thing about it 
Agreed. None of us can even begin to understand the slow rhythms the universe breathe to. Maybe it contracts one day, maybe it keep on expanding until .... well, until whatever happens. Maybe our sun runs out of juice and we need not worry about anything else. Point is, a 100 years from now, a measly 100 years every single person on this forum, or anyone who ever posted here, will be dust in the ground or ash scattered somewhere. There will be new people with no knowledge of us, discussing the same issue, just as it undoubtedly happened in 1912.
We're just insignificant cogs in an unimaginably large wheel that will forever keep on turning, no matter how significant we see ourselves as. Time is not going to do anyone a favour and save him.
Besides, after 70/80 years of living, you can do with the rest
And you will come to rest , no matter how much you want to keep on living
The oldest living human reached 122 years old. This was from 1870s, so imagine how far technology could progress within our life times. We are just scratching the surface with understanding how and why humans age (such as through shortening telemeres amongst other factors). I'd say theres a chance not all of us will be dead a century from now
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As with just about anything in life, the reality of any undesirable situation is never quite as bad as what the mind conjures up (things are usually not as bad as they seem). Once you're dead, whether you believe in an afterlife or not, your body ceases 'to be', therefore you would know nothing about it - because you won't exist.
I believe in an afterlife or 'something', though not for the purposes of simply cheering me up. In fact, you if you read enough posts on here, I would say that there are plenty of people that aren't quite sure one way or the other. They have had insightful experiences but have automatically refused to trust their intuition, which is common. Children are the 'free' in this regard, though around the age of ten or so they tend to close down as the physical world begins to preoccupy them more and more.
I wouldn't worry OP, concentrate on the 'way' you die, rather than death itself. That should provide a smoother journey for you in the long run.
Watch "Through the Wormhole" Season 03 Episode 10... just watched it last night & seems like it might be of interest to you from your above post.
It's related to how humans conjured god & looks in to if we have a predisposition to believe in something/anything
Watch "Through the Wormhole" Season 03 Episode 10... just watched it last night & seems like it might be of interest to you from your above post.
It's related to how humans conjured god & looks in to if we have a predisposition to believe in something/anything
Cheers, bookmarked and will give it a view tonight.
The big crunch was a potential scenario, but it has been disproved now because we know that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating rather than decelerating, as we previously thought.
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Three ways.
1) You can find comfort in in the mass delusion of religion. Alternatively, a belief that you will somehow live forever, that life and death are only two sides of the same coin (aka woo-woo spirituality crap).
2) Watch Doctor Who, and pretend you are a Time Lord.
3) Ponder the fact that you were nothing for 14 billion years with no adverse effect, then keep calm, and carry on (would make a nice meme poster).
1) You can find comfort in in the mass delusion of religion. Alternatively, a belief that you will somehow live forever, that life and death are only two sides of the same coin (aka woo-woo spirituality crap).
2) Watch Doctor Who, and pretend you are a Time Lord.
3) Ponder the fact that you were nothing for 14 billion years with no adverse effect, then keep calm, and carry on (would make a nice meme poster).
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Your scared of death but choose to use the forum name of ' Chocolatestarfishrammer'
The mind boggles .
The mind boggles .
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Why.... would the starfish explode killing all those near if you rammed chocolate in to it?
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Why.... would the starfish explode killing all those near if you rammed chocolate in to it?
Lol - you made me chuckle .
It is a Scary thought and it does annoy me in some way that life will go on when I am not around, all the things in the future which I will NEVER witness and experience is annoying for me. I feel like I would have liked to have been born in a different time as nothing much is going on in this lifetime...
I also find it strange that when your old 70/80+ they are not scared of death, maybe you don't think about it at that age and just accept its going to happen..
I also find it strange that when your old 70/80+ they are not scared of death, maybe you don't think about it at that age and just accept its going to happen..