Are you afraid of dying?

[Inala]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Just to be pedantic, i don't think Rome was sacked. From what I read, the Romans couldn't recruit enough soldiers to guard it, and the mercenaries they hired decided to take it over. Bit like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.

 

Similarities to today, as I doubt many of the youths I see around would make good soldiers. Perhaps a certain militaristic country will win without a fight.

If that militaristic country goes ahead with it's stated plans.....that's yet to be seen what they'll do. If the rest of us stand together, we might just discourage them enough to make them stand down.

 

[Hummin]

48 minutes ago, Inala said:

If that militaristic country goes ahead with it's stated plans.....that's yet to be seen what they'll do. If the rest of us stand together, we might just discourage them enough to make them stand down.

 

It is not all about numbers of soldiers anymore. 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, Hummin said:

It is not all about numbers of soldiers anymore. 

Nukes changed that for sure.

[seedy]

5 hours ago, Inala said:

If that militaristic country goes ahead with it's stated plans.....that's yet to be seen what they'll do. If the rest of us stand together, we might just discourage them enough to make them stand down.

 

People gotta stand up.

Give an ultimatum that is believable and have the will to follow it thru.

Ain't the time for another BS "Peace in our Time" suckup

[thai006]

i'm not afraid to die but i'm afraid of  what next ???? 

 

what's  gonna happen 

 

 we will go to paradise ?  next life  ?  who know lol 

 

but i am 32 year old  i hope i still have a lot time to think about that lol 

Edited January 29, 2022 by thai006

[Hummin]

16 minutes ago, thai006 said:

i'm not afraid to die but i'm afraid of  what next ???? 

 

what's  gonna happen 

 

 we will go to paradise ?  next life  ?  who know lol 

 

but i am 32 year old  i hope i still have a lot time to think about that lol 

53 years and when the fuze burn up, it is dark? From dust to dust, ashes to ashes 

 

Recycle

[steven100]

not afraid of dying but I can't stop thinking about all my dead relatives.

Uncles, aunt's, cousins ...  all gone and didn't get to see them for such a long time .... possibly 40-50 years.

 

I am constantly thinking about the fact they are all gone ......  

[Mac Mickmanus]

24 minutes ago, thai006 said:

i'm not afraid to die but i'm afraid of  what next ???? 

 

what's  gonna happen 

 

 we will go to paradise ?  next life  ?  who know lol 

 

but i am 32 year old  i hope i still have a lot time to think about that lol 

I do think that you will just be dead and not going anywhere 

[TheScience]

I'm not really certain.

 

What I am cognizant of is I have these moments where I think ...oh, sh!+ two thirds of my life is over.

 

Or... can't do that, can't move there, gotta think of my health in ten years... Jeez, I'm old. Ffffffk.

 

I'm more concerned about getting myself sorted financially before shtf. I figure I'll be 85% there in four years and 100 in six. That's what was at least planned. Really no precedent for the 0% interest rates and the market insanity. Inflation.

 

BTW dyiing ???

Edited January 29, 2022 by TheScience

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, thai006 said:

i'm not afraid to die but i'm afraid of  what next ???? 

 

what's  gonna happen 

 

 we will go to paradise ?  next life  ?  who know lol 

 

but i am 32 year old  i hope i still have a lot time to think about that lol 

Do not await the Rapture ????

 

[Hummin]

49 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I do think that you will just be dead and not going anywhere 

Even I think life have been good, I really do hope this is it! Because I know Im mortal, thats why life have been good to me. Not one second to loose, and have tried to live my life as best I could every day.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

Is the question of what happens at death answerable?  In my opinion it is.  Is the after death environment accessible while one is still in the physical world?  In my opinion it is.

From my observations and discussions with people on this topic I find that most have a cursory interest only.  Very few have any serious pursuit of the subject matter.  Given that I'll offer a perspective of death and leave it as food for thought for those interested in reading it.  I will just note that this is partial information in an effort to explain what death is.  The information is much more extensive.
 

"We will begin Part Two, Chapter Nine, and we will title this, “The Death Experience.”

What happens at the point of death? The question is much more easily asked than answered. Basically there is not any particular point of death in those terms, even in the case of a sudden accident. I will attempt to give you a practical answer to what you think of as this practical question, however. What the question really means to most people is this: What will happen when I am not alive in physical terms any longer? What will I feel? Will I still be myself? Will the emotions that propelled me in life continue to do so? Is there a heaven or a hell? Will I be greeted by gods or demons, enemies, or beloved ones? Most of all the question means: When I am dead, will I still be who I am now, and will I remember those who are dear to me now?

I will answer the questions in those terms also, then; but before I do so, there are several seemingly impractical considerations concerning the nature of life and death, with which we must deal.

First of all, let us consider the fact just mentioned. There is no separate, indivisible, specific point of death. Life is a state of becoming, and death is a part of this process of becoming. You are alive now, a consciousness knowing itself, sparkling with cognition amid a debris of dead and dying cells; alive while the atoms and molecules of your body die and are reborn. You are alive, therefore, in the midst of small deaths; portions of your own image crumble away moment by moment and are replaced, and you scarcely give the matter a thought. So you are to some extent now alive in the midst of the death of yourself — alive despite, and yet because of, the multitudinous deaths and rebirths that occur within your body in physical terms.

[... 1 paragraph ...]

In many ways you can compare your consciousness as you know it now to a firefly, for while it seems to you that your consciousness is continuous, this is not so. It also flickers off and on, though as we mentioned earlier, it is never completely extinguished. Its focus is not nearly as constant as you suppose, however. So as you are alive in the midst of your own multitudinous small deaths, so though you do not realize it, you are often “dead,” even amid the sparkling life of your own consciousness.

[... 4 paragraphs ...]

There are overall rhythms, and within them an infinity of individual variations — almost like cosmic metabolism. In these terms, what you call death is simply the insertion of a longer duration of that pulsation of which you are not aware, a long pause in that other dimension, so to speak.

The death, say, of physical tissue, is merely a part of the process of life as you know it in your system, a part of the process of becoming. And from those tissues, as you know, new life will spring.

[... 7 paragraphs ...]

This process, you see, continues so smoothly that you are not aware of it. The pulses mentioned earlier are so short in duration that your consciousness skips over them merrily, yet your physical perception cannot seem to bridge the gap when the longer rhythm of pulsation occurs. And so this is the time that you perceive as death. What you want to know, therefore, is what happens when your consciousness is directed away from physical reality, and when momentarily it seems to have no image to wear.

Quite practically speaking, there is no one answer, for each of you is an individual. Generally speaking, of course, there is an answer that will serve to cover main issues of this experience, but the kinds of deaths have much to do with the experience that consciousness undergoes. Also involved is the development of the consciousness itself, and its overall characteristic method of handling experience.

[... 1 paragraph ...]

(Pause at 10:11.) In many cases of senility, for example, the strongly organized portions of personality have already left the body, and are meeting the new circumstances. The fear of death itself can cause such a psychological panic that out of a sense of self-preservation and defense you lower your consciousness so that you are in a state of coma, and you may take some time to recover.

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

(10:26.) These people are particularly helpful because they are still involved with physical reality, and have a more immediate understanding of the feelings and emotions involved at your end. Such persons may or may not have a memory of their nightly activities. Experiences with projection of consciousness and knowledge of the mobility of consciousness, are therefore very helpful as preparations for death. You can experience the after-death environment beforehand, so to speak, and learn the conditions that will be encountered.

This is not, incidentally, necessarily any kind of somber endeavor, nor are the after-death environments somber at all. To the contrary, they are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality you now know.

[... 4 paragraphs ...]

(Mildly humorous): Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: Death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.

Those of you who had faith in life after death will find it much easier to accustom yourself to the new conditions. Those of you who do not have such faith may gain it in a different way, by following through in the exercises I will give you later in this book; for these will enable you to extend your perceptions to these other layers of reality if you are persistent, expectant, and determined.

[... 1 paragraph ...]

(10:50.) If consciousness vacated the body for the same amount of time from a normally physically awake state, it would consider itself dead, for it could not rationalize the gap of dimension and experience. Therefore in the sleep state, each of you have undergone — to some degree — the same kind of absence of consciousness from physical reality that you experience during death.

[... 1 paragraph ...]

Now, you may or may not be greeted by friends or relatives immediately following death. This is a personal matter, as always. Overall, you may be far more interested in people that you have known in past lives than those close to you in the present one, for example.

(11:03.) Your true feeling toward relatives who are also dead will be known to you and to them. There is no hypocrisy. You do not pretend to love a parent who did little to earn your respect or love. Telepathy operates without distortion in this after-death period, so you must deal with the true relationships that exist between yourself and all relatives and friends who await you.

[... 5 paragraphs ...]"

—SS Chapter 9: Session 535, June 17, 1970

[thaibeachlovers]

On 1/29/2022 at 7:20 PM, seedy said:

People gotta stand up.

Give an ultimatum that is believable and have the will to follow it thru.

Ain't the time for another BS "Peace in our Time" suckup

LOL. IMO the western world has gone too "soft" for that. It's all Neville Chamberlain now. Churchills are nowhere to be seen.

[seedy]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. IMO the western world has gone too "soft" for that. It's all Neville Chamberlain now. Churchills are nowhere to be seen.

True.

But check out the state of the Chinese economy - many videos on You Tube from good sources.

Evergreen just the tip - large corporations pulling out - Canon, Samsung, Toyota, etc

Gov't subsidies for cars that sit in huge lots unable to be sold, some for 3+ years ...

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, seedy said:

True.

But check out the state of the Chinese economy - many videos on You Tube from good sources.

Evergreen just the tip - large corporations pulling out - Canon, Samsung, Toyota, etc

Gov't subsidies for cars that sit in huge lots unable to be sold, some for 3+ years ...

World was suffering from the depression till WW2 happened and gave the economy a boost ( in the US- not for Britain so much ) post war.

 

Wars are a good way to divert an unhappy nation's attention from what ails them.

 

 

[KhunLA]

17 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

World was suffering from the depression till WW2 happened and gave the economy a boost ( in the US- not for Britain so much ) post war.

 

Wars are a good way to divert an unhappy nation's attention from what ails them.

 

 

Unless of course a family member or friend is in one of those flag draped coffins being returned home.  But money is everything to those that don't need to worry about such little things.

 

If politicians and defense contractors' children were the first to go to war, then there would be none. 

[seedy]

 

[steven100]

On 1/29/2022 at 2:01 PM, steven100 said:

not afraid of dying but I can't stop thinking about all my dead relatives.

Uncles, aunt's, cousins ...  all gone and didn't get to see them for such a long time .... possibly 40-50 years.

 

I am constantly thinking about the fact they are all gone ......  

I have had 7 bottles now and again ....

 

I cannot stop thinking about my dead relatives .....  they are all gone ....   I didn't see them to say hello or goodbye.

I think about the dead constantly ....

[seedy]

Thinking about dying, about the dead, about dead relatives, ...

Worrying about how and why you will check out, ...

What an utter waste of time.