Musings About Immortalily

fureverywhere

fureverywhere

beloved friend who will always be with us in spiri
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I mean at a certain age...I'm looking at a mere 54 but with heredity and what ever else another decade if I'm lucky. But tonight I was walking the pups. Two tunes that stand out. "Chantilly Lace" gets me dancing. The Big Bopper passed on maybe five years before I was conceived but wowww, I love that. "Third Stone from the Sun" performed by Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report. He past away late eighties, un-medicated and so sad. How about the book generation's of girls have grown up with "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret".
Yup, I was rather um "tired" last night...
I guess the point is both Jaco and JP Richardson checked out far too soon. But the music lives on. Great books too. But you don't have to be famous. Just simple things like a recipe or catch phrase passed on down keeps us alive. Unless we spent our lifetime as a hermit. We'll live on for future generations one way or another...rather comforting there.
 

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I think of heaven as an endless summer. Not of muggy heat and mosquitoes, but of running barefoot without ever stepping on a briar or a bee or a shard of glass. And a moveable feast picnic. And the water's always right there. And you can actually see God, and get to talk to Him, and the people you miss and the people you've wanted to meet. One night I was listening to a church service on TV while playing with my kitties in the kitchen and they were singing an old hymn (the church not the kitties) and I had a very clear vision of the man who used to greet everyone by the church door and shake our hands -- this was when I was a little kid -- and I realized suddenly, This is what heaven will be like, I will walk in that door and he will be there to greet me and I will see my parents and all their Sunday School class friends and so many others.

Just came to me while I was sitting on the kitchen floor throwing treats for the kitties and listening to a little country church sing an old hymn.
 
fureverywhere said:
I mean at a certain age...I'm looking at a mere 54 but with heredity and what ever else another decade if I'm lucky. But tonight I was walking the pups. Two tunes that stand out. "Chantilly Lace" gets me dancing. The Big Bopper passed on maybe five years before I was conceived but wowww, I love that. "Third Stone from the Sun" performed by Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report. He past away late eighties, un-medicated and so sad. How about the bookgeneration's of girls have grown up with? "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" But yes even Aunt Betty's lemon sponge cake...Your family and passing on what???
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Did Jaco really die?? I hadn't kept up with Weather Report since an old boyfried got me into them decades ago.

I think Alvin Lee of Ten Years After died too young. A bunch of friends in my personal life have died too young. An old friend of mine from facebook died suddenly last week. Natural causes. Sadness.
 

Would you really want immortality?

And see all of your family and friends die?

That was a central theme of one of my favorite TV shows, Highlander, that starred Adrian Paul as a 400-year old immortal. His constant lament was that all of his friends, family, and wives all passed away, leaving him alone.

There is a natural rhythm to the world. If we did not follow it, surely bad things would happen.
 
I think we are 'immortal', just not in the same form always. Death is a time of transition but not an end to 'me/us' and I think we have a 360 degree awareness when we cross that 'great divide' unlike the myopic view that we're currently blessed with (or should I say, restricted to).
 
Guitarist said:
I think of heaven as an endless summer. Not of muggy heat and mosquitoes, but of running barefoot without ever stepping on a briar or a bee or a shard of glass. And a moveable feast picnic. And the water's always right there. And you can actually see God, and get to talk to Him, and the people you miss and the people you've wanted to meet. One night I was listening to a church service on TV while playing with my kitties in the kitchen and they were singing an old hymn (the church not the kitties) and I had a very clear vision of the man who used to greet everyone by the church door and shake our hands -- this was when I was a little kid -- and I realized suddenly, This is what heaven will be like, I will walk in that door and he will be there to greet me and I will see my parents and all their Sunday School class friends and so many others.

Just came to me while I was sitting on the kitchen floor throwing treats for the kitties and listening to a little country church sing an old hymn.
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What happy thoughts. Who would not want to believe that? I wish I knew it to be so.
 
SifuPhil said:
Would you really want immortality?

And see all of your family and friends die?

That was a central theme of one of my favorite TV shows, Highlander, that starred Adrian Paul as a 400-year old immortal. His constant lament was that all of his friends, family, and wives all passed away, leaving him alone.

There is a natural rhythm to the world. If we did not follow it, surely bad things would happen.
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Eternity is a very long time.:waiting:
 
SifuPhil said:
Would you really want immortality?

And see all of your family and friends die?

That was a central theme of one of my favorite TV shows, Highlander, that starred Adrian Paul as a 400-year old immortal. His constant lament was that all of his friends, family, and wives all passed away, leaving him alone.

There is a natural rhythm to the world. If we did not follow it, surely bad things would happen.
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This is silly thinking IMHO. I'd like to try immortality. A thing is only impossible until someone does it. Screw the natural order. If I can live healthy, be interested and interesting, look great, and love and receive love then why not? Death is eternal nothingness.
 
chic said:
This is silly thinking IMHO. I'd like to try immortality. A thing is only impossible until someone does it. Screw the natural order. If I can live healthy, be interested and interesting, look great, and love and receive love then why not? Death is eternal nothingness.
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And you have been gifted with this knowledge how? By whom?

I never said it was impossible - reading comprehension much?

"Screw the natural order" - YOU said it, not ME.
 
Underock1 said:
Eternity is a very long time.:waiting:
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It certainly is.
I can't think of any human activity, no matter how pleasant, that wouldn't turn into torture over an infinite time span.

I need to wrap my mind around an existence that is independent of time and space but I can't.

This idea was explored in DS9 with the worm hole inhabitants and in other Sc Fi themes where mankind evolves beyond the limitations of the body and enter a realm of pure thought.

I don't worry about this though. It is just an entertaining thought.
 
Ralphy also has the power of prophecy and it doesn't look for good for those who would denigrate the voice of God...
 
But what about the people that you don't love?
 

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