If Given The Chance

I would take it that you're very religious.

 

Hahaha, oh no! Quite the contrary. I just thought that was hilarious. The one and only thing off of Viscous Circle he did right.

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." ...It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. -- The Late Bill Hicks

 

Ah I see, good Bill Hicks quote btw. Nothing new for me, but it'll likely make the youngens think.

 

Its easy to say not to worry about death, but its another to be on your death bed or very sick and be staring death in the face and shrug your shoulders.

First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.

And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.

 

<div class="quote_poster">norespect Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.</div>
It seems to me that to you it's tough to let things go. I love my family to death, but I know that one day I will have to leave them, and not see them for long periods of time and in that timespan, I will develop my own life on my own terms and I won't look back in regret that I hadn't spent time with my family more, or this and that. Once you accept yourself as you are, whole in whatever state is the period where you rid yourself of fear and death becomes just another cornerstone. When you live life everyday in its present, and you care only on that and you don't think about the past or the future, is when you're in a true state of happiness. Thoughts about the past and the future obstruct our reality, and to obstruct our reality is even worse than death.

You dream, you wake; you live, you die. Somehow it occurred to me that if you die, you wake. - Alex Garland from The Coma

I am become death, destroyer of worlds - passage from the Bhagavad'Vita

and my ultimate favorite...

...that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks

And, you kind of proved my point of fear and death for me with the Palahniuk quote. Especially the last part.

 

<div class="quote_poster">norespect Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Its easy to say not to worry about death, but its another to be on your death bed or very sick and be staring death in the face and shrug your shoulders.

First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die. It is only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Without fear of death, life would mean nothing. If you really felt indifferent about death, then you probably wouldn't be living life to the fullest. Maybe you aren't really scared of the process of death, or the prospect of the afterlife, but you would have to miss those around you. What if you never saw your family again...that would suck.

And another thing, I don't know about the U.S., but I know that somewhere in the neibourhood of 75% of people who die in Canada, do so at a hospital or a hospice. EWWWW, i doubt alot of those people are indifferent about death.</div>

Never thought about that. It really would.

Kinda funny, I killed 2 mosquitos as I read this page. <waste of space <<waste of more space...

 

Hahahahahaha!