• Impermanence
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[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40381306]This is all I need lol.[/QUOTE] Another quality post by Sobotnik, everybody
Your "aura" is simply [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectromagnetics"]Bioelectromagnetics[/URL], if it's a spectrum of light, it hasn't been detected. The pineal gland's psychic properties are conjecture.
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40379563] A wall of metaphysical nonsense[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sobotnik;40342950]Is there a way to actually [b]verify[/b] this though?[/QUOTE]
I may not have some kind of new, interesting perspective to offer at the moment. However, what I will say is, while I would certainly love it if we unlocked immortality in our lifetime, I have accepted the likely scenario where I die less than a century from now. In addition, I want to leave a mark. Have a legacy, I suppose. I do not want to be a celebrity. But to be forgotten is one of my worst fears. I want to create something at least somewhat noteworthy, I guess. I really do not want to die before this happens.
I don't quite understand your definition of experiencing and observing life? All I get the feeling of is "life is short go outside" Which I actually respect. Trust me if I could go all over the world and enjoy different cultures and go to my death bed with pleasant memories of meeting amazing people from different countries I would leave right now with the clothes on my back but a guy needs to eat. But maybe one day. I don't want live my entire life in the country I was born in and hopefully I won't. I just don't enjoy the place where I live all that much. But I know I've got it good. But while on the subject living life should be doing what you enjoy and what makes you happy. If someone enjoys sitting in front of a computer all day and can actually honestly say "I am happy" and mean it. Hell, as long as he is physically healthy and isn't free loading on someone else to pay for their happiness good on them.
Reminds me of very very very good quotes by Carl Sagan. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” “I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.” And of course... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw[/media]
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40379563]Apologies for the late reply. Anyways, as you should already know the earth and everything on it is composed of atoms. These atoms are all vibrating at a frequency that we cannot see or feel (at least to the untrained individual). This frequency is known by many names, such as the aura, chi, life force, or spirit. Everything on this earth, living or inanimate, has this aura. There are many ways to tune yourself into this frequency. But to get a basic understanding of it, what does it look like? That's why there's such a thing as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography"]Kirlian photography[/URL]. [/QUOTE] Yeah the moment you got to Kirlian photography I laughed. [QUOTE=wikipedia]Kirlian photography is a technique for creating contact print photographs using high voltage.[/QUOTE] Please stand still while I wire my pineal gland into you and send a few thousand volts to get your aura. Thanks! And the brightness is caused by different camera, not by being alive. Please, stop with very unscientific garbage.
[QUOTE=eurocracy;40392512]Yeah the moment you got to Kirlian photography I laughed. Please stand still while I wire my pineal gland into you and send a few thousand volts to get your aura. Thanks! And the brightness is caused by different camera, not by being alive. Please, stop with very unscientific garbage.[/QUOTE] Look, you can be as sarcastic and witty as you want. Science once tried to prove that the earth was flat. That the atom was the smallest entity. That the earth was only 6,000 years old. And even two years ago I didn't believe in ghosts. There are things science just can't prove, whether it's a lack of technology or just an excess of closed-minded people. Hinduism has practiced this for centuries, same with Buddhism. You even said so in your own post, [B]There's no evidence[/B], not [B]scientifically proven to not exist and blame it on restless eye syndrome.[/B]
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40397431]Look, you can be as sarcastic and witty as you want. Science once tried to prove that the earth was flat. That the atom was the smallest entity. That the earth was only 6,000 years old. And even two years ago I didn't believe in ghosts. There are things science just can't prove, whether it's a lack of technology or just an excess of closed-minded people. Hinduism has practiced this for centuries, same with Buddhism. You even said so in your own post, [B]There's no evidence[/B], not [B]scientifically proven to not exist and blame it on restless eye syndrome.[/B][/QUOTE] Russell's teapot
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40397431]Look, you can be as sarcastic and witty as you want. Science once tried to prove that the earth was flat.[/quote] Medieval philosophers knew it was round before the scientific method was even around. [quote]That the atom was the smallest entity.[/quote] Yes, and they spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it was composed of smaller parts and doing experiments. [quote]That the earth was only 6,000 years old.[/quote] Early scientists gradually increased the age of the earth as they found out new ways of dating. [quote]And even two years ago I didn't believe in ghosts.[/quote] I don't anymore. It's a stupidly archaic belief to cling onto in the face of empirical evidence. [quote]There are things science just can't prove, whether it's a lack of technology or just an excess of closed-minded people. Hinduism has practiced this for centuries, same with Buddhism. You even said so in your own post, [B]There's no evidence[/B], not [B]scientifically proven to not exist and blame it on restless eye syndrome.[/B][/QUOTE] I know you can't [b]prove[/b] a negative, but your evidence for ghosts is so shit because we have better explanations for explaining phenomena.
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40397431]Look, you can be as sarcastic and witty as you want. Science once tried to prove that the earth was flat. That the atom was the smallest entity. That the earth was only 6,000 years old. And even two years ago I didn't believe in ghosts. There are things science just can't prove, whether it's a lack of technology or just an excess of closed-minded people. Hinduism has practiced this for centuries, same with Buddhism. You even said so in your own post, [B]There's no evidence[/B], not [B]scientifically proven to not exist and blame it on restless eye syndrome.[/B][/QUOTE] [quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY[/media] [/quote] No, the burden of proof is on you, otherwise I could say that anything exists and you would have to accept it as you cannot prove otherwise.
Here's your proof [video=youtube;Cejf1knd9OE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cejf1knd9OE[/video]
I plan full-heartedly at living to 108 so that I will have lived in three centuries. I want to build a house in a canola field. I want to open a book store.
[QUOTE=Smeetin;40415293]I plan full-heartedly at living to 108 so that I will have lived in three centuries. I want to build a house in a canola field. I want to open a book store.[/QUOTE] My great-grandmother did that. She was born in 1895 and died in 2001. She knew 8 languages fluently, and she moved from Latvia to start a life in Canada. She was an amazing woman
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40418263]My great-grandmother did that. She was born in 1895 and died in 2001. She knew 8 languages fluently, and she moved from Latvia to start a life in Canada. She was an amazing woman[/QUOTE] Did she do all of that by tapping into her psychic powers?
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;40419471]Did she do all of that by tapping into her psychic powers?[/QUOTE] That's kind of immature
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;40420458]That's kind of immature[/QUOTE] No I'm genuinely serious you said she was able to learn eight different languages and live to the ripe age of 106; that's pretty hard to achieve unless one uses the awesome power of chi...maybe your great-grandmother knew how to activate her pineal gland from a very early age?
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;40423455]No I'm genuinely serious you said she was able to learn eight different languages and live to the ripe age of 106; that's pretty hard to achieve unless one uses the awesome power of chi...maybe your great-grandmother knew how to activate her pineal gland from a very early age?[/QUOTE] She was very active with exercising and keeping her mind young. She ate like a horse and traveled around the world. But I suppose if one were to lead an active spiritual life, it's quite possible to keep both your mind and your body young even at a ripe age.
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;40363320]Some of humanity's greatest innovators and inventors were told "you're not going to do <x> because <y>" They certainly didn't listen and their ambition, even their [I]arrogance[/I], was the fuel of success and advancement of the species. Who dares wins, defeatist people suck and live lives of mediocrity. Let him dream, if he doesn't succeed, oh well.[/QUOTE] There's telling people not to pursue their dreams, then there's telling people they can't ride into immortality on wishes and fairies. Immortality makes us think in selfish and bitter ways because we start to debate who is and isn't worthy of it, it isn't something that would be healthy for our species
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40433358]Immortality makes us think in selfish and bitter ways because we start to debate who is and isn't worthy of it, it isn't something that would be healthy for our species[/QUOTE] The same could be said about extremely expensive yet extremely effective life-saving drugs, yet I don't think you're opposed to companies producing those. The fact that one saves a pre-existing life while the other prolongs it is irrelevant because they both increase net happiness and are finite in quantity. And I know I've said this before but honestly a lot of people in here seem to think of immortality as this black and white thing where the participation of every human being on Earth is needed in order to achieve it, and only a select few are granted immortality while the rest are doomed to live their incredibly short lives - this is false. Provided that research for immortality goes underway (and it probably will in the future), it would likely yield enormous advances in medicine that would greatly increase the life expectancy of the average human being, even if true immortality cannot be reached.
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;40327842]What are nipples without hair?[/QUOTE] They're awesome, is what they are without hair.
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