I think about dead sometimes too. Most of the time I'm like, if it has to happen, I'm ready. Other times I'm like, well, if I'm going to die, what am I doing all this for? education, work, blah, blah, I don't know. I concern myself with what is really worth it sometimes.
Bone cells live for 3-5 years after we "die" and are the last pieces of our stock to shuffle off the mortal coil.
I think if we are viewed as vehicles for informational units that replicate, we are way more on the meme side of things than the genes side of things, which I think goes a lot further in explaining some of our weirder behaviors as humans.
As someone who has made a whole big deal out of studying consciousness scientifically, while I'm in no position the assert whether there is an afterlife or not, scientifically, I would say that reincarnation strikes me as a very natural idea, while the classical western islamo-christian heaven/hell dichotomy strikes me as rather contrived. From my own scientific perspective, there would need to be some mechanism by which it could possibly work, "faith" notwithstanding, and I can see that possibly for some schemes, but not for others.
I guess I always felt it was kind of pretentious/presumptious to assume an afterlife just because of our status at the top of the food chain. I suppose you could argue intelligence, though really all we have is language. Plenty of other critters are more or less self-aware, at least insofar as we are.
I think I just felt Shakespeare roll over in his grave.
Language is practically a quantum leap forward, even if only because it enables the development of culture, even though it actually enables a lot more.
Having said that, of course, you're talking to a vegan animal rights nut, and I'm one of the last of us to be anthropocentric: there are several reasons to believe we might not have the monopoly on language that we once imagined we did, from a range of animal studies that have been conducted in the last half-century, although the really impressive stuff hadn't shown up until the last few years.
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Even the best of things must come to an end, but also the worst things must, too...
Impermanence is a ubiquitous property of all existence.
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I think if we are viewed as vehicles for informational units that replicate, we are way more on the meme side of things than the genes side of things, which I think goes a lot further in explaining some of our weirder behaviors as humans.
As someone who has made a whole big deal out of studying consciousness scientifically, while I'm in no position the assert whether there is an afterlife or not, scientifically, I would say that reincarnation strikes me as a very natural idea, while the classical western islamo-christian heaven/hell dichotomy strikes me as rather contrived. From my own scientific perspective, there would need to be some mechanism by which it could possibly work, "faith" notwithstanding, and I can see that possibly for some schemes, but not for others.
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I think I just felt Shakespeare roll over in his grave.
Language is practically a quantum leap forward, even if only because it enables the development of culture, even though it actually enables a lot more.
Having said that, of course, you're talking to a vegan animal rights nut, and I'm one of the last of us to be anthropocentric: there are several reasons to believe we might not have the monopoly on language that we once imagined we did, from a range of animal studies that have been conducted in the last half-century, although the really impressive stuff hadn't shown up until the last few years.
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I just Ithought I would say.
FUCK I MISS YOU
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I have to work 10:30am to 5pm today, it kind of sucks massive amounts of cock.
But my leg is doing better, and I can walk on it, so all is good I guess.
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