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Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« on: June 03, 2012, 02:04:35 AM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?
If so how will you explain to your children that they will have to die?
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2012, 04:41:44 AM »
1) No.

2) Same way it was explained to me. Blunt and accurate.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 05:52:31 AM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?
If so how will you explain to your children that they will have to die?
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2012, 05:57:13 AM »
Non-existence?   Do tell what you mean by this.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2012, 06:17:48 AM »
First, as a Christian. I believe in existence beyond physical death.

Second, given the binary choice, I would prefer annihilation-- no surviving consciousness, true non-existence-- over Hell.  Hell terrifies me still, though my faith tells me I am in no danger of it.

Third, explaining death to children is a duty of parents, who may engage a surrogate-- clergy, an older relative, a friend-- to do it for them.  It can be awkward, even more so than "the sex talk", mostly because one cannot answer "how do you know" with physical evidence; yet it needs doing.
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2012, 07:04:33 AM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?
If so how will you explain to your children that they will have to die?

I am not sure kids fear death itself or even think about it until they attend a funeral.  

This is one of those things that happen to others you know, reason why they take such chances in life doing things that others have died from.

All faiths and those with no faith have different ideas on death.   Surprised to find the non religious that believe in Ghosts, evil spirits, and at the same time believe in the human soul, or that their pets have a soul.

Christians believe after death we go to heaven or hell, then there is the contradictory belief in the second coming and the graves will open and the dead rise.   ---So will the souls in both heaven and hell be sent back to their earthly body's.?    Will the dead that arise be soul less ????

Purgatory is another mystery, kind of reminds me of the Heathen practice of sending prayers to GOD on the smoke of a candle.  

I explained to my kids that sleep, dreamless sleep is the little brother of death.  One falls asleep time goes on, much like for those in a coma or who faint or get a good knock on the head.  In death one may or may not awaken to another reality.  A sort of where were you and your soul before the mother became Pregnant.  

No one ever becomes non existent, our DNA lives and continues to keep us alive in the body's of generations into the future.   So far we have not found a memory gene but we do pass on traits of skill and abilities that are connected to family members far in the past.

The more questions the stranger it gets--Past life regressions, people that come out of a coma speaking a foreign language and on and on.

Good question you ask as it leads to science , anthropology, the very nature of our being and the age old question of Where did we come from and why am I here.??????

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2012, 10:40:49 AM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?
If so how will you explain to your children that they will have to die?

It's existence that's terrifying. Non-existence will be a non-walk in the non-park by comparison. Although I kind of have my heart set on a non-day at the non-beach for eternity.

I didn't have kids and won't be having any, so the second issue isn't a worry for me, personally. But if I did I'd tell them that life is hard, death is easy, and don't fear the reaper.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2012, 01:11:04 PM »
"non-existence"?

There's nothing to it.
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2012, 01:35:37 PM »
Death to me is you just go to sleep and don't wake up.....I know my grandparents and those loved ones(including pets) will be there waiting for me. I don't think the actual death is what scares us, is how we die.Murder, accident or what is the locale of death.....
Many envision heaven as siting on white puffy clouds and hell is a very hot cave and purgatory is an endless desert.... For me, heaven will be living in a Thomas Kincaide house.....log cabin sounds nice....or maybe the stone house with the thatched roof.
To explain to a child, well if I was a parent, I would say do not worry, I or Jesus  will be there waiting for you....
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2012, 02:29:36 PM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?



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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2012, 02:36:32 PM »
I have to say growing up and sometimes now I have these anxiety of when my life comes to an end is it like turning a tv off. That bright flash and then nothing?  I hate that feeling.  I have also had nightmares of actually floating in space and that feeling of being so insignificant and not having a home is terrifying.  :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental:






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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2012, 03:50:47 PM »
When I was little, at the end of the broadcast day, the test pattern would come on. Talk about non existence. Ever since the test pattern was done away with, non existence became none existent.
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2012, 03:57:41 PM »
When I was little, at the end of the broadcast day, the test pattern would come on. Talk about non existence. Ever since the test pattern was done away with, non existence became none existent.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2012, 03:58:50 PM »
Is non-existence terrifying to you?
If so how will you explain to your children that they will have to die?

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2012, 04:02:04 PM »
THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!


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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2012, 04:03:41 PM »
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2012, 12:37:31 PM »
No

See: Long Island Medium or John Edward.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2012, 01:04:03 PM »


My Father has tried to contact me, I'm not ready.

can you tell how?






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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2012, 02:20:00 PM »
can you tell how?

Just a "feeling" or dreams that are too "real". You remember every detail as if it was actually happening. Right now it's very upsetting.  :(
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2012, 09:54:21 AM »
Just a "feeling" or dreams that are too "real". You remember every detail as if it was actually happening. Right now it's very upsetting.  :(

Sorry.  I remember right after my FIL passed I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep and I felt him right next to me and I heard CLEAR AS DAY him saying my name.  Freaked me the **** out.  :panic:






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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2012, 03:18:15 PM »
I myself am an atheist, but honestly I don't care if there is a God or not. We as humans carve our own paths, godless or not.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2012, 03:25:33 PM »
I myself am an atheist, but honestly I don't care if there is a God or not. We as humans carve our own paths, godless or not.

You say you are an athiest.  Does that mean you believe in nothing?  serious question.  I don't understand how one could believe in nothing.






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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2012, 08:09:19 PM »
You say you are an athiest.  Does that mean you believe in nothing?  serious question.  I don't understand how one could believe in nothing.

I do not believe in God or any other deities if that's what you're asking. I don't believe that there is a God. There is evidence supporting the claim that the universe could have made itself, and that human beings could have evolved into the hyper intelligent beings they are today (well, hyper intelligent compared with the rest of the species here.) However, just because there is evidence disproving the idea of God does not mean I do not believe that a supernatural being can exist. One such being could exist, it's just that I'm not going to be convinced by mere literature and what an evangelical says to me on a street corner. I'd need to see the deity with my own two eyes in order to believe that such being(s) exist. It's not that I don't believe in hope and faith and that there can be a God, it's just that having hope and faith in a deity in my opinion is futile since one cannot prove his/her existence.

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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #23 on: November 29, 2012, 08:21:11 PM »
This is getting old.

You proclaim to be an atheist yet you admit to there being possible evidence that he actually exists.

Look, take advise from an admitted agnostic.

I DON"T KNOW, I admit I don't know so therefore I don't jump down any ones throat.

You on the other hand contort yourself in an effort to claim everlasting life while at the same time grasping at your atheistic cred.
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Re: Is non-existence terrifying to you?
« Reply #24 on: November 29, 2012, 08:30:20 PM »
This is getting old.

You proclaim to be an atheist yet you admit to there being possible evidence that he actually exists.

Look, take advise from an admitted agnostic.

I DON"T KNOW, I admit I don't know so therefore I don't jump down any ones throat.

You on the other hand contort yourself in an effort to claim everlasting life while at the same time grasping at your atheistic cred.

I never said there was evidence for a God, or even a deity's existence for that matter. I said there is a possibility. I also never said there would never be everlasting life. I said there could be a supernatural being. Chances? No one knows, and I myself don't know either, but as of right now there is no evidence proving a God or God-like being could or does exist so I'm going to say there is no God until I am met with some concrete and peer-reviewed evidence proving I am wrong.