What if we're all on our deathbeds...

[AshyPhoenix]

And everything we're experiencing right now is our lives flashing before our eyes in slow motion?

Discuss.

[G-Lexington]

Then you'd think I'd recognize more of this stuff that's happening to me.

Lex

[JayHawk]

Erm........ Global warming wouldn't really be an issue if we were all dying... I imagine "man-made" greenhouse gasses would clear up rather quickly.

[AshyPhoenix]

Then you'd think I'd recognize more of this stuff that's happening to me.

Lex

In this hypothetical scenario, your life is flashing before your eyes in sequential order. You don't know what's going to happen next.

[AshyPhoenix]

Erm........ Global warming wouldn't really be an issue if we were all dying... I imagine "man-made" greenhouse gasses would clear up rather quickly.

But if we really exist in the future, then everything that's happening is pre-determined. We're just re-living our lives. When science becomes advanced enough (in 40 years, it's estimated that we'll have figured out how to stop aging), perhaps all of us living right now are on our deathbeds hundreds of years in the future.

[G-Lexington]

In this hypothetical scenario, your life is flashing before your eyes in sequential order. You don't know what's going to happen next.

Then how exactly is it different from "life"?

Lex

[PreTTy PeTe]

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[MikeyLove]

But if we really exist in the future, then everything that's happening is pre-determined. We're just re-living our lives. When science becomes advanced enough (in 40 years, it's estimated that we'll have figured out how to stop aging), perhaps all of us living right now are on our deathbeds hundreds of years in the future.

There was a time that Mankind had centuries between birth and death, think of Adam in the Creation story, Noah who built the Arc full of animals. Why was life shortened since then, as in "that was then, and this is now". Science will have a hard time figuring out how to stop the aging process.

If my life was flashing by on my death bed, I'd be seeing what I did right, and what I did wrong, then what I could have done in between.

[AshyPhoenix]

Then how exactly is it different from "life"?

Lex

Because rather than living, we're remembering.

[Nishin]

Like in the Matrix or something?

[AshyPhoenix]

Like in the Matrix or something?

No, not at all. The Matrix was a computer simulation (and there has been talk about the Matrix being a bit closer to reality than we may like); what I'm talking about is organic memories. In the Matrix, I'd assume most everything is random, while if we're all currently dying from a catastrophic event far in the future everything is pre-determined.

I realise that this explanation requires one to agree with the idea of fate; I have no problem with that.

[Nishin]

Ah so we're in a coma and re-living our lives?

[DigitalFudge]

This is like what if you suddenly woke up right now and it was your first day of 8th grade.


I'd kill myself

[G-Lexington]

Because rather than living, we're remembering.

So I'm not actually choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch - I'm remembering choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch? But again, if it appears I'm making my choices, then where's the difference?

And at the risk of treading somewhere I shouldn't, are you currently stoned?

Lex

[AshyPhoenix]

So I'm not actually choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch - I'm remembering choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch? But again, if it appears I'm making my choices, then where's the difference?

And at the risk of treading somewhere I shouldn't, are you currently stoned?

Lex

If you don't believe in fate, then this thought experiment isn't going to make a lot of sense.

And no, I'm not stoned.

If you don't believe in fate, there's always the fourth dimension, but that's veering off a bit from the original subject of this thread.

[Hard-up1]

And everything we're experiencing right now is our lives flashing before our eyes in slow motion?

Discuss.

Then I would ask for a kiss. It's my last chance, no?

[Hard-up1]

So I'm not actually choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch - I'm remembering choosing the chicken sandwich at lunch?

You'd better not be remembering eating it at a fucking Chick-fil-A!

[JayHawk]

This is like what if you suddenly woke up right now and it was your first day of 8th grade.


I'd kill myself

Hell no gurl.... if I had all my memories? SHITTTTT I would go through life fucking as much as humanly possible.... I would be a gold medal olympic fucker..... shit if only I had this jaded and perverted mind in my thirteen year old horny body.....

[RaKroma]

Only the living remember and once you're dead, you're dead beyond eternity. So why bother with thinking and remembering when you won't have the memories with you in world of death?

[birddog7]

No such luck...

[hanzosword]

Hopefully I'll look back on it and be pleased with what I see. I hear that when we do have this "life review" we get to feel exactly what everyone we interacted with felt about us. I would love to see what everybody I ever had contact with thought of me.

[birddog7]

This is like what if you suddenly woke up right now and it was your first day of 8th grade.


I'd kill myself

I'd glady go back to 8th grade. That time was infinitely better than the life I have now...

[HunterM]

If I'm laying on my deathbed...I would want somebody to do me...since I can't do him.

[refujiunderground]

i would just become impatient and fast forward right to grand finale. no fucks would be given either.

[Audio Tech]

Damn, and here I thought we are all just batteries....

[MisterMajestic]

What if we're all on our deathbeds and everything we're experiencing right now is our lives flashing before our eyes in slow motion?

Interesting theory...If it were true that would explain why I Dream about people I've never met in my present state...I still don't get why some of my Dreams are about Strangers going through their daily life doing good and bad things. I have no idea who they are and why my Spirit is there being Nosey...

It makes me wonder if my Soul is searching for another body because it knows my Death is near...I'm in excellent Health but that doesnt mean anything....

This is probably too Deep and strange....LOL....

[maxpowr9]

I've already overcome the irrational fear of death so I have no real regrets over my life.

[MoufOfKhaos]

So you're telling me that i'm seeing myself do all the things i'm doing before I die?

Then what's to stop me from stopping this process of slow death and making it a quick one?

[bankside]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

You could even hypothesise this without violating the Arrow of Time. But I can remember my past just sitting here. And then I can remember some other moment in the past. Or reflect on the present. Etc. So if I'm strapped into a hospital bed 300 years from now with robots keeping my organs alive, I would probably be able to remember getting admitted to the hospital 299 years from now, as well as this conversation today.

Or if you prefer, if I've been strapped into a hospital bed dying for the last year, I'd probably be able to remember being admitted a year ago, as well as this conversation with you 300 years ago.

[loveguys72]

Well, as we're all "on our deathbeds" from the moment of conception, I suppose there's a certain point here. Then again, either way you look at it, it's a distinction without a difference.

[BENDERBOY]

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^ This..........

[FPNY]

I thought I got laid more....

[Kyanimal]

There is also the theory of multiple (infinite number of)Time Lines, and we're only experiencing the ONE that we chose! What of the other Time Lines that our "Others" chose?

I can only HOPE that one of my Others is enjoying what would have happened if I'd only known THEN what I know NOW!!

OR ... there's also the thought that when we "expire" our current Time Line, we might be able to get a "Do Over", and select our own point of "re-insertion". IF that's the case, I'll vote for the Summer of 1968!

I would have been a Much better camp counselor! I wouldn't have started smoking! I would have Played with my fellow counselor in the shower, when he came "out" to me. And, I would have gone into Theater, in college, which is what I REALLY wanted to do, rather than what I Actually did do!

MAYBE ... IF I could get on the Starship Enterprise, and loop around the Sun ...

Oh!, Well! ... It currently IS what it Is!

All the more reasons to ... no matter what ... Seriously ...

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz

[MikeyLove]

^ This..........

Did he flatline online?

[MikeyLove]

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OMG! Get the damn Doctor in here, this guy flatlined!

[EuroSoccer]

And everything we're experiencing right now is our lives flashing before our eyes in slow motion?

Discuss.

I admit I didn't get it (Don't judge me, I am thick)

[G-Lexington]

Well, as we're all "on our deathbeds" from the moment of conception, I suppose there's a certain point here. Then again, either way you look at it, it's a distinction without a difference.

"Distinction without a difference". That about sums it up.

Lex

[xbuzzerx]

Kien: No... not until he admits... that I'm the Mary... and he's the Rhoda
xbuzzerx: I'm the Mary. *I'M THE MARY.* You're just some... old Kien on a deathbed!

[Kien]

Kien: No... not until he admits... that I'm the Mary... and he's the Rhoda
xbuzzerx: I'm the Mary. *I'M THE MARY.* You're just some... old Kien on a deathbed!

I do not understand such language, you fiend.

Am I at the brink of death? Remembering what I remembered what I remembered 2 days ago?

[xbuzzerx]

I do not understand such language, you fiend.

Am I at the brink of death? Remembering what I remembered what I remembered 2 days ago?

Me and Kien on our deathbeds.

[G-Lexington]

You'd better not be remembering eating it at a fucking Chick-fil-A!

I'm assuming not. It wasn't anywhere near as good as Chick-Fil-A's.

And no, I don't believe in fate. But I do believe in the Fifth Dimension.



Lex

[Keeland]

There was a time that Mankind had centuries between birth and death, think of Adam in the Creation story, Noah who built the Arc full of animals.

It only seemed like centuries because no one could kill time by watching TV, let alone read.

All they could do was build arks day and night. For centuries. For centuries of centuries. B O R I N G !

[backagain]

And everything we're experiencing right now is our lives flashing before our eyes in slow motion?

Discuss.

or a nightmare.

[star-warrior]

I just came back from having a crap in the toilet. If this is all a dream, it was a shitty one

[voyager1994]

I think I'll be full of regrets...