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We feed off mother nature than she feeds off of our dead bodies. We are simply part of an ecosystem that wouldnt work if nothing died.
by ABC on Wed Feb 16, 05 10:45am
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Just like the body sheds old skin cells..the universe sheds us after we've become to old to bring any use or value to it. We are just a very tiny part of a very large picture and our passing is no more significant to the universe than when a blossom on a rose bush dies. Sad realization.
Death is, I think, a transitional state, like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis sleep and flying up to see the sun.
I think after your prime, Death is just something you have to concede. Each being contributes in some way to the developments and evolutions of the species. When your time is up, make way for the new & improved meat. I don't pretend to know, but I don't think of it as we as individuals are eternal. I think we strive to perpetuate our species. Yay, humanity.
A side note: Is death really something that has a purpose? Perhaps it's more of a result of one.
How else could people throw dirt on you?
I agree with Zig. And I don't believe that death is the end of anything. I believe it's the beginning of something.
by aya on Wed Feb 16, 05 12:46pm
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What is the purpose of a fart?
It gives your brain more room to think, Dad.
Someone told me recently that death is the mirror of birth - part of the same cycle.
Basically, the question occurred to me from an Evolutionary viewpoint: Since evolution selects against detrimental traits and favors beneficial ones ... why is death ubiquitous? Shouldn't it have been selected against and removed from the gene pool?
LMAO - And you something to eat when you have the late night munchies, eh Cretin?
Mmmmmm. Farts.
I appreciate the concept of death. It helps me see the impermanence of all things, and helps me locate that which does not end; a post by Dad2DaBone ;o)
Perhaps we are eternal beings playing this ultimate drama within the apparent dichotomous boundaries of life and death. The divine game! Death would result when the "alarm clock" you set at your entry into the "play" sounds and you die.
I think many Americans are wrapped up in this idea of permanence, especially relating to dwelling place. People expect not to be swept away by a flood when they live close to sea level, or killed by erosion when they live at the base of an unstable hill... On a greater scale, the planets are always in flux, never unchanging. We tend to think the solar system, or galaxy, or universe will last forever. In the great span of time it takes to affect any changes, for all we care, it may as well last forever. I think that's the rationalization people apply to the Earth and conservation. It has been here before me, and will be here long yet.
Many tend not to think of death as an end, and that can be viewed from a number of angles. It *could* be the start of a new life (who knows?), or it could just mean a perpetuation of the cycle of "from dust to dust." Dust were ye made, and dust ye shall be. One thing is for certain. There can be no life without death. All living things will meet the reaper. For that reason, perhaps the purpose of death is to remind us that we won't be here forever, and we'd better make the best of things during the short span we are given.
^No, I wasn't on medication just then, but it kinda sounds like it, huh?
Not at all. It was good stuff, Doof. You mention the dichotomy of life and death. This is the contrast at the heart of existence. Life, which is permanent, non-physical and fucking glorious if you ask me, and death, which is impermanent, physical, and the source of all our sadnesses and anguish.
If one were to practice meditation, which is identifying and examining that which has no form (your clear, and luminous mind) you would understand the dichotomy that The Doof mentioned more clearly.
To mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of another in the eternal story.
The reasons are both evolutionary and generational. Evolutionary because had the first cell never died we or the myriad creatures around us would never have evolved through the processes of natural selection. Generationally there are potentially more different human beings capable of coming into existence than there are elementary particles in the known universe. The greatest human being the world will ever know has almost certainly not been born yet. Earth potentially could cope with about ten billion human inhabitants, after that it starts getting pushed for space, humans have to die to leave space and allow our progeny a chance to live and fulfil their potential and purpose in life..
From the point of view of the ecosystem, death is necessary for regeneration. However, as intelligent beings, we can choose to stop the cycle of producing more beings who end up dead. Sure, the species may go extinct, but in the end there won't be anyone left to care.
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