Ten10 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Well I once watched a documentary on brain surgery, and there was an operation which made a person scientifically dead. Basically the blood within the body was passed out and cooled over time while passing in and out of the body which lowered heart rate etc. The patients ended up saying during the operation they all had out of body experiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxigen_Waste Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 IT HAS CEASED TO BE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 We become a wise old man sat in the mountains that no one can find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 IT HAS CEASED TO BE. Classic.: peace: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I mean, there's nothing, what was there before you were born? How do you know that there was nothing before you were born? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 We are born, we have kids of our own and we die. All we are, are a few billion people running around a tiny rock like headless chickens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Is it possible to be purposely killed and instantly frozen, and be awoken a day later? If so, has anyone in the world done it to see if they know what happened between death and life? Personally I don't think there's any way to know what comes after death or why the heck existence itself... exists, short of actually dying. I don't think so. The main problem with cryogenics is that although flash freezing works for small organs (like a heart), if you put anything bigger in there (like a human body), then crystals form which destroy the tissue, as it's impossible to make everything cool at the same rate. So, ironically, the people who pay to have their body frozen are in fact ensuring that they can never come back to life. Well... I suppose it's more likely for them to be reawakened than a skeleton or a pile of ash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocka Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 We are born, we have kids of our own and we die. All we are, are a few billion people running around a tiny rock like headless chickens. You and Richard Dawkins would make good friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMad Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Who knows? Who cares? Make the most of what we have right now because when we die it'll probably be the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 You and Richard Dawkins would make good friends. I dunno, I think Dawkins puts more emphasis on life itself because of his belief in its brevity. Also, in The Blind Watchmaker, he had a nice argument that humans were the only intelligent life in the universe, giving him another reason to revere their existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 We are the real life Sims. God will put 1 person in 100,000 into a small box and burn him/her. Just for fun. The rest of us are told what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 How do you know that there was nothing before you were born? I don't, thats why I put the question in too. I am comepletely unaware of anything from before I was born though, and assume that when I am dead, I will not be anymore, just like I was not back in 1869. I will no longer live, all concepts of afterlife seem to be saying that death is not the end of life, but I think I think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocka Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I dunno, I think Dawkins puts more emphasis on life itself because of his belief in its brevity. Also, in The Blind Watchmaker, he had a nice argument that humans were the only intelligent life in the universe, giving him another reason to revere their existence. Fair point, I was being a bit over controversial really. But still, Dawkins sees a human mammal as "nothing more than the sum total of his or her DNA " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Fair point, I was being a bit over controversial really. But still, Dawkins sees a human mammal as "nothing more than the sum total of his or her DNA " That's true... neo-Darwinism is a bit extreme. He thinks that humans are a tool used by genes to propagate themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killthenet Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 There's an interesting theory that's brought up in "Waking Life". Basically, when you die there is 6 - 12 minutes where your body is dead but your brain is still active. When you dream time is distorted, you could have a huge, adventure of a dream that seems like it lasts for hours, but you wake up and only a minute has passed on the clock. This theory basically proposes that while your brain is still active you're capable of dreaming so you live on in your mind. The dream could seem to you like it lasted forever, but in reality is only 6 - 12 minutes. Interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 There's an interesting theory that's brought up in "Waking Life". Basically, when you die there is 6 - 12 minutes where your body is dead but your brain is still active. When you dream time is distorted, you could have a huge, adventure of a dream that seems like it lasts for hours, but you wake up and only a minute has passed on the clock. This theory basically proposes that while your brain is still active you're capable of dreaming so you live on in your mind. The dream could seem to you like it lasted forever, but in reality is only 6 - 12 minutes. Interesting stuff. That's interesting. Makes quite a bit of sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 That's even more depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 There's an interesting theory that's brought up in "Waking Life". Basically, when you die there is 6 - 12 minutes where your body is dead but your brain is still active. When you dream time is distorted, you could have a huge, adventure of a dream that seems like it lasts for hours, but you wake up and only a minute has passed on the clock. This theory basically proposes that while your brain is still active you're capable of dreaming so you live on in your mind. The dream could seem to you like it lasted forever, but in reality is only 6 - 12 minutes. Interesting stuff. Very interesting indeed, but do/would you realise it when it was happening? If not, who's to say any of this is real?? Hmm, this reminds me that I need to see Vanilla Sky, and probably Waking Life by the sounds of it, it's a very interesting topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxigen_Waste Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I remember that Waking Life theory, when they're both in bed, right? That was an awesome movie. And now, to quote Layer Cake: - "You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaggis Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 meaning of life: To reproduce to keep the population going after death: nout' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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