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Spoony Luv

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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2008, 08:34:57 PM »
Quote from: figgs on February 08, 2008, 02:27:26 PM
Great words by my favorite philosopher, Alan Watts:





awesome thanks...
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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2008, 09:42:18 PM »
Quote from: xxxLinda on February 08, 2008, 06:42:58 PM
Wow thank you so much!  I'd read his books maybe 20 years ago, but didn't realise that he's still alive (is he?) and is on UTube.  That was perhaps one of the best 10 minutes I've ever spent.


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I'm so glad you could find him again! 20 years is a while back! I just started reading his books. I'm on the his second book. I read The Book and am now on Does It Matter?

The funny thing is, he died even before you read his books. His departure was in the early 70s.

I made a thread all about Watts a while back. I'll bump it back up. It's in the General too. And it has more videos and info.  :)

Quote from: Spoony Luv on February 08, 2008, 08:34:57 PM

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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #27 on: February 10, 2008, 10:55:19 AM »
Death in the end is the only reality we have to face, yet somehow we manage to suppress the thought of it most of our lifes. Unfortunally most of us live our lifes like we are immortal.

And yes, in the few moments I am able to face it, I'm scared shitless. I know that it shouldn't be that way, but that's how it is.
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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2008, 11:40:35 AM »
Death only scares us because of all that we have invested in our egos.

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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #29 on: February 28, 2008, 03:48:36 PM »
I know this topic started in late January and posting about a month later looks meaningless. I did because I never thought of Life itself, in a way that you would be able to even ponder the idea of looking forward to your own mortality or death with peace and optimism. The ironic twist to that is it would be easily misguided to live everyday in a happy way with peace and optimism.

My reason for saying that is because I have to assume that the one who started this subject might have a deep insightful understanding of the religious aspects of death in the world.
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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #30 on: February 29, 2008, 12:31:25 PM »
Quote from: OneBigMan on February 28, 2008, 03:48:36 PM
The ironic twist to that is it would be easily misguided to live everyday in a happy way with peace and optimism.

Why would that be misguiding?
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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #31 on: March 01, 2008, 08:16:48 AM »
I think that would be misguided because these days you could be unlucky and run into a situation where someone is killing people at random the way you hear about so many homicidal types of multiple shootings like the one on Valentine's Day.
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Re: Do you look forward to your death with peace and optimism?
« Reply #32 on: March 01, 2008, 08:44:53 AM »
I certainly don't look to old age with peace and optimism.
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