Post-existence has the same meaning as pre-existence. I don't fear my non-existence from before my conception, why should I fear my non-existence once I'm gone?
After death has as much meaning to me as before life. The only thing that matters is now.
Anyway, thousands of millions have passed before us and I've heard no complaints from them.
I don't have any expectations...it's kind of a weird set up - it seems with me it usually is - they live together and do almost everything together and I'm not sure how dating inside of this friendship would work.
If my friend was a dude I could see it in a better light; but they live together, hang out (unlike most bro/sis) and they TALK. The sis said somethings the other night about "the perfect guy staring me in the face all this time" - but I don't know if that was a joke or not because she was trashed...
I think I'm scaring myself right on out of this one.
Guess I'll go to bed, get up, go to work, and contemplate existence some more.
Wait - since I'm supposed to discuss everything with a best friend, do I like have to go thru her first? "So hey, I like someone and I'm thinking of asking her out? Oh - and btw, it's your sister"...
If I don't say something first, am I breaking some Best Friend rule?
So...my best friend - well, we work together, go out once or twice every week, and hang out at my place quite a bit... anyway, recently her sister has been hanging out with us, and we all have a blast.
I like the sister.
Xtra info - they live together, the sister is a few years older (26), my friend loves me in that platonic (she's lesbian) way. I think the sister is into me, at least a tad.
Well if it makes you feel any better, most of those zombies probably crapped and pissed during the change from living to living dead, so you'd all smell about the same in that department.
Actually we used to take lightning bugs and draw our names out as best as we could with their abdomens...on the sidewalk. Thing is we used to have to try to catch more because the names kept on fading.
One time, in band camp, ...I digress.
One time I caught around 100 lightning bugs and set the captives free in my brothers (plural, they're twins) room. I think they enjoyed the light show...well, I thought it was cool (especially since they weren't in my room - both the brothers and the lightning bugs).
Joe's uncle's Penthouse collection that we used to sneak (or so we thought).
Playing "ninja" at night; toilet-papering everyone in the neighborhood (including our own place so as not to look suspicious).
Turning the heat up in the pool to 90 degrees, and setting the temperature in the house beforehand to 60 degrees (hey, we weren't footing the bill).
Repeating this every day of summer vacation: Me: I'm bored. Joe: Me too. Me: What do you want to do? Joe: I don't know, what do you want to do? Me: I don't know, I'm bored. Joe: Me too.
Most of my work/life (how do I say real without it sounding like everyone here isn't?) friends call me Judge -- that being said my son is nicknamed "Smudge" (small Judge).
Everyone calls him that, and on top of it he likes it.
Take a look at how much it costs you, the taxpayer, to actually put an inmate to death after appeals and whatnot - "...the cost of keeping a 25-year-old inmate for 50 years at present amounts to $805,000. Assuming 75 years as an average life span, the $805,000 figure would be the cost of life in prison. So roughly it's costing us $2 million more to execute someone than it would cost to keep them in jail for life. This is just the dollar cost..." --The Economics Of Capital Punishment, Phil Porter
This is just one set of statistics, but they're all alike. Keeping your ax murders on death row is cost effective vs. executing them.
As far as just taking them out to the town square and puting them in front of a firing squad or hanging them on the spot...well, toss out the appeals process and we can go back to life like it was during the Salem witch trials.
"It is NOT about religion-it is ABOUT JESUS. God's son-Jesus. The ONLY way to God/Heaven Does anyone want the bible verse??? John 3:16"
--- Yes, I know the verse and it's fear based, like many things in religion.
"For God so 'loved' the world that he sent his only begotten son that whosoever doesn't believe in Him shall spend eternity in damnable hellfire."
What kind of ego trip is this god on if he NEEDS me to believe in him or he'll get mad and send me to fire and brimstone for eternity over some temporary infraction?
Show me a true god of love - not a blood-lusting, sacrificial, "I come not to bring peace but to bring a sword", I'll be back in this AD30ish generation - no really I will - kind of a god.
Paganism is trendy, albeit old - one of the 'first' religions. I don't have an issue with it, but then again I don't have pagans knocking on my door asking me of I've been saved by the moon either.
If it ever, in my lifetime, replaces Christianity or any of the other dogmatic religions, then I'll have an issue with it as it's no more reasonable than the others, IMO.
At least it's caused no recent wars...I suppose that's commendable.
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RE: DEATH .............How Do You Feel?
Post-existence has the same meaning as pre-existence. I don't fear my non-existence from before my conception, why should I fear my non-existence once I'm gone?After death has as much meaning to me as before life. The only thing that matters is now.
Anyway, thousands of millions have passed before us and I've heard no complaints from them.