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Originally posted by josephw
I just can't get over knowing that I am going to live forever!
All power to you.
I'm just a mortal, so my time is short. But I'll try to make the most of it.

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Originally posted by amannion
All power to you.
I'm just a mortal, so my time is short. But I'll try to make the most of it.
That sounds fatalistic!

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I'm not afraid to die 'cause when I die I'm going to paradise. 😛

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Originally posted by josephw
That sounds fatalistic!
Not fatalistic, just realistic.
When I die, I'm gone. I will cease to exist. My memory will remain in those people who I've had some influence on.
Knowing this, I try to make my life as useful and interesting and fun as possible.

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Originally posted by amannion
Not fatalistic, just realistic.
When I die, I'm gone. I will cease to exist. My memory will remain in those people who I've had some influence on.
Knowing this, I try to make my life as useful and interesting and fun as possible.
What comes to mind is that you are dead already. To my way of thinking you have placed yourself into a box with only a finite number of options.

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Originally posted by amannion
Not fatalistic, just realistic.
When I die, I'm gone. I will cease to exist. My memory will remain in those people who I've had some influence on.
Knowing this, I try to make my life as useful and interesting and fun as possible.
then they will die and their memory of you will die and your life is meaningless cuz nobody even remembers it, and the world keeps turning.

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Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
then they will die and their memory of you will die and your life is meaningless cuz nobody even remembers it, and the world keeps turning.
That's true.
All the more reason to get as much out of what time I have. As for meaning - what is that? What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
My life has meaning to me, to my wife, my kids, my family and friends, the students I teach.
Isn't that enough?
It's more than enough meaning for me ...

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Originally posted by josephw
What comes to mind is that you are dead already. To my way of thinking you have placed yourself into a box with only a finite number of options.
Am I?
I don't feel dead.
I'm still interacting with the world around me, so I must still be alive.
I haven't placed myself into any box. I am what I am. I'm a human being. I will die. What box is that, other than reality?

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Originally posted by amannion
That's true.
All the more reason to get as much out of what time I have. As for meaning - what is that? What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
My life has meaning to me, to my wife, my kids, my family and friends, the students I teach.
Isn't that enough?
It's more than enough meaning for me ...
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Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
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Okay, fair enough.
But then it was a rhetorical question really since clearly the meaning I have in my life IS enough or I wouldn't continue to live it.

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Originally posted by GinoJ
I'm not afraid to die 'cause when I die I'm going to paradise. 😛
I know I can say that, but how can you? I doubt you are, showing from your posts.

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Originally posted by amannion
Okay, fair enough.
But then it was a rhetorical question really since clearly the meaning I have in my life IS enough or I wouldn't continue to live it.
i am a depressant lol

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Originally posted by Acemaster
I know I can say that, but how can you? I doubt you are, showing from your posts.
No arrogance on your part!

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Originally posted by josephw
That sounds fatalistic!
Which is better, fatalistic or delusional?

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Originally posted by twhitehead
Which is better, fatalistic or delusional?
Delusional.

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