General Rest in Peace thread

[Dukasaur]

If our existence is just the dream of a madman, then our death is just another phase in the dream.

Is it madness or something we can't understand, most easily explained away with the term?

A modern variation of the dream paradox suggests that we're avatars in a MUDD, a simulation being run by a superior intelligence. So, yes. If I get you correctly, you could run the argument completely around the atheist track and come back to a deist part of the stadium, where "superior intelligence" is a type of god.

[Dukasaur]

I can't believe I have to say this but the feeling of relief is a feeling, and if there isn't an afterlife how are you supposed to feel anything? That cherished feeling of not feeling anything is an illusion. You don't know what it's like to feel nothing, you've felt something all your life, you don't die when you go to sleep, if you think being dead is like resting you will.......I was about to say "be disappointed" but that's the thing, you won't be that either. Feeling nothing is not the same as resting, you don't die when you go to bed.

Possibly. Or, if it's the last thing that you ever feel, perhaps it subjectively feels like an eternity.

Time dilation is a common effect as brain activity is reduced. Perhaps as brain activity approaches zero, time dilation approaches infinity. Sort of the "falling into a black hole" effect. So, while your death (time from failure of macrofunction to loss of all local brain function) might take only a few seconds, it might subjectively feel like it takes forever.

In any case, you didn't address the other two possibilities.

[2dimes]

Just because you're not conscious doesn't mean you don't feel anything.

That is exactly what it means. My back hurt all the time while awake. When I slept, I rested peacefully away from all the effects of the pain. When I woke up the pain was still there.

I explained the difference between rest and distraction. You either deny it or don't understand. Rest was the time when there is no pain.

Most pain killers have no effect on me. When I took the narcotic that did it altered my mind and gave me something to do mentally instead of noticing the pain. The pain was there, I just did not mind it, at times I would find it amusing or something else. Some prefer the pills because the pain never interrupts them. As they wore off it was near the time to take one again.

Some sleeps are deeper than others.

[2dimes]

If our existence is just the dream of a madman, then our death is just another phase in the dream.

Is it madness or something we can't understand, most easily explained away with the term?

A modern variation of the dream paradox suggests that we're avatars in a MUDD, a simulation being run by a superior intelligence. So, yes. If I get you correctly, you could run the argument completely around the atheist track and come back to a deist part of the stadium, where "superior intelligence" is a type of god.

What's MUDD?

I was questioning the "mad" part of "madman".

[Gillipig]

Just because you're not conscious doesn't mean you don't feel anything.

That is exactly what it means. My back hurt all the time while awake. When I slept, I rested peacefully away from all the effects of the pain. When I woke up the pain was still there.

I explained the difference between rest and distraction. You either deny it or don't understand. Rest was the time when there is no pain.

Most pain killers have no effect on me. When I took the narcotic that did it altered my mind and gave me something to do mentally instead of noticing the pain. The pain was there, I just did not mind it, at times I would find it amusing or something else. Some prefer the pills because the pain never interrupts them. As they wore off it was near the time to take one again.

Some sleeps are deeper than others.

No, it's you who either don't understand or are in denial. Do you think you are just one aspect of your brain? Just because the conscious part of your brain is temporarily turned off doesn't mean you are not feeling anything. Your conscious part and your unconscious part are two parts of you, one of them never shuts down until you die, that is the unconscious part. You claim to know how it's like when both parts are shut off. No matter how packed with painkillers you've been you've never managed to turn off your brain anymore than I have. You are not just your conscious part, you are your unconscious part as well. Or is it someone else dreaming for you during the night?

[AndyDufresne]

If our existence is just the dream of a madman, then our death is just another phase in the dream.

Is it madness or something we can't understand, most easily explained away with the term?

A modern variation of the dream paradox suggests that we're avatars in a MUDD, a simulation being run by a superior intelligence. So, yes. If I get you correctly, you could run the argument completely around the atheist track and come back to a deist part of the stadium, where "superior intelligence" is a type of god.

What's MUDD?

I was questioning the "mad" part of "madman".

Well MUD is Multi User Dungeon, which I'm familiar with from text based games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD


--Andy

[Dukasaur]

If our existence is just the dream of a madman, then our death is just another phase in the dream.

Is it madness or something we can't understand, most easily explained away with the term?

A modern variation of the dream paradox suggests that we're avatars in a MUDD, a simulation being run by a superior intelligence. So, yes. If I get you correctly, you could run the argument completely around the atheist track and come back to a deist part of the stadium, where "superior intelligence" is a type of god.

What's MUDD?

I was questioning the "mad" part of "madman".

Well MUD is Multi User Dungeon, which I'm familiar with from text based games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD


--Andy

MUD< MUDD> MUCK>
I get lost in all the acronyms. The goddamn internet is worse than the Pentagon.

Basic point remains.... if we are not ourselves, but just characters that have been programmed to run around in some virtual world, for the amusement of the spoiled children of a latter-day Zeus, then naturally we "believe" that our little virtual sandbox is "real."

[2dimes]

Cool concept duk.

Is it worse than the Pentagon... or better!

Just because you're not conscious doesn't mean you don't feel anything.

That is exactly what it means. My back hurt all the time while awake. When I slept, I rested peacefully away from all the effects of the pain. When I woke up the pain was still there.

I explained the difference between rest and distraction. You either deny it or don't understand. Rest was the time when there is no pain.

Most pain killers have no effect on me. When I took the narcotic that did it altered my mind and gave me something to do mentally instead of noticing the pain. The pain was there, I just did not mind it, at times I would find it amusing or something else. Some prefer the pills because the pain never interrupts them. As they wore off it was near the time to take one again.

Some sleeps are deeper than others.

No, it's you who either don't understand or are in denial. Do you think you are just one aspect of your brain? Just because the conscious part of your brain is temporarily turned off doesn't mean you are not feeling anything. Your conscious part and your unconscious part are two parts of you, one of them never shuts down until you die, that is the unconscious part. You claim to know how it's like when both parts are shut off. No matter how packed with painkillers you've been you've never managed to turn off your brain anymore than I have. You are not just your conscious part, you are your unconscious part as well. Or is it someone else dreaming for you during the night?

One of us has gone to sleep drug free and not dreamed about back pain. In fact he had pleasant peacefull dreams, he was "resting in peace." Since you're acting smart, I'll wait for you to tell us which one.

So you have a sub concious part of your brain until you're dead? Do you have a "back from the other side" story to tell us?

[Haggis_McMutton]

Not to derail what may well be the most pointless debate in the history of the Off Topics (and that's saying something), but do you guys think Westboro will actually have the balls to go through with their threat of boycotting Jeff Hanneman's funeral?

I'd like to see that.

[Army of GOD]

Gillipig is a troll and I'm going to report anyone who responds to any more of his posts in this thread.

[Dukasaur]

Not to derail what may well be the most pointless debate in the history of the Off Topics (and that's saying something), but do you guys think Westboro will actually have the balls to go through with their threat of boycotting Jeff Hanneman's funeral?

I'd like to see that.

I googled Westboro and Jeff Hanneman funeral and found only one small article on some really obscure ("Stabley") website. Is this really a likely event or is it something that's purely some blogger's wet dream?

[2dimes]

Gillipig is a troll and I'm going to report anyone who responds to any more of his posts in this thread.

I'll try to give it a rest.

[jonesthecurl]

RIP Ray Harryhausen.
He didn't really die, but his motion has stopped.

[Gillipig]

Gillipig is a troll and I'm going to report anyone who responds to any more of his posts in this thread.

Report away AoG, at this point I'm pretty sure the moderators don't even look at your complaint before they dismiss it.

[Gillipig]

Cool concept duk.

Is it worse than the Pentagon... or better!

Just because you're not conscious doesn't mean you don't feel anything.

That is exactly what it means. My back hurt all the time while awake. When I slept, I rested peacefully away from all the effects of the pain. When I woke up the pain was still there.

I explained the difference between rest and distraction. You either deny it or don't understand. Rest was the time when there is no pain.

Most pain killers have no effect on me. When I took the narcotic that did it altered my mind and gave me something to do mentally instead of noticing the pain. The pain was there, I just did not mind it, at times I would find it amusing or something else. Some prefer the pills because the pain never interrupts them. As they wore off it was near the time to take one again.

Some sleeps are deeper than others.

No, it's you who either don't understand or are in denial. Do you think you are just one aspect of your brain? Just because the conscious part of your brain is temporarily turned off doesn't mean you are not feeling anything. Your conscious part and your unconscious part are two parts of you, one of them never shuts down until you die, that is the unconscious part. You claim to know how it's like when both parts are shut off. No matter how packed with painkillers you've been you've never managed to turn off your brain anymore than I have. You are not just your conscious part, you are your unconscious part as well. Or is it someone else dreaming for you during the night?

One of us has gone to sleep drug free and not dreamed about back pain. In fact he had pleasant peacefull dreams, he was "resting in peace." Since you're acting smart, I'll wait for you to tell us which one.

So you have a sub concious part of your brain until you're dead? Do you have a "back from the other side" story to tell us?

You're not making any sense 2dimes. And you're starting to repeat yourself. This post of yours offered nothing new to the argument. I already explained that resting and dying isn't the same thing, and that your subconscious isn't turned off when you sleep otherwise there would be no way for you to wake up. If your brain is completely turned off then you will have zero chance of coming back into consciousness. Not even someone in a coma, who is unable to wake up, has had their brain completely turned off. So it's very silly of you to claim to have experienced something that you need to be dead to have experienced. I guess you just can't admit you are wrong. I think you will survive that, you won't die just because you admit to losing an argument.

[nietzsche]

Relax Gillipig.

Here, have some fun:

[Gillipig]

I'm perfectly calm dude!

Click image to enlarge.

[Haggis_McMutton]

Not to derail what may well be the most pointless debate in the history of the Off Topics (and that's saying something), but do you guys think Westboro will actually have the balls to go through with their threat of boycotting Jeff Hanneman's funeral?

I'd like to see that.

I googled Westboro and Jeff Hanneman funeral and found only one small article on some really obscure ("Stabley") website. Is this really a likely event or is it something that's purely some blogger's wet dream?

Apparently they tweeted that they're gonna show up. But apparently they didn't actually go to the last few places they said they were gonna boycott, so I'm betting they don't actually show up.

[Gillipig]

Oh and this is more my taste:

[2dimes]

In English rest is when something, pain in this case, stops. Carry on explaining how that won't happen when a person dies. I'm obviously not getting it.

[Gillipig]

In English rest is when something, pain in this case, stops. Carry on explaining how that won't happen when a person dies. I'm obviously not getting it.

Yeah, I'm probably wasting my time arguing with you. But so are everyone else here really. I can't remember the last time I saw someone on CC admitted to being convinced by another users arguments. It doesn't even matter how wrong he is, he just won't listen to the arguments, or he's too busy trying to think of ways to counter the argument to stop and consider whether the other guy is actually right. That's why I rarely engage in long discussions on the internet. The setting doesn't allow for intelligent and meaningful arguments. Peoples ego get in the way.

[nietzsche]

Relax Gillipig.

Here, have some fun:

You mean the dress? Because they both look the same to me.

[Gillipig]

Relax Gillipig.

Here, have some fun:

You mean the dress? Because they both look the same to me.

Do you think all skinny people look alike as well?

[nietzsche]

Relax Gillipig.

Here, have some fun:

You mean the dress? Because they both look the same to me.

Do you think all skinny people look alike as well?

Lol that's silly. Only fat people and asian people look alike!

[Gillipig]

Relax Gillipig.

Here, have some fun:

You mean the dress? Because they both look the same to me.

Do you think all skinny people look alike as well?

Lol that's silly. Only fat people and asian people look alike!

You forgot black people as well. Now that I think of it, everyone with brown hair look alike to me.