Ageing

[Psilotroph]

The way the human mind is constructed, how it learns, is based on experience. If you will concede that aging refers not only to physical maturation but also mental maturation, then humans need aging. We segment the time in our life into segments, such as the present (today), the past, and the future so we can better cope with them. Birth and Death are the big landmarks.

If we didn't have a death to look forward to, and didn't mature somehow along the way, then there is no way the human race would socially or culturally resemble the current in any way. I would say that that is one of the base, primal things we developed from our birth to consciousness; a fear of death and aging. It is what spurs us to live such hurried unhealthy lives simply to survive. Its what keeps people alive in the streets. Its what keeps people from offing themselves.

Experience is everything, but experience is different for ~7billion people

 

[IJesusChrist]

Yes but that is only the way it "has to happen" if time is linear towards the end.

Imagine if time were the other way. No bounds towards your imagination - really, think about it.

I guess I am seperating consciousness from the physical body when asking this question, which is false, but it's fun to imagine.

 

[ophiuchus]

what happened to the intellectual days? :roll: :lol:

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[IJesusChrist]

I had friends that smoked mushrooms in a bong...
face palm

 

[BrainEater]

i heard you can also travel inside yourself? how cool is that? and... cut the illusions with a large knife, so they can flow off you, like warm, sliced butter. travelling without moving...

i guess time is a direction, that's why there IS future AND past and not only one of either.

don't cut your silver cord!

have fun! 8)

 

[ophiuchus]

wow brug, going back to alot of those post makes me realize how desperate i really was to fit in here. poking fun at other members in subtle, and not so subtle ways... i think my general message was still clear though: i always tried to be a productive member, even if it was before i understood the concept of "ego", and learned to work with/without it ha