Nice, I like Ice Cream too. Why I asked that is because my friend and I were arguing about it today, so I decided to take a survey. So far, there are 33 Ice Creams and 22 Pies.
So I'm going to bed now. I'll see you everyone bright and early tomorrow morning when I finish my homework. Have a good night's sleep, everyone!!
I have a question, perhaps some of you can answer this better than others, none the less, advice is needed. How does one approach people, who you don't know and have never met before. I mean, how does that happen. I guess I'm just that much of an introvert that I can't even talk to other people without feeling uncomfortable, which is understandable, at the same time, a little annoying though. I'm settled in a lot of my relationships and I feel comfortable to those people, or rather with or around those people but, ugh, I'm rranting now.
So help me fellow coffeehouse goers, help me break out of the shell.
My suggestion is: practice makes perfect. The more you approach people the more comfortable you will be with it. I'll tell ya, waiting tables at Olive Garden really helped me with this. You kind of get forced to engage people as part of your job, so you learn to get/make people comfortable quickly.
A couple other suggestions: Smile when you talk to someone. It makes them more comfortable, which makes them more receptive and ultimately easier to talk to. Eye contact is also good along those lines.
The best way to break the ice is to notice something about the person. What they're wearing, what they're reading, who they're here with, etc. Try asking some simple questions and really listen to the answers, but don't make the question too generic; you don't want to elicit single-word answers. Take an interesting answer and ask a bit more about it. It takes some practice, but it definitely works.
@strongbad56: thanks for the support, but less than half of the judges have posted scores. It's still anyone's game.
Well, I want to say goodnight to everyone, not to mention extending a warm welcome to Avatar of Kokusho. It'll be cool to see you hanging around here, and I hope you like it enough to stay.
@2001: I only saw 2010, but that was a very, very good movie as well.
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All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
Good night folks... I'm headin' out... good chance I won't be around for a week and a half, so wish me luck on the open house, and on everything else. Feel free to email me at [email]writingrice@gmail.com[/email] if you want to talk to me
So, why am I up at 5 am, you ask? Perhaps because I woke up at 4 with a headache and started puking my guts out. Gah. Looks like I'm not going to work tomorrow.
Well, I'd better get back to sleep. Hopefully I'll feel somewhat better tomorrow.
Chances are, folks, that Omna's gonna win in Battle of the Users. Frankly I'd like it that way--I think she'd stand a better chance next round vs Umgenni and Magic Mage
I got a full day of classes and work today. Let's hope I don't pass out.
Announcement: I've signed up for a 4-week training course in driving, which should teach me all I need to know to drive well, and pass the driver test to get my license. I'm doing this only because if I do, my insurance costs will be slashed significantly.
I'll be at the course every saturday for 4 weeks from 8am-4pm, starting this saturday. I'll be with my sister too
Well, I hope you all have a good day. Send an e-mail to Omna, willya? She'll be checking for us!
Hello coffeehouse, I feel like I'm really squandering my time NOT hanging out on this thread. Everyone here's cool and I like talking to people.
@Tanthalas: Put up a trade thread, I'm sure I'd trade with you if something caught my eye.
Also i want to bring a topic to the coffeehouse, the past 2 months I've been really depressed thinking about Death. How i'm going to die one day, and how it just might be the end of me, forever. I know there's what-his-name's 5 steps in confronting death but it's immature of me to fear something that is most likely over 50 years away. I know all religions point to things beyond death, but I believe that religion was created in order to cope with the unknown things in life, and that belief keeps me from religions whom i doubt. But i was thinking also that when we die, our minds still function because they rely on electricity, we can't breathe or talk or all definitions of being alive, but our mind still stays 'on' for a week or so after we die. One of my theories is that when we die, our senses cease hampering our brains function and we enter a 'dream' where anything is possible. That's where you get those stories of people who have died and then were revived (either in surgery or some other thing) and they recall heaven or other such things. But even that ends eventually, but i was wondering if the sense of time, which governs all things, also leaves us and as we are 'dead' our mind stays constant, or at least our 'soul' that which makes us unique simply stays in one moment in time exploring the new vistas of imagination. Maybe thats all dumb in incorrect, but I'm having trouble sleeping and dealing with my life thinking about how i will die one day and what may or may not happen afterwards.
So I was talking to Belgareth through PM's about my FCC card, and he pretty much said that if the mana cost had been 4, I would have gotten an 8/10 on Balance, but as it is, I got a 4/10. I understand where he is coming from, but that still feels a little unfair to me. Meh, I guess I'll just have to try harder next time.
@Lord Moo: Religion was not made to cope with the unknown things in life, I know that. Sure, it gives answers to some questions, but most religions are so much more than what will happen after death. Plus, what is so wrong with having something to look forward to after death? It seems like it would help with your problem by making you not as afraid to die. It almost seems to me like you are looking for a religion, or at least some answer to what will happen after you die. I would seriously look into different religions and examine all the possibilities. It may be that some of them are more plausible than you think.
At least for my religion, I do not get so caught up in the questions that you are having, because I have comfort in what will happen after death, and I have faith in what God will do for my life. That is the amazing thing about religion, in my opinion, is that you can find comfort and security that there is a point to your life and there is a plan.
I didn't mean to explain it offensively, but early polytheistic or pagan religions were used to describe the unknown. All life had/has a spirit, the weather was controlled, things that you couldn't describe or couldn't explain were attributed to divine influences. Psychologically, we NEED something to explain what can't be explained, I think there's probably a God/Gods/Goddess/higher power out there, otherwise why would there be so many religions that are so similar. Death is the most unknown thing. We will NEVER know what happens after we die until we die. For the living there will be no definite knowledge to explain death. I won't say religion was strictly created for dealing with Death, but it definitely helps us deal with things we don't know about. I know there are people who attribute their religion not with belief, but with knowledge that God exists. I don't have that knowledge, so it's hard to argue it.
First of all...*Dances a jig because of the Overgrown Tomb in his precon packs*
No Shambling Shells, though. Sigh.
Anyway, on to Lord Moo's query. I'll just tell you what I feel concerning my own life and see if that could apply to you at all.
As a small, rather unimportant point here, I'm mesopagan. Basically, I'm open to all religious beliefs and have adopted some of them for myself, but for the most part I have a pretty shamanistic attitude toward matters of faith. Anyway, I was very frightened of what would happen when I die when I was younger. It was right after I'd gotten out of high school, and for many reasons I don't feel like getting into, I was terrified of life and death alike.
I guess I realized over time, though, that fretting over what would happen when I died wasn't getting me anywhere. I came to the conclusion that if I had lived a good life and done the things with that life that I wanted to do, death lost a lot of its meaning and gravity. If I could go to the grave knowing that I'd lived exacly the way I wanted, then it wouldn't really matter what happened to my body or soul afterward. Sure, believing in a heaven is comforting for me - especially since I can see my mother there - but focusing on the here and now is what's truly important.
I guess what I mean to say is this; death really does happen to us all, but in essence that makes it pretty unimportant. What is important is what you do when you're alive. You can make peace with the eventuality of death in great ways by knowing that when you're living, you'll make the absolute best of it.
I agree with your assessment on religon, LordMoo. And I don't think it's at all immature to be afraid of death just because it probably won't occur for 50 years.
What I will say, though, is that letting your fear of the unknown afterlife negatively affect your nowlife is not good. Even if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, ... no, strike that. Especially if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, then it's that much more important to enjoy life to its fullest. There's nothing wrong with being afraid/concerned/even a little depressed about death; just don't let it become the focus of your life.
I came to the conclusion that if I had lived a good life and done the things with that life that I wanted to do, death lost a lot of its meaning and gravity. If I could go to the grave knowing that I'd lived exacly the way I wanted, then it wouldn't really matter what happened to my body or soul afterward. Sure, believing in a heaven is comforting for me - especially since I can see my mother there - but focusing on the here and now is what's truly important.
I guess what I mean to say is this; death really does happen to us all, but in essence that makes it pretty unimportant. What is important is what you do when you're alive. You can make peace with the eventuality of death in great ways by knowing that when you're living, you'll make the absolute best of it.
Here here! I'd like to toast to that!
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I didn't mean to explain it offensively, but early polytheistic or pagan religions were used to describe the unknown. All life had/has a spirit, the weather was controlled, things that you couldn't describe or couldn't explain were attributed to divine influences. Psychologically, we NEED something to explain what can't be explained, I think there's probably a God/Gods/Goddess/higher power out there, otherwise why would there be so many religions that are so similar. Death is the most unknown thing. We will NEVER know what happens after we die until we die. For the living there will be no definite knowledge to explain death. I won't say religion was strictly created for dealing with Death, but it definitely helps us deal with things we don't know about. I know there are people who attribute their religion not with belief, but with knowledge that God exists. I don't have that knowledge, so it's hard to argue it.
the question "Why else would so many religions be so similar" is only really valid if none of the religions knew about each other before their religion began. And also relevant is "When was religion conceived in relation to when money was conceived."
If one religion existed and another person wanted power then they could start another religion with similar precepts. It's the plausible that there would be a migration from one religion to the next.
Then if money had a hand in creating religion it's possible that more people wanted money the way a religion makes money. Thus more and more religions may have been born. Again they'd use similar concepts to make transitions comfortable, but also, why change what works?
Within the past few years I've come to a personal view that religion isn't for me. Some try to control who you are based on what someone else thinks you should be while others just try to make you the best you can be and others make you hate yourself.
In any case, at least to me, religion has been and will continue to be a way to control people's emotions, motivations, and money. No hard feelings to those that support religion. (And not believing in religion doesn't make me a bad person.)
Lord Moo: I believe there are greater beings than humans, but my conclusion is that they weren't responsible for anything we are except by accident. To me it doesn't seem likely that any one being or beings decided to create the earth. I'd be surprised if any greater being decided that we were more interesting to mess with than just to observe.
I agree with your assessment on religon, LordMoo. And I don't think it's at all immature to be afraid of death just because it probably won't occur for 50 years.
What I will say, though, is that letting your fear of the unknown afterlife negatively affect your nowlife is not good. Even if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, ... no, strike that. Especially if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, then it's that much more important to enjoy life to its fullest. There's nothing wrong with being afraid/concerned/even a little depressed about death; just don't let it become the focus of your life.
Here here! I'd like to toast to that!
*gets out a bottle of wine and uncorks it.* Drinks around then?
After a while I got tired of wondering what would happen when I'd die. It's not even that comforting to me that there's something after death. I guess I'm one of those people not looking for answers about the universe and my miniscule ability to fathom its infinite answers.
From what I know and my own opinions and thoughts, partially based on religion, is to focus on your current life. I don't think I would die peacefully knowing that I didn't accomplish something in my life. The thing is, when that moment comes, am I going to say "I'm glad I spent what time I had wisely," or will I say "my life was meaningless."
On religion, I don't believe it should control your life. "Personal revelation," as my religion likes to call it, is very important. Coming to your own understanding of God, maybe with someone elses' help, is what really matters.
However, whether one believes in religion or not, living a meaningful life should not be hampered by thoughts of death. That, I agree with.
From what I know and my own opinions and thoughts, partially based on religion, is to focus on your current life. I don't think I would die peacefully knowing that I didn't accomplish something in my life. The thing is, when that moment comes, am I going to say "I'm glad I spent what time I had wisely," or will I say "my life was meaningless."
On religion, I don't believe it should control your life. "Personal revelation," as my religion likes to call it, is very important. Coming to your own understanding of God, maybe with someone elses' help, is what really matters.
That's my personal feelings on this (and more or less quite a few others I see). Religion never really mattered to me THAT much but that's because I always found it secondary to life and people. I mean yeah it CAN be important to me but most of the time it just isn't...
Sidenote: New banner - new avatar and custom coming in a few seconds... I can't believe I forgot to put them thru.
Thorgal is 29 volumes now, and it's created by the Polish artist Grzegorz Rosiński and the Belgian writer Jean Van Hamme. It is a story of what I'd call is a medieval fantasy genre; Thorgal is a man of a very noble character, and of great courage and skill as a warrior (he's a master archer), who's been raised in a Viking society. His only dream is to live in peace and quiet with his beloved family; however, due to his otherworldly heritage, gods and fate seem to hate him, constantly making new obstacles for the poor family to overcome, so that they never seem to able to be happy... So there's always a lot of drama and tragedy around, caused by both various supernatural beings and sources and simple human spite and cruelty.
Looks interesting, I'll bet my sweetie would like to start collecting this.
Eyes: blue, hair: brown and frizzy. I would like it to be straighter so I can grow it longer, but it seems to wanna break off of its own accord at about neck length. And, its very difficult to comb. I spend a lot of time and money just making it so I can comb my hair in the morning. (Believe it or not, I don't in fact have uncombable hair syndrome, it just seems that way.)
Also i want to bring a topic to the coffeehouse, the past 2 months I've been really depressed thinking about Death. How i'm going to die one day, and how it just might be the end of me, forever. I know there's what-his-name's 5 steps in confronting death but it's immature of me to fear something that is most likely over 50 years away. I know all religions point to things beyond death, but I believe that religion was created in order to cope with the unknown things in life, and that belief keeps me from religions whom i doubt. But i was thinking also that when we die, our minds still function because they rely on electricity, we can't breathe or talk or all definitions of being alive, but our mind still stays 'on' for a week or so after we die. One of my theories is that when we die, our senses cease hampering our brains function and we enter a 'dream' where anything is possible. That's where you get those stories of people who have died and then were revived (either in surgery or some other thing) and they recall heaven or other such things. But even that ends eventually, but i was wondering if the sense of time, which governs all things, also leaves us and as we are 'dead' our mind stays constant, or at least our 'soul' that which makes us unique simply stays in one moment in time exploring the new vistas of imagination. Maybe thats all dumb in incorrect, but I'm having trouble sleeping and dealing with my life thinking about how i will die one day and what may or may not happen afterwards.
Being Tao/Budhist I believe there is something afterwards definately. Possibly reincarnation.
From a scientific perspective; energy cannot be created or destroyed only transitioned. Science has found alot of evidence which supports our life-force is an energy. The electromagnetic energy which pulses through us and which forms the "aura" we seem to have. While much of our personality seems governed by physical things and memory engrams, our core being may very well be in this energy fireld. This energy carries our thoughts through our body to make it react, it is not too far fetched to assume that the pattern of who we are can be carried by that energy as well. When we die, the energy goes somewhere, we do not know where.
I do not want to die, but see no reason to fear it. It will happen, and what is supposed to follow will follow. I focus on having the best life I can have so that death will not be a waste.
Whew. Not a lot this time. Thank goodness. I've only got about an hour before class.
Lord Moo: I'ma have to second ethersphere's interpretation--being an agnostic, I cannot even fathom a way to explain the unknown. But that being said, what's most important is LIFE, not death. I'll worry about what happens after I die when I'm dead. Until then, I plan to live forever. Get me?
*waves to Starr*
You really need to consider cleaning up the pixellations on yer banner/avvy, CA. Still, nice.
@blue: hey blue its good to see you how are you doing?
@strongbad: Have a great day at school! See you when you come back and take care!
@alacar: yikes looks like you are going to have a pretty long day today well i wish you to have a good day and also I wish you to take excellent notes in your lecture classes so you can get As on your tests.
@Aok: hey! how are you doing? Its been awhile since ive seen you considering i don't post that much anymore in the legacy forums but ill probaby come by soon to comment and help people on some legacy decks hopefully. Well i hope you will become a regular here Aok it'll be pretty nice to have another moderator here in the house but anyhow have a good one!
@omna: well have a safe trip to and from if your going to travel on vacation. Have fun and see you when you get back and like always best wishes to you omna!
@ungenni: we had some pretty good games yesterday in the precon league and i had alot of fun playing against you and your pretty good for not playing for a long while! Well goodluck in your studies and I am sure you will do very well in school. I'll talk to you later!
@shin': those were some pretty good games we had last night in the precon league even though i lost 2-1 against you but hey can't win them all at least the 2nd game could've went either way though. Anyhow have a good day at work shin'!
@mamelon: *hugs* see you later tonight on aol! Also have a great day at work and take care mamelon!
@precon: I personally think we have alot of really good players in the precon league. I mean I don't think i ever had not even one game in which i thought i could've won easily all of the people that i have played against so far always put me on my toes and at the minimum each game gets somewhat harder then the first and overall its pretty challenging no matter who i play. Also my legacy skills could mean alot in theory in the precon league but in actuality my potential in the precon league is basically cut in half or up to 60 or 70 percent in tense of basing my legacy skills in the precon league.
Well i am going to get going. I have to make some calls and i might be out for awhile later today but ill talk to you all when i get back and ill be on aol and msn if anyone wants to talk to me. See you all soon! *hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
I enjoyed them Cecilia. You owned me with the Moat though. I do not own any enchantment removal yet. I need Naturalize, Seal of Primordia, or Indrik Stomphowler. I prefer the Seal or Stompy.
I enjoyed them Cecilia. You owned me with the Moat though. I do not own any enchantment removal yet. I need Naturalize, Seal of Primordia, or Indrik Stomphowler. I prefer the Seal or Stompy.
Sorry you weren't so much in the mood to play.
The animation for your avie looks really sexy.
It's alright Shin' but at least i had a pretty good win streak going on for a little awhile with my uw deck. Yeah I don't know why I wasn't in the mood to play last night probably because of me having to go to sleep 3 hours earlier and also working hard to find a job during the day. The 2nd and 3rd game I had a mediocre to a bad hand but hey that even happens to the best players but at least another game could've went either way but thats alright.
Almost time for my last class.. then I gots work. Sigh
Thanks alacar! Yeah shin' made me the animated avy which i didnt ask for it but he was nice enough to do so thanks shin! Awww oh my well goodluck gettting through the day and i hope your have a good day so far alacar!
Well anyway i am going to call some numbers for the job application processes and i might go out in a little bit but anyhow have a great day everyone! Ill be back later this afternoon. See you all soon!
*hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
I just got done compiling and cataloguing all my precon league trade cards by color. I think my fingers are bleeding now.
As of tomorrow, our phone number will be reaching the new apartment rather than this one. So yeah, I guess even if we're not totally moved out as of tomorrow, we're gonna be sleeping there. Which will be weird. I'm sad to see this place go, because I only started to feel like it was home a year or so ago. At least we won't be moving in any drastic way - just thirty or forty feet over, really.
Our biggest challenge is getting ahold of a hand truck for the refrigerator and oven. That'll be fun with as much as Josh's dad likes to complain ~_~;;
Also i want to bring a topic to the coffeehouse, the past 2 months I've been really depressed thinking about Death. How i'm going to die one day, and how it just might be the end of me, forever. I know there's what-his-name's 5 steps in confronting death but it's immature of me to fear something that is most likely over 50 years away. I know all religions point to things beyond death, but I believe that religion was created in order to cope with the unknown things in life, and that belief keeps me from religions whom i doubt. But i was thinking also that when we die, our minds still function because they rely on electricity, we can't breathe or talk or all definitions of being alive, but our mind still stays 'on' for a week or so after we die. One of my theories is that when we die, our senses cease hampering our brains function and we enter a 'dream' where anything is possible. That's where you get those stories of people who have died and then were revived (either in surgery or some other thing) and they recall heaven or other such things. But even that ends eventually, but i was wondering if the sense of time, which governs all things, also leaves us and as we are 'dead' our mind stays constant, or at least our 'soul' that which makes us unique simply stays in one moment in time exploring the new vistas of imagination. Maybe thats all dumb in incorrect, but I'm having trouble sleeping and dealing with my life thinking about how i will die one day and what may or may not happen afterwards.
I want to second the opinions of many Coffee-people before me here: There'll be enough time to worry about death after you're dead. Personally, I believe that once you're dead, that's it, so for me it's important to live life fully while you can. Don't be afraid to try new things and all that. There's no particular reason or rhyme to why we're here or what we do with our lives - It's up to you to create meaning out of your life for yourself. Also, as for the electricity thing - your cells run on oxygen. If they're not getting a fresh supply of oxygen from your blood, they die. Thus, if you're not breathing, your cells start dying in a matter of minutes. This is why people that are trapped underwater for too long can suffer brain damage - if your brain (or any other body part) is starved of oxygen, it starts dying pretty quickly. I don't think you need to worry about conciousness remaining active after you die because of your brain running on what are basically electrical signals.
From a scientific perspective; energy cannot be created or destroyed only transitioned. Science has found alot of evidence which supports our life-force is an energy. The electromagnetic energy which pulses through us and which forms the "aura" we seem to have. While much of our personality seems governed by physical things and memory engrams, our core being may very well be in this energy fireld. This energy carries our thoughts through our body to make it react, it is not too far fetched to assume that the pattern of who we are can be carried by that energy as well. When we die, the energy goes somewhere, we do not know where.
I do not want to die, but see no reason to fear it. It will happen, and what is supposed to follow will follow. I focus on having the best life I can have so that death will not be a waste.
My dad pulls this one out on me all the time, and it still prickles me sometimes. Think of it this way: When you put out a fire, where does the energy go? When you drop a ball and it stops rolling, where does the energy go? Energy can't be created or destroyed, but it can change forms into potential energy, it can change into heat energy and disperse, it can change into sound energy, etc. The energy that we have when we're alive results from a slew of processes, amongst them digestion, circulation, our nervous system, and so on. Once those processes stop, we stop. Any energy we had either becomes heat, potential energy (this is a big one, due to food still being in our gut, etc), or whatever.
It's fine to believe what you believe, that we have some sort of ghost or energy that remains and changes form after we die. However, although it's very easy to take the scientific law of conservation of energy and extrapolate it a bit to arrive at that, doing so is almost certainly an error in logistics. There's no need for a scientific explanation, after all - it's a matter of faith.
Now that that philosophical discussion is out of the way, it's time for more about my day:
I did end up staying home from work again, due to being sick. I've slept from 8:00am to 1:30pm, and just woke up about half an hour ago. I must have needed it, because I feel a bit better now. Gives the immune system time to work on me. Also, my father (my real father, not my stepfather whom I live with) called me today out of the blue, saying that he's in town and wants to go out somewhere and eat or something. Normally I'd be all for that, but seeing as how I'm sick today... It's something to think about. He'll only be here for a couple of days, and I almost never get to see him. Maybe I'll go out tonight if I'm feeling a bit better.
Alright coffeepeeps, that's all for now. Catch you later.
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So I'm going to bed now. I'll see you everyone bright and early tomorrow morning when I finish my homework. Have a good night's sleep, everyone!!
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My suggestion is: practice makes perfect. The more you approach people the more comfortable you will be with it. I'll tell ya, waiting tables at Olive Garden really helped me with this. You kind of get forced to engage people as part of your job, so you learn to get/make people comfortable quickly.
A couple other suggestions: Smile when you talk to someone. It makes them more comfortable, which makes them more receptive and ultimately easier to talk to. Eye contact is also good along those lines.
The best way to break the ice is to notice something about the person. What they're wearing, what they're reading, who they're here with, etc. Try asking some simple questions and really listen to the answers, but don't make the question too generic; you don't want to elicit single-word answers. Take an interesting answer and ask a bit more about it. It takes some practice, but it definitely works.
@strongbad56: thanks for the support, but less than half of the judges have posted scores. It's still anyone's game.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
@2001: I only saw 2010, but that was a very, very good movie as well.
Yeah, tell me about it.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
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So, why am I up at 5 am, you ask? Perhaps because I woke up at 4 with a headache and started puking my guts out. Gah. Looks like I'm not going to work tomorrow.
Well, I'd better get back to sleep. Hopefully I'll feel somewhat better tomorrow.
Oyasumi.
*Waves to Umgenni*
Chances are, folks, that Omna's gonna win in Battle of the Users. Frankly I'd like it that way--I think she'd stand a better chance next round vs Umgenni and Magic Mage
I got a full day of classes and work today. Let's hope I don't pass out.
Announcement: I've signed up for a 4-week training course in driving, which should teach me all I need to know to drive well, and pass the driver test to get my license. I'm doing this only because if I do, my insurance costs will be slashed significantly.
I'll be at the course every saturday for 4 weeks from 8am-4pm, starting this saturday. I'll be with my sister too
Well, I hope you all have a good day. Send an e-mail to Omna, willya? She'll be checking for us!
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@Tanthalas: Put up a trade thread, I'm sure I'd trade with you if something caught my eye.
Also i want to bring a topic to the coffeehouse, the past 2 months I've been really depressed thinking about Death. How i'm going to die one day, and how it just might be the end of me, forever. I know there's what-his-name's 5 steps in confronting death but it's immature of me to fear something that is most likely over 50 years away. I know all religions point to things beyond death, but I believe that religion was created in order to cope with the unknown things in life, and that belief keeps me from religions whom i doubt. But i was thinking also that when we die, our minds still function because they rely on electricity, we can't breathe or talk or all definitions of being alive, but our mind still stays 'on' for a week or so after we die. One of my theories is that when we die, our senses cease hampering our brains function and we enter a 'dream' where anything is possible. That's where you get those stories of people who have died and then were revived (either in surgery or some other thing) and they recall heaven or other such things. But even that ends eventually, but i was wondering if the sense of time, which governs all things, also leaves us and as we are 'dead' our mind stays constant, or at least our 'soul' that which makes us unique simply stays in one moment in time exploring the new vistas of imagination. Maybe thats all dumb in incorrect, but I'm having trouble sleeping and dealing with my life thinking about how i will die one day and what may or may not happen afterwards.
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So I was talking to Belgareth through PM's about my FCC card, and he pretty much said that if the mana cost had been 4, I would have gotten an 8/10 on Balance, but as it is, I got a 4/10. I understand where he is coming from, but that still feels a little unfair to me. Meh, I guess I'll just have to try harder next time.
@Lord Moo: Religion was not made to cope with the unknown things in life, I know that. Sure, it gives answers to some questions, but most religions are so much more than what will happen after death. Plus, what is so wrong with having something to look forward to after death? It seems like it would help with your problem by making you not as afraid to die. It almost seems to me like you are looking for a religion, or at least some answer to what will happen after you die. I would seriously look into different religions and examine all the possibilities. It may be that some of them are more plausible than you think.
At least for my religion, I do not get so caught up in the questions that you are having, because I have comfort in what will happen after death, and I have faith in what God will do for my life. That is the amazing thing about religion, in my opinion, is that you can find comfort and security that there is a point to your life and there is a plan.
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No Shambling Shells, though. Sigh.
Anyway, on to Lord Moo's query. I'll just tell you what I feel concerning my own life and see if that could apply to you at all.
As a small, rather unimportant point here, I'm mesopagan. Basically, I'm open to all religious beliefs and have adopted some of them for myself, but for the most part I have a pretty shamanistic attitude toward matters of faith. Anyway, I was very frightened of what would happen when I die when I was younger. It was right after I'd gotten out of high school, and for many reasons I don't feel like getting into, I was terrified of life and death alike.
I guess I realized over time, though, that fretting over what would happen when I died wasn't getting me anywhere. I came to the conclusion that if I had lived a good life and done the things with that life that I wanted to do, death lost a lot of its meaning and gravity. If I could go to the grave knowing that I'd lived exacly the way I wanted, then it wouldn't really matter what happened to my body or soul afterward. Sure, believing in a heaven is comforting for me - especially since I can see my mother there - but focusing on the here and now is what's truly important.
I guess what I mean to say is this; death really does happen to us all, but in essence that makes it pretty unimportant. What is important is what you do when you're alive. You can make peace with the eventuality of death in great ways by knowing that when you're living, you'll make the absolute best of it.
What I will say, though, is that letting your fear of the unknown afterlife negatively affect your nowlife is not good. Even if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, ... no, strike that. Especially if all that awaits us after death is nothingness, then it's that much more important to enjoy life to its fullest. There's nothing wrong with being afraid/concerned/even a little depressed about death; just don't let it become the focus of your life.
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the question "Why else would so many religions be so similar" is only really valid if none of the religions knew about each other before their religion began. And also relevant is "When was religion conceived in relation to when money was conceived."
If one religion existed and another person wanted power then they could start another religion with similar precepts. It's the plausible that there would be a migration from one religion to the next.
Then if money had a hand in creating religion it's possible that more people wanted money the way a religion makes money. Thus more and more religions may have been born. Again they'd use similar concepts to make transitions comfortable, but also, why change what works?
Within the past few years I've come to a personal view that religion isn't for me. Some try to control who you are based on what someone else thinks you should be while others just try to make you the best you can be and others make you hate yourself.
In any case, at least to me, religion has been and will continue to be a way to control people's emotions, motivations, and money. No hard feelings to those that support religion. (And not believing in religion doesn't make me a bad person.)
Lord Moo: I believe there are greater beings than humans, but my conclusion is that they weren't responsible for anything we are except by accident. To me it doesn't seem likely that any one being or beings decided to create the earth. I'd be surprised if any greater being decided that we were more interesting to mess with than just to observe.
*gets out a bottle of wine and uncorks it.* Drinks around then?
After a while I got tired of wondering what would happen when I'd die. It's not even that comforting to me that there's something after death. I guess I'm one of those people not looking for answers about the universe and my miniscule ability to fathom its infinite answers.
On religion, I don't believe it should control your life. "Personal revelation," as my religion likes to call it, is very important. Coming to your own understanding of God, maybe with someone elses' help, is what really matters.
However, whether one believes in religion or not, living a meaningful life should not be hampered by thoughts of death. That, I agree with.
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That's my personal feelings on this (and more or less quite a few others I see). Religion never really mattered to me THAT much but that's because I always found it secondary to life and people. I mean yeah it CAN be important to me but most of the time it just isn't...
Sidenote: New banner - new avatar and custom coming in a few seconds... I can't believe I forgot to put them thru.
Looks interesting, I'll bet my sweetie would like to start collecting this.
Eyes: blue, hair: brown and frizzy. I would like it to be straighter so I can grow it longer, but it seems to wanna break off of its own accord at about neck length. And, its very difficult to comb. I spend a lot of time and money just making it so I can comb my hair in the morning. (Believe it or not, I don't in fact have uncombable hair syndrome, it just seems that way.)
Being Tao/Budhist I believe there is something afterwards definately. Possibly reincarnation.
From a scientific perspective; energy cannot be created or destroyed only transitioned. Science has found alot of evidence which supports our life-force is an energy. The electromagnetic energy which pulses through us and which forms the "aura" we seem to have. While much of our personality seems governed by physical things and memory engrams, our core being may very well be in this energy fireld. This energy carries our thoughts through our body to make it react, it is not too far fetched to assume that the pattern of who we are can be carried by that energy as well. When we die, the energy goes somewhere, we do not know where.
I do not want to die, but see no reason to fear it. It will happen, and what is supposed to follow will follow. I focus on having the best life I can have so that death will not be a waste.
Whew. Not a lot this time. Thank goodness. I've only got about an hour before class.
Lord Moo: I'ma have to second ethersphere's interpretation--being an agnostic, I cannot even fathom a way to explain the unknown. But that being said, what's most important is LIFE, not death. I'll worry about what happens after I die when I'm dead. Until then, I plan to live forever. Get me?
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You really need to consider cleaning up the pixellations on yer banner/avvy, CA. Still, nice.
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@strongbad: Have a great day at school! See you when you come back and take care!
@alacar: yikes looks like you are going to have a pretty long day today well i wish you to have a good day and also I wish you to take excellent notes in your lecture classes so you can get As on your tests.
@Aok: hey! how are you doing? Its been awhile since ive seen you considering i don't post that much anymore in the legacy forums but ill probaby come by soon to comment and help people on some legacy decks hopefully. Well i hope you will become a regular here Aok it'll be pretty nice to have another moderator here in the house but anyhow have a good one!
@omna: well have a safe trip to and from if your going to travel on vacation. Have fun and see you when you get back and like always best wishes to you omna!
@ungenni: we had some pretty good games yesterday in the precon league and i had alot of fun playing against you and your pretty good for not playing for a long while! Well goodluck in your studies and I am sure you will do very well in school. I'll talk to you later!
@shin': those were some pretty good games we had last night in the precon league even though i lost 2-1 against you but hey can't win them all at least the 2nd game could've went either way though. Anyhow have a good day at work shin'!
@mamelon: *hugs* see you later tonight on aol! Also have a great day at work and take care mamelon!
@precon: I personally think we have alot of really good players in the precon league. I mean I don't think i ever had not even one game in which i thought i could've won easily all of the people that i have played against so far always put me on my toes and at the minimum each game gets somewhat harder then the first and overall its pretty challenging no matter who i play. Also my legacy skills could mean alot in theory in the precon league but in actuality my potential in the precon league is basically cut in half or up to 60 or 70 percent in tense of basing my legacy skills in the precon league.
Well i am going to get going. I have to make some calls and i might be out for awhile later today but ill talk to you all when i get back and ill be on aol and msn if anyone wants to talk to me. See you all soon! *hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
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Cecilia
Sorry you weren't so much in the mood to play.
The animation for your avie looks really sexy.
It's alright Shin' but at least i had a pretty good win streak going on for a little awhile with my uw deck. Yeah I don't know why I wasn't in the mood to play last night probably because of me having to go to sleep 3 hours earlier and also working hard to find a job during the day. The 2nd and 3rd game I had a mediocre to a bad hand but hey that even happens to the best players but at least another game could've went either way but thats alright.
Thanks shin' for the animation of the avy.
Love,
Cecilia/Kevin
Almost time for my last class.. then I gots work. Sigh
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Thanks alacar! Yeah shin' made me the animated avy which i didnt ask for it but he was nice enough to do so thanks shin! Awww oh my well goodluck gettting through the day and i hope your have a good day so far alacar!
Well anyway i am going to call some numbers for the job application processes and i might go out in a little bit but anyhow have a great day everyone! Ill be back later this afternoon. See you all soon!
*hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
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Cecilia
I just got done compiling and cataloguing all my precon league trade cards by color. I think my fingers are bleeding now.
As of tomorrow, our phone number will be reaching the new apartment rather than this one. So yeah, I guess even if we're not totally moved out as of tomorrow, we're gonna be sleeping there. Which will be weird. I'm sad to see this place go, because I only started to feel like it was home a year or so ago. At least we won't be moving in any drastic way - just thirty or forty feet over, really.
Our biggest challenge is getting ahold of a hand truck for the refrigerator and oven. That'll be fun with as much as Josh's dad likes to complain ~_~;;
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I want to second the opinions of many Coffee-people before me here: There'll be enough time to worry about death after you're dead. Personally, I believe that once you're dead, that's it, so for me it's important to live life fully while you can. Don't be afraid to try new things and all that. There's no particular reason or rhyme to why we're here or what we do with our lives - It's up to you to create meaning out of your life for yourself. Also, as for the electricity thing - your cells run on oxygen. If they're not getting a fresh supply of oxygen from your blood, they die. Thus, if you're not breathing, your cells start dying in a matter of minutes. This is why people that are trapped underwater for too long can suffer brain damage - if your brain (or any other body part) is starved of oxygen, it starts dying pretty quickly. I don't think you need to worry about conciousness remaining active after you die because of your brain running on what are basically electrical signals.
My dad pulls this one out on me all the time, and it still prickles me sometimes. Think of it this way: When you put out a fire, where does the energy go? When you drop a ball and it stops rolling, where does the energy go? Energy can't be created or destroyed, but it can change forms into potential energy, it can change into heat energy and disperse, it can change into sound energy, etc. The energy that we have when we're alive results from a slew of processes, amongst them digestion, circulation, our nervous system, and so on. Once those processes stop, we stop. Any energy we had either becomes heat, potential energy (this is a big one, due to food still being in our gut, etc), or whatever.
It's fine to believe what you believe, that we have some sort of ghost or energy that remains and changes form after we die. However, although it's very easy to take the scientific law of conservation of energy and extrapolate it a bit to arrive at that, doing so is almost certainly an error in logistics. There's no need for a scientific explanation, after all - it's a matter of faith.
Now that that philosophical discussion is out of the way, it's time for more about my day:
I did end up staying home from work again, due to being sick. I've slept from 8:00am to 1:30pm, and just woke up about half an hour ago. I must have needed it, because I feel a bit better now. Gives the immune system time to work on me. Also, my father (my real father, not my stepfather whom I live with) called me today out of the blue, saying that he's in town and wants to go out somewhere and eat or something. Normally I'd be all for that, but seeing as how I'm sick today... It's something to think about. He'll only be here for a couple of days, and I almost never get to see him. Maybe I'll go out tonight if I'm feeling a bit better.
Alright coffeepeeps, that's all for now. Catch you later.