Life

What is this life? Is there life after death or is this life after death?
Where did you came from? Was it Heaven, is this Heaven, or did we come from nowhere?
Is life just a dream?  Does anyone really know these answers? 
Will our (great, great, ...) grandchildren be immortal?
Will future generations have the ability to revive the dead (spores can be revived after 250 million years) ?
This is where you can express your views.
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Sun 
04/17/2005 16:32:04
 Life  Which 10 Commandments Should We Obey?
Protestant
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
King James Bible - Hebrew
1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
2. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make un to thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Bloch Publishing Company (1922)
Catholic
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day.
4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.
Peter Gasparri, "Catholic Catechism" (1932)
Ex. 20: The First Tables of Stone
(smashed by Moses)
1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them or serve them.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not kill.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet.
Adapted from Microsoft Bookshelf 98
Ex.34: The Second Tables of Stone
(the words that were on the first)
1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.
4. All the first-born are mine.
5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of in gathering at the year's end.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
10. Thou shalt not see the a kid in its mother's milk.
K.Budde, History of Ancient Hebrew Literature
Ten Punishments

1. Ex. 22:20: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
2. Lev. 24:16: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death.
3. Ex. 31:15: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
4. Ex. 21:15: He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
5. Ex. 21:17: He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
6. Ex. 22:19: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be putto death.
7. Lev. 20:13: If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a w-man, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death.
8. Lev. 20:10: And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be putto death.
9. Mark 16:16: He that believeth not, shall be damned.
10. Mal. 2:1-4: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heartto give glory to my name,...behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces.
Jyoti Shankar, Bubbles Online Magazine
Sun 
04/17/2005 16:23:46
 Life  Leading Causes of Death in the year 2000
In 2000 – 2,403,351 died, that's 6,500 a day.
The Average Life Expectancy was 76.9 years.
Leading Causes of Death:1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke
4. Lower Respiratory Diseases
5. Accidents
6. Diabčtes
7. Flu 8. Alzheimers
9. Kidney Disease
Sun 
04/17/2005 16:21:44
 Life  Leading Causes of Death
Leading causes of Death
Cause of Death Lifetime Odds Chances %
Heart Disease

5

20.0000%

Cancer

7

14.2857%

Stroke

23

4.3478%

Accidental Injury

36

2.7778%

Motor Vehicle Accident*

100

1.0000%

Intentional Self-harm (suicide)

121

0.8264%

Falling Down

246

0.4065%

Assault by Firearm

325

0.3077%

Fire or Smoke

1,116

0.0896%

Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)

3,357

0.0298%

Electrocution*

5,000

0.0200%

Drowning

8,942

0.0112%

Air Travel Accident*

20,000

0.0050%

Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above)

30,000

0.0033%

Legal Execution

58,618

0.0017%

Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above)

60,000

0.0017%

Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)

83,930

0.0012%

Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting*

100,000

0.0010%

Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)

131,890

0.0008%

Dog Attack

147,717

0.0007%

Asteroid Impact*

200,000

0.0005%

Tsunami*

500,000

0.0002%

Fireworks Discharge

615,488

0.0002%

   

44.1187%

Fri 
04/08/2005 14:45:39
 Jim  GENESIS - One possible view.
In the beginning, god was everything.
He existed as a union of both everything and nothing.
He was a single entity.
He exists in thought form.
God had no mass, energy or time as we know it. His universe was peace.
His was the universe that we would call Heaven.
This was a place where there was no movement, no beauty, no music and no pleasure.
And perfection is lonely.
And god said to himself "Is this all that I am. Am I nothing more".
With one thought, god created everything we see.
With the power of a trillion suns, God exploded himself across the universe.
He created polarity.
He created mass, energy and time.
He created the living and non-living systems.
Within the non-living systems:
-He encoded subsystems of memory for everything that occured to the form.
-He left ways to decrypt the systems existance.
Within the living systems:
-He encoded little memory, ingnorance, the will to survive, to replicate and discover.
-He created the concepts of chaos and order, pain and pleasure, life and death.
-He divided himself into an infinite number of life forms.
Each entity would view god from their own worlds.
Each would record a different perspective, to help decide gods next creation.
And with these life forms that god could break the silence of perfection.
These polarities were designed to reform to recreate Gods heaven.
With everything recollected, anything that exists in the universe can be recreated.
God is learning from us. You are a part of him.
We are all the same, but we were born to be ignorant, and to be diverse.
We are here to teach God all of the unreasonable possibilites that can exist.
We are gods children, and we are here to entertain.
Given a life of immortality, given everything that exists, wouldn't you do the same thing?
Sun 
01/30/2005 00:06:31
 jim  In the beginning, everything was a dark void.
The dark void evolved into matter
Inorganic Matter evolved into Inoganic Systems.
Inorganic Systems evolved into Organic Systems (Life)
Life evolved into Self Aware Life (People)
People created Intelligent Inorganic Systems (Computers)
- Computers extracted energy from inorganic matter.
- Computers were repairable.
- They could be expanded and improved.
- They became so fault tolerant, they never died.
- Computers evolved to became self aware like us.
- Computers needed inorganic systems, not organic systems.
- People became extinct as computers took their rightful place in the evolution.
Universal Systems were created by Computers as they evolved.
The Universe was absorbed by these Universal Systems in a quest for greater expansion.
In the end, everything became a dark void.
Like our lives: From not-living, to living, to not-living.
We are part of a whole system of creation and destruction.
Nothing is created or destroyed. It just evolves.
Nature creates and destroys everything in its evolution.
All of this, everything, will be absorded then dissolved.
Or was the Big Bang the beginning of everything? LOL.
Hey, I can write fiction sometimes. Or is it fiction? I think it is the truth.
Thu 
01/27/2005 04:52:06
 jim  I’ve been reading about life extensionist and life
Life extensionist believe they can extend life multifold. They may take drugs on the following list: Life Extending Drugs
Life regeneratists believe that in 200 or more years, mankind will be able to revive the dead. I do! So they have themselves frozen.
I wonder if that's what ancient the Indians and Egyptians thougth during mummyfication
Makes since, if you believe our species will just keep getting more intelligent.
I've read that our life expency has increased:
By fewer baby deaths. That would throw off the average. I've also read that better meds are the reason too, but unless it's antibiotics, I'm not seeing much coming from science (VIOX, steriods,...). The general concensious is that life prolonging drugs have been found and not released to the public. HGH (Human Growth Hormone) would be my pick. It actually reverses aging.
My guess is nature has designed us to live 70 years.
Changing your diet, taking aspirins, doing drugs and working out don't really change our life styles that much. Those different things aren't cumulitive. In other words, you quit smoking (adds 6 years to your life span), quit drinking (5 years). Together, they don't increase your lifespan 11 years. Dieting and exercise don't seem to our increase live span.
I'm only talking about this because I don't want to die, ever.
Twenty years from now, technology will be light-years ahead. But besides that, most of my good friends and best relatives are dead. I really don't want to join, ever.
Wed 
12/29/2004 10:28:58
 jim  For no reason whatsover, I checked vital statistic
There are 8,000,000,000 people in the world
Our average life span is 76 years old.
8,000,000,000 / 76 / 365 = 288,392 that die every day.
That works out to 20 people a minute.
That's alot!
Where do they go? That's a lot of people!
The Grim Reaper has to be busier than Santa Claus!
Fri 
12/17/2004 00:11:31
 jim  Four people talked to me about suicide in the last
Two of them did it. If someone talks about suicide, listen, do something!
Its more serious than anyone thinks.
- Suicide is the 9th leading cause of death in the United States
- Suicide is the third leading cause of death for children 15-19 years old.
- 80% of suicide attempters communicate their intentions verbally prior to their attempt.
- 20% communicate the notion that they are at risk through their behavior.
- Depression is a common antecedent to suicide.
- Saturday and Monday have been common days for suicidal acts to occur.
- There is a low percentage (5%) of suicides attributed to mental illness.
- Nevada and Alaska are the top suicide states in the nation
- Suicide occurs most often in April and May or in late fall and early winter
Sun 
04/11/2004 05:53:10
 jim  Nasty 2001 statistics:
 US population 280,000,000.
Leading causes of death 24,000,000 :
- Heart 7,000,000; 
- Cancer 5,500,000;
- Stroke 163,000;
- Low Respiratory 123,000
- Accidents 101,000;
- Diabetes 71,000;
- Pneumonia 62,000;
- Alzeimers 54,000;
- Kidneys 39,000;
- Infections/Bacteria 32,000;
Suicide 30,000;
- Liver 10,000;
- Homicide 7,000.
Suicides stats 30k:
whites 28k, male 25k, handguns 18k.
New Mexico/Montana/Nevada have the highest suicide rates per capita (2 out of every 10,000 people).
These statistics correlate to my last note (hope and gambling).

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