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Do you ever wonder how you will die or when it will happen?
I was thinking about that several days ago, and decided I don't care, as long as it is quick.
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No, but I was wondering the same about you. 
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Sort of dark, and Chris may restore the soapbox for you. It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and the first turkey is cooking and smelling up the house. But since you are in a morbid mood, here you go 
Retirement Plan - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-01-23 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It may interest you to know that in the (Theravadan) Buddhist tradition the mendicant, wandering, teacher who called himself the Tathagata (one who has gone there) ... aka Buddha ... never mentions reincarnation/past-lives.
In the Malunkyaputta Sutra, the Tathagata mocks the monk Malunkyaputta for his questions about such things. [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I've heard one reason why certain systems do not mention reincarnation. To instill a sense of urgency and focus in achieving one's goal. If reincarnation is accepted, then there is likelihood of procrastination, saying that "There is anyway one more lifetime here".
Of course there are other systems such as mine, in Hinduism, where continuity is told - that whatever spiritual efforts we put now, will continue in future lives, and that we will be born in such households which foster such continuity.
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Namaste,
"andher nagree chauput raja"
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Tomorrow, it is rather "To buy or not to buy ..."
(Tomorrow is Black Friday. In Norwegian, 'blakk' means 'out of money' ...)
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CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights:
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
IOW, don't worry about it; death will come soon enough.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And the obligatory death joke…
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Nor screaming and crying like his passengers.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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This is truly wonderful. I'd never heard it before. 
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Since I seemed to have escaped it a few times, not much. Why now, and not then, etc.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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In the famous words of the Iron Maiden -
Quote: There's a time to live and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange
That as soon as you're born you're dying
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nobody wants to live to be 90. Until they are 89.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Wow this got dark quickly!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Me thinks it started dark and never improved although adding the Dilbert was a nice touch.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Dilbert went dark - darker - back around 2016, and never really recovered.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I heard Adams interviewed by Sam Harris in early 2017. I have refused to look at Dilbert since then. He may be clever and know software dev politics, but he's belongs in a looney bin. (imo)
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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It was a pretty tough week. Got in a car accident, a guy hit me and then drove away. Then the house next door caught on fire. It is 15 feet away from mine. The firemen did put out the fire and save not only my house but the whole block.
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We never die Ed, we just leave our carbon shell. 
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That's what they say, but, unfortunately, there's no way to validate it. 
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Quote: So always look on the bright side of death
A just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of sh*t
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
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I was just thinking of a message I saw the other day "Mary had a little lamb" (between a sandwich). I am not sure where this fits in.
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