I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
I think you'll have better luck trying dark majycks to become a ghost personally.
At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
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#42Lots of things matter but nothing matters without relationships.
Some nearby introverts quietly disagree then dream of hiking in the mountains in nature. I guess that's a relationship of sorts.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or give the money to your children so they have a small head start that can use to conquer the world (eventually). Also, what happens if you are revived? Where are you going to live? Your home was probably sold a long time ago, or you must share it with all the intermediate revived generations. What about money? Where are you going to work? Imagine the frozen time was only 100 year. It is difficult to predict what wi…
So what? You're saying life is not worth living if you're not at least middle class with no big struggles?
Yes this argument could be repurposed into: if you are born in Africa there is no reason to live
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#44Lots of things matter but nothing matters without relationships.
I think you're right - according to category theory, only relationships of the objects matter, not the objects themselves.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
But not giving your family closure, and an indefinite cost to the environment/them, for 0 or something above 0 success.
Alcor, for example, charges what amounts to a fee to perform the preservation and a fee to go into a fund that will be invested to pay for your ongoing preservation. "Not giving your family an additional $80,000 on your death" amounts to the same thing as "taking $X from them in perpetuity", but it's psychologically different. It's all about the cost-benefit analysis, whose outcome may be different for different peop…
"Alcor, for example, charges what amounts to a fee to perform the preservation and a fee to go into a fund that will be invested to pay for your ongoing preservation."
Which just adds another gamble. What are the chances of the economy having enough consistent growth that those investments last longer than it takes to revive you?
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#46“All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise and will become separated from me”— Siddhartha Gautama.
As a Buddhist we do “contemplation of death” meditation on a regular basis. It involves imagining our last few hours on our deathbed. It is a wonderful exercise to help put things in context. It makes you behave differently towards people you meet, even strangers.
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#48The worst time to start thinking about death is when you are facing it. So let me tell you after thinking about this for the last 50 plus years; There is no birth so there is no death. You think there is birth and death, but it is just a thought. To be alive means you would have had to be dead already for am infinite amount of time before your birth, so what are you scared of? Maybe we are "dead" right now, and this…
How do you conflate not existing before birth to not existing after death? Comparing cosmic duration to one's lifespan is not the same thing. It might sound very profound, but it is not, believe me. Also, I don't think you are 50+. You seem like a young kid who has just read some pop-philosophy to me. Anyone who has had a life-threatening experience or a grave illness will tell you that philosophical solace that is e…
"How do you conflate not existing before birth to not existing after death?"
How can you not? Do you remember what it was like before you were born? Do you know of anyone who told you what it is like to be dead? If we do not know what death is how do we know what life is? We only know it by it's external appearance, which really tells us nothing.
I am not an existentialist or a nihilist, I am a Daoist who is indeed over 50 although I wish I was a young kid again. I was also a Theravada Buddhist for 20 years and have studied a large chunk of the Tripiṭaka. The things I am talking about are not appreciated with a moments thought.
The goal of enlightenment is understanding and escaping Samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death and the suffering that comes along with it. This is why I am a Daoist now, I just do not worry about these things and do not live in fear of my life and feel like I have to run out and "live life to my fullest" because of death, I do it because of life.
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#49“All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise and will become separated from me”— Siddhartha Gautama. As a Buddhist we do “contemplation of death” meditation on a regular basis. It involves imagining our last few hours on our deathbed. It is a wonderful exercise to help put things in context. It makes you behave differently towards people you meet, even strangers.
I have spent hours mediating in graveyards.
Also helpful is the mediation on the 32 parts of the body to help you loosen your attachment.
https://www.imsb.org/contemplating-the-32-parts-of-the-body/
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you do not have you cannot become attached to. You can still have something and not be attached to it. That is Buddhism/Daoism in a nutshell.
Did you note that the OP said it is a well known psychological phenomenon and not some utopian enlightened state that most of us can only aspire to attain? And fwiw, Schopenhauer knew about Buddhism very well and talks about it in length in his essays on pessimism. What he means by attachment here is in fact, the Buddhist equivalent of craving. What you own can add to your vanity, but it is what you do not have or ar…
Set low goals! It's the surest way to win!
And I go to the Buddha if I want to know about Buddhism. Schopenhauer did not understand the difference between the Hindu's denial of self and the Buddha's idea of "not self".