From the day your born...

MattCameronKicksButt

My friend once said that from the second you were born, you are dying. In a literal sense. I didn't agree. What do you think?

surferdude

From the day I was born I've been too busy living to be dying. Though every day I am one step closer to death, but that ain't dying.

MattCameronKicksButt

Perfect!

Vedderlution_Baby

I'll agree, but that's why you gotta make the most outta your trip to the grave. Then again, I'm a cynical bastard.


Tell him this:

You are only truly alive at a Pearl Jam show. Any time in between, you might as well be dead.

MattCameronKicksButt

Really, I'm talking about this in a literal sense. Why does your body continue to grow if you are dying? Somebody challenge me please. But be nice, I am quite sensitive.

MattCameronKicksButt

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

I'll agree, but that's why you gotta make the most outta your trip to the grave. Then again, I'm a cynical bastard.


Tell him this:

You are only truly alive at a Pearl Jam show. Any time in between, you might as well be dead.

SHE is a Pearl Jam fan!

Alex_Coe

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

My friend once said that from the second you were born, you are dying. In a literal sense. I didn't agree. What do you think?

Babies grow... 6 feet tall. You aren't dying till you're "over the hill", ie 50 years old.

mca47

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

Really, I'm talking about this in a literal sense. Why does your body continue to grow if you are dying? Somebody challenge me please. But be nice, I am quite sensitive.

Well, your body is ever replenishing itself.
I guess until you reach the point where this isn't the case you aren't in a sense "dying".
So if you were to graph the "living body" it would basically look like an upside down U...or a rainbow if you will.

Cosmo

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

My friend once said that from the second you were born, you are dying. In a literal sense. I didn't agree. What do you think?

...
Tell her she is not dying... more like she has merely been set upon the road that leads her towards death. And that growth is as much a part of life as death is. The road teaches you... you learn and you grow.
and death is the passage at the end of this life. Where it leads, no one knows for sure. Does it lead to another level of conscienousness or lead you into a void? No one knows. Which tells you... enjoy life by living. This is the only known guatantee... right now... right here. No one is guaranteed a tomorrow.

chopitdown

get busy living or get busy dying - Red

faithful227

its all about perspective here. technically you dont begin to die until your body stops regenerating itself. or you can look at it in a negative way, because each day we are indeed closer to death(pink floyd?) it was also a lyric from a marilyn manson song..."the minute that its born, it begins to die." its all in how you look at it my friend.

im not dying yet i have to see PJ a few more times first!

RolandTD20Kdrummer

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

My friend once said that from the second you were born, you are dying. In a literal sense. I didn't agree. What do you think?

Well yeah...that's how it works. Another reason to renovate your diet and regularly train your muscles and lungs...(aside from looking hot and buff).

Look at anyone who eats right and exercises and they all look 10-15 years younger than they are...reason being because they are. You can reverse time and improve your life by getting off the couch... Life is all about use it or lose it.

but everyone knows that already...few have the balls to do it. Only 1 in 1000 people will ever see their abs in their lifetime.

Once you are born you are stamped with a shelf life and on your merry way you go...

MattCameronKicksButt

faithful227 wrote:

its all about perspective here. technically you dont begin to die until your body stops regenerating itself. or you can look at it in a negative way, because each day we are indeed closer to death(pink floyd?) it was also a lyric from a marilyn manson song..."the minute that its born, it begins to die." its all in how you look at it my friend.

im not dying yet i have to see PJ a few more times first!

When was that Marilyn Manson song written?

faithful227

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

When was that Marilyn Manson song written?

'96. one of the songs on "antichrist superstar". dont recall the song but i'll bust out the CD if you want me to check it out.

word.

MattCameronKicksButt

No. I've already got one of their albums, can't remember what it's called though. What is Pearl Jam's newest one? Avacado or something!

Vedderlution_Baby

Mistake

faithful227

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

When was that Marilyn Manson song written?

well heres the lyrics to that song anyway...


"The Minute Of Decay"

there's not much left to love
tootired today to hate
I feel the empty
I feel the minute of decay
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me
I'm on my way down
the minute that it's born
it begins to die
I'd love to just give in,
I'd love to live this lie
I've been to black and back
I've whited out my name
a lack of pain, a lack of hope,
a lack of anything to say
there is no cure for what is killing me
I'm on my way down
I've looked ahead and saw a
world that's dead
I guess that I am too

[chorus]

I'm on my way down now, I'd like to take you with me...



and yeah, i think its "avocado", or self titled, whichever you prefer :-)

MattCameronKicksButt

This song was written long after we had this conversation but she is far more intelligent than me.

lucylespian

Two things ....



"You are", becomes "you're", NOT "your" !!!!

and the other thing, why wait until you are born, why not extend the idea to the moment of fertilization ?? I really ask, say he is right, what was his point ???

MattCameronKicksButt

lucylespian wrote:

Two things ....



"You are", becomes "you're", NOT "your" !!!!

and the other thing, why wait until you are born, why not extend the idea to the moment of fertilization ?? I really ask, say he is right, what was his point ???

1, I know it's 'you're' not 'your' - I made a mistake.

2, Thank you, I will think about this. (but) From the moment of fertilization, you continue to grow until you are about (50 or so). Maybe then you are starting to die.

There is another point here. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, which is not what I was asking. Maybe I was right after all and it is a matter of scientific fact????

3, SHE asked the question. Not He. Why do you presume it was a guy?

MattCameronKicksButt

Most people are reading too much into this.

When does your body start to die?