How can you be alive if your going to die?

[Dr. Quack]

Death or the dead
All the major faiths refer to us as already having died - Already being dead/fallen/forgotten/blind/asleep, or what the Hindu's refer to as being in a state of Avidya/Ignorance – The chains of which can only be released by the grace of God.

(Collosions 3:3)
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

For ye died, and your life is now hid with Christ in God.

ISLAM.
The Koran itself seems quite clear: "And you were dead, and He brought you back to life. And He shall cause you to die, and shall bring you back to life, and in the end shall gather you unto Himself." (2:28).

Buddhism
Avidyā (Sanskrit; Pāli: avijjā; Tibetan phonetic: ma rigpa) is commonly translated as "ignorance" or "delusion".

Hinduism
He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it, and goes through innumerable births, is like one who wanders all over the world in a dream. Thus, realizing the Self would only be like waking up from the dream¬wanderings.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950)
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The Way
The only way.
Why shouldn't one be able to lead a spiritual life in the world? But it is extremely difficult.
Once I passed over the bridge at Baghbazar. How many chains is it tied with!
Nothing will happen if one chain is broken, for there are so many others to keep it in place.
Just so there are many ties on a worldly man. There is no way for him to get rid of them except through the grace of God... Sri Ramakrishna

[ScaredyCat]

I know I'm alive because the fact that you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" irritates the fuck out of me.
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[Dr. Quack]

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein.

"Nothing is as it seems. Nor is it otherwise."
Lankavatara Sutra - Mahāyāna Buddhism

There is no greater mystery than this; that being the reality we seek to gain reality.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950)

Plato’s cave analogy.
Inprisoned inside the cave (Us), prisoners see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly view the shadows as reality. Every now and agian someone awakens to the truth and tries to tell others (Us), but the others respond with anger.
https://theologicalstudies.org/resource-library/philosophy-dictionary/157-platos-cave-analogy

Greek word "cosmos" Meaning "In The World" functioning apart from God
And according to Early Christian gnosticism - "Seraphims" Keter - Crown Divine Plan ~ The Angel of Death. (Read John 7:7) Satan is the ruler of this "cosmos" (John 12:31; 16:11; 1 John 5:19)

Islam.
The Surah takes its title from the sentence, Wa anzalna' l-hadida, of verse 25.
(A study of its subject matter)
https://www.englishtafsir.com/Quran/57/
Surah Al-Hadid (its title meaning, 'the iron') talks about the reality of the transient life of this world.

Hinduism. (Caught up in Samsara – Maya ~ The Malevolant illusion)
In which this universe like a snake on a rope imagined appears.

15. He who sees the universe may try to deny it. What has the desireless to do? He sees not even though he sees. ASTAVAKRA SAMHITA – Chapter XVIII – P136

The universe is endlessly going through creation and dissolution. But that does not affect the Self. The Self is beyond time and causation. Creation and dissolution are in time. In reality nothing else exists. ASTAVAKRA SAMHITA – Chapter XV – P98

The world is real to both those who have not known the Truth
[That which Is] and those who have. To the ignorant, who have
not realized, Reality is of the dimension of the perceptible world. But to the Jnanis, Reality, the form of Truth, shines as the nameless formless effulgent whole, the basic substratum [Source] of the world appearances and their subsidence. Know this as the difference
between the wise and the ignorant. [Tr. T.R. Kanakammal].

[NJD]

OP is a reincarnation of MSN's smarterchild because both make little to no sense when you ask it something.

But seriously, what on earth is this and how has the constant sperg gone on for so long?
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[Fin]

I nearly hit a few pedestrians last night, it was funny.

I was probably doing about 60 on an NSL country road going round a slight bend when I saw some people hugging the hedge for their lives so I swerved towards the other side of the road to find some of their friends running across the road and some hesitating.

I probably narrowly missed a few but I can't really see shit with my NSR lights, just a blur of things jumping all over the road and panicking as I screamed past them with the awesome sound of my NSR with the power valve open.


I know some people would get annoyed because the pedestrians weren't using any lights but I just laugh it off.

[Ste]

[Flatbadger]

Dr Quack, you're wasting your time posting this and I'm wasting my time informing you.


https://i.imgur.com/qryiSgG.gif
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
You're in ISIS

[linuxyeti]

Death is what ultimately gives life meaning, simple as that really.
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[linuxyeti]

Ahhh, fair enough
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[NJD]

[Ribenapigeon]

I don't take any spiritual stuff seriously unless something is getting blown up. Dr Quack needs to get more radical.

[stinkwheel]

I don't know why everyone keeps bumping it.
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[stinkwheel]

Because you all have such fun replying to the threads.

Face it, it's a long way from the worst drivel that gets posted on this forum.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[CaNsA]