I wonder if the world we live in is absolute.

[muguly]

If the world we live in is absolute. Does the existance we know of end when "the lights go out"? Is there an alternate state we can only experience once we die(not an after life)? Does every other animal besides the farm raised variety really taste like chicken? If I fell through a worm hole would I meet myself on the other side? What happened to Purplesaurous Rex Kool Aid? I realize now that I have too much free time so I will stop

[vkut79]

For the first two questions, there's only one way to find out. Not sure if you can even pursue the third question, given that wormholes exist only in theory so far. I have no idea what Purplesaurous Rex Kool Aid is, but it sounds really good.

[dandylion]

Define life. How can you truly die if you were never really living at all? Do you think when a carrot dies, it proceeds to reside for eternity in some fantastic locale? Perhaps by "alternate state" you mean being recycled as something else--after all, every "life" is composed of billions-of-year-old star dust... and unto dust we shall return. But that's just my two cents.

[muguly]

Define life. How can you truly die if you were never really living at all? Do you think when a carrot dies, it proceeds to reside for eternity in some fantastic locale? Perhaps by "alternate state" you mean being recycled as something else--after all, every "life" is composed of billions-of-year-old star dust... and unto dust we shall return. But that's just my two cents.

Carrot heaven.....fertile soil, no gophers or rabbits, plenty of sun...oh yeah! When I say alternate state I don't have anything in particular in mind, just thinking too much.

[AgentofGaming]

I don't know about death but if death were like sleep. Then you'd eventually wake up.

heh, worm hole.
What about black hole? Do you really get crushed into a singularity?

[blueback]

Well, the existence we know of allows for communication from any point to any other point. Since an awful lot of people have died, and none of them have communicated with us, they must not be existing as we know it any more.

Only chicken tastes like chicken, everything else tastes like whatever it is. Unless we're in the Matrix, then chicken could taste like peanut butter.

I don't think wormholes connect parallel realities in which more than one of you exist I think they just connect different points in this reality. It would be cool to fall into one and run into yourself half way through. There was an old scifi movie about a second earth rotating exactly opposite this one on the other side of the sun. An astronaut visited it and his twin visited this earth at exactly the same time.

[lordrrr]

Define life. How can you truly die if you were never really living at all? Do you think when a carrot dies, it proceeds to reside for eternity in some fantastic locale? Perhaps by "alternate state" you mean being recycled as something else--after all, every "life" is composed of billions-of-year-old star dust... and unto dust we shall return. But that's just my two cents.

Well that leads up to the fact that matter cannot be created on Earth, everything decomposes in a continuous cycle. The beleif in the afterlife focus' on living matter having a SOUL in them, one that resides in matter and moves on to whatever is next.