"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Do you believe there is life after death?

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What do you think?

I think it depends on how do you define "life". I believe that after death you are part of everything (as you were before) but just a different combination (your atoms etc). What interests me is that would you be conscious to "know" about yourself or anything at all..
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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I believe after we die our conciousness becomes part of a collective conciousness. Then, if/when we are reincarnated a different recombination of our conciousness is born (separated from the collective to be born in a physical form) and we become an entirely different person, or a different variation of our current self.

I believe this explains why some people are "good" or "bad"....maybe some components of their conciousness are defective or incompatible and that's why they misbehave, and "good" peoples' conciousness have components that function properly in sync so they are able to live healthy "normal" lives...
 
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What interests me is that would you be conscious to "know" about yourself or anything at all.
If the concept of humans having a soul that transcends the physical after death is true, then yes you will continue in another form of consciousness.
If that’s not true, then you’re just gone and the only way you still exist is in your survivors, friends, and loved ones memories…
Unfortunately there’s no firsthand testimony on this subject, so is it worth worrying about…
It’s only a guessing game unless any faith you have leads you to believe otherwise.
 

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I'm a Christian, and eternal life is a major tenet of Christianity (there is the Resurrection and all). But I honestly don't spend much time thinking about the next life, I focus more on the now. I don't believe anyone can say exactly what the next life would look like. I don't think many Christians would argue that their sinfulness and selfishness survives. Perhaps only that part of you that is the divine breath that was breathed into you to give you life returns to God, and that is what eternal life is. No one can really say.
 

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I focus more on the now. I don't believe anyone can say exactly what the next life would look like.
Exactly right, if a man can make the world a better place through his actions while he’s here, he can die happy and content that he did his best…
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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What do you think?

I think it depends on how do you define "life". I believe that after death you are part of everything (as you were before) but just a different combination (your atoms etc). What interests me is that would you be conscious to "know" about yourself or anything at all..
You're talking about the 1st law of thermodynamics, transference of energy in an open system if my memory serves me right into a close system.

If so then yes, ur energy when you die never "died" it merely transforms into something else within the universe.

This is old news, thanks to Einstein.

But we can't measure consciousness yet.
 

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Faith leads me to believe...We were created to live forever. However...Adam fukked up big time, and got us cursed to sin and to live on in eternal damnation. God, incarnated as Jesus Christ, fixed the problem by sacrificing himself (death, followed by resurrection) to save his children. His children will go on to life in eternal paradise. Those not his children, will go on as vessels of wrath, to suffer his eternal wrath. All glory be to God.
 
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You're talking about the 1st law of thermodynamics, transference of energy in an open system if my memory serves me right into a close system.

If so then yes, ur energy when you die never "died" it merely transforms into something else within the universe.

This is old news, thanks to Einstein.

But we can't measure consciousness yet.
LOL love it. Correct in it's application. Theory of The Conservation of Energy. Energy never "disappears" it gets converted to one form or another.

We are immortal. I fail to see how that transfers into christian/Judaeo or Muslim dogma, they are all three closely related if you know history. But it's fine by me what others believe. Personal beliefs are sacred and I generally leave the subject alone.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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