Here Lies God R.I.P.

[Cinjin]

One thing I thought up, and I am not trying to say I invented it, but that maybe a god created the universe, but it was so stressful to him that he died in the process. So therefore you have a creator of the universe, but still have a godless universe.

Nice thought. Either way, then or now, the universe ends up without a god at the helm. Why couldn't a god die really? I mean, who wants to live forever? Imagine you're alive for 100 trillion years and you realize that that amount of time was like the first SECOND of eternity! Another 100 trillion years and your 2 seconds into eternity. If I was god, I would want to die ... what would be the point of living. The beauty of living, or I guess what makes life so beautiful, is knowing that it will eventually come to an end. (Anther thread perhaps.)

Watson said: How can you be so sure of that? What I'm saying is that death may not be applicable to all living organisms in the universe. Our perception of what death is is vague at best in the first place. To declare that death is experienced in the same way for all things in this universe is preposterous; we haven't discovered all the things which exist andor live in the universe and we don't know how those undiscovered things experience the world and death. Death is a human term for an earthly phenomenon experienced by earthly creatures. It's a word for how we view death, not necessarily how other beings experience it.

You may have a point for both sides here Watson. In a way I spose you're right about humans "not knowing if death is technically applicable to all things" - despite the laws of physics. However, you say that we use the term Death as a way of describing our experience - and how we view it. I think it's pretty damn reasonable to assume that death occurs all across the universe and that any lifeforms that are there to witness it are going to view it the exact same way we do. I think death is death is death. If you're not living anymore. What are you?

Still ... I like your bantor.