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Life is …

• doing what give us happiness and contentment (while not hurting others)

• avoiding those who think we are not good enough for them (for we are definitely good enough for those who love/like us)

• accepting genuine compliments and believe them (but always keeping  ourselves grounded and not being deceived by flatteries)

• ignoring negative remarks that meant to hurt and not for our own betterment

 

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We don't know what life is.  I think that no living creature knows what life is.  This information is not revealed to us,  and we don't have any place to find it.  We may speculate what life feels like, but this is different from what it means and really is.

 

I am not too far from my last day,  and frankly I am curious to see what happens after.  Maybe in an afterlife we may know what our life was,  or what other lives are?

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What about this scenario .. after we take our last breadth .. eyes shut, lights go out .. darkness descend.  And that's it.  Nothing else happens.  Our body with everything else burnt to ashes ... obliterated.  Our family and loved ones grief but for a period .. and we are consigned to memories, only to surface or appear in someone's dream once in a fleeting moment.  Life could be just like that .. all good thoug.

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To live is to experience all sorts of emotions. Joy, grief, excitement, anxiety, temptations, frustration, acceptance... And at the end of the road, look back fondly that you have confronted all your problems with strength, learn something out of these experiences, provided love and support to those who need it and made a positive impact on someone's life, no matter how small it is. 

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On 2/25/2025 at 2:29 AM, Togsport said:

What about this scenario .. after we take our last breadth .. eyes shut, lights go out .. darkness descend.  And that's it.  Nothing else happens.  Our body with everything else burnt to ashes ... obliterated.  Our family and loved ones grief but for a period .. and we are consigned to memories, only to surface or appear in someone's dream once in a fleeting moment.  Life could be just like that .. all good thoug.

 

Hopefully what you describe is not your belief but what you consider a possible scenario.  Those who believe in that scenario are the ATHEISTS.    Yes, people who don't recognize human ignorance and are convinced that there is no supernatural, afterlife.   If we can be AGNOSTICS, we don't need to believe in anything but perhaps assign probabilities, and speculate.  Everything has a probability that is non-zero.   And thus, we should be in peace with our ignorance and accept it.  Que sera, sera...

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On 4/12/2025 at 9:21 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

Hopefully what you describe is not your belief but what you consider a possible scenario.  Those who believe in that scenario are the ATHEISTS.    Yes, people who don't recognize human ignorance and are convinced that there is no supernatural, afterlife.   If we can be AGNOSTICS, we don't need to believe in anything but perhaps assign probabilities, and speculate.  Everything has a probability that is non-zero.   And thus, we should be in peace with our ignorance and accept it.  Que sera, sera...

 It's been 2 months .. how time flies.  Well I'm no "atheist" but I do believe there is a supreme being that influences how each of us  live, act and behave in this life.  As to what happens next, I'm not sure, hence the thought of a possible scenario.   May you continue to accumulate wisdom in your continuing journey ahead!  Keep healthy, well and take good care above all! 🤗

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10 hours ago, Togsport said:

 It's been 2 months .. how time flies.  Well I'm no "atheist" but I do believe there is a supreme being that influences how each of us  live, act and behave in this life.  As to what happens next, I'm not sure, hence the thought of a possible scenario.   May you continue to accumulate wisdom in your continuing journey ahead!  Keep healthy, well and take good care above all! 🤗

 

I am a happy senior.  I don't need to accumulate more wisdom, my best wisdom is the acceptance of my ignorance like that of the whole human species.  So I can freely speculate with different scenarios. My latest speculation is that we are separate spirits "driving" the physical body nature has assigned to us.  Like we humans drive different types of objects like cars, bicycles, airplanes, vehicles to outer space, etc.  This equates to our spirit "driving" a human or other living creatures like animals.  The limitation to what we can do is not in our spirit but in the different types of bodies we are driving.  Some bodies behave well, others bad. This difference in the bodies does not extend to our spirits.  All spirits we exist independent of morality, which belongs to the bodies. So WE are not going to be judged, blessed or punished.  The nature of our spirit, its purpose, its unknown to the bodies, therefore we don't know this in life. Is there a need for a "supreme being"?  I'm not so sure.  How about afterlife?  My speculations hold this as very probable.  It may exist after... many lives, ha ha!

 

Do I sound like crazy?  What is wrong with crazy speculations?  They are completely free.  :lol:

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for me: Life is short. 

             When life gives u a hosereel,

             Ignore & find a fire hydrant.

Below is my reflections i had today:

 

Tomorrow i start Dialysis. 

                                       

The road ahead will last me for a year & every Tue-Thu-Saturday from 12 to 3pm =(

         

       

If u are headed in this journey too,

Maybe u can spend me a blur screenshot of your OUTPATIENT-DIALYSIS-REPORT & Proof & we can connect/encourage/share tips & turn hardship> into friendship. 

 

the 1st time a public doctor informed me: i need Dialysis was on 5-5-2024

        

      

i cried for 3 months, ev'night. 

in 2025 both kidneys died. 

Facing this, 

I hang on to hope, 

I promise to love-myself-more, 

I look forward to completing 9hours/weekly 😃

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On 4/14/2025 at 12:57 AM, 1983rophi said:

 

Tomorrow i start Dialysis. 

 

the 1st time a public doctor informed me: i need Dialysis was on 5-5-2024

 

 

Can I ask you a question?

 

Did the doctor on 5-5-2024 give you an idea, some advice of what you could do to improve and avoid dialysis a year later?   If so, why didn't you follow it?  

 

If he did not, and was not interested in you avoiding dialysis,  you can get an idea of what most doctors are after:  they want patients... more than their health!  And by learning this you should regain hope that your situation may not be permanent, but you could reverse it with special nutrition!  Hope can lead to healing!

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