I feel pretty *special*.......I'm made from billion year old carbon

Mind_your_head

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Fri Sep-25-09 03:23 AM
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I feel pretty *special*.......I'm made from billion year old carbon

and I've been put together in this form, in this life.....and my 'carbon' will get recycled again...and again. But what of my soul, my consciousness? What happens to that? Where did it come from and where does it go?

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Liberal_in_LA

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Fri Sep-25-09 03:24 AM
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1. huh?

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Unrepentant Fenian

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Fri Sep-25-09 03:29 AM
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2. It all ends up in Boca Raton.

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Unrepentant Fenian

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Fri Sep-25-09 03:29 AM
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3. It all ends up in Boca Raton. OOPS!

Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 03:30 AM by Unrepentant Fenian

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FarCenter

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Fri Sep-25-09 09:51 AM
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4. Consciousness is a product of the electrochemical activity in your brain

When that stops, your consciousness ceases to exist.

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scheming daemons

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Fri Sep-25-09 09:56 AM
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8. +100

Too many people attach some mystical relevance to their own thought processes... which are just a series of millions of electrochemical reactions and interactions in their brain.

When it stops... It's just like unplugging a computer. Poof! Gone. Existence over.

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Lorien

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Fri Sep-25-09 11:14 AM
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10. Yep. But still hard for many to accept.

the thought of being conscious for trillions of years seems more horrifying to me. :shrug:

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asdjrocky

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Fri Sep-25-09 09:52 AM
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5. Lodi.

Again.

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Zywiec

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Fri Sep-25-09 09:53 AM
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6. We are stardust, we are golden, We are billion year old carbon.

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

:hi:

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piratefish08

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Fri Sep-25-09 09:54 AM
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7. everything I needed to know about Earth history.....

I learned from Crosby, Stills and Nash!

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Sep-25-09 11:33 AM
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13. +10!

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Javaman

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Fri Sep-25-09 11:12 AM
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9. Perhaps this should be in the religious forum?

:shrug:

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leeroysphitz

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Fri Sep-25-09 11:17 AM
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11. People have given a false importance to death. Every plant, animal, woman or man that dies

adds to natures compost heap.

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Orsino

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Fri Sep-25-09 11:22 AM
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12. Many billions of years old.

Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 11:22 AM by Orsino

Your carbon has been part of the solar system for at least five billion years, and was created in a supernova elsewhere, presumably spending billions of years in transit.

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