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41st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94
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Madness takes its toll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @06:53AM (18 children)
Escaped justice, for good this time.
The man is a war criminal
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 02 2018, @03:08PM (15 children)
No he didn't. Trust me on this one...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @04:26PM (14 children)
Sorry, hell doesn't exist. The man is worm food, never faced the consequences of his actions while alive, lived a long life, his kids are all rich and successful. There is no justice.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 02 2018, @04:49PM (8 children)
Hell the way the Abrahamic religions (yes, some Jews have the concept, it's not just Christians and Muslims) doesn't exist. He is getting, and will continue to get for however long it takes, justice, and no one is doing it to him but himself. There are no more illusions and no more cover-ups after the body dies; he will spend, by my estimate, somewhere between centuries to handfuls of millennia experiencing what he inflicted on others, and likely then serially reincarnate in the kind of conditions he was responsible for.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @06:33PM (7 children)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but when you don't exist, you don't experience anything. The conscious dies with the body. Your faith and wishful (vengeful) thinking is the same as all the hateful religions your disparage.
Do yourself a favor, forget about him, he's dead (Jim), the stress isn't worth it.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday December 02 2018, @07:46PM (2 children)
There's no acceptable evidence either way. It's difficult to conceive of what evidence *could* exist. So why do you have an opinion?
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @08:02PM
I go with what is most plausible. Who's the guy that said, *You throw out the bullshit, and whatever is left is probably the truth*?
(Score: 2) by r1348 on Sunday December 02 2018, @09:16PM
This is not how burden of proof works, and you know it.
An atheist might claim that our consciousness is the result of sufficiently complex electro-chemical processing in our nervous system, and when that system stops functioning, consciousness is lost with it. He doesn't have to prove what lies beyond death because he claims that nothing lies there. And assuming all physical evidence that we have, there's no indication of any furthering of our conscious information after death.
A religious person might claim different things happen after death, depending on belief system, to my knowledge there's no religious system that claims cease of existence after death, but feel free to contradict me here. Still, this person has to bring evidence of what he's claiming, and so far nothing even remotely rational was brought.
So yes, technically speaking we're all worm food, but don't see this as cynical. Our contribution to the species lives on after our demise, in form of both genetic inheritance and cultural contribution, or even for the simple reason of having participated in a productive system sustaining us whole as a species. Our consciousness is lost, our memory will be lost, but our impact on the planet's ecosystem lives forever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 03 2018, @06:25PM (3 children)
And if our consciousness does exist in some other dimension?
I have no problem with people taking a scientific approach, but at least have the decency to admit when you don't know something. Currently there is zero scientific consensus on consciousness. Possibly we are just emergent properties of a self-sustaining propagating system (life) or possibly life was influenced to develop by consciousness.
There is currently no answer so please don't go around like some newly de-baptized Christian trying to wake up everyone else with the New Testatruth!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:02AM (2 children)
And if our consciousness does exist in some other dimension?
Did it exist before you were born? Don't be stupid. Consciousness emerges from the meat. It is the meat, nothing more. You only doubt this because you are afraid of the preachers, subconsciously or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:38AM (1 child)
Not true, I had the benefit of growing up without any religion shoved in my face. I learned about them but never once had to go to church or listen to a preacher. I think the first time I went to a real church service was for my great grandma's funeral.
In college I studied hard science and the concept of consciousness bugged me. Is it possible to arbitrarily make a choice?
There are two typical answers. Yes and no.
If you say yes then there is something more than mechanistic processes at work. Possibly it is an emergent phenomena that dies with the body, possibly it is energy in a different dimension that interacts with our universe for a short time.
If you say no then there is no free will, we are just complicated machines that think we're alive.
The real point is that we don't know, and to just ASSUME the answer is the height of stupidity while you treat it like the most obvious common sense thing around.
Personally I believe there is more to life than our three dimensions, but I won't go around preaching that like it is the Truth. You should be equally cautious with your own unproven beliefs. Since you fit the stereotype check out Rick and Morty: A Rickle in Time, the relevant bit is where Rick starts praying to God as he is about to die and truly realizes that he doesn't have all the answers. Not that it is proof of anything, just an example of how a towering intellect is faced with the cold hard truth of ignorance.
So maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but at least realize when you are making baseless assumptions that are actually just popularized belief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @02:53AM
You're engaging in furious mental masturbation. That's just some thing the brain does because it can't sit still for half a second, so don't take it personally. You find that you will learn much more by not thinking at all. Try to quiet all those voices in your head, and actually listen.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday December 02 2018, @11:42PM (4 children)
Not for you. You're too poor to be able to afford justice.
The Bushes and their ilk have been running The US for generations. Royalty don't have to face consequences.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday December 03 2018, @03:53AM (3 children)
Just because we don't use our power, doesn't mean we don't have it. All our present day systemic problems are self inflicted.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday December 03 2018, @06:50PM (2 children)
I suppose you're right, but I really can't see how you guys can reform your systemic problems without violence.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday December 03 2018, @09:56PM (1 child)
The mere desire would do it. The rest is cake
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @03:10AM
Hahahahah, ohhhh boy.
Does one of you want to tell him?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday December 02 2018, @08:28PM (1 child)
Did he?
No mater how you look at at it;
Atheist: He is gone, has ceased to exist. Or did you want him to suffer for his crimes too?
Christianity: He has gone to Hell and will suffer for his crimes until the End Times and then be judged (wait, you get sent to Hell BEFORE you get judged?) for his sins, then cast into the Lake of Fire where his soul shall be consumed and he shall cease to exist. (Same result as option 1 but with added suffering)
East Asian and Buddhist mythology: He will be judged by the Yama and sent to one of the Hells to suffer and repent for his sins. Then his soul shall be reborn without memory of who he was and get another shot at doing to right.
No mater how you look at it HW has ceased to exist in this world. At best he will eventually be nothing more than a pages in History books about the 20th Century and some biographies/books that will be ignored. Other than History buffs he will be mostly forgotten just like almost every other person in History.
Of all the Bush family HW was the smartest and therefor the most dangerous. I did not cheer when I heard the news but I am glad he is gone. Just goes to show that no mater how much power and money someone may have they still die.
my $.02
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 03 2018, @12:06AM
Trumps uncle got reincarnated as Julian Assange: https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/John-G-Trump.jpg [activistpost.com]
Proof: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3mSj_7rRif0&feature=youtu.be [youtube.com]