Comments on: The Sun is Going to Die?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:35 +0000

Yes, the sun is going to die. Slowly and painfully, shedding bitter tears from puppy-dog eyes. And it will be our fault.

By: ARJ

ARJ — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:18:23 +0000

The Sun is going to die!!!…. Does Phil P. know about this?

By: mirror2image

mirror2image — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:19:40 +0000

How is it that Sun is going to die ? Was not it bought by Oracle?

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:38:41 +0000

Like Woody Allen said (more or less): I don’t want to achieve
immortality by shedding my finite form and reuniting with the
universe.

I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:37:26 +0000

What comes after Dust?

Consciousness, of course.

(Couldn’t help throwing in another literary reference.)

By: WAEL MOREICHEH

WAEL MOREICHEH — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:15:09 +0000

SPINOZA VERY WELL BUT MARX AND ME BEST
WAEL MOREICHEH
POET

By: Robert L. Oldershaw

Robert L. Oldershaw — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:44:18 +0000

‘The man who understands nature thinks of nothing less than the topic of death, especially his/her own.’

Spinoza

See Stuart Hampshire’s book “Spinoza and Spinozism” for a philosophy that is not based on fear or tooth fairies.

RLO
http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

By: Bruce the Canuck

Bruce the Canuck — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:42:22 +0000

“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
- TS Eliot

By: Robert L. Oldershaw

Robert L. Oldershaw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:19:50 +0000

After dust?

Reunion with the infinitely infinite universe, i.e, nature.

Of course we were never really separated from nature in the first place, but rather just taking a temporarily finite form.

Fear is the product of a lack of understanding.

Yours in nature,
RLO
http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

By: Bruce the Canuck

Bruce the Canuck — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:58:27 +0000

Fear.