I hope I can live up to Dr. King’s words. That I stood up for my brothers and sisters no what the circumstances. That I did not sit on my hands when people needed me to speak up.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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26 responses to “What is one thing you hope people will say about you after you are dead?”
The moment I die, nothing they say will matter, for good or for ill. I will be cremated, and all my deeds are meaningless at that point
@Jear77 :/ !!!
@Jear77
What is your scientific evidence for this conclusion?
I know you’re not a hypocritical man; so if no evidence of an afterlife makes it false, you must have solid empirical data that there absolutely is no afterlife.
I for one would be very interested in hearing it; as I choose to live my life as if everything is meaningful in an eternal context.
@griz the empiral data lies within every man, woman, and child who died. If people came back from the dead 3 days after death, as purported by scripture (both in tbe case of Lazurus and Jesus), or even more recently than 3 days in the case of Tabitha, don’t you think an organization as wide reaching and organized as the Roman authorities would’ve reported it, and thus it would have been a part of history? And before you ask, yes I am aware of the automatic electronic defibrillator that can shock a dead person back to life – but this technology is limited to 3 or so minutes.
@Jear77
The (convenient?) flaw in this argument is that even if the Romans had a recorded such events, you would family argue that they lacked the scientific process to make such evidence valid!
You know you would you little Cheeky Monkey!
Also evidence that rests entirely in an individual is anecdotal not scientific.
So if you are going to assert that there is no afterlife you will have provide scientifically acceptable evidence or recant your position.
@griz i think you meant firmly…
Not so!
there are only a handful of medical conditions that would have one’s heart rate below pulse detectable levels, and they’re super rare. Even back then, i would highly doubt they wouldn’t check for a pulse before burrying someone.
And since near death experiences can be easily duplicated using drugs, so any anecdotal evidence fails.
@Jear77
So again,
Where is your empirical evidence that there is no afterlife? That there can be nothing beyond what we currently know or perceive?
Or that if there is, that what we do today can have no impact on it; nor it on today?
@griz bingo. Proof is in your court…
@Jear77
Actually no.
You’re the one who has made the assertion that there is, cannot, and will not be any meaning in anything the moment you fall physically dead.
Is this just a hope? A dream? An assertion? A prayer? Or do you have actual empirical proof that nothing you do can or will have any lasting value or consequence?
@griz the claim i make is one i can see, as xan every one who has ever attended a funeral. The more extreme claim – that there is a life beyond this one is yours. And should such be proven, a whole lot of laws would be overturned, such as every murderer would need to be instantly released.
@Jear77
We’re down to “possibility vs impossibility”.
And perhaps the more extreme claim is the latter?
@griz actually impossibility is pretty easy to claim, especially in the field of legal studies. Kill someone, 1st degree murder. Talk to a jury of your peers about the possibility of an afterlife. Get sent to psych ward for being totally and completely insane for the rest of your life. End of story.
Also as a thing of deductive reasoning. What did Sherlock always say? Eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be the truth. We have, depending on one’s timeline, hundreds of thousands of years of proof that death is the end without any sort of proof elsewise.
@Jear77
The very point is that you have not eliminated the impossible when it comes to Concepts such as spirituality, the afterlife, higher moral Authority.
So according to Sherlock however implausible you may think they are, they could well be the truth.
@griz the fact that everyone/ everything has died isn’t proof positive. Wow.
And at day’s end… you believe in this and don’t want to take the final step to put your money where your mouth is. Tells me you really don’t believe. You’re doing nothing but playing devil’s advocate.
@griz
Well now you’re just confused! Why would it be the job of the person holding to possibilities, to eliminate impossibilities?
That would be the job of the person building their case ON a structure of impossibilities.
And Sherlock is right. If you the naysayer has not absolutely eliminated them as impossibilities, they must be held as truth no matter how implausible we may currently think
I’m glad he spread all this plastic underneath himself.
@luftballooneyegouge Good one Goyle!!!
She wants to be cremated.
My nieces and nephews will say, “Aunt Bra bra died.”
The Baha’is will wonder where I will be buried, but —- too bad.
I want my ashes placed in the desert.
My family will want a fun memorial where they will share funny stories about me. My cousin Sue-Sue is sure to tell the story of when I put the door knob to our front door in my mouth. I was a dorky 10 year old kid. My Mom drove up the driveway and as she walked up the porch, I tried with all my might to get the door knob out of my mouth. I finally strained to get it past my teeth. Mom hit me in the face as she opened the door. I lied and said that I was only looking through the twist lock to see if I could see the key hole. I did not want Mom to know I would do something so stupid, as to fit the whole door knob in my mouth. My Beaver Cleaver life was full of doing dumb things.
@ladybarbara
But what they’ll really say is: ‘Look, Up in the Sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
…………………..IT’S STINKY DRONE-EEE
Nothing. Just move on.
@yin Another :\ !!! 4 both of you, @jear77 I think something will be said, and a lot felt.
@Gina Oh, I am sure as well. I’d just rather they not. Don’t burden your life with grief of losing me, and there is no reason to latch on to false ideas of who I was. I have a mediocre existence, so why treat it as something more?
I am not capable of dying. I could write a book on all the times, and all the ways. Nothing would work.
But life is good, and this is a good talent.
No guardian angel for me, but God.
I just hope they’ll say my name right.
Anything beyond that is for them and their process alone.
Any redemption (or condemnation?) in this life comes from how we choose to act; not from what others choose to say.
@griz so why should i care if someone bad mouths me? I’m dead already! Nothing ican do about it at that point.
I hope they say, “He would actually make the effort to specifically answer specific questions to the best of his ability and could accept failure, but not easily. He would do anything for his wife, children and grandchild. He cared about his dog and when people would tangibly make the effort to show they cared; he would reciprocate with enthusiasm”