Is death really a voyage of discovery?

[jimi]

Surely voyages of discovery have some sort of objective? The main objective with death OTOH presumably is to avoid it .. or does some delightful serendipity await?

 

[Deleted member 478]

What happened Jim, did you have a close shave today?

 

[jimi]

No just a morbid wondering in the wee small hours whilst stargazing!

 

[Deleted member 478]

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or does some delightful serendipity await?

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I've never heard anyone complaining, so I assume you must at least be close to the mark

 

[BrianJ]

I'll e-mail you after I get there .........
BrianJ

 

[Ships_Cat]

Well, cats can't count so I am not sure where I stand in the before or after stakes. But if I have clicked off all my 9 lives you are now in hell with me and the death adventure went by without you remembering it, or else life is always like hell with after the final act being better.

John

 

[reginaldon]

I suppose it has only been in the last 50 years or so that most people in this country would have asked this question, faith or assurance in God is a great thing, so many of the old Scottish fishermen would have told you.

 

[dralex]

Morbid wondering in the small hours? You OK Jimi?

I suppose it depends on how long and drawn out the death is as to how much you and others discover.

Just make sure you've done plenty of other voyages of discovery before you embark on this one.

 

[DeeGee]

Rather a poor title for a posting today, dont' yer think Jimi ????

Considering this....... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Deleted member 478]

the link asks me to log in! What's your username and password?

 

[jimi]

Presume you refer to the Shuttle? Apologies, an unhappy coincidence.

 

[petecavo]

Life is a voyage of discovery, and death is part of it...... funnily enough most leave it to the end of the itinery though lack of proper preparation can bring it further up the list which spoils the rest of the day

 

[DeeGee]

Course it was... my reply was not intended to be heavy, sorry if it came out that way, it was just the juxtaposition of the words immy struck me.

I am worried that the faffing around with these tiles, still the same technology as the first shuttle all those years ago, is going to lead to another snafu.

 

[DeeGee]

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the link asks me to log in! What's your username and password?

[/ QUOTE ]Chicago Tribune, an arbitrary link from Google, didnt ask me to log on... refers to landing of Discovery today. I was just joshing Jimi.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Apologies to others for the thread drift....

PeteCavo - if you are based in Barbados, why do you have a boat in Grimsby???

Surely you mean the other way around. I thought that the only boats in Grimsby were dormant trawlers.

 

[Blueboatman]

Talk about voyages of discovery.
I am just reading ''Life of Pi'', there's this bloke ,see, stuck in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger......
Pretty good mix so far of the philosophical and the downright practical !

 

[copterdoctor]

Death is just the spirits way of slipping from the marina of life and setting off on the next leg of it's voyage. Having said that if my body is a marina my wife must be the personification of MDL.

 

[jimi]

I was going to say that if that's the case my wife is the equivalent of Torquay Marina.
Smooth suave and sophisticated .. if a tad expensive

 

[dralex]

Tell me about it ( The Marina, not your wife). I wouldn'd call it that suave either- it's full of MOBO owning Chavs ( and that's no disrespec to nice MOBOs).

 

[jimi]

Was there on Sat before leaving for the Solent at 10:45pm .. yes there seemed to be a lot of shiny big Mobos, jetskis and ribs. Looked as if some jet skis had there own berths!!