I'm kind of surprised this isn't in Finland

I wouldn't mind lounging in a grave for a bit. But, then again, I'd lay down just about anywhere.

Well, it seems like the Third Reich was just trying to help people relax all that time they were creating mass gravesites.

I'm pretty sure my claustrophobia would kick in and prevent any calming sensation...

/It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'

eqtworld: Why is Christianity's obsession with zombies so strong?

/I still don't get the whole Catholic- "You go to heaven when you die, but when Jesus comes back you will crawl out of your grave and battle Satan in a great war." thing

I was raised Cathic and I never heard of that, so I get a kick out of most "OMG DEATH CULT" comments.

/Comments like this make me wish I spade more attention!
//I don't know where they dig you guys up.
///Don't inter a punwar with me, son
//It's a grave mistake
/Penis Coffin

He stole this from Zen Buddhism.

They do something similar in South Korea too. They put people in coffins and sometimes bury them, digging them up later. It's supposed to make them reflect on their death or some such. The people interviewed in that article say that they make better lifestyle choices because of going through this event.

Sounds kinda silly to me, but... meh.

Sandwyrm: They do something similar in South Korea too. They put people in coffins and sometimes bury them, digging them up later. It's supposed to make them reflect on their death or some such. The people interviewed in that article say that they make better lifestyle choices because of going through this event.

Sounds kinda silly to me, but... meh.

Oh, shiat! *Runs to backyard*

You know who else like opened graves?

Barakku: eqtworld: Why is Christianity's obsession with zombies so strong?

/I still don't get the whole Catholic- "You go to heaven when you die, but when Jesus comes back you will crawl out of your grave and battle Satan in a great war." thing

I was raised Cathic and I never heard of that, so I get a kick out of most "OMG DEATH CULT" comments.

/Comments like this make me wish I spade more attention!
//I don't know where they dig you guys up.
///Don't inter a punwar with me, son
//It's a grave mistake
/Penis Coffin

I'm not sure what Catholic sect you were raised as, but yes, it is indeed common. Not to be offensive, but you should do some research on the religion you claim to have been raised as.

It seems like a practice that could work. A short time in quiet and darkness and stillness, with the time already blocked out so that a person has nowhere else that they are supposed to be and nothing else they are supposed to be doing, can allow a person to allow themselves to really reflect on the inner thoughts and feelings that are usually drowned out by the random bullshiat of a typical day. The sensory deprivation part of it does change how the brain works to a state that's more like sleep. (Too much of it can lead to hallucinations, though!) The ritualistic part of it, well - that's showbiz. Such special effects can also help a person to remove themselves from normal thoughts and activities.

I've started planning for post-death. That sounds silly coming from a materialistic atheist, but it's true. I think there's an ever-so-slight chance that I'm way off the mark and there really is some kind of cosmic battle between good and evil going on beyond death, and if there is I want to be ready.

So I started buying souls. I buy them for $2.00 a pop, and have about 275 at the moment. They're all written down, signed by their former owners, and in my possession. I figure after I die and it turns out I have a small army of souls following me around I'll either try to run off and form another faction in this whole Heaven vs. Hell conflict, or I'll just sell my contingent to the highest bidder, my price being luxurious eternal existence.

I figure it like being offered a $1.00 bet with 1,000,000,000,000-1 odds and return - you kind of have to take it.

Been in one. Its very peaceful. Nice earthy smell (suppose that depends on where you live) and it was very cool on an extremely hot summer day.


/Oh, and you can lose some purity test points for that too... if you bring a friend!

ScottHimself: I've started planning for post-death. That sounds silly coming from a materialistic atheist, but it's true. I think there's an ever-so-slight chance that I'm way off the mark and there really is some kind of cosmic battle between good and evil going on beyond death, and if there is I want to be ready.

So I started buying souls. I buy them for $2.00 a pop, and have about 275 at the moment. They're all written down, signed by their former owners, and in my possession. I figure after I die and it turns out I have a small army of souls following me around I'll either try to run off and form another faction in this whole Heaven vs. Hell conflict, or I'll just sell my contingent to the highest bidder, my price being luxurious eternal existence.

I figure it like being offered a $1.00 bet with 1,000,000,000,000-1 odds and return - you kind of have to take it.

Your newsletter, I'd like to scribe to it.

Subscribe.

/what an idiot.

dwalder: I'm pretty sure my claustrophobia would kick in and prevent any calming sensation...

/It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'

Good song.

Killerclaw: dwalder: I'm pretty sure my claustrophobia would kick in and prevent any calming sensation...

/It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'

Good song.

Yeah, that Vanilla Ice sure knew how to kick it.

eqtworld: You go to heaven when you die, but when Jesus comes back you will crawl out of your grave and battle Satan in a great war." thing

This sounds farking awesome.

ScottHimself: So I started buying souls. I buy them for $2.00 a pop, and have about 275 at the moment. They're all written down, signed by their former owners, and in my possession.

I had a friend in high school who was doing this, and got one for a bag of cool ranch doritos. This is was a very politically active sorta guy, who may yet hold a some sort of canadian office. Good score for my hs friend :)

Andre Gregory agrees!

/"May I have...an amaretto?"
//"He says, 'Prepare the Way of the Lord.' Are you telling me that's you?"
///Slashies!

fenian-:
I had a friend in high school who was doing this, and got one for a bag of cool ranch doritos. This is was a very politically active sorta guy, who may yet hold a some sort of canadian office. Good score for my hs friend :)

If you ever see him tell him I'll buy wholesale.

Sounds kinda cool to me. Why the stupid tag? If people were a little more reflective about death, they might get more out of life. This seems like a good environment for reflection.

Death is extremely calming, submitter. It's just the transition to it that doesn't go down so well with anything that's got a survival instinct.

My (Japanese) father-in-law recently died, and the ceremony was really focused on making the whole thing seem normal. For example, after they burned his body my brother-in-law used chopsticks to fish the bones out of the ashes and put them in the urn.

But that's Buddhism.

German Christianity jumped the shark in 1648.

Might be pretty peaceful, really. As long as somebody didn't forget you were there and toss in a coffin.

Maybe his parishioners don't like tea & cake?

Barakku: I was raised Cathic and I never heard of that


well, I guess if you are no longer Catholic then it doesn't really matter that you are not familiar with canons of their faith.

Sandwyrm: They do something similar in South Korea too. They put people in coffins and sometimes bury them, digging them up later. It's supposed to make them reflect on their death or some such. The people interviewed in that article say that they make better lifestyle choices because of going through this event.

Sounds kinda silly to me, but... meh.



Yeah, I read about that on Fark last year. It's meant to give you some perspective.

cannibalparrot: Maybe his parishioners don't like tea & cake?

or death?

eqtworld: Why is Christianity's obsession with zombies so strong?

/I still don't get the whole Catholic- "You go to heaven when you die, but when Jesus comes back you will crawl out of your grave and battle Satan in a great war." thing

Me either: that sounded too Evangelical/Fundie. 'Sides, the soul's with Christ and we'll be given new bodies.

Well, death IS nature's way of telling you to slow down.

I wouldn't mind laying in an open grave. It would bring the reality of it all spinning into my mind (that, and a touch of panic from being in a grave). I would think about how life is short.

I got another 40 years, tops, before I'll be dead, my remains buried 6 feet under (or blown to smithereens if I die the way I've lived) And each year goes by faster and faster. Once you've lived and died, that could be all there is. I don't know, and no one else does.

The vast majority of people will tell you they know the place they are going after they die, but seriously guys, you can't tell me that. You don't really know. Just like the rest of us.

/This probably isn't what a priest would want me to think
//Nothing I think is what a priest would want me to think

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This is pretty good thinking once you get past the knee-jerk reflex.


The world would be a much better place if a few more people got some perspective and figured out that they're here for a very short time and that owning more cell phones/bugger SUV isn't really very important, compared to, say, not wrecking the planet.

jonthenewt: The vast majority of people will tell you they know the place they are going after they die, but seriously guys, you can't tell me that. You don't really know. Just like the rest of us.

I know what I'm going to see when I die.

ilambiquated: My (Japanese) father-in-law recently died, and the ceremony was really focused on making the whole thing seem normal. For example, after they burned his body my brother-in-law used chopsticks to fish the bones out of the ashes and put them in the urn.

But that's Buddhism.

German Christianity jumped the shark in 1648.

I'm curious; I was under the impression that Western (IE the US) cremation rendered all aspects, from bone to fat to implants, to dust. Momma is now ashes. No bones, no nothing to deal with.

Is this true? Or is Japanese cremation (that is, did they request something specific), different?

Can someone answer me? My mother, my father, and I are all marked for cremation, so if I have to look forward to picking her bones out, I'd like to know.

kroonermanblack2008-03-29 10:39:56 PM
I'm curious; I was under the impression that Western (IE the US) cremation rendered all aspects, from bone to fat to implants, to dust. Momma is now ashes. No bones, no nothing to deal with.Is this true? Or is Japanese cremation (that is, did they request something specific), different?Can someone answer me? My mother, my father, and I are all marked for cremation, so if I have to look forward to picking her bones out, I'd like to know.

You won't be picking out anything. They just hand you a box of cremains. Bits of bone and any implants will be in there. Just don't shake the box and you won't hear any disturbing thumps.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty sure I would feel more stressed out laying in a grave.

eqtworld: Why is Christianity's obsession with zombies so strong?

/I still don't get the whole Catholic- "You go to heaven when you die, but when Jesus comes back you will crawl out of your grave and battle Satan in a great war." thing

Catholics don't generally believe or teach this. please check your facts before posting kthx.

Dwight: "No, but you did declare yourself dead three years ago as a tax dodge."

Farnsworth: "Tax dodge nothing! You take one nap in a ditch in the park and they start declaring you this and that!"