druglessdouglas a dit:
everything dies. even santa. the raw chemicals get recycled though
lol... really.... u know the book i am reading right now.... it's a discworld story by terry pratchett.... the plot is something like that: Santa has vanished and Death thinks he needs to accomplish Santa's mission, which is bring happiness to the children on the discworld by giving them presents and acting like Santa.... it's pathetic :weedman:
in the discworld stories Death is a real cool character... he is like nearly omnipotent and omniscient, too. the way he deals with the mortals is somehow soooo funny.... it's like he tries to understand their matters, but for him the matters are sort of "trite" and therefore the way he deals with them is a bit comical and not lacking the irony of course, of him being the one who is standing in the service of the mortals bringing their death.
he has his own house in another dimension which is way cool and he has books in his house about every discworld-inhabitant. the books are magical and write the story by themselves. then of course he has an hourglass for ever discworld-inhabitant what makes him "a busy man".

but well it's his job and somebody got to do it right?

obviously Death can go everywhere, but is also invisible for everybody, except for the dead who are always told that they are dead by Death. :weedman: they are most times really confused and can't beelieve it, but Death is patient and leads them to where they have to go....
but i haven't finished the book already.... however i think the story is amazing, like all of the discworld stories!!!
@st.bot.32 the difference between time in reality and time in the minds of people is huge. i guess it's like that, because the underlying concept of time is not understandable easily in a universal way, but yet always referred to as "time" and hence producing the greatest missunderstandings ...
but also at the same time time

weedman

seems to be very easily understandable if one can understand WHY a process is happening, by having observed the process and the circumstances and come to the true conclusion by thinking it through. obviously there are maybe infinite factors which determine the outcome of a specific process. if one could reproduce all these factors the outcome would always be the same, right ???
what do we learn by this ??? probably nothing... but another question arises: is there only one "time" for everything???? or are there many times at the same time ??? i think it is determined by the perspective one has towards time. if one believes that only the now exists, one could say that the flowing of time is somehow linear, but by being linear also possibly representing a point or plane in another dimension. maybe that would explain the eternity of time....
peace!!! :weedman: