[Michael Chui]

Originally Posted by Sam988

I told you to read more on the subject about kurzweil's theories and immortality on earth, because it seemed in your previous post you relate these subjects to "stasis fields".

I don't recall this being suggested to me, nor do I recall any kind of relation between Kurzweil and the idea of stasis fields. Surely the concept has been around long before Kurzweil suggested his transhumanism.

I'm still confused as to how you could say, "It's not like that," when they're a fictional concept.

Originally Posted by Sam988

About fear, if you ask me these questions you should first say more about what do you mean by "I think it's a step closer to being fearless when you can more finely distinguish what it is you're afraid of." What do you mean by fearless?

Fear is the process of using or increasing ignorance as a vehicle for separation, and the resultant emotion when this happens. Fearlessness is the state of never engaging in the process of fear.

Originally Posted by Sam988

Just to develop a bit more what you said, i can perfectly distinguish what i'm afraid of in death, it's the fact of losing consciousness, ceasing to exist. Identifying it doesn't make me be fearless about death, it just makes me want to avoid it more.

Finely identifying a fear isn't a silver bullet for discarding it; it's a first step in discarding it. Once you know what it is you fear, you can investigate and discover more about it and your relationship to it, and thus dispel the fear by applying love, which is the process of becoming more equal with something through understanding.

But more importantly, I have no grand sweeping notion that death is something to be feared. There are many cases I can identify that death would be very satisfying, whereas there are many cases where death would be terribly disappointing. But it's not death itself, which is okay.