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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 15, 2015 at 12:03 pm
A writer. A writer you shall be. Drop whatever spy nonsense you are engaging in right this moment and write something for me to pour into.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 15, 2015 at 12:52 pm
(August 15, 2015 at 6:49 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Hey, Rick - do you think you're still going to be brain-dead in your next life?
Is he not already? He is nothing more than a mouthpiece for his delusion.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 15, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Death, meh. Dying, yuck.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 12:40 am
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(August 15, 2015 at 1:08 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Death, meh. Dying, yuck.
My mom was in a medically induced coma for 5 weeks before we made the decision to take her off life support. It was a very difficult time for us all.
I only hope that when I die, it's as quick and painless as possible for myself and those who care about me.
What's that old joke?
"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa. I don't want to go out screaming and terrified... like the passengers in his car."
(paraphrased from some comedian whose name I've forgotten)
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 12:46 am
I've been thinking about death lately. My own, for some reason. I'm not necessarily afraid of it, but it's just been unsettling lately. :/
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 1:36 am
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(August 15, 2015 at 1:08 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Death, meh. Dying, yuck.
What was it Woody Allen said? Something like .. I don't mind death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I read somewhere this week another quote from W.A. that I'll butcher as .. I cheated in philosophy, looked into the boy's soul next to me for the answers.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 3:06 am
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Fucking terrified of death.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 3:23 pm
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I'm sorry, but I don't find anything conforting about the thought that I'll have died before too long after I have been born. And neither do I think anyone is really O.K. with it. Whenever I hear someone say that death is universal and inevitable I roll my eyes. That's too dogmatic for my liking. What is life any way? What makes you think we won't be able to extend it in the future if we thoroughly understand the processes that make it up? I've heard it's more like a simple engineering problem, where our biology is concerned. Nothing to fret about. I would like to live for at least a couple million years. No, I don't think I'll just get bored with life - at least not forever. Life will be the same, more or less, I reckon - it will have its ups and downs. Nothing new there. Why shouldn't I wish this possibility opened up during my lifetime? I see nothing wrong with it.
I know I (basically) don't have any say in the matter, at least not that I see. But I have enough trust in my own species and its scientific endeavours that they'll surpass death, in a sense, one day - whether it will be during my own lifetime or not is my own problem. I do not accept that I'll just die, not as far as I'm alive anyway. What point is there in life if it's how you say? That you get to experience a few beautiful moments and that's it? Well, I firmly say that's just not enough. Far from it. That's bullshit.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 16, 2015 at 3:45 pm
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People like myself who have serious depression are a little too OK with death. It's life I'm not so hot on. I'm doing much better recently though.
The unacceptable nature of a finite life I'm sure is a big pull for religion.
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RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 17, 2015 at 7:53 am
(August 16, 2015 at 3:06 am)pool Wrote: Fucking terrified of death.
Why?
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