(March 8, 2012 at 10:07 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: You know, the Xbox 360 was collaboration between a san francisco company and a JAPANESE company.
Just sayin'
*SHRIEK OF RAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!*
Wait no I still like it...
Ok, must be the games or something. I'M SAFE. No thanks to you. *lol*
As far as emotion goes...it's a "blessing" and a "curse." We get emotions like love, joy, and compassion, but we also get emotions like jealousy, despair, and cruelty. For all the good there is an equal measure of bad. Perhaps if I felt a bit more "coldly logical," I wouldn't be so damn terrified of death, for example. Every day I am taking a shower, my mind drifts off and begins contemplating things I don't want it to; namely the finiteness of that moment, of the next moment, and that all moments must stretch onwards to a moment where there shall be no more. That there will be an empty void. Not even a cold or hot void; not even a blank one. A simple lack of conscious awareness, ceasing to be. Ultimately my identity is all I have left if I strip everything else away. And no matter what, I will lose that, too. No philosophical thinking nor platitudes of reassurance have ever managed to break me of this fear.
One thing is for certain, though, I won't ever go back to drinking the kool-aid of religion. As tempting as it is to accept the hollow lies, I know that they are exactly that; hollow lies. I've seen too much to ever think otherwise.
Perhaps if I was just a creature of cold logic, I could much more easily accept the loss of identity in death. But I'm not, so I can't. Kinda sucks.
