RE: The wounded and the dead
September 28, 2009 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2009 at 5:32 pm by Violet.)
Infinitely horrible?! Everyone has a finite value... the value may be more than most countries are worth... but there still is a price... 
Things are never so bad that they cannot get worse, EvF... nor so good that they cannot get better. Absolute pain and absolute pleasure are unattainable as more than an idea. People are not ideas though... they are tangible... losing them is a true loss...
One dead child feels horrific... but two is twice as potent a horror... because both of those children had value to you, possibly both of them meant the world to you... and in this case: you have lost your world twice. And it truly is twice as painful
Maximum horror is only an idea... there is no limit to how much pain you can feel...
Everything is mathematical, Rhizo... the towel my be saturated so that it cannot absorb more water... but the same amount of water is passing through that towel with each new tragedy...
Things are never so bad that they cannot get worse, EvF... nor so good that they cannot get better. Absolute pain and absolute pleasure are unattainable as more than an idea. People are not ideas though... they are tangible... losing them is a true loss...
One dead child feels horrific... but two is twice as potent a horror... because both of those children had value to you, possibly both of them meant the world to you... and in this case: you have lost your world twice. And it truly is twice as painful
Maximum horror is only an idea... there is no limit to how much pain you can feel...
Everything is mathematical, Rhizo... the towel my be saturated so that it cannot absorb more water... but the same amount of water is passing through that towel with each new tragedy...
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
