09 Jul 2010, 9:58 am
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Ichinin
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10 Jul 2010, 5:52 am
10 Jul 2010, 9:10 am
I do get pretty depressed especially when people I love and know die around me. I'm still coming to the terms of loss and I just found out a week ago that an old friend from work is in very critical condition. I hadn't seen him in a long time but was very fond of him and his family. His family told me he's in very bad shape and they don't think he's going to pull through. I feel terrible so terrible right now. 
10 Jul 2010, 9:45 am
MissConstrue wrote:
I do get pretty depressed especially when people I love and know die around me. I'm still coming to the terms of loss and I just found out a week ago that an old friend from work is in very critical condition. I hadn't seen him in a long time but was very fond of him and his family. His family told me he's in very bad shape and they don't think he's going to pull through. I feel terrible so terrible right now.
If you let death upset you, you are in for a world of pain. We are all going to die.
ruveyn
10 Jul 2010, 10:33 am
ruveyn wrote:
MissConstrue wrote:
I do get pretty depressed especially when people I love and know die around me. I'm still coming to the terms of loss and I just found out a week ago that an old friend from work is in very critical condition. I hadn't seen him in a long time but was very fond of him and his family. His family told me he's in very bad shape and they don't think he's going to pull through. I feel terrible so terrible right now.
If you let death upset you, you are in for a world of pain. We are all going to die.
ruveyn
Let? Dude I would love not to feel or be upset about death and I've tried this crap about accepting the inevitable but it bites me like sudden bullet. I'm not reacting on purpose or because society tells me, I was instinctively attached to these people so it is hard for me not to not let death upset me since it's permanent. I don't know how to explain it to someone who probably doesn't have this problem or has ever felt the loss of someone whom they felt a great bond toward.
10 Jul 2010, 10:39 am
Sand wrote:
Asmodeus wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXPDdaUuvI[/youtube]
I agree with Sand, though I consider my life to be a journey taken rather than a privilege given.
I agree with Sand, though I consider my life to be a journey taken rather than a privilege given.
Non-believers such as myself probably believe the journey, if it is to be considered as such is from nowhere to nowhere. Religious people seem to feel they have a real destination but all the destinations I have seen on offer are so ridiculously idiotic that I question the sanity of the concept.
I am moving foward in time, from the point of either birth or my first clear memory to the cessation of my mental processes or death, whicever comes sooner. However I am moving foward in a dimension, and as I believe I came about through a natural process that was inevitable, I don't feel privileged.
just_ben
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10 Jul 2010, 4:40 pm
Well thanks for the responses, that's kind of how I had it figured, I was just curious to see if anyone else worried about how futile human endeavour was.
Sorry to hear about your loss MissConstrue, it sucks when someone you care about dies. Hope you can keep moving and cope well.
10 Jul 2010, 5:12 pm
10 Jul 2010, 9:52 pm
Asmodeus wrote:
Sand wrote:
Asmodeus wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXPDdaUuvI[/youtube]
I agree with Sand, though I consider my life to be a journey taken rather than a privilege given.
I agree with Sand, though I consider my life to be a journey taken rather than a privilege given.
Non-believers such as myself probably believe the journey, if it is to be considered as such is from nowhere to nowhere. Religious people seem to feel they have a real destination but all the destinations I have seen on offer are so ridiculously idiotic that I question the sanity of the concept.
I am moving foward in time, from the point of either birth or my first clear memory to the cessation of my mental processes or death, whicever comes sooner. However I am moving foward in a dimension, and as I believe I came about through a natural process that was inevitable, I don't feel privileged.
That sperm which finally became you when it joined with an egg was one out of a very large number that didn't succeed. That's a privilege.
10 Jul 2010, 10:09 pm
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11 Jul 2010, 5:25 am
Sand wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Sand wrote:
That sperm which finally became you when it joined with an egg was one out of a very large number that didn't succeed. That's a privilege.
Not privilege. Rather, accident. We are all accidents.
ruveyn
However the privilege is attained, it is still a privilege to be alive. It is a status rather unique in a generally dead universe.
Anthropocentrism and Pessimistic realism. I'll go for sweet spot between Zen and empiricism.
14 Jul 2010, 11:00 am
