As a Christian, the fear of dying - especially of old age or sickness - has never really been a concern of mine. Even when we were flying to Mexico for our honeymoon and the airplane had to make an emergency landing due to a 'technical failure' - there was a deathly quiet on the plane, even a few people crying. My new wife and I held hands and prayed quietly, but I was never really scared. That's not to say I don't get scared - I do, a lot. Just not of suddenly ceasing to exist.
It never occurred to me that this is something I might take for granted.
It's mainly that, unlike many other things that can result in death, there is very little you can do to avoid dying if you fall from someplace high.
I sometimes think about what I might do if I fell from a balcony or something, but just the thought of that is enough to make me very tense and nervous.
Whenever I'm walking through a higher level of the mall I have this strange urge to just vault over the railing.
I don't know why.
Oh god dammit I have the same thoughts.
Then I get really scared that somehow it's going to happen for no good reason.
Most things people find intimidating I find fascinating.
See, I like feeling intimidated. then just addressing it.
I remember talking to a girl one time about how she never wears high heels. (she is just over six feet) And I was all, why you'd look great. But she was all, most guys find it intimidating when you are taller than them and I was all, That's the point.
Most things people find intimidating I find fascinating.
I'm the same way. When I'm on a plane taking off, I stare out the window and marvel. The ocean is full of mystery.
My friends recently talked about laser eye surgery and how it was completely terrifying to them, and all I could think about was how utterly amazing it would be to have my eyes re-shaped by science.
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Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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then "life force" is vague enough that I could get away with feeding on livestock
in which case
I would become the chupacabra
It never occurred to me that this is something I might take for granted.
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I make the rules in this thought experiment and I say it has to be a human
What now, funny man
awareness of death increases my furious devotion to life
still, sold
lamprey man
things need to die
else there'd be no room on the planet
Picture of Dichotomy after 600 years:
just not me
oh how noble
So basically you want to be Odo.
that's a soothing fiction
I could even deal without the mastery of sorcerous powers
but immortal, regenerating spooky skeleton? sign me up
Oh god dammit I have the same thoughts.
Then I get really scared that somehow it's going to happen for no good reason.
not that i'd do it, just I wonder how people would react
I live for seeing how people will react to anything
fear not of the situation, but our reaction to it
fear of the unknowable internal
i think about this
mostly i just wonder how much it'd hurt or how long it'd take
http://funstoo.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-wish-to-see-tiny-horse-tinier.html
I'm going to make this hoagie...disappear
Well, great, now I am terrified.
Also: To the dudes who wouldn't want to be immortal...man you need some imagination.
Secret Satan
I remember talking to a girl one time about how she never wears high heels. (she is just over six feet) And I was all, why you'd look great. But she was all, most guys find it intimidating when you are taller than them and I was all, That's the point.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
I'm the same way. When I'm on a plane taking off, I stare out the window and marvel. The ocean is full of mystery.
My friends recently talked about laser eye surgery and how it was completely terrifying to them, and all I could think about was how utterly amazing it would be to have my eyes re-shaped by science.
Satans..... hints.....