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igwna
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i've been thinking, dude...
#11295676 - 10/21/09 09:26 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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"all throughout life we [humans] have been following a mold. you live, then you die. i'm not afraid of death because of this basic fact. i am going to die. that is the way it has to be. why fear something that has to be?"
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11295990 - 10/21/09 10:05 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fear it because you cannot control it. What more common a reason is there?
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igwna
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296017 - 10/21/09 10:09 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not to fear it cause no matter what you do its always gonna remain the same.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11296171 - 10/21/09 10:28 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Generalizing your fear of death onto everything you do isn't very adaptive, but as a motivator to remain alive it serves quite an important evolutionary function.
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igwna
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296181 - 10/21/09 10:30 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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you can not want to die but also not be afraid to.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11296201 - 10/21/09 10:32 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not before you're cognitively aware enough you can't. And even then, I doubt you can override your natural survival instincts... or at least not without some pretty severe consequences.
edit: Rephrasing.... You can control the cognitive aspect of fear, but the physical reactions will remain. Fight or flight will exist regardless of how you cognitively label the reasons for your reaction.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
Edited by Kickle (10/21/09 10:39 PM)
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igwna
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296315 - 10/21/09 10:45 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Not before you're cognitively aware enough you can't. And even then, I doubt you can override your natural survival instincts... or at least not without some pretty severe consequences.
edit: Rephrasing.... You can control the cognitive aspect of fear, but the physical reactions will remain. Fight or flight will exist regardless of how you cognitively label the reasons for your reaction.
Oh, absolutely. The desire to keep ourselves going will always be there.
but as Albert Camus said, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11296364 - 10/21/09 10:51 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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That desire to keep going is an aversion to death, aka fear.
I'm also not sure whether or not it is a philosophical problem one must tangle with, or if it is simply a matter of perspective. And the way that a philosopher alters their perspective of things, is by convincing themselves of the philosophical validity of their conclusion.
Whatever works I guess.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296382 - 10/21/09 10:53 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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or people can start to live for pleasure instead of out of fear of death
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11296408 - 10/21/09 10:57 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Only cognitively. But that's the part of us that causes the most distress anyways. Hence meditation practices.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296449 - 10/21/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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so physically we can't learn to enjoy whats around you?
in some of my worst moments, in moments where i think i might even of died... i noticed that the things i felt felt amazing... carpet or grass on my toes, the pleasant touch of the breeze on my face... even going flyign through the air.. like a kind of "this is amazing" feeling..
kinda made me appreciate what was going on around me a little more
maybe i should look into meditation a little more..
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11296529 - 10/21/09 11:12 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fight or flight operates in a hydrolic system. 2 part: Conservation and Priming
As you conserve energy, most aspects of yourself are inhibited. Digestion is in full swing, producing energy from the food in your stomach, your breathing is calm, blood pressure is low, muscles relaxed. If something engages your priming sequence, everything switches. You are now ready to expend any and all energy you have stored within you. Digestion slows or stops, blood is pumped quickly to pertinent parts of the body, your breathing quickens to bring in extra oxygen, etc.
Because of the hydrolic nature of this system, after an intense experience in which fight or flight was fully engaged, there becomes a period in which the inhibiting aspects then spike to balance out. So you will be even more lethargic than normal. In extreme cases, you will just faint because your body is swinging so far to the conservation side of things.
That's why when EMTs respond to the scene of an accident, and the driver is OK but obviously shaken up, they will really press to have them sit down. There fight/flight response is in full swing, but pretty soon it's going to crash the other direction. When that happens, they don't want someone just dropping and getting more injuries than the crash itself induced
So yeah, it's not that surprising that you feel particularly relaxed at those moments. What happens cognitively, well, it is influenced by our physiological responses for sure. I find it a great combination that our bodies have. You are in a life/death situation, and your body responds accordingly. I personally think it's great if cognitions follow suit, and you start fearing for your life. It's only natural. It's when there is no threat occurring and our cognitions resemble a fear of death, that something isn't lining up. And yes, cognitions can spur the body to produce fight/flight responses.
Edited by Kickle (10/21/09 11:30 PM)
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igwna
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11296596 - 10/21/09 11:20 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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ahhhh. it kinda all adds up to living in the moment
thank you, i enjoyed that.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Kickle]
#11297894 - 10/22/09 07:00 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I realize that logic is not the strong suit of the religious, but how can people resolve this seeming contradiction?
i had a dream in which i died. the fear was not present for me. i was out of body.
conclusion - only the body dies. only the body fears.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: jivJaN]
#11298091 - 10/22/09 08:01 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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A dream, you say? Good enough basis for such a conclusion for me.
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Your standards are slipping as I know that you are incapable of sargasm.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11299512 - 10/22/09 01:17 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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theMERRYiguana said: Not to fear it cause no matter what you do its always gonna remain the same.
It's so easy to say you don't fear it when it's not an immediate event staring you in the face.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Icelander]
#11299673 - 10/22/09 01:36 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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theMERRYiguana said: Not to fear it cause no matter what you do its always gonna remain the same.
It's so easy to say you don't fear it when it's not an immediate event staring you in the face.
i realize this aswell. but i have been in such situations before... but ultimately i think i feared more the pain than what might happen.
though, i will also admit that i do not want to die and i don't know if i am afraid to or not. i would like to say that i am not afraid but i think i am nervous. its a mystery i can't understand, but i am not lying when i say i am excited to see what comes next.
ultimately i guess i just don't want to face the sucky stages of the kubler ross model
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: igwna]
#11299721 - 10/22/09 01:42 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i am not afraid but i think i am nervous
Gee dooooooood thanks for clarifying that.
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Re: i've been thinking, dude... [Re: Icelander]
#11299791 - 10/22/09 01:50 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i'm not petrified of it, but i don't want to die. however, i think i am ready and capable of facing the moment if it arises.
but i don't know anything.
i guess its hard to explain
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