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Poid
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Horsewithnoname said: Today I was attending a laboratory experience in university and the teacher said something that stuck in my head.
One guy entered the room with a bad cold and said "teacher, I feel like I'm dying, I hate being sick" in this typical way of saying one feels bad. The teacher, a 60-70 years old man, answered "we all are, since the moment we are born we are dying. That is part of the human nature and really is inevitable you should keep that in mind."
It came out of nowhere and we all had one of those nervous silences that ended with some timid laughs, to then get along with what we had to do.
I don't know, it kinda hit me. I related it to Castaneda's books where Don Juan argues that living life as if one where immortal is a mistake.
I don't think this is the first thread of this kind but I wanted to share and discuss. (And I love the conversations that go on in the shroomery )
That's not a deep insight in the least..I can't believe a couple of university students got tripped out by it. 
As a engineering a physics student one must find the ability to be tripped out and amazed by the simplest things in life, why do people believe this is a bad thing?
I'm just amazed that an entire classroom of university students reacted that way, as if they hadn't pondered the concept before..I don't think it's a bad thing to be tripped out by the simplest things in life.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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DieCommie

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Re: We are dying [Re: Poid]
#14551772 - 06/02/11 04:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Poid said:
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Horsewithnoname said: Today I was attending a laboratory experience in university and the teacher said something that stuck in my head.
One guy entered the room with a bad cold and said "teacher, I feel like I'm dying, I hate being sick" in this typical way of saying one feels bad. The teacher, a 60-70 years old man, answered "we all are, since the moment we are born we are dying. That is part of the human nature and really is inevitable you should keep that in mind."
It came out of nowhere and we all had one of those nervous silences that ended with some timid laughs, to then get along with what we had to do.
I don't know, it kinda hit me. I related it to Castaneda's books where Don Juan argues that living life as if one where immortal is a mistake.
I don't think this is the first thread of this kind but I wanted to share and discuss. (And I love the conversations that go on in the shroomery )
That's not a deep insight in the least..I can't believe a couple of university students got tripped out by it. 
Really? Have you interacted with university students much?
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Poid
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A few of my friends go to a university..I don't think any of them would be baffled by an old man telling them that they are dying from the moment of birth. It's not a baffling concept, I've pondered it myself a few times and don't find it to be at all worthy of a moment of classroom silence; it's kindergarten shit IMO. 
What is the reason you asked me that question?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Horsewithnoname
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Re: We are dying [Re: Poid]
#14551821 - 06/02/11 05:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't feel it's kindergarten shit at all, maybe it was just one of those moments you have to be there. Then again, don't take the minutes of silence to literally, it was a reaction to a semi-philosophical statement out of nowhere in the beggining of an early lab class.
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Poid
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Horsewithnoname said: Then again, don't take the minutes of silence to literally...
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I take it you're not an English major.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Horsewithnoname
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Re: We are dying [Re: Poid]
#14551913 - 06/02/11 05:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hahah english isn't even my first language
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DieCommie

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Re: We are dying [Re: Poid]
#14551921 - 06/02/11 05:27 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Poid said: What is the reason you asked me that question?
I dont think of your average university student as somebody who philosophizes and contemplates such matters. The university is filled with naive, uneducated people (which is why they have to go to more school I guess... )
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Diploid
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Re: We are dying [Re: kelpfish]
#14552972 - 06/02/11 09:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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kelpfish,
If your argument is so weak that you have to resort to flinging insults and calling people names, then don't post in PS&P. Take it to the OTD forum where name calling is how they debate there.
Read the rules here before you post again:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/4526664#4526664
Consider this your warning.
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Re: We are dying [Re: Diploid]
#14554294 - 06/03/11 05:10 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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We're living as much as we're dying. What word you choose to use is sort of a "glass half empty/half full" thing.
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Powdered_Toastman



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Re: We are dying [Re: kelpfish]
#14558956 - 06/04/11 05:50 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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kelpfish said: Lmfao Oxygen part of Plants Waste But we need Oxygen TO LIVE DERF
WE breath Out c02 and the plants breath it in
They breath out oxygen and we breath it in
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE AND BALANCE
We piss in the ground because Urine Is waste But Plants take the nitrogen From the Urine to Live.
NAME ONE THING THAT TAKES PLASTIC BAGS TO LIVE OR RADIATION ...Nothing... Fucking derf bag
Not nature.... Guns as human waste     oh my sweet fuck....
kelpfish is definitly trolling XD but what i have to add is that everything would be a part of nature because everything was made and came from the matter and particles on this planet
-------------------- "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." You are God and I am You
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