Comments | yerch: Immortality project

yerch

Immortality project

Feb 13, 2005 04:37

I'm going to borrow heavily here from things that others have said to me. There are no new ideas here. But it is what I believe and what I feel like saying to the world. So here it comes (if all five people who read this can be considered the world ( Read more... )

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copesounds February 13 2005, 15:56:44 UTC

I have some more to say later, but for now, I just want to say this:

When it comes to this statement here: Once you stop chasing the answer you can finally sit back and see the pretty colors. That's all I know about life.

You are so fucking close to being Buddhist you better start practicing your full lotus.

anonymous February 14 2005, 12:24:13 UTC

That's not merely grim, it's hateful. Maybe if you stopped heaping your own prejudices on the accomplishments and motivations of others you might start viewing your own predicament with a little more objectivity. Ambition is not synonymous with stupidity. Stopping, retiring, collapsing in an inert heap: these are things that are both symptomatic and causal determinates of depression. You write of them as pathways to happiness. I suspect that you don't need drugs, silence, contemplative reflection, or even your wife to make you happy - you use them as crutches to prop up your view that you simply don't matter. You do.

Hamlet yerch February 14 2005, 15:59:25 UTC

When accused of being overly ambitious Hamlet replied, "I could count myself the king of infinite space though bound in a nutshell were it not that I have bad dreams ( ... )

Re: Hamlet anonymous February 14 2005, 18:43:55 UTC

Perhaps I am a little paranoid. Nonetheless, I consider myself to be like “most people” in many ways. As you know, Ernest Becker rightly labeled humanity as “a trembling accident on a hothouse planet”. I'm probably too defensive as well - your generalized attack, “most people are running away from themselves”, can easily be taken personally as any random person is statistically likely to fall into the category of “most people”. But you’re probably right.

"Most people" don't quote Ernest Becker yerch February 15 2005, 00:02:12 UTC

Please don't take insult at my earlier snappishness. I should not have called you "Type A paranoi(d)" It was poor judgment on my part. I felt like I was being attacked and I resorted to the child's response of name calling. My apologies.

I don't think we are as divergent in thought as it may at first appear. Perhaps I have been less than eloquent in saying what I mean.

Thanks for your comments.

Hamlet, Cobain, Gates sidpink February 17 2005, 17:47:35 UTC

What we have here is a great distillation of an apparent 'non-dilemma'; in that we are led to understand that only by believing there is no answer can we be at peace, somehow ( ... )