On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:58:08 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:21:40 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, December 22, 2014 6:13:59 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > No one is denying that death results in oblivion. >>> >>> >>> Then what are we arguing about? >>> >>> >>>> > But that is not the point. >>> >>> >>> It isn't?! >>> >>> > My claim was that no one has experienced oblivion. In common parlance, >>>> we routinely say that everyone experiences death at the end of their >>>> lives. >>>> Hence the distinction made between death and oblivion in this context. >>>> >>> >>> So this entire death vs oblivion debate has nothing to do with the >>> nature of reality, it's about grammar and how one particular language out >>> of the 7000 in use on this planet happens to use 2 words. >>> >>> And as for the fear of death stuff, are we asked to believe that if you >>> learned right now that tomorrow morning at 9am a firing squad was going to >>> put several bullets into your brain you wouldn't be the slightest bit >>> apprehensive and would go to bed tonight just as you always do and sleep >>> like a baby without a care in the world? >>> >>> John K Clark >>> >> >> iou'd have to read his posts rom the start, They exhibit some of th e >> stupidest implausible claims a lot of people will ever see. >> >> sorry about that....I fell asleep midsentence. I was going to sum up >> Bruce's spread of death depictions as one long basically would fail turning >> test. But then Bruce does this runaway paragraph...running away with >> himself with creaatve captures of fear. >> > > So he goes from, max cady to Robert Burns in his ability empathy fear. > > He describes fear very well. but it's not the way I feel fear. People get > it differently. One of my old pals...he absolutely fearless climbling, > on motorcycles, in a car...but he one explained and anyway well understood > by then, being in a fist fight terrified him...he would beg he would cry. > Despite the injuries aren't usually that bad, compared toi some i'd seen my > mate endure. > > In his case he'd learned to bluff real good. Good bluffers normally > experience fear the way Brent described. Sounded plausible to me. the > bluffer has to deliver his lines or his cold steely gaze as if ompletely > calm. The bluffer knows in seconds whether he's puling it off or bas made a > mistake. Bluffers have to be good at going into reverse damn quick. The > bluff ontineus, but now its about bluffing that he just came in there to > say sorry or whatever. > > Which if the bluffer made a mistake, that means the other guy is hardman. > Which is the bluffers second blessing if they reverse quicik enough. A > hardman sees both bluffs, sees the fear, and goes from angry to bored. > Bluffers aren't interesting people. Unless after all that bluff...there's > something special. My pal was special....a decent person. A gentleman. >
forgot to run the conclusion about bruce. Yeah, he was obviously describing his own fear..that Robert burns piece. It's very common.....get bullied a lot while kid, and you know you're in yur mid 50's bullshitting about fearlessness. Implausibly. I seen that before. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
