On Monday, December 22, 2014 10:18:55 PM UTC, Bruce wrote: > > [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > On Monday, December 22, 2014 10:06:21 PM UTC, Bruce wrote: > > > > John Clark wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > No, I wouldn't fear death even then. I might worry about the > > possibility > > of pain. I might worry about the injustice and arbitrariness of it > all. > > But mostly I would be concerned for those who depend on me here and > > now. > > The degree of this concern would depend on my age when this > happens, > > the number of those dependants, and their degree of dependency. > > > > Bruce > > > > > > Turing Test Fail > > Have you never heard of, or seen, courage in the face of death? Often > taken as the true test of manhood! > > Bruce >
Bruce, Courage is acting in the face of fear, where the action speaks to virtue. Having no fear is something entirely different. People are born that way sometimes. And sometimes people are temporarily desensitized by events in a theatre or war or a sub-culture gone awry. The dy secret of PTSD is that it is almost always not about what is done to us, but something that we did, or allowed to be done. Answer to your question..I've seen enough. Your characterizations of fear exhibited a disjoint. Al the stuff about oblivion and that fear of death was cultural....this wasn't thought through. That's the best that can be said. But then you gave a very descriptive depiction of fear in a runaway paragraph, that rang very true. One has to be logical and marry up the incongruity best as can. I think it says you've had experiences of fear that you still struggle with. You described your own fear. -- 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.
