On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:40:53 AM UTC, stathisp wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> [email protected] 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! >> > > It wouldn't require courage if death were no big deal. >
that's exactly right. And sometimes at the very end, life has been made cheap, or we cheapened our own lives. And we don't really care. And then the other person at the very end, somewhere else, in someone else's world. Who had the courage to live life and earn the love of others and accept theirs in return also. Who has to die and cannot bear the reality of its meaning. It means you leave today and you never see all those people that love you and you love them, again. See I'd look on that as someone who had lived fearlessly. To face the fear of failure of rejection of abandonment of loss, right through, which is what a person has to do to get a big life. The final test of that is having something unbearable to lose, when that days comes. Most do show courage in the end for all that. Life is kind in that way. Only asks from you what you spent your life doing best. -- 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.
