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What's your biggest fear?
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Demonicat



Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that there is no afterlife of any kind. If there is truly nothing after life, then there is no point in truly living. The thought of no afterlife (of any religion) is as bothersome as the myth of sysiphus (sp?) by Camus- i.e. no afterlife=no purpose= the only logical solution in an illogical world is suicide.

Also, birds freak me out. alot.
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with the OP, but I will add my wife in their.
I don't know, perhaps I'm even more afraid that I will die and leave my wife and son without enough support. I'm already much older than my wife, so I know i'm going sooner anyways, but the idea of not being there for so many firsts, or even seconds and thirds just freaks me out. There's so much I want to share with him. I guess it's kind of egotistical to think that what I have to teach him can't be taught by another, but I know me, and even though in my life I have been all kinds of bastard, I believe I am fundamentally a good person.
There's a horribly morbid part of me that wishes if we three were ever in an accident were people had to die, I would wish it was them so they didn't have the hurt of losing me. F-ed up, and if it came down to it, I doubt I would choose that, just a strange thought process....
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ChopChaeJoe



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ANYTHING similar to this:

http://www.rense.com/general9/brain.htm
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats f*cked. I had a bot-fly infestation once. Having two worms chewing through the muscle in my ankle for weeks on end led me to put my leg on a table and beat one of them to death with a ball peen hammer, breaking my ankle. Very nearly lost a leg below the knee. Brain? Can't even imagine.
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SuperFly



Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ChopChaeJoe wrote:
ANYTHING similar to this:

http://www.rense.com/general9/brain.htm



Yeah, I remember when this one happened...the guy killed himself (Same city btw as your rense article) by speeding his car down Scottsdale road while hanging out the sunroof into a telephone pole.


http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/1209Sun-Roof-Death-ON.html



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Phoenix's chief financial officer was the consummate professional, a straight-laced and quiet man who was a genius with numbers.

That's why the bizarre manner in which Kevin Keogh died Wednesday - apparently by climbing out the window of his moving Mercedes-Benz on a crowded Scottsdale street - left many not only grieving, but shaking their heads in disbelief.

Keogh's last moments were so completely uncharacteristic of his day-to-day persona that only an equally strange explanation seemed to bring some kind of sense to his death. advertisement




City officials say they believe that their finance director was suffering from brain damage caused by a rare parasite that he picked up while traveling in Mexico a few years ago. The damage impairs a person's social decision-making abilities.
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Handstands.
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slow_life



Joined: 29 Dec 2006
Location: here

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The exchange rate goes back to 2,000 won per dollar like it was about ten years ago.......... Sad
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awalk2remember



Joined: 29 Dec 2006
Location: Pusan

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Losing Control. Period.
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Feloria



Joined: 02 Sep 2006

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1.Any harm coming to anyone I care about.
2.Being stuck in a situation that I hate and can't get out of.
3.Boredom
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otis



Joined: 02 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Demonicat wrote:
that there is no afterlife of any kind. If there is truly nothing after life, then there is no point in truly living. The thought of no afterlife (of any religion) is as bothersome as the myth of sysiphus (sp?) by Camus- i.e. no afterlife=no purpose= the only logical solution in an illogical world is suicide.

Also, birds freak me out. alot.


I believe in an afterlife.

But let's say one doesn't exist for argument. I still want my kid to do well.
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Demonicat wrote:
that there is no afterlife of any kind. If there is truly nothing after life, then there is no point in truly living.


Erm...wouldn't that make the whole point of living to truly LIVE? To live the life you want to live, to live the best life can you can, knowing full well it's the only shot you've got?
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Demonicat



Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not at all. If there is no purpose to life, then considering that life is largely a losing ball game, why keep playing? It would therefore be not only possible, but quite intelligent to create a situation in which you would know no pain or fear or dread or any of the other trappings of human existence. Living, under these circumstances, would be a foolish, painful, prolonging of your inevitable demise.
If there is an afterlife, of any sort (I'm not religious), then one can enjoy the journey. Consider, if you will: While traveling by plane, you relax knowing full well that you will arrive at your destination. IF however, you know that at the end you WILL crash, can you truly enjoy it?
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robot



Joined: 07 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as well, why have sex, since it's going to eventually be over?

ROBT.
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Demonicat wrote:

Also, birds freak me out. alot.


Shocked Confused
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Demonicat wrote:
Not at all. If there is no purpose to life, then considering that life is largely a losing ball game, why keep playing?


Man, must suck to be you if you think life is "largely a losing ball game."
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