Accepting Personnal Mortality
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Accepting Personnal Mortality
What age did you come to accept your own demise? or are you still working on it counting the minutes?
What will the world be like after its ruler is removed?
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Removed your duplicate post...
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same.JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:

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It's probably your evil twin...Scrumple wrote:Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same.JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:

Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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I'm channelling Luke Haines at the moment.JimC wrote:It's probably your evil twin...Scrumple wrote:Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same.JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:

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And I deleted the duplicate thread that you missed, Jim!JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...
Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:

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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality
I am forty nine and although I am psychologically conditioning myself to live for another thirty one years I know that I can go at any time. And last year I made my peace with Death and accepted it without reservation. The knowledge that I was dead before I was born helped too because I have no memory of that experience. And so any misgivings regarding it are entirely without foundation. I do find it highly ironic that one only worries about Death when one is alive but when actually dead such concerns become academic. It sounds bleeding obvious until you realise how afraid many actually are of Death. Subjective irrationality over objective rationality. As long as the journey towards it is not a painful one then I do not worry about it at all. It can come for me tomorrow for all I care. Not being afraid of it for me is a liberating feeling. It should be universal
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Is this thread about personal mortality? Or personnel mortality? I'm not clear...Accepting Personnal Mortality

The former I grudgingly accept as inevitable. The latter can pose huge problems for a small business but goes barely noticed in a larger corporation.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing

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Calilasseia
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Personnel mortality= cannon fodder
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..yeah that's about personnel morality.
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...Rum of the White Rose Society risks all to make a major political statement.Rum wrote:..yeah that's about personnel morality.

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Your own mortality is drummed into you from an early age in the Catholic Church.
I had no trouble accepting it whatsoever, and didn't questiong the afterlife till I was about nine.
But as soon as my brother said to me ''how do you know it's true?'' I knew it wasn't. Before that, I'd never even questioned religion and the afterlife. After it, I never believed again. I suppose I was subconsciously aware that there was no evidence at all, but I'd never actually run the thought through my mind.
So it depends what you mean by accepting mortality. Bodily mortality, I would say as soon as I was told, about four or five, or even younger.
Spiritual mortality, eight or nine.
I had no trouble accepting it whatsoever, and didn't questiong the afterlife till I was about nine.
But as soon as my brother said to me ''how do you know it's true?'' I knew it wasn't. Before that, I'd never even questioned religion and the afterlife. After it, I never believed again. I suppose I was subconsciously aware that there was no evidence at all, but I'd never actually run the thought through my mind.
So it depends what you mean by accepting mortality. Bodily mortality, I would say as soon as I was told, about four or five, or even younger.
Spiritual mortality, eight or nine.
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I like what I said about it before. I believe I've mostly thought of death like it is something I'll set aside at the last moment. Here it is, and, ....shit...oh well.
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Most of us, including me, accept our mortal state well as long as it is in the distance. When it gets close, that is another matter. Very few people tied to the post in front of a firing squad could avoid shitting their pants.
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