How often do you think about your death?

[Terxpahseyton]

Some years ago I remember someone telling me that everyone ignored his death anyway.
This was a time when I still put stock into people - and such a statement disturbed me a bit. I think that death clashed with my preconsidered notion of good people - since my preconsidered idea of good people rested on some set of eternal virtues - while death meant that whatever you were it would just be shattered into peaces and be forgotten.

I have been told that some philosophers think that being acutely aware of ones death was an important perquisite of virtue.
Boning girls very much seemed to shed a great many more personal value, though. So it seemed like something Jesus wanted. And after further consideration – it seemed like something Jesus did not want to see - yet still though he wanted it.

As I was – what was I? Was what I was the effect of being aware of ones death? I find that awareness rather deadening. It gives me the sensation of being about to die – and if I am about die, I'll be going around and crank that arse and am down for whateva! And that is the rhyme. For the moment. Afterwards – I'll eventually feel dirty. Like a black man. A dirty black man, I mean. Those orion black men are totally cool, naturally.

What I am saying - I am a terrible dead man.

Sooo... what does death mean to you?

I myself seem to still be fingering I out.

But as that Brit called Boarchio used to say – OT seems interesting enough.
(He did not use to say that)

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I feel sober enough to tell you that death gives value to life. It can be both feared and welcomed. Lucky is the man who lives to give more then to take for to him death is peace....

 

[Kyriakos]

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Well... anything having a deemed barrier potentially gets highlighted through that, although i still think you should cheer up a bit

I mean you, Terx- it's way too late for poor Franz in this world.

 

[dusters]

I think people oversimplify sex at times.

Yes, i agree, that sex while using condoms are mostly for pleasure/intimacy/ showing trust etc, BUT

On the other hand, sex means giving life, giving seeds at the moment when you, yourself feel the most ripe, the most vital for such thing. Depressed people have low libido. Older men have lower testasterone. Older women are more tended to miscarriage.

If a woman has agreed to have sex with you, you have some self-validation.

Ok, this is a basic male sex ed and why young men feel it is so important that they get a lot of sex. However, without enough self-validation through sex, career, sports, money etc you essentally can feel ALIVE.

and that feeling is great, for sure. It may not bring happiness, because unless you have a stable sex partner, stable job, stable results in competition, you can't be sure to stay Nr. 1 or fulfill your own ego infinitely. However, it is a gratification, which is needed to search further, and it is so for many people.

 

[JollyRoger]

I think about death every time am in bed with a couple of women as this is the way I will surely die.

 

[dusters]

I think about death every time am in bed with a couple of women as this is the way I will surely die.

I read this "every time i have a threesome, i get suicidal". You must be one of a kind.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I thought he had some STD in mind.

 

[dusters]

I thought he had some STD in mind.

If you can't relax and enjoy the moment, you aren't fully into IT.

Back to the topic,

One of my philosophy professors often told us - you have to be in constant crisis to be able to think deeply. Whether you are in your own crisis or you learn how to relate to others' crisis.

Because existentalism ( or philosophy in general sense) is about making the choice (or manifesting your morals and imperatives in daily life). And the most straightforward situation to make a choice is when life or circumstances have driven you with your face into the mud.

 

[warpus]

There were so many times I could have very easily died in the past, including almost falling off a cliff, that I've been sort of lately mindful of my own lack of immortality. I am in many ways lucky to be alive, and knowing statistics and probability, there's no smart plan in trying to tempt fate again.

I don't think about death much, but I do raise my alertness level by a couple notches when I'm crossing the street, for example. I've played a couple years as a goalie, so being alert and on my toes is actually a bit in my blood anyway. I'm not paranoid about it, I just position myself to always be ready for unexpected situations. Which isn't easy.. and is in fact impossible.. but I shouldn't be alive, and I don't think there's anyone watching over me keeping me that way - so making sure I stay alive well into my old years is up to nobody but myself.

Some people think I get myself involved in scary and dangerous situations - mostly on my trips.. But they are well calculated and well researched escapades. There is always chance of death, but in my backpack I always have tools for all sorts of unexpected emergency situations. I like to think that my self preservation meter is working well enough that I de-escalate a dangerous situation whenever I find myself in one.

Is this thread about STDs though? Well, see, you've got to be smart about sex too. When I got back from Thailand almost exactly a year ago, I had to get rabies shots cause of that monkey bite. I figured I might as well get a full physical... So I told my doctor: "I just got back from Thailand, test me for EVERYTHING." ... This backfired a tiny bit at the blood-taking place, when the lady there I think assumed that I was a hard drug user and that the red marks on my inside elbows were signs of repeated needle penetration. She gave me the evil eye for a bit, but then figured out that the marks were just stupid stuff my body does on its own. (I guess most people who go there with all STDs and all sorts of other diseases checked off - for testing, are druggies. )

Moral of the story? Use condoms, try to not fall off any cliffs, and definitely do not approach wild monkeys.

 

[Gori the Grey]

My every third thought is of the grave.

 

[Hygro]

If I don't have anything else to think about, I will often default to thinking about death. And even when I do think about other stuff, I often can't help but relate it to death.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Every time this thread pops up.

 

[Perfection]

I myself seem to still be fingering I out.

TMI, dude

 

[Birdjaguar]

Not too often, but if it is coming a little warning would nice and not too much pain.

 

[timtofly]

Speaking about death, welcome back Birdjaguar. It has seemed like an eternity.

 

[gay_Aleks]

My every third thought is of the grave.

Same here. I've constantly wondered - 6 feet, or 3 feet? Would I be too close to the worms, or too close to my fellow humans? Wooden casket, metal casket, or should I even bother with this? How long should I wait until I get a marble monument for all to see where I died?

It's really a topic you can't stop thinking about.

 

[madviking]

occasionally

 

[Phrossack]

Very rarely. It'll happen when it happens. Why worry about it unless it seems imminent and preventable? I just hope it's memorable and respectable when it comes.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I think about death every time am in bed with a couple of women as this is the way I will surely die.

How many lives you think you have got?

One of my philosophy professors often told us - you have to be in constant crisis to be able to think deeply. Whether you are in your own crisis or you learn how to relate to others' crisis.

Because existentalism ( or philosophy in general sense) is about making the choice (or manifesting your morals and imperatives in daily life). And the most straightforward situation to make a choice is when life or circumstances have driven you with your face into the mud.

I think one doesnt need constant crisis or be face in the mud but what does happen is that adversity forces you to bring your best to the fore and change/develop it to stand up to the challenge....

 

[bhavv]

I think about it too much because depression. Pretty much many times daily.