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> I'm incapable of understanding the mindset the man is in - total awareness of impending death. Seriously? Every human being on Earth over a toddler's age is

> I'm incapable of understanding the mindset the man is in - total awareness of impending death. Seriously? Every human being on Earth over a toddler's age is totally aware of impending death. To date nobody has ever lived forever. The only question, for every human being, cancer or no, is how many years you get before you eventually die. Modern man just makes my head shake in disbelief sometimes...

komali2 8y ago
What feelings would you expect, or prefer, me to feel in reaction to your comment?
- indalo 8y ago
  Robot says feelings are for fleshy humans
- simias 8y ago
  That's a great reply, I think the internet would be a better place if people (myself included) asked themselves this very question before posting a comment online.
skilled 8y ago
> To date nobody has ever lived forever. Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji
kup0 8y ago
Not sure your post deserves to be taken seriously as it seems sarcastic/arrogant and incredibly pedantic, but I will assume that's my own emotional response and try to distance myself from that knee-jerk reaction. IMHO, most people live on autopilot with some sense of ignoring the reality of death. I think this decision we often tend to label as "feeling we are invincible". There's some underlying feeling that death is so far off that it almost doesn't seem real to us. Yes, intellectually, in a cold, logical sense the fact that we die is known to the majority of humanity. But I think that is irrelevant to the post to which you replied. By total awareness of impending death, I believe the parent post was clearly implying that the author has had the gravity of the reality of death thrust upon them and made real to them in a way that few of us experience or choose to dwell on. Once you are aware your time alive has been essentially quantified- in much more stark terms than "eventually", especially when the time remaining is rather short- I believe this is likely a unique psychological/emotional experience, one that is difficult to understand without ones self being put in that position.

komali2 8y ago

What feelings would you expect, or prefer, me to feel in reaction to your comment?

indalo 8y ago
Robot says feelings are for fleshy humans
simias 8y ago
That's a great reply, I think the internet would be a better place if people (myself included) asked themselves this very question before posting a comment online.

skilled 8y ago

> To date nobody has ever lived forever. Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji

kup0 8y ago

Not sure your post deserves to be taken seriously as it seems sarcastic/arrogant and incredibly pedantic, but I will assume that's my own emotional response and try to distance myself from that knee-jerk reaction. IMHO, most people live on autopilot with some sense of ignoring the reality of death. I think this decision we often tend to label as "feeling we are invincible". There's some underlying feeling that death is so far off that it almost doesn't seem real to us. Yes, intellectually, in a cold, logical sense the fact that we die is known to the majority of humanity. But I think that is irrelevant to the post to which you replied. By total awareness of impending death, I believe the parent post was clearly implying that the author has had the gravity of the reality of death thrust upon them and made real to them in a way that few of us experience or choose to dwell on. Once you are aware your time alive has been essentially quantified- in much more stark terms than "eventually", especially when the time remaining is rather short- I believe this is likely a unique psychological/emotional experience, one that is difficult to understand without ones self being put in that position.