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That's a truly awful way to die (all your fluids and gases suddenly surging through your tissue). Seems much easier to reframe the "chains" of earth into accep
by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
That's a truly awful way to die (all your fluids and gases suddenly surging through your tissue).
Seems much easier to reframe the "chains" of earth into acceptance of a remarkable cycle that we're privileged to get a glimpse of from the inside and just die happily here with your loved ones.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Seems much easier to reframe the "chains" of earth into acceptance of a remarkable cycle that we're privileged to get a glimpse of from the inside and just die happily here with your loved ones This works for most people. Most humans didn't leave Africa or Mesopotamia or the Old World, either originally or in the Age of Exploration, and most Americans today don't have a passpport.
- trhway 1y agoThe technicalities would be worked out. The awfulness isn't a goal here. The acceptance would have me still in Russia :)
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoPresumably you left Russia to get to something better, not worse on pretty much every dimension except novelty
- trhway 1y agoYep, and dying on Mars feels to me better than on Earth.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoOn what dimensions would that be preferable?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> On what dimensions would that be preferable? Novelty, for one.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYeah, makes sense. Novelty like what toys provide! Obviously one is free to want that. When I think of the opportunity costs involved, it seems repugnant to be honest. The opposite of glorious.
- trhway 1y agoThat is about my point - i want to get as far as possible from such a philosophy as it is taking over the civilization. I lived under similar philosophy in USSR and, as long as it is up to me, i'll be trying to put a distance in all senses.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoEh, pathologies at both ends! I hope you achieve your dream though (and that you devise a more pleasant way to do it ;))
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Yeah, makes sense. Novelty like what toys provide! And art and scientific endeavour and exploration and possibly all the things that make us human, but sure.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoBut those serve other purposes too, which is why I was asking for ones in addition to sheer novelty.