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Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by cronus » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:47 am

What age did you come to accept your own demise? or are you still working on it counting the minutes?
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Post by JimC » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:53 am

Removed your duplicate post...

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Post by cronus » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:07 am

JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...

Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same. :dunno:
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Post by JimC » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:12 am

Scrumple wrote:
JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...

Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same. :dunno:
It's probably your evil twin... :tea:
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Post by cronus » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:14 am

JimC wrote:
Scrumple wrote:
JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...

Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
Don't know why it happens - the two state thing. Wired it all up like a Christmas tree all the same. :dunno:
It's probably your evil twin... :tea:
I'm channelling Luke Haines at the moment. :demon:

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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:34 pm

JimC wrote:Removed your duplicate post...

Modding will be the death of me yet... :grumble:
And I deleted the duplicate thread that you missed, Jim! :hehe:
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Post by surreptitious57 » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:11 pm

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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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:39 pm

Accepting Personnal Mortality
Is this thread about personal mortality? Or personnel mortality? I'm not clear... :tea:

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. :tea:
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Post by Tero » Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:53 pm

Personnel mortality= cannon fodder
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Post by Rum » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:20 pm

..yeah that's about personnel morality.
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Post by cronus » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:54 pm

Rum wrote:..yeah that's about personnel morality.
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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by mistermack » Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:48 pm

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.
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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:32 pm

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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Re: Accepting Personnal Mortality

Post by Blind groper » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:55 pm

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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