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Old 07-21-2012, 11:19 PM
 
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I posted this on facebook a year ago and got a three responses.

-what?
-are you ok?
- you've got to admire his guts...

My questions are:

Is this a healthy attitude?
Why did some not understand the sentiment?
Does it really take guts?
What did I even mean by this? I'm just as lost as ever, but I still feel this way. What am I looking for?
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Old 07-22-2012, 05:05 AM
 
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You want us to be your shrink?
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Old 07-22-2012, 03:47 PM
 
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"Wait, so I'm just supposed to sit here and wait for death? No. Death, it's on."
There are very few who can challenge death to a duel and live to tell about it.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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I posted this on facebook a year ago and got a three responses.

-what?
-are you ok?
- you've got to admire his guts...

My questions are:

Is this a healthy attitude?
Why did some not understand the sentiment?
Does it really take guts?
What did I even mean by this? I'm just as lost as ever, but I still feel this way. What am I looking for?
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Old 07-22-2012, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Whittier
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Is this a healthy attitude? -If it's something you always say as an affirmation, then maybe. If it's something that you've said (out loud) and out of step with your normal behavior then it might be construed as a little strange.

Why did some not understand the sentiment? See above.

Does it really take guts? To live authentically, yes. To live in the face of danger and on the brink of death, I'd say no. That's just borderline stupid IMO.

What did I even mean by this? Who knows? You said it.

I'm just as lost as ever, but I still feel this way. What am I looking for? I have no idea, what are you looking for?


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When I was in college, I had this primal existential drive that lead me to take a few chances. I was fueled by the prospect of death. In one's early 20's I think that's when we get our first glimpse into our own mortality. That we are, in fact, capable of dying and ought to live life, free of our false notion of security from death.

I think it's important to use whatever motivators you need to fuel your own creative/productive drive. But you need to understand what it exactly is, and you can really only do that through some study and self reflection.
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Old 07-23-2012, 01:21 AM
 
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There are very few who can challenge death to a duel and live to tell about it.
If by "very few" you mean "no one", then yes.
I mean, even Jesus died. And he was god. Lol

......

I'm pretty sure that is a sin of some sort. Forgive farther, for I am sinning.

Yet another. I need help.
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