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thank you two
for adding to this post in such a poignant manner.
I hope there is healing for both of you.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 27, 2004 at 6:09 AM
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"Death as an advisor" Yes, it certainly is, having faced it in my life
personally and having lost my dearest friend in high school who was just starting her life. Am not afraid of death - at one time yearned for it - and have certainly learned from it. Excellent post. Thought provoking.
posted by
Hollee
on August 26, 2004 at 8:56 PM
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Death as an advisor
What a perfect way to put it. I just did some freelance on Erik Erikson and although I had studied it in college (ed. psych 101) I didn't understand what he meant about the last stage, where if you can accept that death is imminent and be okay with it because you are okay with your life's work, you will have achieved wisdom. If we truly understand mortality, we might work all the more harder to square things whenever we can because life is about loss. I was 16 when my sister in-law died (never knowing that we would have been sisters had she lived) and it sobered me in a way that made it difficult for me to have normal teenaged experiences. That loss was...is...so rending, how trivial everything around me looked. How silly. I wanted to grab people and shake them and say, don't you understand? Death is absolute. People say I am too intense; I love too intensely; I opine too intensely. But once you have lost someone you loved that young, it is like with each year a paper chain drops behind you, and when you come to 10 years and look behind and see how far away, how long it has been, it is like a blow to the stomach, and when you come to 20 years and look behind and see nothing but paper chain, your memories so distant and vague, you swear to yourself that you will never take anyone or anything for granted again. So, yes, in all ways, death is a good advisor.
posted by
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on August 26, 2004 at 8:51 PM
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P.
serious is my middle name.
quite so.
I am not joking about anything I espouse.
life is a voyage of discovery.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 26, 2004 at 8:12 PM
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I always liked the story Carlos told about being high on payote one night and accidently peeing on a sleeping dog. For the rest of that evening the dog followed him around trying to get even by peeing on him in return. As far as that other stuff you guys are talking about, you can't be serious can you?
posted by
P.I.M.P.
on August 26, 2004 at 3:00 PM
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BOTH OF YOU
you could say we are writing a bible as we speak.
yes -- that "Use death as an advisor" is intriguing.
My take on it includes that we must recognize our own mortality and how close we are to death at any particular moment -- this gives life a different meaning.
I can make this a start, if you will, and see how many people respond and in what manner.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 26, 2004 at 12:07 PM
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more proof that God is an antiquated notion to soothe the less informed
Seriously, if it's all true, then god needs to send down an updated Bible
posted by
hooker
on August 26, 2004 at 10:37 AM
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I would like to see you write a blog where you flesh out this whole, "Use Death as an advisor", idea. It intrigues me.
posted by
aardvark
on August 26, 2004 at 10:30 AM
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