Writer's Block: What Next?
Mar. 19th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Clicking on the "view other answers" link will give you a good, healthy dose of cynicism. We're all afraid that when we die we'll just cease to exist. I've seen ghosts and other signs of a life beyond and I still fear it. I imagine some people think that by resigning themselves to it, it won't be that scary. I can't do that though, not even if I wanted to. Even if I wanted to, the aforementioned signs of the beyond wouldn't let me.
If you look at the Bible carefully, it strongly implies that we don't reach Heaven until the world ends. The Jews believe that we sleep until then. The Greeks believed the dead could hope for a desolate, half-existence at best. The Egyptians' afterlife was a little better... assuming you could avoid total annihilation on your journey to get there. I think they all were at least partly right, based on what I've seen. Wherever we go, good or bad, I don't think we're in a coma or suffering from amnesia. And once we leave here we're certainly not "gone."
Clicking on the "view other answers" link will give you a good, healthy dose of cynicism. We're all afraid that when we die we'll just cease to exist. I've seen ghosts and other signs of a life beyond and I still fear it. I imagine some people think that by resigning themselves to it, it won't be that scary. I can't do that though, not even if I wanted to. Even if I wanted to, the aforementioned signs of the beyond wouldn't let me.
If you look at the Bible carefully, it strongly implies that we don't reach Heaven until the world ends. The Jews believe that we sleep until then. The Greeks believed the dead could hope for a desolate, half-existence at best. The Egyptians' afterlife was a little better... assuming you could avoid total annihilation on your journey to get there. I think they all were at least partly right, based on what I've seen. Wherever we go, good or bad, I don't think we're in a coma or suffering from amnesia. And once we leave here we're certainly not "gone."
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in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-21 06:18 am (UTC)Wow! You HAVE been perusing my journal!
*feels flattered, then a tiny bit paranoid-- then flattered again*
Actually, I'm not particularly ashamed of myself and my weird experiences or habits or mental attributes. I don't know why, maybe it's that Type 4 "Look at MEEE! I'm a FREEEEEAK!" thing. Because, really, freaks are far more interesting than the much-vaunted "normal" person could ever be-- and who gives a shit ~really~ about the ?
Sooooo.... If I HAVE to live the life of a freak who overuses quotation marks at every conceivable opportunity, may as well be open about it and enjoy the ride. *shrugs*
Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-21 12:52 pm (UTC)And overuse of quotation marks doesn't bother me in the slightest. One of my hobbies is reading conspiracy theory website and I've noticed they greatly over-use hypen-ation.
Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-22 04:57 pm (UTC)ROFL!!
THAT was excellent!
*recovers from long bout of chuckling*
I must confess-- that I, too, am a "hyphenator." A hyphenator over-quoter. I'm hopeless. It's official!
Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-22 06:12 pm (UTC)Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-22 06:37 pm (UTC)It works in theory like a double hypen pause in a sentance; a second sentance entire unto itself except not.
Or... perhaps you were being rhetorical? *wink*
Re: in reply to imaginary folk as I can't reply THERE
Date: 2009-03-23 05:06 pm (UTC)