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not that i should be *as* scared of bees as i am, but it's not totally irrational to fear them at all
🦋 It's also generally regarded as irrational to fear things which are inevitable...
☕ sure fine but that's not what the question was going for
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Personally, I think things that are inevitable are all the more frightening. Things you can avoid or prevent, there are steps you can take to make them less likely, or even impossible, and there's peace of mind that comes with that.
But death is coming. It cannot be stopped. Only delayed. There is a deep, primordial fear in that.
Ah, sorry, that was unexpectedly a bit dark, hahah.
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☕ we can't all be fully enlightened and in control of our own thoughts, Sasha
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☕ don't mind Sasha here, they've only existed for a few years and haven't grown accustomed enough to living that they fear losing it
🦋 Perhaps it's time to take a break from the internet.
(There is a break of about twenty minutes before the next message.)
🦋 "Mono no aware" is a phrase about observing the beauty in transient things. The prototypical example is a sunset, but I personally find a sandcastle to be much more illustrative. It's concerning how people are so terrified of transience that they attempt to impress permanence where it doesn't belong.
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While I fully understand your logic and appreciate the poetry of it, the biological urges of living things to do things that will allow them to remain living will nearly always overtake more philosophical view when put to the test. A human faced with the potential of their own death, if asked to make a snap decision, will always choose to fight for their life first, even if it is hopeless, rather than spend their inevitable final moments appreciating the beauty of life in all its ephemerality. It is simply what living things are hard wired to do. And that urge to fight or to flee has actually saved many lives over the course of human history. Adrenaline can make people capable of doing remarkable things in order to to live, without even thinking.
Apologies for the essay, but I do enjoy thoughtful discussions like this.
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☕ it could be even less immediate if science would hurry up and cure aging already :p
🦋 Given our current location, I think we can write that possibility off as a lost cause.
☕ i wonder if the outsider would let us wish for immortality with enough feathers
🦋 Are people even allowed to die in this place? It would be awfully convenient for you if death was banned entirely.