Comments on: People Start to Die http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/ All the news not fit to print: Gary Brecher the War Nerd, Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Eileen Jones and the rest of Team eXiled Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: mitchell porter http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12694 mitchell porter Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:23:05 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12694 It's not immortality - in the eye of eternity, it's just a bandaid - but I thought I'd put in a word for... stem cells. Most of the ways that people die right now are only possible for a society and a species still in a state of technological backwardness, biologically speaking. Poets of mortality won't be out of a job, people will still die; but the sensibility attached to illness and death is going to look a little different when you can regrow every organ from scratch. It’s not immortality - in the eye of eternity, it’s just a bandaid - but I thought I’d put in a word for… stem cells. Most of the ways that people die right now are only possible for a society and a species still in a state of technological backwardness, biologically speaking. Poets of mortality won’t be out of a job, people will still die; but the sensibility attached to illness and death is going to look a little different when you can regrow every organ from scratch.

]]> By: lzzrdgrrl http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12540 lzzrdgrrl Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:52:54 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12540 XDDDDD....... You notice how certain animals don't breed well when in captivity. They sit around and get all fat and listless. Without the promise of Eternity, human beings do pretty much the same thing as well. Plus, we have cable ;) ....... XDDDDD…….

You notice how certain animals don’t breed well when in captivity. They sit around and get all fat and listless. Without the promise of Eternity, human beings do pretty much the same thing as well. Plus, we have cable ;) …….

]]> By: Grim http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12535 Grim Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:55:20 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12535 Damn that's grim. What you have written is exactly the lightning bolt of horror and gloom that struck me after watching my father die. I was useless for months, utter horror. Awful. BUT. We are on a ball of dirt orbiting a big ball of fire in the middle of nothing... So, with this in mind, you never fucking know what may come of you when the body fails. Newtons collection of bodily experience could be soaring the cosmos while communicating with a part of darwins. YOU never fucking know. Damn that’s grim.

What you have written is exactly the lightning bolt of horror and gloom that struck me after watching my father die. I was useless for months, utter horror.

Awful.

BUT.
We are on a ball of dirt orbiting a big ball of fire in the middle of nothing…
So, with this in mind, you never fucking know what may come of you when the body fails. Newtons collection of bodily experience could be soaring the cosmos while communicating with a part of darwins.

YOU never fucking know.

]]> By: tom http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12401 tom Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:36:55 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12401 Lucy might be wrong, Charlie B. might be right, but at least Lucy is testing the system. To the above commenter: Calvin and Hobbes do tend to embrace life more. There's the one where Calvin is standing on top of the hill and says that he likes toboggans more than he like runner sleds. Hobbes asks why and Calvin replies, because you can't steer. Lucy might be wrong, Charlie B. might be right, but at least Lucy is testing the system.

To the above commenter: Calvin and Hobbes do tend to embrace life more.

There’s the one where Calvin is standing on top of the hill and says that he likes toboggans more than he like runner sleds.

Hobbes asks why and Calvin replies, because you can’t steer.

]]> By: ibtrippen http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12398 ibtrippen Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:56:28 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12398 Damn Dolan, did someone important to you die recently? I'm sorry. Damn Dolan, did someone important to you die recently? I’m sorry.

]]> By: Joe Jackson http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12395 Joe Jackson Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:55:52 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12395 Michael . . . DEAD? When? How? Watermelon on the house!! Michael . . . DEAD?

When?

How?

Watermelon on the house!!

]]> By: booltox http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12379 booltox Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:01:00 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12379 I came here to say that once more Doaln has proven his worth as a writer. I've read it four times, each time laughing out loud at his description of the images of Newton and Darwin - although Darwin is misread by an equally trouble sort. All of the other comments are crap from either flatterers or blunted idiots. Nobody cares about your opinions, Dolan can write you cant, he alone gets to talk here. Except the story about Bush's funeral from Ofrasr, that is just fucking funny. I came here to say that once more Doaln has proven his worth as a writer. I’ve read it four times, each time laughing out loud at his description of the images of Newton and Darwin - although Darwin is misread by an equally trouble sort. All of the other comments are crap from either flatterers or blunted idiots. Nobody cares about your opinions, Dolan can write you cant, he alone gets to talk here. Except the story about Bush’s funeral from Ofrasr, that is just fucking funny.

]]> By: Ofrasr http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12369 Ofrasr Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12369 When W. Bush died we all cried. I don't know why,we just did. A friend of mine studied with one of his daughters, was maybe close to her to be unofficially invited to the ceremony. The group was split into male and female parts. Then two mugs and two large cisterns on wheels were set forth under the table. Men masturbated to the mug and poured to their cistern, women peed and poured urine in theirs. At the end there was a preach told how Jews are always robbed by the female race, a couple of bitches were shot right on the spot. Then the rain came. When W. Bush died we all cried. I don’t know why,we just did. A friend of mine studied with one of his daughters, was maybe close to her to be unofficially invited to the ceremony. The group was split into male and female parts. Then two mugs and two large cisterns on wheels were set forth under the table. Men masturbated to the mug and poured to their cistern, women peed and poured urine in theirs. At the end there was a preach told how Jews are always robbed by the female race, a couple of bitches were shot right on the spot. Then the rain came.

]]> By: limaxophobiac http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12364 limaxophobiac Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:37:04 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12364 The fear of death: Bascially the fear of death is based on the fact that you identify with 'your' physical body (or in the case of those of us who aren't planning to die all that soon, our future physical bodies, which aren't the same), so the sulution is simply to identify with something else (identifying with nothing at all is really hard to do). The fear of death: Bascially the fear of death is based on the fact that you identify with ‘your’ physical body (or in the case of those of us who aren’t planning to die all that soon, our future physical bodies, which aren’t the same), so the sulution is simply to identify with something else (identifying with nothing at all is really hard to do).

]]> By: limaxophobiac http://exiledonline.com/people-start-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-12363 limaxophobiac Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:23 +0000 http://exiledonline.com/?p=10438#comment-12363 >>>Paul Yarbles It's always nice when someone writes pretty mcuh what you were going to say but does it so much more eloquently than you yourself ever would. Which brings me to another point about death (which I feel I have to say I have no idea if Paul agrees with): All those things that make up 'your' narrative that you think will be lost when you die, the information that is you, the parts you find somehow imprortant atleast, are in all likelyhood not unique to you, and will therefore not actually be gone with the death of this particular dying animal husk. (Now you can argue that in time there will eventually be nothing of this left of these things at all as most of astrophysics points to time eventually comming to an 'end', but then we can get into the hurdle of the supposed linearity of time, "so it goes" etc.) >>>Paul Yarbles

It’s always nice when someone writes pretty mcuh what you were going to say but does it so much more eloquently than you yourself ever would. Which brings me to another point about death (which I feel I have to say I have no idea if Paul agrees with):

All those things that make up ‘your’ narrative that you think will be lost when you die, the information that is you, the parts you find somehow imprortant atleast, are in all likelyhood not unique to you, and will therefore not actually be gone with the death of this particular dying animal husk.

(Now you can argue that in time there will eventually be nothing of this left of these things at all as most of astrophysics points to time eventually comming to an ‘end’, but then we can get into the hurdle of the supposed linearity of time, “so it goes” etc.)

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