On Monday, December 22, 2014 2:58:03 AM UTC, Brent wrote: > > On 12/21/2014 3:47 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf Of Bruce Kellett > > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 3:27 PM > > To: everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > Subject: Re: I signed up to be cryogenically frozen > > > > John Clark wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 , Bruce Kellett <bhke...@optusnet.com.au > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> >An instinct for self-preservation is unrelated to whether or not > >> you have a fear of death, or of oblivion > >> > >> Unrelated?? Don't be ridiculous! Why the hell do you imagine Evolution > >> invented the fear of death in the first place? > >>> Evolution did not "invent a fear of death". That is purely cultural, > and is not even associated with consciousness -- it comes only with > self-awareness and an inner narrative. Evolution gave living things an > instinct for self-preservation. But you can have such an instinct operating > healthily and still not fear death. Fear of death probably comes from a > fear of the unknown, and is linked to the fear of prolonged suffering. But > oblivion is oblivion -- it is not something to be feared because no-one has > ever experienced it, or can ever experience it. > > Fear itself (for species that experience this sensation) can become an > evolutionary dead end... a paralyzing negative force that diminishes rather > than improves an individual organisms chances for survival. The fear of > death is often an example of this kind of paralyzing useless fear, > providing no evolutionary advantage. It is unlike say the -- fear/memory -- > of something hot, the fear being the useful quick shortcut to the executive > mind of the memory of past bad experiences with being burned by hot things. > This is a useful rapid shortcut to the forebrain that is clearly useful in > evolutionary terms. > > Fear can either help the individual to act quickly or it can paralyze > the individual; while a healthy fear can deliver a lightening quick > (possibly life-preserving) alert to the conscious mind, paralyzing fear > instead, is of no use for an individual's survival, and can often be a > distinct evolutionary disadvantage. When someone is paralyzed with fear, > they are worse than useless, in a critical life and death situation. > > I think that's right. I've never felt fear while in a life-threatening > situation. I felt > trepidation before choosing to enter in to the situation. And I've felt > weak in the knees > afterward. But during I've always felt complete calm. > > Brent
Yeah...you're a dark man Brent. That wall of silence thing...do you know before this experience with you, I had never imagined someone doing that to someone else. It had never occurred to me at all. I had it researched It's actually a philia - one of the sadomasochistic rarities. It's not known in the slap and ticket end of things. It's about taking everything away...leaving worthless. It's actual the psychological root of most sadistic serial killers. I want to know more about you....you did this to someone on that ship is my hunch. end I think you are ENJOYING ME....you see my pain and drjnk of it,. And so one sees the other, the other may look up telescope the other waty. I Seeeee You. Thus is my submission: Get every last kittle drop of pleasure from that you can...I implore you. Get the most,. Because I'm a very expensive little fuckwhore > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
